Porridge

Patsy That is not porridge! Porridge is cooked.

I daren't tell you how I used to have mine , those from North of the Border would be having a fit of the vapours!

Only just started eating porridge and I cheat and use either the microwave flavoured sachets or the little flavoured pots

Microwave one part porridge to three and a half parts water, plus a little salt, for three and and a half minutes. Like potatoes, oats are insipid with no salt at all.

Sometimes I replace one of the cups of water with milk, but if made with all milk it just becomes a kind of porridgy rice pudding. As for fruit etc - I'd rather have that as a separate course.

Like Elegran only topped with blueberries.

Sometimes cooked porridge, most of the year porridge made by pouring oats into a bowl, covering with enough apple juice to moisten all the oats, stir well. Make early morning tea and then look at news online. After 30 minutes, or less, when oats have absorbed all apple juice - add per bowl - large dollop of Greek yoghurt, half a sliced banana*, heaped dessertspoon of Linwoods milled flaxseed, almonds, Brazil nuts, walnuts and co-enzyme Q10 (from large supermarkets). Eat and enjoy, take dogs to beach.
*if no bananas, add ready to eat prunes.

GrandmaFrench Yes! That sounds like a good plan.