yummy downloaded the buffalo wing recipe!
wife gonna be very happy when i make those
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During the past few months living here, I only ate corn flakes and old fashioned oats combined, for my morning cereals. Last month I discovered that someone already makes the combined cereals I used to mix back in Europe (+2 more). I donât like advertisement, but Bobâs Red Mill 5 grain hot cereals (whole wheat, rye, barley, oats,triticale and flaxseed), the one with light blue label, is what I get now for myself, combined with bare corn-flakes. Donât ask me how they count them to make it 5. And no, I donât eat them hot, I eat them cold, with milk, just like normal cereals, even if they are whole grain. Sometimes I mix almonds or cashews with them, depending on my morning mood. I prefer a fiber-rich breakfast.
I avoided this brand like a plague before, because I bought their muesli variety and I absolutely hate most dried fruits, with raisins being the worst offender. I just didnât read the contents on the label, so that was on me though.
I like buckwheat flapjacks for breakfast but hey IDK if corn flakes are you thing but RX cereal has some good stuff.
Corn flakes are mostly just a filler and softener, as they are highly processed, but I canât imagine eating whole grain corn as a cereal with milk⌠Most energy I grab from whole grains (which are hard) and nuts. I consider this the ideal breakfast because itâs not very processed.
Cooked foods, while they have a great flavor, usually lose most of their qualities. Which is why I prefer whole and non-ground grains and eat them basically raw. Making them flour and cooking them is likely to remove some of their properties (especially removing a lot of fibers from them).
The intentional bonus is that I donât have any added sugar from syrups or the cooking mixes (like pancake mix), the only sugar I get is from the lactose in milk. Iâm not a fan of sweet breakfasts. For the ones who canât get used to plain corn flakes and whole grain cereals, thereâs granola that can be added to the mix, but just keep it as a flavoring and nothing more, that thing is really sugary.
Of course, I could be wrong about all of the above, thatâs just how I see it.
When you cook your food youâre basically pre-digesting it. That allows your body to use less energy than would otherwise be required to extract nutrients from it.
Itâs true that you can change the properties of the food while cooking it. For example, cooking kale will deactivate most of the myrosinases which are enzymes that coverts glucoraphanin to sulforaphane which has a variety of health benefits. Without that enzyme youâre not getting as much sulforaphane out of the kale as you would eating it raw. However, cooking it will also increase some of the other nutrients like magnesium and calcium, so itâs not a general rule that youâll always be getting more nutrients out of raw foods.
A better way to look at it is to treat âprocessedâ foods as separate from the issue of raw vs cooked foods. Mass produced âprocessedâ foods often have their ingredients tweaked, or are subjected to chemical alterations aimed at making them cheaper, and thatâs usually what makes them bad for you more than just not being a âraw foodâ.
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I donât disagree with what you said, but the point is exactly this:
Should we allow our bodies to slack? Letting the body digest raw food may help with maintaining a healthy weight level. Starvation (fasting) may be one thing, but controlling your intake quantity and quality, I believe, is a decent strategy for people who are lacking in physical exercise department.
Bonus points for winter dwellers, digestion actually produces heat, so the more your body is digesting food, the more energy spent in digestion will be âlostâ as heat (kinda like in engines and CPUs, some of the work is being lost as heat). A bit off-topic, but thatâs how, traditionally, people growing birds had their flock survive winters without needing heating, like most âmodernâ farmers are doing it nowadays. The birds eat (whole grains mostly) and flock together in their hen house, digesting food overnight and keeping each other warm with their body heat and trapping heat underneath their feathers. Evolution is actually quite ingenious.
No, in general weâre not made for inaction. Bad things happen when we just sit around all day.
I think that has more to do with the food than whether itâs ârawâ or not. cooked vs raw aside, some foods will fill you up without providing as many calories faster than others which can be useful sometimes for weight control.
Well, yeah but thatâs just basic physics. Itâs an unpopular sentiment when talking about weight control, but if energy in is greater than energy out, then the excess canât just disappear. Itâs all got to go somewhere. Of course there are a multitude of reasons why people gain weight. Thatâs not the only one, and itâs not always a bad thing.
actually yes. 10000 years of cooking has evolved out those body functions. you probably want to cook and brine your food at minimum
Aslo yes for another reason:
If done right we can become insanely more efficient with food. Like the adorable desert dwelling vulcans from star trek. We can basically make more efficient use of a limited resource but we are dumb and just use it as surplus
Obligatory TâPol shill 