How do I make porridge less boring?

[Over The Hill]

Only have it on a Sunday morning in the winter but usually this is with a chopped up banana or (sounding like an old git here) some chopped up tinned peaches.

Rest of the week is usually muesli with a few honey nut cornflakes on to pep it up.

Muesli keeps me full till lunchtime but porridge seems to only last till mid morning and then I am starving again.

 

[sionhughes]

Try a bit of Nutella in it. Turns it all chocolatey and tastes awesome.

 

[ayceejay]

I stayed at a Buddhist monastery once (garden) and part of the time the monastics were on a diet of food that didn't need chewing, which ended up being gruel (porridge mashed and watery). Watching the nuns cheat by adding everything from Tabasco to peanut butter was enough to churn your stomach.

 

[Pedalabitslower]

Mix in some cocoa powder, peanut butter or nuts. Any fruit...fresh, frozen, dried or canned. Or if you want to be radical, salt!
How can you get bored?

 

[WanderingWolf24]

try putting honey and maybe a broken up flapjack in it, that's what I do.

 

[Drago]

Porridge is full of taste and nutritional goodness when food is sprinkled upon it.

 

[pawl]

Put some garlic and curry powder in it.

Plus Marmite.

 

[dan_bo]

Plus Marmite.

And a splash of Hendersons' relish to finish.

 

[ayceejay]

[QUOTE 3475190, member: 259"]The Chinese bloke I shared digs with for a couple of weeks used to put Bovril and a raw egg in his.[/QUOTE]
Didn't that take an age to eat with chopsticks?

 

[mustang1]

Empty contents of the bowl into a bin.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Having read this I'm a bit worried that I'm overdoing the honey/syrup thing. I'll have a big bowl of porridge before a ride, a teaspoon just isn't enough. I'm looking at a dessert spoon. I particularly like it when I make the porridge a bit too milky. Then, no matter how hard I try, the honey kinda sinks to the bottom. The final scrapings are like freebasing castor sugar

I haven't read to the end of this thread - I'm still catching up - but if you don't have weight changing ambitions and if it gets you out and about and lasts until lunchtime (or dinner, if you're a weight weenie), then I find it hard to find a problem with the sweetness level.

 

[the_mikey]

Use water (no milk) and a little salt to taste

 

[Cubist]

[QUOTE 3475407, member: 259"]Absolutely. No milk, no sugar, and maybe a dollop of natural yogurt, with no sugar added. Grown-up food.[/QUOTE]
To be eaten standing up.

Whilst scowling.

And wearing a hair shirt.

And woollen underwear.

 

[Hitchington]

Make with soya milk and I add a teaspoon of honey and handful of blueberries.

 

[anotherDave]

I've just discovered that supermarkets sell frozen berries. Definitely perks up a bowl of porridge. :-)