How can I efficiently make single-serve porridge? I usually eat and cook porridge when I have other people around to eat it, but when I am alone, I feel like it is wasted time and just eat something simple like bread. I still like porridge with fruits but I do not want waste time on it. I have wondered whether I could save time with ideas such as:


Cook porridge in the evening and warming it up in the microwave in the morning;
Leave it with a lot of water on the warming iron at the lowest temperature;
Buy some sort of automatic porridge cooker with a timer (probably a water-cooker so there is less worry about burning it)
If some automatic cooker exists, could I at the same time cook eggs, porridge and bacon with some sort of automatic timer?
You can cook a single serve of porridge in the microwave very easily

Place oats and water or milk (or water and milk powder) into a microwave safe serving bowl, and cook on high for about 3 minutes. Stir and let stand for a couple of minutes, and it should be just like "mums"