Looking to buy enough porridge to fill a 40 litre plastic bucket ... Any suggestions pleaseon where best to buy this in bulk rather than lots of 1kg bags (im in UK)

From experience, bulk tends to be more expensive. However, porridge is a great substance to play in but do be careful of temperature as it holds the heat very well and you wouldn't want to burn any sensitive parts...

Amazon 4 x 3kg Mornflake oats £25.99

Iceland: 1 x 3k Mornflake oats £3.50 (which makes £14 for 4).

When experimenting with similar things in the past, I've simply gone to every supermarket in the town and picked up a couple of similar size large bags, along with a few other 'normal items' and nobody thinks anything about it. Hey, you're making flapjacks for a school fete right (and you can use the golden syrup to play with as well)? Do this over a week and you've got all you need to fill a 40 litre bucket, bath or whatever you are choosing to do. A bit more of a ballache but no different than waiting a week for delivery from an online supplier

The only other 'cheap' option might be if you have access to a local cash and carry - but most places limit that to business accounts only which is likely to be a problem for most people.

Do you want coarse or fine oats for the lumpy or smooth experience? Amazon does a 5kg Bulk Fine Oats for £10.99 but that's still more expensive than the Mornflake ones. Of course, the more expensive brands tend to taste better, but I'm guessing you aren't mixing this up for the flavour.

Thanks. Lumpier and nastier the better. Used before with a couple of bags and really liked filing my clothes with it and the weight of it. Want to dunk my head in it and be disgusting

Going round the shops sounds best plan. Adds to the anticipation!! Cheers

Yeah best to get like 5 bags a time.

Oats are unreal, warm, smooth and heavy

The anticipation is great ... but especially if you get a knowing look and a smile from a cashier who is probably thinking the same as you... are they a wammer?

Had this once when buying custard before thge internet brought me thge joys of natrasol. It was more of an amused 'WTF' look rather than a knowing 'im a wammer too' look...but it was definitely enough to send the blood rushing to my cheeks

Totally know what you mean. The thought that they might know what you are up to is exciting. Really looking forward to starting my porrdige stockpiling.... Just need to be restrained enough to not put the first kg down my jeans before i buy more. That would be an unfortunate accident.

Unfortunately those things happen. You'll just have to make the most of a bad situation, I guess.

Porridge is the best, have had a few baths in it but boy it takes ages to clean up

I've never had a problem or any looks when bulk buying in supermarkets, in fact the cashiers like it when you have 20 of the same item, as they have a "multiples" function on their tills which means you give them one item, have all the others clearly displayed and organsed in the trolley so they can easily count them up (so 4 identical piles of 5 bags each, and nothing on top or underneath), they type in "20 x" and scan the one item and that's it done, nice and quick and that's another customer served.

People who work supermarket checkouts just want their shifts to go as fast as possible with the minimum of being screamed at, threatened, and abused by people, so someone who turns up with 20 of the same item all neatly laid out and hands them one to scan is an absolute godsend.

I keep my general shopping and WAM shopping completely separate as they go on different cards, and will regularly have a trolley containging 24 cartons of custard, 24 cans of custard, 20 cans of tomato soup, 12 cans of rice pudding, 12 cans of spaghetti hoops, 12 big bottles of golden syrup - and with just one of each item to be scanned, be done and through checkout withn a few minutes. In the 16 years I've been doing it I've only ever been asked what it's all for about twice, and "just stocking up" is all the answer needed.

Very occasionally I've shopped with models who volunteered that they'd be wearing it all while helping at checkout, which generally produced lots of laughter. But on my own, never questioned. Read up on the hassle and aggro that retail staff have to deal with on a daily basis - it can be a horrific and brutal work environment entirely because many of the general public are utter arseholes - and you'll realise just how glad they are to see polite and organised people who make their lives easier.

And finally, yay for porridge! Something we really should play with more often, makes an absolutely epic mess!