Porridge for second breakfast has become the norm for me. Even at weekends when my humans are at home, I trot up the road at porridge time anticipating a couple of spoonfuls in my dedicated bowl.
Porridge is gloop really but it's tasty. SHE puts peanut butter in porridge (that might be the main attraction). However I arrived this morning to discover she'd forgotten to soak her porridge oats last night so I watched very carefully what went into the pot - oats, milk powder, brown flour from a packet that had LINSEED FL… written on it, some peanut butter (YES - how about a little lick of that for me? just hold the porridge), and then weirdness of weirdness mashed pumpkin. Well that explains orange porridge.
Mine gets served with a small dollop of yoghurt. Hers gets such a collection of nuts, seeds and fruit, yoghurt and sprinkled with some spice that it takes ages to open and close jars and assemble it all. My porridge is half digested before she sits down to eat hers.
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F here - I read somewhere (8-10 years ago) some academic type advocating that we should eat at least 30 different plant type foods a week to support gut biome diversity. It makes sense to me. I started attending to that in earnest when I moved to Greece in 2018 - a place where fulfilling such an objective is easy and relatively inexpensive. Remarkably since doing that I have all but eliminated my formerly crippling IBS episodes from my life. Life without fold-me-in-half gut spasms is wonderful and in case I ever need reminding of that I need only let my attention to diverse diet lapse a week or two (travelling for instance) and something in my inner workings starts a protest, threatening to become a riot if not appeased.
My breakfast is 15. I eat two meals a day and make sure my second meal has at least 10 items of plant food (everything counts - including ginger, tamarind, garlic, chillies, herbs and spices, lentils, beans.... I don't count starch foods like spuds, wheat, polenta, quinoa and so on but they qualify)
Scully is diversifying her palate and now readily consumes cooked carrots, pumpkin, parsnips, sweet potato, and lentil soup. (To be fair she prefers beef bones, cheese and the yoghurt pot.)
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Sounds like you have it well and truly sorted. You are going to live till you die!
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Im not so worried about dying - i just want reasonably good health til i get there.
ReplyDeleteI am impressed..especially by that huge bucket of peanut butter!
ReplyDeleteThe factory is kinda local and these are from their outlet shop. Both Scully and I eat peanut butter as a treat. It makes me laugh watching her try to unstick the inside of her mouth and get more off the spoon at the same time.
DeleteI had a hamster when I was about 10, who loved peanut butter..it was ok so long as he didn't try and put too much in his cheek pouches!
DeleteThat sounds like a good breakfast..porridge , fruit, seeds, nuts and yoghurt starts the day here too
Deletethat hamster made me guffaw. It seems peanut butter is a candidate for the world's funniest food
DeleteHealthy eating! Good fuel for all your physical work.
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm all for that sort of variety! Oats are a fantastic base for foods, just like any plain item such as rice, bread, potato, so pile it on I say!!! YAM xx
If you soak your oats overnight what’s the ratio of liquid + oats - then do you add more liquid to cook on the stove.
ReplyDeleteSandra (mad snapper) might be interested- IBS has been a problem for her for years. But then what works for some might not work for others. And yes she does have other pressing problems at the moment
liquid is double the oats (soaked or not soaked) Soaking just makes a creamier (less chewy) porridge I think. We usually do half milk half water but I don't keep milk out here so use milk powder.
DeleteIBS is different for everyone who suffers
Apparently there is no diagnosis - just a collection of symptoms that sufferers will have some of and often for different reasons. About the only thing they have in common is irritable bowels.
Orange porridge is a feast for kings. That must stick to your ribs and keep you going just about all day. Lucky you, Scully. You must have plenty of energy for supervising and burying bones
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you found something to keep your IBS in check. I know from Sandra's(Mad Snapper) battle, that can be challenging.
ReplyDeleteIve never thought of peanut butter on porridge, in the past when I did make this for breakfast favourites were such things as brown sugar or golden syrup. Now I can't have it as I have a wheat allergy and most things like porridge, pasta and bread make my tummy play up
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