Breakfast Cereals
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I’ve been skipping breakfast for a bit more than 10 years now and it suits me pretty well. (I dislike when people call it. Intermittent fasting. I am not fasting, I just eat at different times.)
The only exception is when I’m traveling for work and the hotel has a free breakfast buffet. all bets are off then….
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We were in a London Hotel this weekend, nice enough, the breakfast was a bit pretentiously healthy; vegan oat granola, with a selection of fruit, nuts and seeds to add, oat or dairy milks; and also sourdough bread with butter & choice of Bonmamon jams. Orange juice, tea - mostly herbals, coffees.
I never asked but as the oat cereal was claggy, it had some form of sugar holding it together (vegans don't have honey?)
I reflected again on what a niece explained to me, that pretty much all boxed cereals including the healthier granola and muesli are processed to some extent, with sugar or salt to taste.
Except plain porridge oats.
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We were in a London Hotel this weekend, nice enough, the breakfast was a bit pretentiously healthy; vegan oat granola, with a selection of fruit, nuts and seeds to add, oat or dairy milks; and also sourdough bread with butter & choice of Bonmamon jams. Orange juice, tea - mostly herbals, coffees.
I never asked but as the oat cereal was claggy, it had some form of sugar holding it together (vegans don't have honey?)
I reflected again on what a niece explained to me, that pretty much all boxed cereals including the healthier granola and muesli are processed to some extent, with sugar or salt to taste.
Except plain porridge oats.
But not all have anything more than grain and nuts. Bob’s Red Mill is like that and I’ve seen others.
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We were in a London Hotel this weekend, nice enough, the breakfast was a bit pretentiously healthy; vegan oat granola, with a selection of fruit, nuts and seeds to add, oat or dairy milks; and also sourdough bread with butter & choice of Bonmamon jams. Orange juice, tea - mostly herbals, coffees.
I never asked but as the oat cereal was claggy, it had some form of sugar holding it together (vegans don't have honey?)
I reflected again on what a niece explained to me, that pretty much all boxed cereals including the healthier granola and muesli are processed to some extent, with sugar or salt to taste.
Except plain porridge oats.
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If you’re interested in such things you might like the book I just finished.
“Ultra Processed People”. Chris Van Tulleken.
@Steve-Miller said in Breakfast Cereals:
If you’re interested in such things you might like the book I just finished.
“Ultra Processed People”. Chris Van Tulleken.
I'm about a quarter of the way through it and finding it very interesting. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Bobs red mill (had never heard of them, thanks) has interesting products, and looks like a company worth supporting. My coeliac sister will be getting some I'm sure.
I think their steel cut oats will be similar to the jumbo oats I buy@AndyD Bob’s Red Mill is a local company here in Portland Oregon.
I’m particularly fond of their gluten free muesli. I add milk and microwave for 30 seconds, then let the oats soften a bit before eating it.
They have oats, and gluten free oats. The difference is that the gluten free oats are processed in an area where contamination can’t happen. (Oats would be naturally gluten free, unless they’re getting accidentally dusted with flour.)
My brother works there.
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I’ve been skipping breakfast for a bit more than 10 years now and it suits me pretty well. (I dislike when people call it. Intermittent fasting. I am not fasting, I just eat at different times.)
The only exception is when I’m traveling for work and the hotel has a free breakfast buffet. all bets are off then….
@DougG said in Breakfast Cereals:
I’ve been skipping breakfast for a bit more than 10 years now and it suits me pretty well. (I dislike when people call it. Intermittent fasting. I am not fasting, I just eat at different times.)
The only exception is when I’m traveling for work and the hotel has a free breakfast buffet. all bets are off then….
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@DougG said in Breakfast Cereals:
I’ve been skipping breakfast for a bit more than 10 years now and it suits me pretty well. (I dislike when people call it. Intermittent fasting. I am not fasting, I just eat at different times.)
The only exception is when I’m traveling for work and the hotel has a free breakfast buffet. all bets are off then….
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If you’re interested in such things you might like the book I just finished.
“Ultra Processed People”. Chris Van Tulleken.
@Steve-Miller said in Breakfast Cereals:
Chris Van Tulleken
Hey! BBC News article:
A giant mug of instant black coffee and no food is not what you'd expect the host of a wellness podcast to have for breakfast.
Yet it's what Dr Chris van Tulleken, who hosts the BBC's What's Up Docs alongside identical twin brother Dr Xand confesses to having.
"I'm approaching middle age so don't want to eat all day. My way of not eating all day is not eating breakfast," he says.
It's this kind of honesty about not leading the perfect life and struggling with the stuff they know they should do but still don't, that makes them so relatable.
The brothers are both medical doctors who've become household names through their TV and radio work - they present children's series Operation Ouch! and Dr Xand is one of BBC's Morning Live resident experts while Dr Chris is well known for his bestselling book Ultra-Processed People.
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An addendum to my post above. I bought granola from the vendor at the Greenmarket that I’ve always trusted. But something changed. It used to have maple syrup as a sweetener; now the label just says sugar. A lot less flavor, same high price. I won’t be buying it again.
