Breakfast Alternatives

[saor]

I have never tried oats soaked in milk, do you just buy jungle oats?

Yeah I use regular rolled oats and soak it overnight in the fridge with just enough milk that it's mostly all absorbed. Sometimes I'll just soak them in plain water then add some cocoa powder, blueberries, cinnamon, raisins etc. in the morning and stir it through. The oats are so soft by then that I hardly notice the difference between milk and water. In summer I prefer eating them cold like that and it saves having to cook them, though you could give 'em a quick heat up in the morning.

Also those chia seeds sound cool, do you just eat a bowl of seeds?

Either soak them overnight or an hour or two before eating in whatever milk you use - but here I add more milk so that it's kinda of like a runny rice pudding when you eat it. Add whatever else (raisins, cinnamon, vanilla etc) just before you eat it and it's great. Chia is a great source of fatty acids.

 

[Picard]

alternatives to the normal yoghurt/muesli/cereal/bacon/eggs.

Easy ... STEAK.

You won't be hungry again till 11 o'clock later that morning.

 

[Pooky]

Easy ... STEAK.

You won't be hungry again till 11 o'clock later that morning.

I find the more food I eat for breakfast, the quicker I get hungrier.

 

[Picard]

I find the more food I eat for breakfast, the quicker I get hungrier.

I know that ... which is why I said steak.

If you ate light meat or if you swallowed the steak in whole pieces (like a dog or a lion) ... of course the initial stage of your digestion will happen faster.

 

[saor]

Took some pics this morning. For the green juice - blend and strain through a muslin bag (they sell nice ones at helath food stores). It's quicker and cheaper than the schlep of using a juicer imo.




Chia seeds:



Once they've soaked for a few hours and swollen up quite a lot (they absorb a lot of water) stir through some powders, sweeteners, fruits etc:




Can make a bigger batch and keep in the fridge for a few days.

 

[Pooky]

What's your recipe for green juice?

 

[saor]

What's your recipe for green juice?

Into the juice goes:

The green stuff: I rotate between spinach and kale (and try to rotate between different varieties of each)
The sweet stuff: Either apple, pear or pineapple.
The third wheel: cucumber or baby marrow (courgette) or parsley or coriander.

So it's usully about 6 large kale leaves, half a cucumber and an apple or two depending on how big they are. When I started I'd put much more fruit in to sweeten it, but you get accustomed to the taste and I kinda prefer it less sweet now.

 

[FiestaST]

Special on FutureLife at PnP.

Still never tasted it.

 

[HavocXphere]

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Just take care with the kale and spinach. Both have sky-high amounts of oxalic acid per gram which can really screw you over on the joint front.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalic_acid#Toxicity_and_safety

You're likely still miles ahead of the McD munching crowd, but consider factoring that in when planning juice recipes.

 

[Diesal]

What is Kale, where do one buy it.

http://www.woolworths.co.za/store/f....jsp?productId=6009182268844&_requestid=29173

This is it I think.