Format breakfast

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Hi group!

Some practices help me, and one of them is to standardise breakfasts, so I don't have to think much. It's important to me to keep sodium down and potassium up (a high potassium/sodium ratio of 3/1 or better has been shown to prevent most strokes as well as often gradually return bp to normal if it is elevated). Since milk and commerical soy milk (often, not always) are high in sodium, I like to keep these items out of the picture. obviously my precronie favorites of sausage, eggs, and hash browns are out of it too. What I do, and actually enjoy, now is this.

I combine

56 grams of freshly rolled oats

10 grams of freshly ground flaxseed

5 grams of nutritional yeast ( vegetarian, because I like the nutrients it provides)

About a half teaspoon of cumin

About the same amount of turmeric

A splash of a cayenne, black pepper, mix that MacDougall calls "cajun spice"

Chopped leftover steamed vegetables, this morning it was regular broccoli and a chinese variety from the fridge. 140 grams today. I called it chopped, frozen broccoli for dwidp purposes, since it has a lot very dark green leaves as does frozen broccoli.

I put the whole thing in a round microwave container with about a cup of water, nuke it all for 6 minutes and let it cool enough to eat. Very easy. I like it.

Dwidp tells me that totals about 345 calories. That includes 4 grams of oil from epa/dha caps (half of which I actally take at night).

The only nutrient that's a little low is calcium. If it worries me, I'll pop a tums or calcium citrate. Normally my day ends with about 1200 mg of calcium and everything in balance, including possible stimulate of prostate cancer from large amounts of calcium, I'm satisfied with that.

Ed S

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