Porridge and crumpets are junk food

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

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

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.

Pascal30, I meant maybe not ha

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?

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!

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

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

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:

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 🤣.

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!!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Yum yum

Something about hot buttered crumpet. I just had to buy a packet on the way home! Thanks GN!

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.

Oh, my idea of absolute heaven! Pop the kettle on and I'll be round shortly!

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.

We’ve all eaten porridge and crumpets for years and years!

Yep...indeed it's those packets of stuff labelled as porridge. I know - because that's what my parents used to eat. Crumpets - wouldnt be surprised if they've got some additives in - but I know they're made of white flour anyway and so don't buy them.

There's a graph going the rounds at the moment as to what proportion of the national diet is junk (ie heavily processed food) and this country shows up at about 50% !!!!! and that doesn't surprise me a bit. One only has to wander round a British supermarket and you are avoiding great long stretches of the aisles (ie because it's junk - rather than proper food - on them). Every time I go in I'm wishing they'd just stick proper food on aisles on its own and put the "junk" on separate aisles and I'd get out of the supermarket a lot faster than currently.

Confesses to watching what items other people are buying when I'm queuing at the "proper" type checkouts I use and am mentally throwing half of it off and it's rare to see a similar shopping trolley worth to my own (as mine contains a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables, a few dairy products and not a lot of anything else and everything possible is organic).

Only too glad I can afford "proper" food at last - after decades of looking at "my" food on the shelves and having to take something cheaper/unhealthier than what I was about to reach for (because I couldnt afford "mine"). It takes a while to get that "gotta economise" thing out of one's head and I've only just trained my mind into "Do NOT just reach for free-range eggs - reach for the organic ones" as I mentally slap my hands at automatically going to reach for the cheaper option.

My microwaveable sachets of Quaker Oats contain nothing more than whole rolled oats. I add my own toppings if I want.

Apparently oats, unless organic, contain a large amount of pesticides, including glyphosate, as most oats sprayed just before harvesting!!. The potted stuff is vile, having tried it once, too much sugar.

It was a big headline about porridge, obviously meant to make everybody read it which seems to have worked. You have to read quite a long way down before you get to the truth of the matter.

Oops wrong thread 😖!