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Happy Thanksgiving to all my US readers! I wish we celebrated Thanksgiving here in the UK, I always feel I have a lot to be thankful for :-)

Today has seen a big change in my plans due to the weather:

View from my living room this morning, so pretty and festive!

As the snow is pretty bad up in the North East I’m working from home today and won’t be able to make my last yoga class this evening :-( I know I could have travelled to work and Newcastle if I really needed to, but when I have the option of working from home instead of spending twice my normal time travelling I think that makes more sense. Its a shame we don’t handle bad weather here very well, everything seems to come to a stand still! Anyway, as I had a little more time this morning I decided to warm myself up with this wonderful bowl of creamy porridge:

Orange, Cranberry and Macadamia Creamy Porridge

I started thinking about what I use to make my perfect porridge. At the moment the ingredients I tend to use for my basic porridge mix are:

• 1/2 cup of oats or porridge mix like Rude Health Fruity Date Porridge
• 1/2 cup of non dairy milk or fruit juice
• 1/2 cup of water
• 1 tablespoon of oat bran
• 4 tablespoons of liquid egg whites

All cooked on the stove top with the egg white mixed in at the end. A big dollop of yoghurt stirred in also adds extra creaminess! You can then get really creative with flavours, fixings and add ins. Here’s some of my favourite porridge flavours:

Chocolate berry porridge with raw cacao nibs (frozen berries, cocoa powder, brown rice syrup)

  Chocolate Pear and Hazelnut (cocoa powder or chocolate flavour protein powder with hazelnuts and chopped pears)

 Apple, Cinnamon and Almond Butter

 Matcha Green Tea with Berries (1/2 teaspoon of matcha green tea powder with defrosted frozen berries)

  Plum, Dried Fig and Cinnamon

Pumpkin with cinnamon and coconut

I’m getting hungry just looking at these! Of course one of my favourite porridge mixes is Rude Health Fruity Date Porridge – see my review here. So when the lovely Neen asked me if I would host a little giveaway on her behalf while she’s busy getting hitched I was more than happy to do so!

I have 6 sample size boxes of Rude Health Fruity Date Porridge to giveaway:

All you need to do to enter is leave a comment to this post with your favourite porridge topping / add in / flavour combos. I’ll pick winners at random. Deadline to enter is 12am GMT Saturday 27th November, good luck!

This weekend I quite fancy creating a Chocolate Cherry Almond Porridge, yum! I can’t wait to see what ideas you give me too :-)

Well I’m off to check out some Wellington Boots online – apparently this weather is here to last so I need to get myself properly prepared!