Fiona1986 wrote:I eat my porridge cold with apples and cinnamon, not keen on hot banana but I wouldn’t run you out of the country for it
Fiona1986 wrote:Oh and I prefer vegetarian haggis to the real thing so putting sauces on it is also fine by me.
Oh good, glad to hear it. I like apple and cinnamon in porridge (hot) too — Sainsbury's has a good microwave packet version. As for haggis, I only tried it in a pub in Edinburgh just to see what it was really like... very much like any other sausage meat, really. But I think on the whole I'd rather have the vegetarian version as well.
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Moonraker wrote:Eating Porage Oats at I write! Plain and simple - nothing added...
Not even milk?
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Eating porridge with 'sucralose sweetener' sort of spoils the whole effect! Doesn't sound very healthy to me!!
Then again, I avoid all artificial sweeteners.
When I have porridge, I must admit I have a small amount of sugar, but tend to use blueberries, raspberries or sometimes tinned fruit (in natural juice!) as a way to make it sweeter.
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I add a spoonful of honey to my porridge to sweeten it, or sometimes some fruit. Just recently I've added a handful of raisins and cooked those with it - very filling.
Are you thinking of the dangers of the aspartame sweetener perhaps Rob?
Sucralose is a calorie-free artificial sweetener derived from sucrose and is up to 650 times sweeter than sugar.
Valued for having no bitter aftertaste, sucralose-based products are found in a broad range of lower-calorie foods, including table top sweeteners, fizzy drinks, chewing gum, baking mixes, breakfast cereals and salad dressings.
Because it is very sweet, sucralose is often mixed with other sweetening ingredients that are not calorie-free, such as dextrose or maltodextrin, to dilute its intense sweetness.
When consumed, most of the sucralose is not absorbed by the body and is eliminated through excretion. Between 8% and 20% enters the blood and is removed through urine, essentially unchanged. The EU's Scientific Committee on Food (SCF) has concluded that repeated consumption of sucralose is "unlikely" to lead to accumulation in the body (PDF, 128kb).
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pete9012S wrote:Are you thinking of the dangers of the aspartame sweetener perhaps Rob?
I am, yes, as I always avoid Aspartame - but then I always avoid artificial sweeteners of all kinds, as they usually don't improve the taste of products. I think I'd rather have no sugar than artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners always seem too sweet to me!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
I love porridge and had it several times a week (plain, with a little sugar) for decades. Then I became allergic to oats, and sadly it was off the menu. Rice pudding or Weetabix with hot milk are reasonable alternatives but I still miss my porridge (and flapjacks!)
The worst alternative sweeteners I've tried are sorbitol and stevia. I don't have to have much of those to end up with stomach cramps and a need to stay very near a toilet for several hours! I've only had stevia once and it tasted absolutely foul to me anyway.
I agree about the sweetness of artificial sweeteners, Rob. My mum has used Sweetex (saccharin) in her tea since about the 1970s or 80s. A couple of times as a child or teenager I took a sip of her tea, mistaking it for mine, and found it far too sweet - even though I used to have a spoonful of sugar in my own tea in those days.
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Complete change of subject. I was very sad to see that Toys R Us are likely to close. I remember going to our local store to chose my eldest daughter a Christmas present for her 1st Christmas. Since then we've been a fair few times, usually just after Christmas so the children could spend the money they'd received for Christmas.
As far as I know Toys R Us was bought by some investors. If they milked it too much I don't know, but great brands started to refuse delivering goods until they were paid in advance last year.
I like apple and cinnamon in porridge (hot) too — Sainsbury's has a good microwave packet version. As for haggis, I only tried it in a pub in Edinburgh just to see what it was really like... very much like any other sausage meat, really. But I think on the whole I'd rather have the vegetarian version as well. 
Doesn't sound very healthy to me!!
