Porridge: love or hate? Vote now please!

[Cyril Haearn]

My muesli is easy to eat, I chop up dates & apricots, put them in water in the microwave to make them soft and warm, not too many oatflakes (they dry it out), with fruit yogurt, the result is easy to slurp, I shall still be having it when my teeth are gone. As for muesli with blackberries in summer

Bought muesli and home-made muesli are two quite different fettles of kitsch, I think they should have different names

[Oldjohnw]

My muesli is easy to eat, I chop up dates & apricots, put them in water in the microwave to make them soft and warm, not too many oatflakes (they dry it out), with fruit yogurt, the result is easy to slurp, I shall still be having it when my teeth are gone. As for muesli with blackberries in summer

Bought muesli and home-made muesli are two quite different fettles of kitsch, I think they should have different names

Useful to know. Thanks. I've only ever bought it so far.
PS I don't have a microwave! I never have fruit yoghurt - have you seen how much sugar there is?

[paddler]

I find muesli exhausting to eat. The more expensive the worse it gets. You chew for half an hour and make no impact. Pretty close to cardboard to my, obviously uneducated, palate.

On the other hand, porridge. Posh oats, pinch of salt, two thirds water/one third milk, golden syrup/maple syrup, possibly brown sugar and a bit of cream. Takes the health out of healthy but gloriously delicious.

Keeps me going right through to elevenses.

Only Elevenses? You need a bigger bowl!

[Oldjohnw]

I have a modest appetite these days!

[Cyril Haearn]

Fruit yogurt: 12% sugar, allegedly Compensating by having porage with water only right now
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The poll is doing well, nearly half as many have an opinion on porridge as have an opinion on being vaccinated (60:116), and
119 cyclists have an opinion on the mental health of the PotUS

[Navrig]

My Bircher muesli recipe is

Oats
Dried fruit
Almonds sliced or pistachios
Pumpkin seeds
Sunflower seeds
Chia seeds

Add apple juice and low fat yoghurt.

Soak overnight.

I make enough for the week leaving it in the fridge.

[simonineaston]

low fat yoghurt...

The shelf stackers are always slightly puzzled when I ask them for the extra high fat products, the fat being where most the energy & yumminess is..

[Oldjohnw]

Just check what they put in low fat yoghurt to make it palatable.

[Cyril Haearn]

Nothing, according to the pot of plain yoghurt, but someone who worked in a dairy told me that is not quite right
One may buy milk and produce yogurt quite easily at home

[Oldjohnw]

Compare side by side. You'll see how much sugar or substitute is there.

[Navrig]

Just check what they put in low fat yoghurt to make it palatable.

Typically ingredients are

Ingredients

Pasteurised Skimmed Milk, Live Active Yoghurt Cultures (L. Bulgaricus S. Thermophilus, L. Acidophilus, Bifidus, L. Casei)

Without the cultures it's not going to be yoghurt.

None of that concerns me.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p ... /274598241

[Oldjohnw]

They miss the masses of sweetener or sugar.

[Navrig]

They miss the masses of sweetener or sugar.

No the don't otherwise they would be breaking the law.

[Oldjohnw]

They miss the masses of sweetener or sugar.

No the don't otherwise they would be breaking the law.

Well you missed it in your contents description!

[Navrig]

They miss the masses of sweetener or sugar.

No the don't otherwise they would be breaking the law.

Well you missed it in your contents description!

Missed what?

The ingredients I listed was a copy and paste.

Food labelling regs require all ingredients to be listed. Sweeteners and sugars are not listed because that brand does add them. Simple.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_ ... egulations

Cheaper brands may use sweeteners to make plain yoghurt more palatable but that brand doesn't.