h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

it would still be more efficient, bowl-wise to eat from the one you cook in

Yeah, of course.
I always eat my porridge from the bowl I nuke.
And if it's too hot put it on a small plate
with a paper towel to keep the plate clean.
Oh, and never let microwaved porridge bowls
sit for days. The oats will glom onto the bowl
the same way microwaved egg does. Gets into the
pores of even the most ergonomically designed bowls
and must be rinsed and wiped and possibly scraped
immediately after use before the residue 'sets'
like an impossible glue.

~jwf~

'glom' - what a great word.

This thread has given me a strange hankering to have kippers for breakfast. And I've not had kippers since I was a student, where it was the finest of all foods, being both tasty and nutritious, and filling for breakfast, but, and perhaps most importantly, being in shared student digs, the food most able to really really annoy my fellow students, in halls, who unlike me, were not up, cooking kippers at 7 AM damnit... I don't even know if there is anywhere in this town to buy kippers from anymore Will have to settle o for frey bentos pie, or porridge

Weetabix also sets like concrete. It also stains badly, I've discovered. Quick wash-ups required!

I'm surprised they don't build houses out of Weetabix, to be honest.

Porridge is one of the few things I absolutely cannot stomach, but I always feel very virtuous when I dish it up for the kids for breakfast (they all love it). Possibly it loses some of its wholesomeness when covered with multi-coloured sprinkles ...

Mol

I miss the days when my two would scarf down porridge with sprinkles (in winter, yoghurt with sprinkles in summer) for breakfast.

It's all moody black coffee and the occasional half a slice of toast these days...

Breakfast today, one litre strong fresh made black coffee, two rounds of onion and poppy seed bread, toasted, one with two slices of Polish peppered salami, and the other slice with two slices of polish smoked cheese. Didn't have any milk for making porridge and I fancied toast anyhow Oh, and a couple of cigarettes too...

I see Oat So Simple costs from about 70p per 100g, up to an incredible £2 per 100g for the pots, compared to ordinary porridge oats which can be had for 7.5p per 100g at the same retailer.

Multi-coloured sprinkles on porridge? What is this, pray tell?

we were all* wondering that... but a only you had the heroic ability to ask! hmmm... 'hundreds and thousands'? smarties? M&Ms? choc drops, (white and dark), plus nuts plus raisens and err soemthign else which is a differnt colour?
Fairy dust! I seem to ahve forgotten porridge again the past week or so, and returned to either a litre of coffee and two cigarettes, or a litre of coffee, two cigarettes and* two rounds of toaste... yeh... I'm getting big on my health food these days...

yes, hundreds and thousands

You know... I don't think I've come across hundreds and thousands, since I was a child! I vaguely remember my MOther putting them on things... triffle maybe, or just cakes

I feel an overwelking urge.
*cough*
sorry... an overwelking urge, to go out and buy a pack/jar of them immediately with all due haste, and start constructing something suitable with which to liberally sprinkle them on to!

I am now suffering from a guilt complex that I never sprinkled my children's breakfast with multi-coloured sprinkles.

Shouldn't the guilt complex be from you having* sprinkled their breakfasts with 'unhealthy' 'sprinkles'?
Anyhow... whatever action one may take, towards 'following scientific advice', on various health claims, the one thing you can be sure of, is that whatever you do, at some point, the 'scientific opinion', on the health benifit, or reverse, of any given approach, will do a U-turn at some point

Having said which... Being but just one individual, who's Mother never put sprinkles onto my breakfast, is maybe one reason I am the 'man' I am today.... damn... that isn't going to make you feel any less guilty, is it?

I used to put sprinkles on their breakfast to cheer them up, yoghurt, fruit and a few sprinkles never hurt anyone

We only did it because we once had a free sachet of Totally Oatily (or whatever it's actually called) and it came with a small sachet of sprinkles (100s and 1000s). The girls were about 3 and 1 at the time so of course they were enchanted with this. And so for them, that's how porridge comes. I'm not proud of myself. But on the other hand, porridge itself is pretty healthy, and if the sprinkles help it go down ...

Mol

Exactly... and how little* chocolate and sugar is there really, in even a large covering of sprinkles? hardly any I'd guess

I'm SO putting sprinkles on my porrdige tomorrow! okay the only sprinkles I have are all pink, but mmmm, sprinkles.

Did anyone else ever discover the wonder that is sugar sandwiches as a kid. A slice of white bread liberally sprinkled with sugar and folded in half. Crunchy, but Tasty!

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