Waitrose, sugar, scones and healthy eating

I liked the muscovado best.

I like soft light brown on porridge best (even better than golden syrup), plus a bit of thin cream (or thick milk).

Sugar? On porridge?

I am still having difficulty thinking in grams
Getting old ....

Do 5 grams = a teaspoon?

I put very little sugar in scones and I would have thought carrots and dried fruit would add more.

Pumpkin scones are very nice (I have never made them, only eaten them)

I don't do grams.

Sassenach porridge.

Actually, I hardly ever eat porridge, usually only what's left when DD makes it for her kids. She never measures the cereal and milk (she makes it will whole milk) so the amounts depend on how steady her hand is in a pre-coffee morning blur). No sugar in that but I might add some raisins.

Can't remember when I last made porridge. Several centuries ago anyhoo.

with not will

Porridge made with milk?

Pinhead oatmeal, water pinch of salt and cooked in the slow oven overnight produces perfect real porridge. DH has his with a pinch of salt and the milk in a separate mug as befits a man who spent his formative years in the extreme North East of Scotland. A Borderer, I prefer a little soft brown sugar and a moat of milk round my porridge.

Porridge made with milk? NEVER --- Oats, water & salt (to much for my own good). delicious, just finished mine.

I have porridge most mornings made with water, topped off with a handful of blueberries and raspberries and a teaspoon of Manuka honey. Yum.

Yes, Rosequartz :

tsp = 5g
dsrtsp = 10g
tblsp = 15g

I have a half-teaspoon measure - and then I get a recipe that requires a quarter-teaspoon of something! I just guess...

@jinglebelletc. - "I don't do grams." Prefer doing things the hard way?

No. I'm just thick.

JBF, exactly the way i like my porridge.

Yes, there is sugar in a raisin, but in a raisin you get calcium, vitamin C, Iron, Vitamin B6, and magnesium. Plus fibre and protein.

There's an awful lot to this nutrition business and it's all quite complicated, I used to think it was only about the taste and life was so much simpler then - but I got fat.

Yes, it's complicated, even fruit has it's own natural sugars. unless somebody has a weight problem or dietary need, the old word moderation comes into play.
on the porridge thing........ we have this about twice a week, made with semi-skim milk and served with a bit of extra cold milk ( as Soutra says, a moat) and a spoonful of either brown sugar or a good trickle of golden syrup.
if you have a busy morning, it keeps you going for ages.

I do occasionally have prunes with my porridge, not milk or sugar.

Now that really does keep you going

I put prunes AND figs in DBH's. I had to, otherwise he never got out of the house in the mornings!

Porridge with maple syrup and a handful of grapes, yum!
Made with jumbo oats, half milk / half water in microwave 90 seconds -simples

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Now look what you've all done - made me lust for scones with butter and jam- gonna have to have one!!

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