The glory of porridge (merged)

skintchick

Oats and milk (don't measure it) in bowl. Bowl in microwave. Sugar on top. Yum

Smiley_Mum

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

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Don't forget if you haven't time to cook your porridge you can eat oats cold with milk and fruit.

Give yourself a bit of time though to chew though. Helps if you have all your own teeth. I sometimes have porridge oats with coconut flakes and onken yoghurt and some flaked almonds.

When I do porridge, I soak the oatmeal/porridge oats in a pan overnight with the milk etc. Makes them a nice consistency, fluffier when you go to cook it. I also soak some raisins to rehydrate them. I then cook it in the morning and put some milk and a little single cream on it and sprinkle the raisins through. Lovely.

Gingham_Ribbon

But water and salt make LOVELY porridge! The only reason my son has it with milk is because he doesn't drink it so it's an easy way to get some calcium down him!

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HI ,
I make and eat my porridge the way my old mum made it.
1 cup of oats to two cups of water,gently bring it to the boil and until it thickens up, keep stirring it. Pour into a bowl and add some cold milk around the edges.
Sprinkle some salt on the top and consume quickly.
I buy Tescos own brand value oats a kilo is about 45p and lasts for ages.
I was born at the end of WW2 and there was very little choise for breakfast but porridge in the winter to warm you up and some toast afterwards.
Recycling was unheard of ,but 'make do and mend' was what we grew up with. Everything was made good use of. My Mum never owned a washing machine or a fridge or freezer. I can remember her getting so excited when my Dad brought home a Morphy Richards electric Iron. Until then it was the flat Iron on the gas cooker. But she never burnt anything ,
When we washed the blankets as I was the youngest I had to trample them in the Bath. I thought this a great game and used to get very wet.The milk was kept fresh in a bowl of water and I all ways had to follow the milkmans horse with a bucket and shovel for the manure to go on the garden. I hated that job.
My Mum had been bombed out twice, and was very careful with everything that she had.She brought three kids up on very little money ,but never went into debt as if she didn't have the cash she didn't buy it. A hard upbringing but we never went to bed hungry or cold.

Smiley_Mum

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

But water and salt make LOVELY porridge! The only reason my son has it with milk is because he doesn't drink it so it's an easy way to get some calcium down him!

My mam makes her porridge that way too. Guests staying one time, I think they were Dutch wanted porridge. They obviously didn't have a clue, my mam did say to them that all it needed was a sprinkle of sugar as salt isn't to everyone's liking. Anyway, when she gathered up the bowls they had put everything in it, marmalade, sugar, jam. Did they eat it, nope. Yuk.

Gingham_Ribbon

Smiley_Mum wrote:

My mam makes her porridge that way too. Guests staying one time, I think they were Dutch wanted porridge. They obviously didn't have a clue, my mam did say to them that all it needed was a sprinkle of sugar as salt isn't to everyone's liking. Anyway, when she gathered up the bowls they had put everything in it, marmalade, sugar, jam. Did they eat it, nope. Yuk.

Yup! My husband thinks it's vile too! :rotfl:

Curry_Queen

I love porridge but I can't get DS to eat it for love nor money

It would be the perfect start for him on his footie match days but he refuses point blank to eat it :wall:

The only oaty thing I can get him to eat are muesli type bars or flapjack, which is better than nothing I guess

Rikki

My two children both love porridge. The eldest with syrup, the youngest with demerera sugar. The youngest also likes it when I put raisins and chopped apricots on it.

Curry_Queen

I think I'm going to have a bowl of porridge and an early night tonight

Smiley_Mum

Curry_Queen wrote:

I think I'm going to have a bowl of porridge and an early night tonight

Nothing wrong with a bowl of porridge for tea, beats cornflakes anyday, and definitely less sugar unless you add it yourself. :-)

I like putting different fresh fruit in mine, nuts etc when I have the time to prepare it all, just like all the different textures in it.

Someone mentioned stewed apple and cinnamon too, I'll have to give it a try someday, sprinkle of brown sugar too. Sounds good.