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This is the perfect porridge for camping, tramping, skiing, or at home. To make it seriously smooth soak the mixed ingredients overnight. Use fresh milk if available to replace water and milk powder.

Ingredients (for two)

1 cup rolled oats
salt to taste
2¼ cups water
½ cup full milk powder

Increase ingredients proportionally for larger batches

mix dry ingredients fully in a saucepan
add water, soak if possible, overnight is good
heat slowly, stirring until it simmers
simmer gently and stir over a low heat gently for 3 minutes

(To help with the cleaning, ensure the saucepan is filled with cold water immediately after serving)

Good topping ideas

Brown sugar and milk or cream
Fruit and yoghurt
Bananas and cinnamon
Honey
Icecream

Proportions by volume

1 part porridge to 2¼ parts water
1 part milk powder to 4 parts water

#People	Rolled oats	Milk, or Water for Powder	Powder
1	½ cup	1 ¼ cups	¼ cup
2	1 cup	2 ¼ cups	½ cup
3	1 ½ cups	3 ½ cups	¾ cup
4	2 cups	4 ½ cups	1 cup
5	2 ½ cups	5 ½ cups	1 ½ cups
6	3 cups	6 ¾ cups	1 ⅔ cups
8	4 cups	9 cups	2 ¼ cups
10	5 cups	11 ¼ cups	2 ¾ cups
12	6 cups	13 ½ cups	3 ⅓ cups
20	10 cups	22 ½ cups	5 ⅔ cups

Tramping

Increase the recipe up to double the recipe for tramping, and add salt to taste. Add Cranberry sprinkles, brown sugar (20-30gm per person per day), dried fruit (30-40gm per person per day).

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