Irish Porridge Oats, 17.5-Ounce Bag

It's just oatmeal, right? Well, my wife brought back the remainder of the bag from her trip to Ireland. This is different (better!) than standard Quaker Quick Oats. Flahavans cooks just as fast, but creamier, and just better. I just bought another six-pack...

This is high quality, tasty oatmeal! My kids love this oatmeal much better tasting then any other brand.

We eat oats every single day and while traveling this spring in Seoul we could only find this brand at the Lotte Dept Store--didn't expect much and it was kind of expensive. Boy, these are the gold standard of oats. We add boiling water and kind of whip them and add dry milk, fresh fruits and a dollop of greek yogurt. Delicious and fluffy and smooth. I will never go back to regular rolled oats from Whole Foods after these.Seriously the best oats around.

After my lifelong mission to find porridge that could please persnickety Goldilocks, I am relieved to say Flahavan's fills the bill. As a kid I never liked oatmeal, but porridge was so storied I kept trying, since oatmeal was supposedly it. When I was 14, I visited England, finally tried the real thing, and it was love. Unfortunately, back in the States I could never find anything comparable. So I just kept looking. One restaurant had a tasty and properly textured version, which they claimed was a proprietary porridge blend, but they didn't sell the oats, just the meal at breakfast. I've had the discussion many times: you'd expect all oats are oats, and therefore taste similar if prepared in similar fashion, but they simply don't. I tried every kind of oats I could get my hands on, from German and Scottish imports to bulk hippie/health food co-op organic. Steel-cut, rolled, slow, quick, everything! I soaked overnight and boiled stovetop; used milk, water, cream, and mixtures of them in varying amounts. In spite of wasting a lot of time and oats over the years, I didn't give up. Like another reviewer here, I found Flahavan's at a Wegmans. A brand I hadn't seen before! Surely it would be a failure like the rest, but it's a pretty small package, why not just try? Thank goodness I bought it. I can't speak with authority for those in the UK, because as demonstrated by my not having seen Flahavan's in 20 years of US oat shopping, you must have many brands I won't encounter here. In the US, Flahavan's is the only brand I've been able to find to make porridge oats that taste like the delicious porridge I had in England. And that's just their simple, microwave in 3 minutes oats! Crazy to imagine after all the trouble I've gone to trying to stew up the perfect porridge. Wegmans is foolish for discontinuing Flahavan's, but I'm thankful they had it for me to find when I did. For anyone out there looking for creamy (oat-creamy, even made with just water), tasty, tender, truly porridge-y oats, do yourself a favor and try Flahavan's. Even if you think you've got something decent---I used to eat McCann's sometimes, but even though other people in my family still buy it, to me it now tastes so bad in comparison I simply can't settle for it. I'm still open to trying new oats, but for me the lifelong fantasy porridge oats quest has found a firm footing in reality with Flahavan's fairytale deliciousness.

It has the best creamy oatmeal that I've ever tasted. Great quality product. It leaves you feeling satiated and curbs hunger. And it is fun to turn into flour for baking cookies, cakes and pies. I found this product in Korea. It was so expensive, but I grew up only knowing that old quaker kind and had a craving for non-lunch breakfast and decided to try it. It was the only available oatmeal. I do not regret it. It is by far the most superior oats on the market. I felt robbed that my entire life was spent on anything else.