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So, how’s it going?
What do you have for breakfast?
I switched to making my oats with water instead of milk and now realise I’m basically eating gruel like some old time peasant
Every night I make overnight oats; using steel cut oats with water, with cinnamon, dates and chia seeds.
This all goes in the slow cooker, it is ready for me before I go to work and it is ready for the rest of the family for before school/kindy.
I’m not that organised! I usually just mix oats and water and microwave it for 2 mins.
Having the breakfast ready in the morning is great; there is no debate and the kids get their breakfast scooped out of the pot and things go fast.
Toast takes ages by comparison.
On weekdays, smoothies: oat milk, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, chia seeds (or walnuts), pea protein, hemp protein, arepa (blackcurrant+L-theanine), spirulina.
On weekends I usually don’t bother with brekkie and go straight for brunch or lunch, depending on how late I get up. If I’m going to the Sunday markets though, I grab something from the carts, like empanadas and a coffee, and have it whilst enjoying the early morning sun at the waterfront.
I love smoothies, especially when it’s warmer. But I’ve had to cut back as I’m not exercising enough at the moment and tend to put too many calories into a morning smoothie.
I used to love eating oats in the morning - just with hot water. So simple and easy. However I figured it was making me quite gassy, and so I’ve stayed away from it for the most part (which is a shame, because I have like 3 unopened bags in the pantry lol).
These days I’ll usually have a couple of pieces of toast, or whatever bread the partners made the day before.
Interesting, do you think it could be to do with the fiber? I find if I don’t have enough fiber in my diet and then start adding it again I get gassy. But not if I regularly have a good amount everyday.
Yeah, I think I read that it was due to the fiber, and something to do with breaking it down. Though the fiber in Rice dosent cause it - which is a relief because that’s our staple diet lol.
Haha yep, they’ll have to pry my rice and noodles from my cold dead hands.
I don’t eat breakfast. I generally don’t eat before 12, but will make an exception for brunch.
Any reason? I used to do that as part of intermittent fasting. I guess some days I still do and won’t eat until 10 or 11. Or maybe just really light in the morning, a coffee and banana sort of thing.
Yeah it’s basically intermittent fasting, with all rules more like guidelines.
One thing I noticed is I don’t get hungry in the morning except when I ate something the previous day. Then my body just screams “I know you can eat in the morning, you did it yesterday!”, so I just ended up almost never having breakfast.
I eat whole wholegrain oats with cold water so I guess that makes you a more sophisticated medieval peasant than me!
When I was growing up there was something called creamoata. They don’t make it anymore but it was basically ground oats, so I like to blend the oats in a blender then cook with water 50/50, then milk on the top with brown sugar. Tastes like my childhood.
These days I mostly make it for the kids though.
That reminds me of something we used to eat growing up called Nestum. We would make a thick cereal out of it with boiling water and add sweetened condensed milk.
My kids don’t seem to like oats at all. They barely even like cereal for breakfast.
A product called Nestum seems to still be made, a rice cereal for weaning babies?
Two of mine like porridge made my way. And the other prefers weetbix but only at 3:30 in the afternoon, never at breakfast time.
I don’t recall if it was for babies, we definitely weren’t when we were eating it. Yeah I think it’s still made, but not common in western countries: https://www.nestle.com.my/brands/dairy/nestle-nestum
Usually it would be made thinner as a cereal drink
Ah, here’s the one I searched up: https://www.nestle-esar.com/brands/nutrition/nestum
Looks like they market it differently for different audiences. The babies also miss out on all the different flavours!