porridge
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Without energy exposure, it can put you right off your porridge.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Somsak Jaidee, 62, who sells rice porridge in bags secured with rubber bands at a Bangkok market, said that while "everything is more expensive... I have to endure it."
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
Breakfast was porridge with bananas and peanut butter, while lunch was "usually a massive plate of rice with marmite with two eggs, or cheesy fried potatoes with eggs and veg".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
Moma Foods has pulled some porridge pots and sachets from supermarket shelves and warned people not to eat them because of possible mouse contamination at a manufacturing site.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
I put the lid on the porridge and walk over to watch him climb.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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Hygiene products like wet wipes, gels, soaps, toothpastes and porridges are also flying off the shelves in Poland, according to drugstore chain Rossmann.
From Reuters ● Mar. 16, 2022
Because polenta and grits are both cornmeal porridges, it seemed a fun and tasty way to take the Italian-Southern food connection a bit further.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2019
Jenn Louis sometimes serves savory porridges at Ray, her Israeli-inspired restaurant in Portland, Ore., and she includes a Thai-style coconut-milk rice congee in her latest cookbook, “The Book of Greens.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2018
They live for up to a month in a separate ward with their mothers, who are taught how to cook nutritious porridges from the cheapest lentils, squash, onions, greens and oil.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2017
Mama was always cooking up nourishing broths and porridges for forgotten old men and pale young mothers—on days, that is, when she herself was strong enough to stand at the stove.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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