porridge

[Bobby Mhor]

half a cup oats, half cup water, half cup milk....microwave..with no fancy stuff thrown in...
basic, simple the way they were meant to be eaten...

 

[cyberknight]

I got to start eating porridge again, waiting till i have seen the doctor next week about my blood test for IBS/ wheat /lactose intolerance before i decide whether to or not.
I just bung some in a bowl , mix with milk and nuke for 2 minutes then add dried fruit.

 

[palinurus]

I mix all bar the apple before going to bed.

This really makes the difference- the soaking overnight bit. I do mine with just water tho'.

This is mainly because I always seem to run out of milk at 9:55 pm and I can't be arsed to do the dash to the Stop 'n Shop to buy more.

 

[zizou]

While on the subject of microwaving porridge

How do you stop it exploding everywhere? Doesnt matter if i use the microwave sachet stuff or the regular oats its always the same, after about 90 seconds i need to keep pausing the microwave to stir it a bit and stop it going everywhere!

 

[burndust]

If you can get them look at whites oats...there jumbo oats so have more texture and flavour than the wallpaper paste that is oats so simple...i have mine with a scoop of choc orange protein powder

 

[burndust]

While on the subject of microwaving porridge

How do you stop it exploding everywhere? Doesnt matter if i use the microwave sachet stuff or the regular oats its always the same, after about 90 seconds i need to keep pausing the microwave to stir it a bit and stop it going everywhere!

60 seconds stir 60 seconds

 

[Julia9054]

Porridge made slowly by my mum is the best.
However, I eat mine at work (if I eat at 6.30am and then cycle I feel sick!)
I can't take my mum to work so those Oats So Simple pots will do. Plus the only cooking equipment we have is a kettle.

 

[vickster]

While on the subject of microwaving porridge

How do you stop it exploding everywhere? Doesnt matter if i use the microwave sachet stuff or the regular oats its always the same, after about 90 seconds i need to keep pausing the microwave to stir it a bit and stop it going everywhere!

Bigger bowl or put a plate over the top. I suffer this but it's completely hit and miss, some days fine, other days not....must be something to do with exact positioning in the microwave!

And to the above....full fat milk yeuch! Would be all creamy, bleurgh for breakfast

 

[cyberknight]

Porridge made slowly by my mum is the best.
However, I eat mine at work (if I eat at 6.30am and then cycle I feel sick!)
I can't take my mum to work so those Oats So Simple pots will do. Plus the only cooking equipment we have is a kettle.

Get up earlier , i am out the door at 5.45 am on days .

 

[burndust]

Get up earlier , i am out the door at 5.45 am on days .

What! Thats a lie in for me lol

 

[cyberknight]

What! Thats a lie in for me lol

When i was a milkman we started at 2 am 6 days a week

 

[format]

While on the subject of microwaving porridge

How do you stop it exploding everywhere? Doesnt matter if i use the microwave sachet stuff or the regular oats its always the same, after about 90 seconds i need to keep pausing the microwave to stir it a bit and stop it going everywhere!

Just boil the kettle, mix the boiled water in, then cover with a lid or with cling film. Wait for 3-4 mins, then done.

I like to add peanut butter and chopped bananas to mine, too.

 

[tug benson]

While on the subject of microwaving porridge

How do you stop it exploding everywhere? Doesnt matter if i use the microwave sachet stuff or the regular oats its always the same, after about 90 seconds i need to keep pausing the microwave to stir it a bit and stop it going everywhere!

I usually put in the the microwave for 120 seconds, give it a good mix then put it back in for a minute or so..I usually add more milk at the end and give it all a good mix

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I'm really not keen on porridge but I am trying to like it!

When my wife wakes up to go toil the suburban fields I put half a cup of oats with three cups of water in a pan on low heat and make her a cuppa. By the time she ambles downstairs her porridge is ready and she loves it (so does my daughter). That just leaves me to wash up the pan once she's gone to work, which usually involves the type of equipment used to remove barnacles from the bottom of oil tankers, my god they should using it as grouting on the tiles they coat the space shuttle with.

 

[RedRider]

Two types of oats in the house..the posh ones which still have husks on and need five minutes in a pan with plenty of stirring. I've only just got the taste for making them with water and a pinch of salt. Often stick a banana in for sugar or sliced apple to make it taste like apple pie.
As the weather's got warmer i turn to the cheapo co-op ones, Rolled oats , not husky, I have these most mornings with cold milk and a banana. This year is the first year I've trained myself to eat breakfast before leaving the house. Prior to that I'd get the Gregg's - just add boiling water - for elevenses.