Oats So Simple: Extreme

I like cinnamon. I like sweets. I like instant porridge.

So imagine my delight when I spied Oats So Simple: Sweet Cinnamon in my local Sainsburys Local.

I quickly snapped up two giant packs of ten sachets without a second thought to whether it would be disgusting or not. After all, cinnamon porridge, what's not to like? (And it's sweet cinnamon too, not that horrible sour cinnamon. I am still waiting for Oats So Simple: Sour Cinnamon.)

BIG MISTAKE, A key problem with Oats So Simple: Sweet Cinnamon is that THEY FORGOT TO MAKE IT TASTE OF CINNAMON.

It's not particularly sweet either.

It tastes of approximately nothing. 1 out of 7. Hence forth, all mentions of OSS Sweet Cinnamon must have quote marks around the "Sweet Cinnamon" bit. Starting from now.

Anyway, in late 2011, I had a massive brainwave - why not eschew ordinary boring milk and replace with flavoured milk dans la porridge?

"Too sweet!" said the naysayers.
"You're an idiot!" said some other naysayers.
"You talking incessantly about porridge is getting on my nerves," said most people.

But all those people were wrong. Yes I am the first to agree it is mental - BUT - how else to correct Quaker's feeble attempt to actually make instant porridge oats that taste of something?

And, with a hefty surplus of OSS: "Sweet Cinnamon" sitting in the cupboard uneaten, it was either this or post them all back individually to Quakers HQ with the words "sweet cinnamon" crossed out and replaced with "sh-t cinnamon".
And no one wanted that.*

So here we go.

STEP ONE: Buy some flavoured milk - EG banana

STEP TWO: Put the OOS: "Sweet Cinnamon" into the pan. Pour the required amount of banana milk into the sachet, then add to the pan.

BOIL.

Not so Oats So Complicated right? OSS: "Sweet Cinnamon" and Banana - 6 out of 7.

But why stop there? Here's OOS: "Sweet Cinnamon" with Sainsburys White Chocolate and Raspberry Milk. (5 out of 7)

There's no reason why this can't be repeated with different OSS flavours combined with different flavoured milks. For example, OSS: Mango and Passion fruit with strawberry milk, or OSS: Golden Syrup with chocolate milk. Why not try your own combos?

BUT. Could the concept be taken one step further? What about adding a Honeycomb Choc Swirl Frijj Milkshake? "NOOOOOO" everyone shouted. But I didn't listen:

a DISGUSTING thick gloopy mess. Just shows you, some experiments can be taken too far.

Oats So Simple: "Sweet Cinnamon" and Honeycomb Choc Swirl porridge, 
Gobble Monkey says: 2 out of 7 

*least of all me, I've run out of stamps