Baby, It's Cold Outside! Time for Porridge, The Original Breakfast Cereal! - 10/8/26

So, um, yeah, so today we're gonna talk about porridge because it is getting colder, and I am trying to, uh, do these live streams with information that's good for you now, uh, since it is, um, autumn, and the temperatures are getting colder, uh, at least in the northern hemisphere, yeah? Temperatures are getting colder, so we've been talking about for the last couple of weeks how to eat, uh, what foods to eat, what things to include in your diet that would be helpful to you, that would be helpful to you, uh, and help you navigate the colder weather.

Yeah? So as it gets colder, we want to be eating warming things, or should I say warm things, hot things in temperature, and warming things in spice, right? So, uh, some of those warming spices that we've talked about a couple times are cinnamon.

Mm.

Yes.

Do I hear cinnamon an- anywhere? Cinnamon, and, uh, that's the biggest one for the autumn.

Everybody loves it.

Cinnamon, cloves, white pepper I like to use in my autumn foods.

Yes, curries, things that have some fire in them.

So, uh, I thought we'd talk about porridge.

So what's porridge? Old-fashioned word, eh? Old-fashioned word, old-fashioned cereal.

In fact, the first ways or the first way that cereal grains or grains were eaten, uh, for breakfast.

And so, um, there are a lot of cereals out there, folks, boxed cereals, aisles of them, organic, not organic.

Yeah.

But the original cereals were things like porridge, and the porridge that you all know and love, or at least you know, is oatmeal.

So today we're going to talk about oatmeal.

I'm also going to give you a little information, um, the, the formula, if you will, the, uh, the template, the guidelines that you can use to make, um, porridge from pretty much any grain, except for rice, believe it or not.

All right, you can't make porridge from rice in any case.

So all right, so let's talk about porridge.

So what is porridge? Porridge is a cooked, um, grain cereal that we eat for breakfast.

It's hot, it's cooked on the stove, it's warming.

It is, uh, incredibly good, uh, in terms of, um, if you make it correctly, it's incredibly good for, mm, stabilizing blood sugar.

What do I mean by that? What I mean is if you start your day with a nice warm bowl of oatmeal, right, or other porridge, uh, and you eat it with enough fat, right, like butter, raw butter, coconut, if you don't do butter, coconut oil, coconut cream, raw cream, right? You put some beautiful, healthy fat on it and some good salt, you will be-- it will serve you very well.

It'll keep you stable.

It'll keep you out of being hangry, if you will, right, for many, many hours when you start your day with oatmeal.

So but I want to talk a little bit about oats to start with, and then we'll talk about porridge, the, um, the formula for porridge, making any porridge, and I'll tell you about those grains that you would use to make porridge.