Porridge

g-punkteffekt

hi all. Some questions on this stuff.
I eat porridge for breakfast every morning, but I've no idea how many calories are in a bowl. I reckon I put about 60g or so in a bowl and make it with about 0.2 litre of skim milk. How many calories roughly would be in that? I'm guessing 400/500?

Also - what I eat are "Flaked Oats", called Milk Oaties, I live in NZ but they're kind of like the Flahavans Organic in the red/white/green plastic packet you get at home. With both you can just lash it in the microwave for a couple of minutes and it's ready (which is why I don't understand people advising on this board to get up 20 mins early to cook porridge in a pot??!?!) This stuff tastes good, but I remember as a kid being fed porridge which tasted just awful, and my mother used to soak it overnight and stuff. Is what I'm eating as good for you as the horrible stuff?

Are oatmeal and porridge the same thing? AFAIK oatmeal is just the yank name for porridge.

Thanks.

liamo

g-punkteffekt wrote:

hi all. Some questions on this stuff.
I eat porridge for breakfast every morning, but I've no idea how many calories are in a bowl. I reckon I put about 60g or so in a bowl and make it with about 0.2 litre of skim milk. How many calories roughly would be in that? I'm guessing 400/500?

From the packet of oatmeal beside my desk : 100g = 386Kcal. Therefore 60g = 231 Kcal. A quick Google tells me that skimmed milk is about 34 Kcal per 100ml. So 68 per .2 litres.

So that's about 300 Kcals for your serving.

Also - what I eat are "Flaked Oats", called Milk Oaties, I live in NZ but they're kind of like the Flahavans Organic in the red/white/green plastic packet you get at home. With both you can just lash it in the microwave for a couple of minutes and it's ready (which is why I don't understand people advising on this board to get up 20 mins early to cook porridge in a pot??!?!) This stuff tastes good, but I remember as a kid being fed porridge which tasted just awful, and my mother used to soak it overnight and stuff. Is what I'm eating as good for you as the horrible stuff?

Maybe your tastes have changed? Maybe your mother put salt into it? (That's what my Dad used to do - ugh!)

Are oatmeal and porridge the same thing? AFAIK oatmeal is just the yank name for porridge.

Porridge is made from oats (or rice or maize or many other foods).


I put a couple of sweeteners into mine and then throw a handful of raisins into it when it's cooked (2 mins in the micro). I'd eat that at any time of day - it's gorgeous.


Regards,

Liam

Sangre

How do you stop it sticking to the pot when you cook it? It always gets gloopy and I can never just scrub it off. Can't microwave the stuff, think it tastes horrible.

yomchi

Try eating it without cooking, add some cold Rice milk and 100g of uncooked oats with a banana - simply nice

siochain

try it with fresh pineapple or grapes.

Hermione*

Jon wrote:

Try eating it without cooking, add some cold Rice milk and 100g of uncooked oats with a banana - simply nice

Mmm, I do something similar when I haven't time to cook it. I mix porridge oats, berries (or whatever fruit I have) and natural yoghurt ... nyom. And it beats paying 2 or 3 quid for a tiny cup of something similar in a cafe.

I love porridge. It's so much better for yout han corn flakes and other cr*p cereals.

MA

Jon wrote:

Try eating it without cooking, add some cold Rice milk and 100g of uncooked oats with a banana - simply nice

i used to do this, but soya yogurt instead of the rice milk - its like the power food.

NZ is generally pretty health concious so ask around. Also on the porridge your eating read the back, check the ingredients in it- basically you just want pure rolled outs - 3 minutes in the microwave and its cooked, stuff the pot i thort they were extinct ! you can use honey for sweetness

Nordie

I'm a porriage fan too and likewise pop it in the microwave. I never tried it uncooked but will tomoro. I usually add mixed seeds, goji berries, fresh fruit/berries if I have them, a few nuts and soya milk and that keeps me going until lunchtime, yummy.

rubadub

Jon wrote:

Try eating it without cooking, add some cold Rice milk and 100g of uncooked oats with a banana - simply nice

I put a spoon of honey in a bowl, a tiny bit of cold skimmed milk and stirred it up, bit more again and again so it dissolves properly, then the oats with no fruit at all, was lovely, just museli without the nuts & fruit.

Brown_Eyed_Girl

Try toasting it in the oven with some almonds and sunflower seeds coconut and sesame and flax seeds, then having it raw with natural yogurt honey and berries (raspberries being my favourite)

hunnymonster

how on earth do you get time to roast porridge in the oven? I can barely manage 2:30min to nuke it!

daveirl

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jdivision

I cook porridge and eat it with raisins and a small amount of organic honey. I microwaved it for a while but found it felt like concrete in my stomach for a while.

Brown_Eyed_Girl

lol hunny I do a load of it at the weekend and store it in an airtight container.

Its also lovely with a scoop of vanila protein with some cinnamon and apples and sultanas on the top ............. yummy

Aedh Baclamh

Add sunflower/sesame/pumpkin/linseed to it too, varies it up nicely.

Newaglish

Sangre wrote:

How do you stop it sticking to the pot when you cook it? It always gets gloopy and I can never just scrub it off. Can't microwave the stuff, think it tastes horrible.

Get a non-stick pot, stir while cooking, don't cook it on too high a heat and don't cook it for too long!

And wash it straight away! If you leave it for a few hours it's like cement.

Reyman

I think you need to be careful what type of oatmeal you buy. Aldi are selling dreaful rubbish at present for approx 35cents - 500gms. It's kind of like sawdust and probably has the same nutritional value.

Whereas Flahavans have a very good quality brand called 'Jumbo Oats' which is the real business. It pays to try a few types and let your palate/eye guide you

blah

Hey guys, I read through these suggestions and headed off to the supermarket to stock up. Got myself Oats, sunflower seeds, raisins, pine nuts, walnuts and blueberries, had it with milk. Then I realised, this is just homemade muesli! Nice though.

Hermione*

blah wrote:

I realised, this is just homemade muesli! Nice though.

That's exactly how I think of it! It's cereal I make myself, so there's no added nastiness in it and it's so much yummier

KNS

Usually mix in some frozen berries and milk, throw it in the microwave and add honey once it's cooked. Find it hard to eat it on hot mornings though. Although we seem to be safe enough this summer!!

rubadub

Find it hard to eat it on hot mornings though

Try just oats and cold milk, I am eating nothing but it now!

What oats do people think are best? I noticed odlums seems to have a slightly better nutritional profile than flanhavans, and is a little cheaper. Tesco now have "value" oats, really cheap but poor nutritional values.

Hermione*

I go with flahavan's, mostly for the nostalgia factor as that's what we had at home. I've never actually done a nutritional comparisom of them against odlum's, and usually I'd be obsessive about label-checking my food! Are odlums much better than flahavans?

rubadub

Hermione* wrote:

Are odlums much better than flahavans?

No, depending on what you consider "good" it could go either way, some values were a tiny bit higher, some a tiny bit lower, but think flahavans was 6.x% fibre, while odlums was 9.x%

You could blend it with oat bran to get fibre up of course.