{"id":17173,"date":"2022-03-21T15:46:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prettygreentea.com\/?p=17173"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:47:04","slug":"how-eating-porridge-every-day-positively-impacted-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prettygreentea.com\/2022\/03\/how-eating-porridge-every-day-positively-impacted-my-life","title":{"rendered":"How Eating Porridge Positively Impacted my Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prettygreentea.com\/2022\/02\/monthly-goals-for-2022\">set small monthly goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year my goals are focused on health and wellbeing with the larger aim to form better habits throughout the year (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prettygreentea.com\/2022\/02\/monthly-goals-for-2022\">my 2022 goals<\/a>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started the year off by aiming to have porridge for breakfast everyday throughout January. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dairyfreedaisy\/video\/7071540412158119174\" data-video-id=\"7071540412158119174\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\"> <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@dairyfreedaisy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dairyfreedaisy\" rel=\"noopener\">@dairyfreedaisy<\/a> Quick breakfast. I like Lilk in my porridge but made this one with water because we were running low. <a title=\"dairyfreelife\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/dairyfreelife\" rel=\"noopener\">#dairyfreelife<\/a> <a title=\"dairyfreeuk\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/dairyfreeuk\" rel=\"noopener\">#dairyfreeuk<\/a> <a title=\"dairyfreebreakfast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/dairyfreebreakfast\" rel=\"noopener\">#dairyfreebreakfast<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - daisy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7071540373486586629\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; daisy<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>My go-to breakfast is Marmite on toast. I love it, it&#8217;s the perfect way to start the day but it was time to take a step back from eating it every single day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To put it really simply I need to cut down on how much bread I&#8217;m eating and I need a simple and quick way to add chia seeds, kiwi, banana and other <em>superfoods<\/em> into my diet and so, the simplest way to do that is through porridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like to use those sachets of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sainsburys.co.uk\/gol-ui\/product\/all-cereals\/quaker-oat-so-simple-original-porridge-x12-27g\">ready weighed out porridge<\/a>. I like that I know how much I&#8217;m having and although I could weigh out the oats from a regular bag I just prefer these oats in general. This is the way that works for me right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, rather controversially I like to make my oats with water. On the odd occasion I&#8217;ll make them with oat or almond milk but I just find it too creamy. I can only eat porridge if they&#8217;ve been cooked with mashed banana and chia seeds. Once the porridge is ready I top it with kiwi and berries. Sometimes I&#8217;ll add a swirl of honey or Biscoff, it depends how fancy I&#8217;m feeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t hit my goal of eating porridge for breakfast <em><strong>everyday <\/strong><\/em>but I did eat it more days than less. I&#8217;d say in general I was having oats for breakfast Monday-Friday and it worked really well. On the days I didn&#8217;t have porridge I really noticed that my day did not start well and I then didn&#8217;t eat as well throughout the day. Overall, I&#8217;ve found that starting my day with porridge really set me up for a good food day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>So, am I still eating porridge for breakfast each day?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I most certainly am, with the exception of some fruit bowl days and a Marmite on toast treat once a week. We&#8217;re now well into March and at long last we&#8217;re having the odd sunny morning so I imagine soon I&#8217;ll start to incorporate some overnight oats into my breakfast too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4 Things That happened when I started eating porridge everyday<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I quickly realised the hob gave better results than the microwave<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While the microwave is much more convenient to make porridge in there&#8217;s no beating the taste of when you make it on the hob. The results are just so much better. When I had a little extra time I&#8217;d make my porridge in a pan and really take the time to enjoy the process. as you can probably imagine, that wasn&#8217;t a possibility everyday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I found comfort in routine <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I found comfort in the routine of eating porridge for breakfast each morning. I didn&#8217;t have to overthink my breakfast or add any extra ingredients into my weekly food shop. As long as I had my oats ready to go I knew I&#8217;d be able to find something to top them with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I liked that I wasn&#8217;t overindulging at breakfast too and was able to better decide what to eat at lunch and dinner time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On the days I skipped oats I noticed <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it&#8217;s fine, for me, to skip oats once a week if I&#8217;m having a slow Sunday morning or heading out into the town for breakfast. However, if it happens more than once a week I really notice a negative impact on the start to my day. An exception for this is when I intermittent fast. I find that works really well for me if I&#8217;m in the right mindset and have had enough sleep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall having porridge for breakfast really gave me the best start to my day. I knew I&#8217;d eaten something healthy for breakfast, ticked off my morning kiwi <em>(people say you should eat them daily) <\/em>and had the opportunity to get chia seeds and walnuts into my diet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I didn&#8217;t need a mid-morning snack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I was surprised to find that I wasn&#8217;t hungry before lunch time when I was eating porridge daily. On the odd occasion I&#8217;d finish the rest of my banana that I&#8217;d used part of in the porridge but most of the time I&#8217;d be good to go &#8217;til lunch rolled around. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I set small monthly goals. 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