MOMA Foods: Porridge Pots, Sachets and Oats for a Household Store

MOMA Foods is a breakfast foods maker whose porridge pots, porridge sachets and jumbo oats are sold in UK shops and online. If you keep any of them in a cupboard or an emergency food store, the first thing to know is that MOMA Foods recalled various porridge pots and sachets in March 2026 because of possible mouse contamination at the manufacturing site¹. The company's advice is direct: do not eat them, and return them to where you bought them for a full refund¹.

The recall was widened on 27 March 2026 to all products with a best before date between 24/04/2026 and 12/03/2027¹. An earlier notice, dated 22 March 2026, listed specific best before dates and batch codes for each product². The two notices do not agree on the detail for several lines, so check your pack against both and treat any pack inside the wider date range as affected.

For a household, this matters twice over. It is a food safety notice about something you may be about to eat, and it is a reminder that an emergency store is only useful if it is checked. The same habit that catches a recalled porridge pot, reading the label and the date, is the one that keeps a cupboard store in date and safe.

MOMA porridge pots and sachets recall: what owners should do

If you have a MOMA porridge pot or sachet in the cupboard, take it out and read the best before date before anything else. The official notice is blunt about the risk: "These products may contain mouse contamination making them unsafe to eat"¹. The instruction that follows is equally plain: "If you have bought the above products, do not eat them"¹. Instead, return them to where you bought them from for a full refund¹.

That is the whole of the action for most households. There is no need to contact anyone before returning the product, and no special handling is described. Put the pack aside somewhere it will not be eaten by mistake, keep it in its packaging so the shop can identify it, and take it back on your next trip.

The recall was issued in two stages. The notice dated 22 March 2026 set out named products with specific best before dates and batch codes². The update dated 27 March 2026 extended the recall to all products with a best before date between 24/04/2026 and 12/03/2027¹. Where the two notices give different dates or batch codes for the same product, they disagree, and the safer course is to treat the pack as recalled if it falls anywhere inside the wider range.

Which MOMA products are affected

The recall covers a wide spread of the MOMA porridge range, in both pots and sachets, plus MOMA Jumbo Oats 450g in 1pk and 6pk, all with best before dates between 24/04/2026 and 12/03/2027¹. The products named in the notices include:

• MOMA Blueberry & Vanilla Porridge Pot 65g¹
• MOMA Banana & Peanut Butter Protein Porridge Pot 65g¹
• MOMA Plain No-Added Sugar Porridge Pot 65g¹
• MOMA Apple, Cinnamon & Brown Sugar Porridge Pot 65g, in 8pk¹
• MOMA Almond Butter & Salted Caramel Porridge Pot 55g, in 1pk and 12pk¹
• MOMA Cranberry & Raisin Porridge Pot 70g¹
• MOMA Golden Syrup Porridge Pot 70g, in 1pk¹
• MOMA Almond Butter & Salted Caramel Porridge Sachets 6 x 40g, in 5pk¹
• MOMA Blueberry & Vanilla Porridge Sachets 7 x 40g, in 1pk¹
• MOMA Cranberry & Raisin Porridge Sachets 6 x 40g, in 1pk¹
• MOMA Cranberry & Raisin Instant Porridge Sachets 70g, in 5pk and 30pk¹
• MOMA Plain No-added Sugar Instant Porridge Sachets 65g, in 5pk and 15pk¹
• MOMA Apple, Cinnamon & Brown Sugar Porridge Sachets 7 x 40g¹
• MOMA Raspberry & Apple Overnight Oats 400g, in 1pk¹
• MOMA Jumbo Oats 450g, in 1pk and 6pk¹

The earlier notice gives a narrower picture for some of these lines. It lists, for example, MOMA Golden Syrup Porridge Pot 70g with best before dates between 29/08/26 and 12/12/26 and batch codes M5241, M5244, M5245, M5261, M5293, M5311, M5314, M5346 and M5349². The later notice covers all dates in the wider range for the same product¹.

Why MOMA Foods is recalling these products

The cause given in both notices is possible mouse contamination at the manufacturing site¹. This is a contamination recall rather than an allergen recall. Food is recalled for a handful of reasons: contamination with pathogens such as listeria or salmonella that could give you food poisoning, manufacturing faults such as plastic or metal being found in the product, or a labelling error such as an allergen missing from the ingredients list³. A recall of this kind is a precaution: the maker and the food safety authorities act when there is a possible route for contamination, not only when someone has been made ill.

For a household, the practical point is that a recall notice is not a comment on the brand's other products or on the shop that sold it. It is a specific instruction about specific packs. The same maker's other lines, and the same products outside the affected date range, are not covered by this notice.

Check your cupboards and emergency food store

An emergency food store is only as good as its last check. Official guidance for households getting prepared says to check your cupboards first to see what essentials you already keep at home⁴, and winter guidance from councils and the NHS advises keeping plenty of food in your cupboards and a supply of long-lasting essentials such as tinned vegetables, beans, pulses, soup and pasta⁵. A recall is the moment to do that check properly.

Work through the store shelf by shelf:

• Read every best before date on MOMA pots, sachets and oats, and set aside anything between 24/04/2026 and 12/03/2027¹.
• Find the batch code on the base of the pots and the back of the sachets, and compare it with the earlier notice².
• Check the rest of the store for other recalled foods, using the Food Standards Agency alerts pages.
• Rotate as you go, putting older items at the front so they are used first.

Storage matters too. Food Standards Scotland advises keeping the storage area dry and not too warm, following label storage instructions for anything that needs the fridge once opened, and not storing food in containers that have been used for other purposes⁸. If your store has been through a flood, clean and disinfect the inside of your food cupboards before restocking⁹.

Where to find the recall notice in shops

MOMA Foods said point of sale notices would be displayed in all retail stores selling the affected products and on its website, explaining why the products are being recalled and what to do². That is the standard approach for a UK food recall: the notice goes where the product was sold, so that people who bought it see it before they eat it¹⁰.

If you are in a shop and cannot see a notice, ask at the till or the customer service desk. Keep the product and its packaging with you. The notice itself will name the products, give the best before dates and batch codes, and repeat the instruction to return the product for a full refund.

Getting help from MOMA Foods or the retailer

The recall notice does not set out a separate helpline. The route it gives is the shop: return the product to where you bought it for a full refund¹. If you bought online, use the seller's returns process and keep any order confirmation you have.

If you are struggling to get out to the shops, or to afford food, help exists. The government's guidance for people having difficulty shopping says to ask friends, family or neighbours to go out and get food and other essentials for you, and to contact your local authority to find out what support services are available in your area¹³. Cumberland Council, for example, offers urgent help finding food and essential items for people struggling to cope with their current situation¹⁴. Community schemes exist too: in the Western Isles, a mobile shop can be phoned to arrange a drop-off if you cannot leave the house, and some shops run a food basket where people can donate or take items they need at no cost¹⁵.

For anyone who needs a bit more support at home, it is worth knowing about the Priority Services Register and the other help listed in our guide to extra help in an emergency.

Replacing recalled food in your household store

Once the recalled packs have gone back, think about what goes in their place. The point of a household store is to carry you through a power cut, a flood, a storm or a few days when you cannot get to the shops, so the replacement should be food that keeps and needs little or nothing doing to it.

Official guidance points to long-lasting cupboard essentials such as tinned vegetables, beans, pulses, soup and pasta⁶, and to keeping enough food and medicine in the cupboards for a spell indoors¹⁶. A household emergency plan's grab-and-go list includes long life food and snacks alongside bottled water, a torch and a power bank¹⁷. Porridge pots and sachets fit that list well because they need only hot water, but they are not the whole of a store.

When you restock:

• Check the date range on anything you buy, so you are not bringing home a pack from the recalled period¹.
• Buy what you eat, so the store rotates naturally rather than sitting until it expires.
• Keep a written list of what is in the store and when it expires, and check it each season.
• Store it dry and cool, following the label once opened⁸.

For more on building and rotating a store, see our guide to emergency food and the wider emergency kit list.