Gluten Free diet: What do you eat for breakfast?

[Meg]

Re: Free gluten diet: What do you eat for breakfast?

In Sherry Rogers book, “Detoxify or Die” she mentions something she calls “Bird Seed Breakfast”. Soak Buckwheat groats in water overnight, drain it in the morning and add nuts, berries or other fruit. Yogurt if you can tolerate it. She also mentions that soaking the groats until they sprout adds to the nutritional value. I tried it today with some hemp milk, a little xylitol and blueberries. Very tasty! :)

 

[Ellipse]

Re: Free gluten diet: What do you eat for breakfast?

Thanks to all for those ideas.

Laura wrote :

I often eat a plate of vegetables like fresh cooked spinach, beets and squash
you can saute some spinach and them cook an egg on top of it - very nice.

Whaoo, I have to make some more progress on the Spiritual Cooking Pathway to appreciate spinach as soon as I gets up :)

 

[dantem]

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My morning breakfast consist mainly in salty things, as they helped a lot when I was shot with adrenal fatigue. I can start with eggs and salad, or salad and some sardines, and more rarely tuna fish, because of mercury. Olive oil, flaxseed oil and some apple vinegar instead of salt, as I don't have sea salt nor algae around to buy easily/cheaply and normal salt is said to be often agglomerated artificially with aluminum.

Recently I've started to put some red onions in the salads, they seem to be good. Just use with moderation as they seem to be aphrodisiac too an hearsay perhaps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_onions

Red onions, sometimes called purple onions, are cultivars of the onion with purplish red skin and white flesh tinged with red.

These onions tend to be medium to large in size and have a mild to sweet flavor. They are often consumed raw, added for color to salads, and grilled or lightly cooked with other foods. They may lose their redness when cooked.

Red onions are available throughout the year. The red color comes from anthocyanidins such as cyanidin. Red onions are high in flavonoids.[1]


[...]Cyanidin is a natural organic compound. It is a particular type of anthocyanidin (not to be confused with anthocyanins which are glycosides of anthocyanidins). It is a pigment found in many redberries including but not limited to grapes, bilberry, blackberry, blueberry, cherry, cranberry, elderberry, hawthorn, loganberry, acai berry and raspberry.[1] It can also be found in other fruits such as apples and plums. It is also found in red cabbage. It has a characteristic reddish-orange color, though this can change with pH, red ph < 3, violet at pH 7-8, blue at pH > 11. The highest concentrations of cyanidin are found in the skin of the fruit. Recently, the biosynthesis of cyanidin 3-O-glucoside in Escherichia coli was demonstrated.[2]

[edit] Effects on the human body

Cyanidin, like other anthocyanidins, has putative antioxidant and radical-scavenging effects which may protect cells from oxidative damage and reduce risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer. One theory is that dietary intake of cyanidins may inhibit development of obesity and diabetes as well as contain inflammatory mechanisms.[3]

Then, when I have some cooked vegetables or brow rice remains from the evening before, I just eat em up adding flaxseed oil on it.

I'm having berries once a week, usually with some lemon in it, sometimes bananas or walnuts (nuts and almonds taste good too, but I'm feeling a sort of heaviness after eating them, so I've quit).

 

[D Rusak]

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I'm trying to think what will be good for me to eat in the next month while I am away at at a workshop/gig. We have a certain amount of monetary credit towards food, which amounts to eating lunch and dinner every day at the dining hall. We also use the credits to eat breakfast there, as well as any meal at two small cafes on campus.

I was at this place last year and was okay with things....though it became a bit boring (no gluten, no dairy, no meat, no soy). They always forgot about the soy, after I pointed out that there really was nothing I could eat other than salad and fruit on some occasions someone would come out with some tofu in some icky sauce...I had to look grateful and pretend I was going to eat it. Luckily it was so unappetizing I wasn't tempted at all. This year I am going to try a little bit of fish, though I'm still really having a hard time of adjusting to eating non-veg stuff (I just don't WANT to, though I've been making an effort). Anyway, my thoughts are that mostly I will stick to lunch and dinner this go around and try for breakfast in the dorms. There is a stove and refrigerator we can use, but no cooking supplies. I'm trying to decide if it's worth the crucial packing space to bring a pot and/or pan to cook something in. I definitely won't have a huge amount of time to cook with the work and study I will be doing there. Otherwise does anyone have some ideas on what I could make without cooking it? That "birdseed breakfast" sounds intriguing but I've only gotten myself to tolerate buckwheat pancakes on occasion so far (porridge and kasha are just totally gross to me, this is another thing to work on I guess. Strange, since it's supposed to be good for my type A blood). Also, bringing a blender for the shakes is out of the question, I fear. What can I do to substitute this, or get the powders in? Right now I use powder for protein, Vit C, and greens. The vitamin C and greens are easy enough to do in tablet form, but I don't know about the protein powder, which really has been a big help for me.

 

[Beau]

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You should think about packing a Magic Bullet. It's a fairly small blender, where the blades and the cup come together on a thread, which you then put on the bottom, which has the motor to spin the blades. Like this:

Take the cup off and flip it over, take off the blade contraption and there's your cup! You could literally just pack the bottom with the motor and the cup with the blades spun on it. It's what I use and I love it. So easy to clean and very convenient.

As for food, can you bring anything? Not sure how long the actual trip there will take, so bringing your own food may be problematical. But bringing pre-cooked foods if possible is something I would suggest.

 

[D Rusak]

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I'm coming from East Coast US to near Calgary (AB Canada), and I will be there for a month. I had only planned on bringing a carry-on size suitcase- this is the only suitcase I have and I might have to check my instrument case as baggage, if they don't accept it for carry-on. I'd rather not go out and buy another appliance since I probably wouldn't use it much after this, I'd rather put the money towards what I'd be eating. There is a supermarket in the town I am staying and I'd imagine they have some health freak stuff, since it's a resort town in the middle of the Rocky mountains.

 

[RedFox]

Re: Free gluten diet: What do you eat for breakfast?

You could get some pots and pans from the supermarket when you get there?
I'm on the ultra simple/elimination diet at the moment so for breakfast I've been eating what I'd have for lunch and evening meals.
Steamed vegetables - you could get a steamer, or putting the veg in a glass bowl with a plate over it into a microwave for the same length of time (be careful the bowl/plate are super hot, so is the steam/water on them).
You can cook fish/meat in the oven just by wrapping it in tin foil (no need for a dish or anything as long as the tin foil has no holes in).
You may even be able to cook quinoa/buckwheat in the glass bowl in the microwave....but I'm not sure if that's possible. A small pan would be better for those.
You could substitute the pan for a high sided frying pan (no teflon), that way you could fry in it or use it to cook quinoa/buckwheat in boiling water.

As to what you can eat for breakfast, have you checked out the updated Ultra Simple/elimination diet?

 

[D Rusak]

I have a lot of credit from the center I will be able at to use their dining room, so I definitely want to take advantage of that- I won't really be making much money, any pay I get I won't get until the end of the program. We're not allowed to take anything out of the dining hall, however, so I can't heat up left overs. I only was planning on cooking the simplest stuff, and figured breakfast would be easiest. I really don't want to be spending a lot of money getting all these pots and pans and bowls and blenders, especially since I'll have to leave them there when I go back. I guess was just wondering if people had some ideas on either quick-cooking or raw stuff to eat that wouldn't take a lot of time or materials to prepare. I was not clear on this, I think. Again, I'm vegetarian, so bacon 'n' sausage 'n' eggs are definitely out (and makes me feel terrible). I won't have the time or equipment to make pancakes, I loathe buckwheat groats and porridge (I can deal with the pancakes on occasion), quinoa takes at least 20 minutes to prepare, and the shake isn't going to be doable here without the blender. My schedule is going to be jam packed (last year I was usually doing stuff from 730am to 12am or later), and I tended to use what off time I had to go hiking and enjoy nature (maybe a nap if I could fit it in!). If possible I wanted to use as little time for cooking as possible while I'm there. Also I'm not really sure how to get the protein powders in, and this was something I wanted to somehow do with breakfast. I've tried mixing in protein powder into porridge and it tastes gross, does anyone have any ideas on how I could get that in without doing it in a shake?

 

[3DStudent]

I've tried mixing in protein powder into porridge and it tastes gross, does anyone have any ideas on how I could get that in without doing it in a shake?

I've thought about just putting the powder, flax oil and meal into a glass of water and stirring it. As long as you don't put chunky stuff in it like fruit, it just needs to dissolve a little. This probably beats having to clean up a blender every time you do it, but I haven't done it myself.

 

[Juba]

Laura's ULTRASHAKE or power shake.
or:
Fresh Fruit salad
or:
Organic bacon and eggs (not broken) on ghee or slice of butter
or:
brown rice cooked in pumpkin milk with bit of natural vanilla
or:
Home made buckwheat bread toast with bit of bacon or butter
and cup of green tea
or
Fresh Organic Tomato, lettuce and cucumber & pepper salad with a bit of lemon juice and olive oil salad (if you add flax oil in this you will not feel it at all :)) with a bit of Home made buckwheat bread slices
or:
buckwheat pancakes with berries and a bit of xylitoll or Stevia if sensitive on xylitol

Fantastic :D

 

[Ollie]

I've tried mixing in protein powder into porridge and it tastes gross, does anyone have any ideas on how I could get that in without doing it in a shake?

I've thought about just putting the powder, flax oil and meal into a glass of water and stirring it. As long as you don't put chunky stuff in it like fruit, it just needs to dissolve a little. This probably beats having to clean up a blender every time you do it, but I haven't done it myself.

To add to 3D Student's suggestion, when I go away I take my usual my protein powder, supplement powders, shake mixes with me (I take a mix for each day in a separate zip lock plastic bag). I put the usual amount of water used (I use a marker inside the lid as a measure) for the shake in a wide neck flask, add the dry powder, add berries and screw the lid on and shake the flask vigorously. OK, the berries remain whole, but on pouring the shake into a mug it is perfectly drinkable (and eatable for the berries!). I have this in my room, and wash out the flask in the sink with cold water, and dry it with a dish cloth I take with me. I also take my own herbal tea bags with me to make refreshments in my room. At the breakfast table I take my own buckwheat flakes, give them to my host and ask her to make a porridge for me. It works well and she has developed an interest in the diet I am following, and the bakery items I bring with me. I also prepare my lunches in my room with food that I bring with me, or buy locally. These I take out to the mountains.

 

[Guardian]

Re: Free gluten diet: What do you eat for breakfast?

You know that test with the water? You put egg in the bowl of water, if egg floats on the surface, then it is old. If egg goes to the bottom it is fresh.

An Elder told me that a long time ago, "Never eat an egg that floats" ... which is probably important since I like raw eggs.
I usually wake up really hungry and have meat and eggs. My favorite is little sausages wrapped in bacon, but any meat chunks will do.

 

[Psalehesost]

Some options I make use of:

* Mixing up flax seed, sunflower seed, buckwheat flakes, sometimes oat flakes (body sometimes indicates "no", sometimes it seems fine when it haven't had it often. right now I do a longer pass of elimination for further testing).
* Cooking up some buckwheat flakes and/or crushed buckwheat, adding some flax seeds and coconut - goes well with a bit of olive oil.
* Leftover food (often brown rice or quinoa - both go very well with olive oil - and often beans of some sort. sometimes something else. varies).
* Buckwheat pancakes.
* Nothing much, or just something to drink. (some days)

 

[shazam]

Thanks to all who posted on this thread! There are some really great suggestions! My wife just bought some buckwheat flour and we're going to make it into something tasty and healthy!

 

[Lucius]

For breakfast :

- rice
- eggs - only white part .
- water ;] dropped milk