Re: Quinoa flakes

[Guest guest]

Quinoa cooks in 5 min on the stove. Scrap the microwave! and stop killing your

food.

cherylhcmba <cherylhcmba@...> wrote:Tried a new product to replace

oatmeal. Ancient Harvest Quinoa

Flakes has only one ingredient, organic quinoa. A serving cooks in

2.5 minutes in the microwave. I had one serving with a scoop of O

protein powder and a tsp of ghee. Quinoa is the only grain that is

complete protein. I've been planning to incorporate more, since rice

and oats are both " demoted " in the diabetes book. The diabetes

program is also recommended for weight management since D'Adamo

thinks obesity always involves insulin resistance.

[Guest guest]

It's great in recipes too, replaces oats in cookies or peach cobbler. Though

I haven't tried such treats since going on the non-secretor diet. I'm going

to pick up some veg. glycerine and molasses and start experimenting a bit.

Quinoa Flakes

Tried a new product to replace oatmeal. Ancient Harvest Quinoa

Flakes has only one ingredient, organic quinoa. A serving cooks in

2.5 minutes in the microwave. I had one serving with a scoop of O

protein powder and a tsp of ghee. Quinoa is the only grain that is

complete protein. I've been planning to incorporate more, since rice

and oats are both " demoted " in the diabetes book. The diabetes

program is also recommended for weight management since D'Adamo

thinks obesity always involves insulin resistance.

[Guest guest]

I've had really yummy quinoa flake porridge with dehydrated blueberries (don't

worry, they re-hydrate) and ginger and a little sweetener like grade B maple

syrup and some cardamom, cloves, some coriander seed powder. Pretty good stuff.

BTW, i don't think we, as Os, can EVER fall back on the " complete protein "

selling angle on a grain. i just don't think it works that way for us. also, as

doc said, the animal flesh promotes a more acidic environment in the stomach and

we have much better mineral assimilation as a result. vegetable derived proteins

should always be considered second class proteins. now, I'll be first to admit

that the quality tofu in carb meals has given me a noticeably " smoother " ride,

but it's not the same.

not like any of you are even listening to me, or even receiving my posts... you

bunch of grain-munching fatties...

[Guest guest]

I agree that main meals should include animal protein, but I find the

cereal/milk fruit to be a hard habit to break for weekday BF and

afternoon snacks. I switched to soymilk and now to almond milk, but

boost those combos with egg white powder to up the protein.

Grain-munching fattie from Texas

> I've had really yummy quinoa flake porridge with dehydrated

blueberries (don't worry, they re-hydrate) and ginger and a little

sweetener like grade B maple syrup and some cardamom, cloves, some

coriander seed powder. Pretty good stuff.

>

> BTW, i don't think we, as Os, can EVER fall back on the " complete

protein " selling angle on a grain. i just don't think it works that

way for us. also, as doc said, the animal flesh promotes a more

acidic environment in the stomach and we have much better mineral

assimilation as a result. vegetable derived proteins should always be

considered second class proteins. now, I'll be first to admit that

the quality tofu in carb meals has given me a noticeably " smoother "

ride, but it's not the same.

>

> not like any of you are even listening to me, or even receiving my

posts... you bunch of grain-munching fatties...

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Probably the best thing you could do to help you break the weekday BF

cereal/milk and fruit habit would be to have some other food cooked

up that you could just quickly heat up. That way it is just as easy

to prepare as the cereal and fruit. After a few weeks of change you

will have developed the new habit of eating that way. Once that

happens you probably won't want to go back to eating cereal for

breakfast. I certainly can't imagine going back to eating cereal for

breakfast because I enjoy my BIG meat, veggie, and olive oil meal too

much.

I will admit that occasionally I will grab a handful of my kids

cereal's for a snack. I think it is the crunch that I miss as much

as anything.

That reminds me of something I did a couple of weeks ago when I made

my first batch of ghee. I wanted to try to ghee on something so I

mixed some Rice Chex type cereal with some warm ghee. It was a great

way to test the taste of the ghee.

Don

> I agree that main meals should include animal protein, but I find

the

> cereal/milk fruit to be a hard habit to break for weekday BF and

> afternoon snacks. I switched to soymilk and now to almond milk,

but

> boost those combos with egg white powder to up the protein.

>

> Grain-munching fattie from Texas

[Guest guest]

I don't know about the quinoa flakes, but here are some good links

for the oats :

http://www.google.com/search?q=oats+phytic & hl=en & start=0 & sa=N

[Guest guest]

I would soak the quinoa flakes in a similar manner to oatmeal according to the

recipe in NT.

Breakfast Porridge, p. 455.

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>

> I read a little about quinoa flakes on body ecology site and also

> mentioned here. How do I prepare them to remove phytates? Also a few

> days ago I posted(well it actually never showed up) a ? about oats and

> preparing them properly. Here goes again. On, I believe, TF group

> there was talk about adding another grain to the soaking oatmeal in

> order to remove phytates. Preparing oats according to NT does not then

> remove anti nutrients? If someone would be kind enough to explain this

> to me I would really appreciate it. Thanks

> Debbie

>