Using up Ready Brek...

mink35

Cleaned my cupboards out and I've found almost a full box of Ready Brek that's been there for ages. Nobody seems to want to eat it as ready brek so has anyone got any ideas for amazing concoctions...

Curry_Queen

I'll buy it off you to feed to my crickets ... full of calcium goodness it is

Ticklemouse

Mr TM eats it - I make proper porridge, but I like it too.

CQ - what do you have, living in your place, apart from DS?

You could try making smooth ie. non crunchy flapjack with it. May turn out more like shortbread.

Curry_Queen

Ticklemouse wrote:

CQ - what do you have, living in your place, apart from DS?

You really don't wanna know :rotfl:

SnowyOwl_2

Ooo Curry_Queen, I wanna know!

Regards Ready Brek...I love it for breakfast (hey original!) though put the same volume again of sunflower seeds, sultanas and banana (or whatever combination of other healthy things that are lurking in my fruit bowl or cupboards) into it to give it interest. On it's own it's bland and boring, but it has to be the easiest hot breakfast ever and definitely fills you up.

It goes gooey/sticky when mixed with a hot liquid, so not sure how it would react if you tried using it to bulk up stews etc. Maybe when baking using plain flour use half Ready Brek and half flour???

Curry_Queen

SnowyOwl wrote:

Ooo Curry_Queen, I wanna know!

You did ask!!!! :rotfl:


Ok, just a few (dozen *cough*) slithery and scaly beasts and a variety of creepy crawlies (some for food and some as pets )

Queenie

SnowyOwl wrote:

Ooo Curry_Queen, I wanna know!

Regards Ready Brek...I love it for breakfast (hey original!) though put the same volume again of sunflower seeds, sultanas and banana (or whatever combination of other healthy things that are lurking in my fruit bowl or cupboards) into it to give it interest. On it's own it's bland and boring, but it has to be the easiest hot breakfast ever and definitely fills you up.

It goes gooey/sticky when mixed with a hot liquid, so not sure how it would react if you tried using it to bulk up stews etc. Maybe when baking using plain flour use half Ready Brek and half flour???

Isn't RB pre sugared? (sorry if that sounds ignorant ... but I gave up RB when I was a child and realised that I didn't get to walk to school with a red glow eminating from my body Actually, Colgate hit the bin when I didn't have the silvery ring around my neck too! )

SnowyOwl_2

I didn't think it was pre-sugared Queenie, but I may well be wrong as that's normal in my life...:D . It doesn't taste terribly sweet...I'm currently using Lidl's version of RB and that doesn't have sugar in the ingredients list, plus it says "no added salt or sugar" on the front of the pack. I'd be surprised if the real Ready Brek had sugar in it. Whatever...neither of them give a warm rosy glow so they won't be gracing your trolley.

As it's quite bland it might work in place of plain flour, per my previous suggestion.

Curry_Queen, your house sounds....errrm...interesting! I guess you've got snakes plus some bugs to feed to them. What does your landlord think of them? Do you let them out for a bit of a play? I am so nosey, sorrry!

megasaver

SnowyOwl wrote:

I'm currently using Lidl's version of RB and that doesn't have sugar in the ingredients list, plus it says "no added salt or sugar" on the front of the pack.
As it's quite bland it might work in place of plain flour, per my previous suggestion.

RB is on my shopping list this week as one of my daughters absolutely loves it - have got into the habit of adding a little bit of chocolate powder (nesquick) to it for her as well (yes I know RB do a chocolate version, but I was trying to use up the plain one in my cupboard!) So SnowyOwl, do you think that lidl's version of of RB is any good and what packet do I look out for?

mink 35 please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't RB mainly made up of oat flour? Unfortunately I can't check my RB package for list of ingredients as I threw my last one away yesterday. But if that is true, as others have suggested, you could use RB to replace part of the flour needed in any recipe, but I bet it would work really well for bread and cookie recipes!

:doh: Just realised that I should have kept the original RB package so I could perhaps use it to swap the Lidl RB one into, to help convince daughter she is still eating RB !:rotfl:

Ticklemouse

Just looked at my Asda packet of RB - made of Oats, oat flour and added vitamins and minerals.

SnowyOwl_2

Hi there Megasaver

My Lidl Ready Brek is called Instant Hot Oat Cereal,, and the brand name is Highgate Fayre...it's an orange box with a bit of blue and red. The ingredients list Rolled Oats, Oat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron...and loads of other vits. It also says "contains gluten".

I find it quite similar tasting to normal Ready Brek - chucking in a banana or sultanas etc would help disguise any difference.

HTH.

SnowyOwl