[Closed] Instant porridge

"Normal" (and cheap) porridge oats. With the money you're saving by not buying instant oats, buy a little gas stove and a pan and make some real porridge.

...or get up earlier and have brekkie at home

Flask with Porridge made at home in.

Readybrek, dried milk and a kettle.?

drac +1
something like this (look in argos or tk maxx)
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By the cheap oats that are smaller then blend it now you have instant oats pretty much. EDIT meant to day add milk powder

We make porridge by bringing the milk/oats up to the boil, then turning off the heat and leaving the pan with the lid on for five minutes. I reckon you could bring to the boil, then stick it in one of those flasks.

Just to clarify:

- I don't have access to a stove.
- I can't make normal porridge before hand and put in a flask.

I'm looking for a just add water recipe.

Thanks Frosty - any ideas on proportions?

Just soak the oats in milk or juice overnight.

Edit: Google 'Bircher muesli'

Try going to Aldi/Lidl and buy their version. Guaranteed to be half the price and probably cheaper than a DIY version.

Also option popular in our office, but I don't think anyone pays full price on the posher versions, always on offer somewhere.

Eat Pot Noodles

I can't make normal porridge before hand and put in a flask.

I bet you could it's not difficult.

Drac you're in a funny mood this evening haha ^ v.funny.

I'm a gnarly git on a healthy food kick - so for last year have been doing this for porridge:

Two handfuls of porridge oats
Place in small container - ie mug, cup, bowl
Salt and sugar (or sweetener pill) to taste
Just cover with boiling water and stir.

Leave for 5 mins then scoff. Forget milk, powdered or otherwise, your body will thank you, eat more greens!

NB 1/2 a fresh apple sliced into it instead of sugar is great. I grew up fed soft, perfect porridge like cream, all lovingly cooked for hours etc...but now prefer The Chewy One.

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I'm a gnarly git on a healthy food kick - so for last year have been doing this for porridge:

Two handfuls of porridge oats
Place in small container - ie mug, cup, bowl
Salt and sugar (or sweetener pill) to taste
Just cover with boiling water and stir.

Leave for 5 mins then scoff. Forget milk, powdered or otherwise, your body will thank you, eat more greens!

NB 1/2 a fresh apple sliced into it instead of sugar is great.

That's what I used for papering the dining room
Porridge without milk tastes bloody awful.

Leave for 5 mins then scoff. Forget milk, powdered or otherwise, your body will thank you

Mine's champion with milk.

Porridge without milk tastes bloody awful.

Adding a splash of cold milk and a handful of raisins makes it palatable enough for me.

So you have milk with it?

Porridge without milk tastes bloody awful.

Adding a splash of cold milk and a handful of raisins makes it palatable enough for me.

Ermmmm!

MTFU

(Milk is for Tots From Udders)

I have no proper kitchen facilities at work and no desire to carry a packed lunch box with a flask of porridge, so I buy the instant "Just Add Boiling Water" stuff in little tubs.

The OatsSoSimple ones aren't bad, but to be honest Poundland do one (two pots for a quid) that is palatable enough when my taste buds haven't really woken up.

And oats are for grazing animals.

Just grab a bacon and runny egg roll with brown sauce.

Out of interest why can't you make breakfast at home?

If I have been gyming it I will be on breakfast number 2 by 745

Just grab a bacon and runny egg roll with brown sauce.

Haha, the story of my life, and why I now can't bend to tie shoes without getting out of breath.

Bacon no bread and mucho egg tho...plenty hot sauce, now you're talking...

If my beard isnt matted by 9am with breakfast number 2 its a sad day.

When camping, I take a mix if ordinary porage oats, dried milk powder and nuts and/or dried fruit. It's in a "pour and store" bag to which I just add boiling water. Stir, wait for 5 mins and eat.

I just add boiling water (you can boil water in a microwave)

He only has a kettle.

🙂

As far as I'm concerned ordinary porridge is instant. I take a plastic screwtop container with the oats and milk (or just use water if I've run out) and microwave for two minutes after putting in to a large mug. I do the same at home but use a bowl. Pan-made I have as a treat when I can be bothered as the spirtle needs to be used occasionally.

Oh - and I much prefer to make my own.....

I can get the portion right (I find one wee pot is never enough).
The consistency is better (less like wallpaper paste).
I can flavour it as I please.
There's only a (re-usable) empty bag to carry out, not a stupid wee pot.

To the OP,serious point, why do you only have access to a kettle at work?

Workplace health,safety and welfare regs say you should have at least the means to heat food (see page 7 of that link).

Workplace health,safety and welfare regs say you should have at least the means to heat food

Only if you can't get hot food reasonably close.

True but a 120 quid microwave hardly breaks the employers bank.
When HSE turn up they love to see them because it shows that employee welfare is being catered for.

Make my own a fair bit.

Container of choice. I use and old plastic soup pot.

4 heaped tablespoons porridge oats.
1 tablespoon milk powder.
Sugar to taste (or salt)

Then its add what you want or leave as is.

Mix to coat ingredients.

Add boiled water to approx double height of ingredients (some trial and error) stir for few seconds and leave for a short while. Stir again and eat.

Then its add what you want or leave as is.

Liquid would be good.

Drac stop 😆

This thread has inspired me to begin taking porridge to work again.

doh, wondered why it was dry 😀

I feel the need to share here.

I eat lots of porridge.

my favourite atm is the quaker bags for a quid. It's pretty fine compared to some.

When i make it i simply make a pile in a bowl and pour hot milk over it, wait a couple of miutes, done.

Ideally you should slice a banana over the oats before pouring the hot milk over the lot. Blueberries too, they should be in there as well.

Anita Rani and Julia Bradbury naked mud wrestling.

I have no proper kitchen facilities at work and no desire to carry a packed lunch box with a flask of porridge, so I buy the instant "Just Add Boiling Water" stuff in little tubs.

Yeah but with the pots I can nip along to Poundland one lunchtime and buy a dozen pots for six quid then that's it done.
No need to carry anything in or do any washing up.

Admittedly I do feel a bit of an Eco-terrorist throwing out a plastic pot every day - so that [i]might[/i] be enough to persuade me to mend my ways. One day.

Good point, atcherly. Difficult to argue against that.
And the plastic is recycleable...

Dorset Cereals porridge pouches. That's what you need. Can vouch for the honey ones and just adding hot water from kettle works great.

If you don't have access to heat, try eating your porridge as muesli instead. Cheap own-brand porridge oats with whatever you fancy mixed in, e.g. seeds, nuts, dried fruit (raisins, apricots, dates, etc).
Mix up a big batch in advance, and just take what you need to work each day, with a flask of milk.

I think "Instant" porridge is a rip off; selling a very cheap and nutritious staple at a premium by packaging it in wee sachets.

I think "Instant" porridge is a rip off; selling a very cheap and nutritious staple at a premium by packaging it in wee sachets

I disagree, once I had detonated my [I]n[/I]th bowl of porridge in the microwave at work, buying the little sachets and just pouring hot water over them (with sultanas and maple syrup for flavour) has been a godsend.

I have neither patience nor imagination enough for anything else in the morning...

I think you've just proved kcr right.

As has been said: Bircher muesli. Make a jumbo tub of it at the beginning of the week and then just take it to work in a tub and eat cold.

Rolled oats
Add a handful of fruit, nuts and seeds
Yogurt
Apple juice

leave to soak overnight.

Thanks all (apart from maybe Drac....).

Porlus - I'm going to give that a crack, thanks! If that fails I might try some of the lower budgeted manufactured guff suggested.

For whoever was asking about my work situation, I work in the centre of town so I have other access to hot food. Also I don't work for a big employer, there are two of us.

No need to carry anything in or do any washing up.

Assuming you eat it with your hands...

I disagree, once I had detonated my nth bowl of porridge in the microwave at work

I'm struggling to understand how someone could "detonate" their porridge more than once. I bet you burn salad and pot noodles too... 😀

Out the box thinking give up on porridge and eat muesli.

I'm struggling to understand how someone could "detonate" their porridge more than once. I bet you burn salad and pot noodles too...

I figured out (through messy trial and error) that the works microwave was so powerful that I needed about 6 or 7 twenty second blasts followed by stirring to cook the porridge (proper oats, milk) without it bubbling over and coating the inside of the microwave. By this stage I was so sick of the process that I was glad to pay the $7 for 8 servings that Quaker charges.

Almonds and sultanas or pumpkin seeds + sultanas for me. Delicious.

Made at work with boiling water.

Thanks all (apart from maybe Drac....).

You're welcome.

Assuming you eat it with your hands...

Spoon just gets a quick rinse with boiling water next time I go for a coffee. No pan, spirtle or bowl to wash.

Porlus - I'm going to give that a crack, thanks! If that fails I might try some of the lower budgeted manufactured guff suggested.

Not a problem bud. Let us know how you get on with it.
I like to thicken mine with a dollop of peanut butter. Actually makes a good pre ride meal as well.