Porriage - how do you like to have yours?

[Jewel]

I've been wondering how other people like to have their porriage.
What do you add to it before you eat it? sugar? anything else?

I'm not a big porriage eater so I rarely have it, but my DP loves it. He adds a few things into his margarine being one of them.
I just wondered what other porriage eaters added into theirs.

xox

[Rach75]

umm I cook it on stove top with milk then serve with more milk and sugar (well lately half a sachet of sugarless) I am not one for honey or brown sugar or anything I like good olefashion porridge

[littlelara]

Soft brown sugar or more recently golden syrup - yum!
The cubs have mashed banana or cinnamon cos they don't get sugar

[Indadhanu]

I love my porridge, brown sugar and milk for me, nothing fancy.

I do, however, prefer it cold.

[Mak]

I love it too - I add some sultanas and some cinnamon. It is super good for you too. Oats help your body expel excess cholesterol and cinnamon is supposed to be good for regulating blood sugar levels... margarine sounds interesting!

[tk1999]

I add either honey, a bit of sugar, sliced banana, a bit more milk and then sometimes I have it without any of the additives

I can eat it cold like Leasha or warm but never too hot - if it is too hot then more milk gets added lol

[Ryatha]

When I was little I used to have milk around the edges, a dob of butter in the middle and cinamon sprinkled over the top. Now I have milk and cinamon and sugar if I'm lazy or add sultanas or a dried fruit/nut/seed mix if I'm organised.

However I stayed with a friend on the weekend and she puts in a big dollop of honey (it was for 4 of us) just towards the end of cooking and it was brilliant! I'll probably do that from now on.

Does anyone use a slow cooker to make theirs or just the instant ones in the saucepan?

[Indadhanu]

I used to use whole rolled oats until I found the quality really lacking (too many husks in every brand I tride!) so I just buy instant now, cooked in the saucepan on the stove. Have never heard of using a slow cooker! I've tried the microwave but thats way more trouble than its worth.

[Life is Good]

I make it with milk and cook it until it is super stiff. Then I break it up a bit (make canals for the milk haha), pour golden syrup over it and add cold milk. I really don't like runny porridge! As a kid this was how my mum made it for me and i used to love how she could make rivers of milk in my porridge!!! I guess it stuck...

[heliana]

yum I love porrige. I had some this morning actually
I like rolled oats, not instant. And you add lots of cold liquid ie, 1 part oats, 1 water, 1 1/2 milk. Then bring to boil then add in chopped dates and some sultanas and a nob of butter, and reduce to low. Today I added in a grated apple and a cinamon stick.
Then it takes a while to cook, but i stir it while im making lunches (its no wonder I don't get out of the house till 9:30 really)
when its ready I put a bit of vanilla in the bowl, then porrige, then a little bit of honey, sometimes chopped banana and milk. Sometimes some lsa sprinkled on top.
mmmmmm yum!
Only thing is, I think it must speed up your metabolism or something. Im allways starving by 10am when I eat porrige for breaky.

[Pinny-mum]

Yum!
I've been cooking it on the stove top with milk and serving it with raw sugar.
Must admit the cinnamon sounds yummy might try that tomorrow morning!
I'm yet to convince DD that it is yummy though!!

Great way to stay full until lunch time too!

[squidipa]

milk and sugar hubbie has brown sugar and milk altho hubbie doesn't cook them properly lol

[AnyDream]

Rolled oats here all the way (tho only buy uncle tobys, the other brands have too much chaff in them, I'm not a horse!!)

Cook mine on teh stove, half milk half water, then add brown sugar - or handful of frozen blueberries (they sort of cook in the heat of it) or raspberries or fresh pear chopped up into clumps.

YUM I know what I'm having for breaky tomorrow!

[dusty]

Rolled oats here all the way (tho only buy uncle tobys, the other brands have too much chaff in them, I'm not a horse!!)

LOL! Have you tried Lowans MD? Its Australian and I've never found any chaff

[*Ali*]

I love love love porridge on a cold winters morning, and the kids are starting to get into it now (tori calls it curds and whey!) I just zap it in the microwave with water, and then when cooked I either had a spoon of jam and a small amount of milk, or drizzle with Maple syrup and had some milk.

[AnyDream]

LOL! Have you tried Lowans MD? Its Australian and I've never found any chaff

Um, well I've bought their chopped up oats (DH uses them in the microwave - blerk) ...there was a time when UT's was Australian too *sigh*.