Porridge and crumpets are junk food

M0nica

I think I will have crumpets slathered with butter for tea tonight. Just so i can cock a snook to the government. I will put a scrapping of marmite and a slice of cheese on them to make sure I have maximised their fat and salt content.

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M0nica

I think I will have crumpets slathered with butter for tea tonight. Just so i can cock a snook to the government. I will put a scrapping of marmite and a slice of cheese on them to make sure I have maximised their fat and salt content.

I shall have some for breakfast tomorrow or Saturday with butter and honey.

I'll avoid butter produced by the Bovaer method if I can (although may have some already in the fridge, waste not want not) and use proper honey, not the cheap kind with added sugar syrup.

Or perhaps I'll have Scotch pancakes. Even worse.

The sugar tax was a terrible move because it means adults and children who drink squash or carbonated drinks are probably consuming the sugar free ones which contain aspartame which is far worse.

I think what you call crumpets are what we call muffins.They aren’t available in most small bakeries just in supermarkets and I rarely buy mass produced baked goods.Anyone have a good home recipe for them?

Grandmabatty

The concern is the heavily sweetened prepared porridge which is in packets. I suppose some people may think they are offering a healthy breakfast because they haven't looked at the sugar content of ready made porridge and adverts which promote the 'healthy' part of porridge are ignoring the sugar amount.

Exactly this. People may think that, by reading the "healthy porridge oats" labels on the front of these microwaveable pots that they are buying a healthy breakfast.

paddyann54

I think what you call crumpets are what we call muffins.They aren’t available in most small bakeries just in supermarkets and I rarely buy mass produced baked goods.Anyone have a good home recipe for them?

Crumpets are full of holes, the muffins here don't have holes and you slice them across.

There was a song "Have you seen the Muffin Man" and of course, Muffin the Mule.
I have an inherited muffin dish, apparently hot water went in the bottom layer so the muffins kept warm when served on the breakfast table.

Sorry, that set me off reminiscing!!

I love crumpets, but they are a rare treat. They’re just not the same spread with low fat spread, it’s got to be butter, but butter is something I can only indulgence in occasionally. However, Monica you’ve got me drooling for some, so I might just have to buy a pack next time we shop 🤣.

www.recipetineats.com/crumpet-recipe/
Never tried it but this is a Warburtons recipe.

www.bakewithjack.co.uk/blog-1/breakfastbread

This is what I'd call a muffin in the picture:

Yes, crumpets have holes, along with pikelets which are similar but thinner than crumpets. Muffins here don’t have holes as Allira says.

Oh you temptresses- I've had to add crumpets to my shopping list, now..

When I lived in the Midlands, what we called 'crumpets' were called 'pikelets'. The crumpets in my Scottish childhood were like big pancakes which we spread with granny's raspberry jam and rolled up. They made lovely, squishy eating!

pascal30

whole oats with honey and milk cannot be harmful to children.
we had it every morning before school.. it's all the processed food with additives that should be avoided..

crumpets slathered with butter would be an occasional treat for me

Maybe with the honey (still sugar) & milk pumped full of chemicals 😩 Arla brand! I believe?

Pascal30, I meant maybe not ha

MissAdventure

I love tomatoes soup!

Anything is bad for you if its overdeaten, isn't it?

Moderation is the key.

You’re right, moderation in all things.Food is food anyway and nothing wrong with a big mac now and again.If anyone more or less lives on them it’s bad, just as it would be if you lived only on porridge and crumpets.We need a balanced diet.

I have to be moderate with the soup.
It's like battery acid to my poor hernia!

Oooooh!😖I feel for you.
Change to pea and ham.

I've found a cauliflower cheese soup at Asda, and that's the current favourite.

I had sweet something or other with spiced carrot, I think, tonight.
It might be the bread that's the culprit tonight.

I eat porridge a few days a week made with just water how can that be considered junk food such a ridiculous comment!

Crumpets are a very rare treat for me just one with butter and a thin slick of Marmite I don’t consider that bad either.

After my flu jab, I was assailed by the advanced nurse practitioner to spell out how many units of alcohol a day I had and did I smoke. The conversation didn’t go very well and she declined to take my blood pressure at the end of it.
The government presumably is trying to crack down on obesity- another example of good intentions but poor delivery. Shall eat organic porridge every day from now on.

Plain Porridge made with oats has not been labelled junk food- I wish people wouldn’t believe ridiculous headlines. They mean the flavoured, ultra processed sugar laden instant sachets you can buy. The diet in the U.K. is comparatively really poor - relying heavily on ultra processed foods. Compared with the average diet in France and Italy where UHPF consumption is far lower and there is a higher consumption of fresh food. Trying to challenge this culture of poor nutrition should be encouraged.

I use wholegrain oats, no sugar. Its the ones with all the added sugar that's the problem. I also eat crumpets with butter on now and then and marmite. Its sugar thats the problem.
Headlines are misleading.

I am trying to avoid all things dairy/beef which have been fed on feed stuff containing Bovaer ( chemical to stop cows farting, curtesy of Bill Gates)

I think this is far more dangerous than porridge with sugar/honey or crumpets with butter.

Cows are routinely fed all sorts of hormones, antibiotics etc which all get processed in the cow.

The thing is, we all know these things are not good for our health, but we are in denial. I like crumpets, but I realise they have very little nutritional value. Most people find it very difficult to eat completely healthily, and it’s made harder when you see foods which are designed to be delicious but have no health benefits being advertised (and even harder for children). It’s a minefield.