I’ve always had a bit of an on-off thing with porridge. I certainly wasn’t a ‘Ready Brek’kid despite my mum’s best efforts;I stuck firmly with the Weetabix back then.

As I got older I found that porridge was sometimes good but mostly only with a heavy sprinkling of brown sugar and the creamy top of the milk.

And it was a staple on camping weekends with friends,helping stave off the damp and any budding hangover before nipping up a few hills in the Lake District. For the most part though porridge never entered my regular list [...]

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