... to be crushed, I tell you, crushed, by what I've just discovered in my food cupboard?

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NO RICE PUDDING. That's what I've just found. No rice pudding. I just fancied some Ambrosia pudding but somehow there is none there. Nobody except me eats the stuff here so it's my fault the last tin used was never replaced. No one to blame but myself. That makes it a million times worse.

Anybody got anything equally earth-shattering to share?

It's a family thing for us..think it came from my gran.. we all do it and introduce other people to it who then love it too! We also make french toast with cheese in the middle, so a cheese sandwich dipped in the egg then fried..with HP on top! 😋

Excuse me, but....
CUSTARD PODS!

I bought 2 packs. Half price in Sainsbury's (introductory offer).
Sorry for that outburst

All right, you wanton tease....tell us more!

What the hell is a custard pod?!?

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/product/details/fruits-desserts-special-offers/birds-quick-easy-custard-pods-4x22g

We also make french toast with cheese in the middle, so a cheese sandwich dipped in the egg then fried..with HP on top! 😋 We did these at Guide camp, minus the HP. We called them Cheese Dreams.

I'm guessing you don't add sugar or cinnamon to your egg mixture?

I will just say to all of you with several bags of pudding rice in your cupboards, check them throughly! I had a jar of pudding rice which used to live in a plastic tub but I thought a jar would better. Quite a while later (may have been years) I thought ooh I fancy making some rice pudding for after dinner and was cooking something at the right temp so bonus. Measured out the rice, had Simon Hopkins recipe in my iPad, and thought did that rice just move? I then realised it had some flour bugs in it shudder so chucked it away and looked at the jar. The bottle centimetre or so was a very fine powder and above that was a community of bugs living very happily in their pudding rice world!

No sugar or cinnamon, completely savoury

One of my chocolate-stealing teenagers used to be the world's hungriest toddler and French toast was one of the few snacks that would keep him satisfied for half an hour or so. That was the period of my life when I also constantly made rice puddings on the basis that they were filling and not too sweet.

Also thus thread inspired me to have a Twix on my tea break this morning. I hadn't had one in ages but it was very nice. The exercise threads I read are never as inspiring.

That’s 15 years ago and I’ve moved house so don’t hold out much hope of finding them again

Never say never, helena. 😉

Very easy. Pudding rice, whole milk and sugar that’s it. Grease the dish . Pudding rice packets have the recipe on the side usually. So much yummier than tinned

Mind. Blown.

Now, if only my nearest Sainsburys wasn't 30 miles away...

Most supermarkets sell them; Sainsburys was just the first link I came across.

Haven’t had it since I was a child. My mum used to make a fab rice pudding, cooked in the oven. Had it after a Sunday roast. Alternated each week with bread and butter pudding. Wasn’t a fan of the dried fruit in that. You have put me in mind to recreate that rice pud memory!

Custard is the easiest thing ever to make in the microwave!

Only if you have custard powder or similar in the cupboard, which I don't.

Fair comment!! 🤗

I've never been able to make rice pudding from scratch. It takes absolutely ages and the consistency is never right. In other sad news, somebody brought me scones on Sunday, I didn't get round to eating them all and the last two are now rock hard.

Same!!

I absolutely love eating and making bread and butter pudding with chocolate brioche bread and rice pudding- sadly my H hates both of them as does my son when he visits- so I never get chance.

That’s ok, douse them in alcohol, add cream and jam and you have trifle…

If you microwave the stale scones for 10 to 20 seconds they'll soften up nicely.

Thanks for the tip!

Yes it's a doddle and better.

Re no oatcakes … I always have porridge oats in the house.. combine them with granola so less sweet but still crunchy. But made porridge for DS before exams and didn’t measure .. loads left over. I rolled between baking parchment until thin.. and then baked / dried out in low oven to make oat cakes. Not quite the same but a really good alternative to bread - put butter and marmite on.. yum. If I had an air fryer it would be easy I think to dry old porridge into packable snacks. And super cheap / healthy too. Left me know your thoughts