Re: CRON recipe: Bob's oatmeal

[Guest guest]

The recipe sounds good. I'll try it as soon as I get a microwave, again.

I like the steel cut oats for breakfast. They take longer to cook, but have a chewy texture that makes up for the time you have to spend waiting for them. Make a bigger batch on a Sunday morning and save some for one, or more, day/s the next week.

Combine:

4 Cups non-fat milk and 1 Cup steel cut oats in a saucepan. Add 1/4 tsp. salt, if you wish. Cook over low heat for approximately 20 minutes. Stir frequently to keep it from sticking to the bottom of the pan and burning.

Serve up a reasonable amount and add whatever you want to make it special for you. I like dried or fresh fruit, nuts, a dash or two of cinnamon, sweetener (depending on sweetness of fruit). Refrigerate the remaining cereal which can be nuked later. If the cereal is exceedingly stiff, add a little water to make it more palatable.

Dry milk can be added to the 4 C. of liquid n-f milk to 'sup[er] it up'.

I don't have any of the food values for steel cut oats, but I would imagine they are close to the values for rolled oats. Oat bran has the advantage of providing fewer calories (76) for a 1/3 Cup raw serving size but 4.8 gm of dietary fiber while rolled oats has 104 calories and only 2.9 gm dietary fiber for the same 1/3 Cup. These figures are found in the Pennington Bowes and Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used.

Bon appetit!

Ruth

From: " papilio28570 " <papilio28570@...>

Reply-

Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 06:12:46 -0000

Subject: [ ] CRON recipe: Bob's oatmeal

I submit this recipe for all to judge. Sure would like to hear ways

of improving it. Keep in mind that I eat this every, I mean every

morning and really, I mean really enjoy it. It is filling enough to

get me though the day until supper time around 6 PM with no hunger

during the day or lack of energy. I work as a landscaper, so I burn

up a lot of energy everyday including most weekends.

1 cup.......Quaker quik oats

1/4 cup.....Non-fat Dry Milk, instant

2 tblsp.....Kretschmer's Toasted wheat germ

1 tblsp.....Wolfberries

1 cup.......Skim milk

Combine ingredients in breakfast bowl and nuke in the microwave for

3.5 minutes. I let it cool a few minutes to congeal then chop it up

with my spoon to make it lumpy. Then I add:

1/2 cup.....Fresh blueberries (frozen won't do, too mushy)

1/2 cup.....Skim milk (approx)

Mix slightly then enjoy.

592 calories not counting wolfberries.

[Guest guest]

I'd get as fat as an ox on this recipe. I eat All-Bran extra fiber w/ Land O'

Lakes fat-free half and half in the AM. Then, again, I eat during the day.

By the way, my name is Simone, and I'm new to this group. I'm still

waiting for my Walford books, but I've been doing my own CR for quite a

while. I tried Atkins for a while, until I started losing hair and feeling

weak! Also, the amount of sat-fat is ridiculous. Note: Atkins had a heart

attack a couple of weeks ago! So I started my own version of low-carb, no

sat-fat, high omega, low-cal diet, and I've been doing this for quite a

while. The only thing is that I am in very good physical condition (some

weights and yoga) and my weight will not move any lower, though I feel better

a bit lighter. I am 5'5'' and weigh 109 lbs. I have 10% body fat (calipers

method.) I gained a little recently as I started adding more carbs (fiber

cereal, oatmeal, more veggies, some fruit.) My digestive system is grateful

for the additions, but I get terrible headaches. And my weight went from 107

to 109.

Please feel free to e-mail or comment. Thanks.

Simone

[Guest guest]

improvements:

....Cows milk could be replaced by soy milk for lower cholesterol (In

your case I'd use Silk - vanilla flavored) - Most supermarkets now

sell this - look near the regular milk. You may also be able to find

dry in the cereal aisle.

....Quick oats could be replaced by oat bran. This can be a matter of

preference; the texture of oat bran is closer to cream of wheat than

it is to oatmeal. The fiber content is higher with Oat Bran.

I used to enjoy wheatgerm when I was younger. I'll have to start

using it again. Ground flaxseed can also be sprinkled on cereal.

(Just put some regular flaxseed in a coffee grinder) The flax seed

is supposed to be very good for you.

I have a recipe that I also enjoy:

1/2 cup......Oat Bran (organic)

1 1/2 cup....Spring water

1 Tblsp......Maple Syrup

1/8 tspn.....Cinnamon

Combine oat bran and water in big bowl and nuke for 2 minutes. Stir

to mix evenly (oat bran will sometimes cling to the bottom) Nuke for

another minute. While cooling, stir in maple syrup and cinnamon.

This doesn't make as much as yours, but I'm usually getting lunch

four hours later.

I've never had wolfberries. I'll be on the lookout for them. Are

they like blueberries? When they are in season, I like to mix

blueberries with cooked millet and maple syrup. This is very good.

--- In @y..., " papilio28570 " <papilio28570@y...>

wrote:

> I submit this recipe for all to judge. Sure would like to hear

ways

> of improving it. Keep in mind that I eat this every, I mean every

> morning and really, I mean really enjoy it. It is filling enough

to

> get me though the day until supper time around 6 PM with no hunger

> during the day or lack of energy. I work as a landscaper, so I

burn

> up a lot of energy everyday including most weekends.

>

> 1 cup.......Quaker quik oats

> 1/4 cup.....Non-fat Dry Milk, instant

> 2 tblsp.....Kretschmer's Toasted wheat germ

> 1 tblsp.....Wolfberries

> 1 cup.......Skim milk

>

> Combine ingredients in breakfast bowl and nuke in the microwave for

> 3.5 minutes. I let it cool a few minutes to congeal then chop it

up

> with my spoon to make it lumpy. Then I add:

>

> 1/2 cup.....Fresh blueberries (frozen won't do, too mushy)

> 1/2 cup.....Skim milk (approx)

>

> Mix slightly then enjoy.

>

> 592 calories not counting wolfberries.

[Guest guest]

Hello Anne,

Did you follow the thread earlier this month about headaches?

Perhaps you have an allergy as well. I would definitely try to nail

down the source of your headaches in any event.

Low carbs is not where you want to go in my opinion. Don't want to

over do the omega fats either. It'll make you an easy bleeder

(interferes with blood clotting...see main list archives).

Walford has outlined a pretty good program and backs it up with

science. I think you will really enjoy his books. Read lots of

books in the past but after reading Walford, I knew I had finally

found " the one " .

Welcome to the support group by the way. Glad to have you

participate. Francesca can answer just about anything you ask or

she can point you in the right direction for reading material.

Bob

> I'd get as fat as an ox on this recipe. I eat All-Bran extra fiber

w/ Land O'

> Lakes fat-free half and half in the AM. Then, again, I eat during

the day.

>

> By the way, my name is Simone, and I'm new to this group. I'm

still

> waiting for my Walford books, but I've been doing my own CR for

quite a

> while. I tried Atkins for a while, until I started losing hair and

feeling

> weak! Also, the amount of sat-fat is ridiculous. Note: Atkins had

a heart

> attack a couple of weeks ago! So I started my own version of low-

carb, no

> sat-fat, high omega, low-cal diet, and I've been doing this for

quite a

> while. The only thing is that I am in very good physical condition

(some

> weights and yoga) and my weight will not move any lower, though I

feel better

> a bit lighter. I am 5'5'' and weigh 109 lbs. I have 10% body fat

(calipers

> method.) I gained a little recently as I started adding more carbs

(fiber

> cereal, oatmeal, more veggies, some fruit.) My digestive system is

grateful

> for the additions, but I get terrible headaches. And my weight

went from 107

> to 109.

>

> Please feel free to e-mail or comment. Thanks.

>

> Simone