When my kids were in their pre-teeth stages, I was told by my mum and grandma to start the long journey of preparing porridge for them everyday as an addition to their diet which, before this, consisted only of milk. So that was what they would eat every single day - the same old same old simply because I could not think of any other variation to the plain porridge cooked in the slow cooker in a ikan billis broth with small pieces of fish and chopped up spinach. They must have been so bored of that, because as soon as they could eat other foods, such as pasta and rice, they completely rejected porridge.