Yes, growing up my dad would make white rice and we always had it with some butter, cinnamon and sugar. Never had it with milk though.

That sounds good. seems like it would be good warm or cold! Instant rice?

Sounds interesting. Gonna have to give that a try!

we have rice, raisins, cream. sugar and cinnamon and just a bit of salt. I have made it with dry creamer if I don't have cream. The bit of salt just takes the real sweet taste out of it and makes it better. My mother always said to do that. I do that with pudding to if I make it from scratch.

Mama, my sister likes to cook rice, eat with milk and sugar for breakfast or she would keep leftover rice from the night before and eat it cold with milk like a cereal in the morning. I've never been in the habit but I do like hot cereals like Malt O Meal or Cream of Wheat with milk and a pinch of brown sugar - the rice probably wouldn't be significantly different. DH prefers brown rice though, so if I have leftover its the more coarse and chewey brown.

White rice is not a particularly healthy food choice. Especially for people who are obese, pre-diabetic or even diabetic, because it has a high glycemic index. Meaning, it quickly raises your blood sugar but then it drops quickly. It doesn't "stay" with you to satisfy hunger. Lower glycemic foods, even grains like whole wheat, oatmeal, etc., produce less of a blood sugar spike and provide energy (to avoid feeling hungry) over a longer period of time.

While I know the taste differs, eating that combination with brown race would be a healthier choice. Many choices of brown rice are actually not rice but are delicious seeds of various wild grasses. They're a whole grain and so digest slowly.

Another problem with rice is that it tends to contain arsenic - see linked article for test finding from Consumer Reports. Higher arsenic concentrations were found for rice grown in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and lower concentrations for rice grown in California and abroad. In this category, brown rice scores worse than white rice. CR suggests eating rice no more than twice a week (insofar as arsenic is concerned). For healthy eating reasons, less frequently would be better.

Arsenic in rice - test results

Yes, with milk, butter, sugar & raisins. Loved it as a child.

To me rice is a savory food, not a food to be sweetened, so no it would not appeal to me. Not much of a rice fan anyway.

My grandfather ate it almost every night for dessert, he lived till his 90s, mom would have it occasionally for breakfast, she lived to 92. I have occasionally when I was young but it never was a favorite. I don't do milk now.

I'm glad your grandfather and mother led long and happy lives. Many of their generations also smoked - and maybe they did too. The longevity they and perhaps some others of their respective eras enjoyed doesn't mean that smoking or following a diet now known to be not that healthy didn't adversely affect their health or that of others who didn't live so long.

Elmer, thank you for the info about arsenic, I had no idea. Of course since I've gone back to keto I don't eat rice, but I will pass the info along to the kids.

I just cooked rice and chicken as a home made treat for the dogs, I guess that wasn't a great idea now.

Sounds like yummy "almost" rice pudding to me.

Sounds good with milk, but for me, not for breakfast. I tend to walk into walls after high carb breakfasts. I'd definitely leave out the sugar any time of day.

Yes, I enjoy rice sweetened with sugar and doused with milk. I also like hot rice with an egg cracked over it. Both were childhood treats I continue to indulge in. I've come to enjoy brown rice, and other colors of rice too.

My grandfather told a story about rice. He rode over on a boat from the old country when he was three, in the early 1900s. The main dish they served them the whole journey was white rice. His mother loved it -- so pretty, so clean, so delicious. So my family has been big rice eaters ever since.

I've done that before with quinoa. Pretty good! I had sticky rice with mango at a thai restaurant yesterday that was delicious. I want to try to recreate it with some coconut milk.

Elmer I didn't know about the arsenic in rice, thank you. Otherwise I'm not concerned about the rest since its not a daily staple for me. I used to eat it a lot, but now its just occasionally. Interesting seeing how many like rice this way. Thank you all I am glad I'm not alone haha

No rice in our house. I used to eat small amounts of it but DH is greatly opposed to it so I have lost my taste for it over the years. I have read about the arsenic and other toxins that form if it were left at room temp, etc.

Growing up, left over rice with milk, sugar, cinnamon and raisins was a real treat, we called it 'rice pudding'. I didn't know until I was grown and moved away from home what 'real' rice pudding was. Later in life I discovered brown rice, and switched to it completely, using it in the same ways I had used the white rice. It is perhaps even better than the white rice with the milk, cinnamon, etc., I love the chewiness of it, almost a nutty flavor.

Yes, I've known about the arsenic in rice, although I did not know that brown rice has more. But I don't eat it often enough, nor that much of it, to be very concerned about it.

Rusty

Apparently putting white rice cooked with coconut oil in the fridge for 12 hours makes it less calorie laden and safer to eat then. It converts the starches making it less problematic for diabetes Not sure if it helps remove the arsenic though.

I read it was the water that the rice absorbed the arsenic from it. Clean up the water, no more arsenic in the rice?

Here's the link to the Washington post rice article.

Never heard of eating rice that way but my mom would make rice pudding with cinnamon and raisins that I loved. I gave up rice a few years ago - too many carbs.

Love rice, long grain rice. Also love cream of wheat and grits, sometimes just butter and S&P and other times with sugar. All have different flavours but can be eaten the same way in my opinion.

Rice is a 'filler' -- bulk in the intestine. We fed our 'delicate stomach' Westie rice with cottage cheese when he was sick. I was allowed rice and Cream of Wheat while recovering from colon surgery.

The arsenic discussion has reminded me of two things I always considered toxic, both made with lye: Hominy and Lutefisk.

Gotta love lutefisk! I haven't had it in ages.

No, but my daughter does. I prefer it with other foods. Also like it with butter but eat that once every five years or so. I used to eat rice a lot, grew up with a Japanese mother. Gave it up for the most part the past few years except with certain dishes. Now am back to using it more because I have a Japanese student. She had bowel issues when she first got here so I started buying rice all the time because back home she eats it every day.

That sounds delicious, but as Elmer J Fudd points out, it would be to much of a carbohydrate shot for me.

My first year teaching in the smallest town I had ever lived in their lunch ladies made rice pudding that was TO DIE FOR. The ingredients are just what has been listed. Cooked rice, milk, SUGAR, butter, cinnamon. We moved away from white rice decades ago. Now choose cous cous,quinoa, brown rice, wild rice...much healthier choice than pasta. I love a snack of left over "rice" with butter and garlic!!

When I was growing up, my friend's family ate rice for breakfast. They were dirt poor so I suspect that's why they had it...maybe? We never ate rice for breakfast at our house though. I only ate it at her house because that's all there was to eat there. It isn't something that I enjoyed eating. I would rather eat oatmeal, much healthier. I think rice for breakfast is very much similar to grits in flavor.

Yep, rice with sugar, raisins and cinnamon. I never did care for milk.

Oh yes, that is the only way we ever had rice at home. Never with gravy or anything. Gravy was for potatoes or biscuits. I do like my sweetened white rice. I made some last week.

Sue

I make rice pudding with milk and sugar and a little nutmeg. Some rice pudding recipes call for eggs, but I make a plain milk pudding.

In many rice-eating regions of Asia, people like rice and vegetables or eggs or meat, etc, for breakfast.

I think the idea of sweet food for breakfast is a bit weird, actually, and doesn't make me feel good to start my day. I prefer to eat something that isn't sweet for breakfast. But actually I don't like white rice much, so I don't often have it for breakfast unless I've got some great leftovers calling out to me.

DH adores white rice for breakfast (or anytime). Anytime I make white rice for dinner, I make sure to make extra. He'll even have it in the evening for a snack instead of ice cream.