[Closed] Porridge, how do you eat yours.?

in a bowl....... 🙄

dried fruit, honey or sugar, made with water not milk

either cinnamon, golden syrup or mixed fruit flavour (oatsosimples) made with skimmed milk and a handful of sultanas thrown in. no sugar or anything on top.

bish bash bosh, the breakfast of awesome

Dark muscovado sugar! Yum.

With Golden Syrup, and like RD said, made with water, not milk.

With a spoon from a bowl. Made with milk and sugar or syrup.

Always makes me laugh when folk spout the 'should be made with water and salt'
I'll decide. Water and salt may have been how it was made when luxuries such as sugar wasn't readily available to everyone but I prefer it with sugar thanks! 😀

Bit of brown sugar. That is all - just had some!

If it's proper porridge made with oatmeal, then a pinch of salt and some cream is gorgeous.

If it's made with rolled oats (which technically isn't real porridge) then made with 50/50 milk and water, a handful of raisins chucked in while it cooks, then served with cinnamon, brown sugar and a sliced banana on top.

made with milk and topped with cinnamon and grated apple.

oh, i wasn't saying you [b]should[/b] make it with water, i just prefer it to milk, too creamy otherwise

DGOAB, cinnamon sounds great, will try that!

Rolled oats, uncooked straight from the box, with a bit of milk to cover.

Cooked with milk. Bit of sugar and evaporated milk on top.

Am I the only person in the world who just hates the stuff, made with water/milk/cream whatever, I just don't like it?
Which is strange as I love oats & milk

If it's made with rolled oats (which technically isn't real porridge) then made with 50/50 milk and water

I make mine with semi-skiommed milk. That is like 50/50 milk and water.

And I just use some jumbo oats from the local vegan grocers.

1/2 cup oats, 250-300ml mile. Into a bidon and into the fridghe overnight to soak. Stick it on the bike to ride to work, decant into bowl and microwave for 1 minute.

1xporridge 2xmilk, 2mins microwave (while i get the bike out) - eat.

i dont have time to fanny around in the morning with sugar, syrup, cinnamon, raisins etc etc

low fat milk and then some more milk and brown sugar to serve.

Hmmmmm.

I've literally just finished my breakfast bowl of milky porridge and sliced banana (no sugar or other sweetening agent) ... then I see this thread!? Am I being watched??

z1ppy - Member
Am I the only person in the world who just hates the stuff, made with water/milk/cream whatever, I just don't like it?

Yep, just you then!

bugger 😳 ...thing is I'd really like to like it...

2.5:1 liquid to oats
50/50 semi-skimmed milk and water
Pinch of salt

Sometimes at a mashed banana

Served with sugar

1 portion of porridge & 1 portion of ready brek mixed. Excellent combo for anyone who isn't a fan of the real thing. Ive had it every morning for 20 years.

With frozen fruit. Yesterday was pink porridge (with raspberries), today was purple (with morello cherries and grated apple), next on the list is blue porridge, with blueberries.

It also goes down a treat with the six month old, despite having way less sugar than bought baby things, and the pieces of frozen fruit make her little bowl cool enough for her to eat. Genius. She can't pick it up though, you have to put it on a spoon then she grabs it off you, turns out that even for babies, porridge isn't finger food (unlike dal and rice, which is finger food/ammunition of the highest calibre)

Milk and big old dollop of honey.

Yum yum 🙂

Am I the only person in the world who just hates the stuff, made with water/milk/cream whatever, I just don't like it?

I don't really like it much. It's ok once in a while but it's too unappealing to eat on early mornings. Toast is better 🙂

For some reason porridge gives me a quick attack of explosive shits, which I then feel empty after.

For that reason it's not my energy food of choice.

Usually have it with some sort of fruit, this morning one of my favourites

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And interesting fact, fact fans (which coincidentally I pondered this morning) the seedy/fruity bits above are called arils.

Made with full cream milk with a spoonful of syrup and a handful of sultanas. I even add a bit of extra cold milk once made to make it slip down more easily. A friend made me porridge once with just water and possibly not even salt. I gagged with every mouthful

Semiskimmed*, syrup & sultanas.

(*would consider full milk as well if we ever had it in the house)

Salt. You gotta have salt.

With milk and golden syrup. Although tomorrow I might be really exciting and try brown muscovado sugar instead. Woo. Rock n roll.

Fruit has no place on my breakfast table.

+1 with Muscavado, sometimes with double cream too.

2:1 water:oats
Handful of sultanas / marzipan shavings
Salt

I adore porridge and eat it whenever I have time in the mornings. I also believe in religously following recipes, NO deviations are EVER acceptable. However, my porridge has always been p*ss-poor compared with porridge I've had anywhere else, but what the heck. A few weeks ago, half-asleep I blundered the mix (I've always carefully weighed it out according to instructions) and to cap my crime against humanity also got the microwave time wrong (OK, I was hungover!). Bizarrely, it was the best porridge I've ever made. I'm now faced with the huge dilemma of being a recipe deviant and enjoying it, or obeying the rules as set down by the Grand Recipe Council (who are all-knowing and all-seeing). So I've not had it since as I don't know what to do. Oh the dilemma!

With either a dollop of treacle, half a tin of golden syrup, or some tart cooking apple puree.

Usually made with water, because we've run out of milk, not becuase my breakfast is a game of onupmanship.

1 cup water, 1 cup milk, 1 cup oats.
eat it with a little sugar, or without, depending on mood.
ive noticed that when i have porridge i feel less hungry for the rest of the day.

as per martymac ^^^

Call me unadventurous but that's what I've had every day for the past year and a bit (with the only exceptions being for a fry-up occassionally).
Porridge, flapjack, maltloaf, all you'll ever need. 😀

edit: and jelly babies, obviously.

Rolled oats, uncooked straight from the box

I like my oats rolled on the thighs of virgins.

milk, raisins, cinnamon, pinch of nutmeg.

microwave

water, banana and golden syrup

soy milk, banana, and honey

1 measure each of rolled oats, milk, water, slowly cooked, even better soaked overnight. Served with more milk and big dollop of honey. Sometimes with raisins.

With beef mince, slice of ginger, pinc of salt

beef mince? that not manly enough... i serve mine in kitten skulls with ground up t-rex bones!

jumbo rolled oats made with water, cooked till they are still slightly chewy.
Big dollop of honey and sometimes a splash of milk as well.

Sometimes make it with milk instead. Can't beat a nice bowl of porridge in the morning!

Those Quaker oats sachets with -Good Morning- message make my day. Very handfull they are nuked in microwave with milk, then added with dried pineapples, raisins, dried cherries, almonds, and toasted bagels with unsalted butter drive me all the way to the Lunch.

Golden syrup - but just occasionally, when I feel like a chocolate hit, a big fat dollup of Nutella - mmmmmm

I may try Nutella and banana tomorrow though 🙂

large cup of porridge, half pint of skimmed milk ... blend it, then drink it.

Posh oats (big and chewy) made 50:50 milk and water, cook slow until nice and thick, dollop into bowl, pour some cold milk to make a moat around the outside and then plenty of sugar over the top. Normally white but prefer dark if we have any.

Cold milk cools the edges so you can eat it faster, but the middle will still stay hot. When you run out of moat a refill is mandatory 🙂

Leave the horrible oat-so-simple over-flavoured sachets of mush for the gf who can't differentiate between big soft chewy oats and undercooked oats 🙂

P.S - And cooked the proper way in a saucepan, cos we don't have a microwave...

Full fat milk and salt, and decent oats not the tesco cheapy ones.

I usually do normal porage, but I'm having a trial on oat bran, and it is really erm ... solid. Probably go back to normal....