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Posted by kathryn in Breakfast
- Breakfast on the run: Did you know you can cook porridge oats in a thermos flask? This is one for the people who “don’t have time” for breakfast. According to Cassie from Veggie Meal Plans make it up in the evening, add your flavourings and then just grab the thermos as you run out the door in the morning.
- Cauliflower mash: one of the strategies for switching to low GI foods is to make your mash potato with half potato and half white beans. Alternatively, you could make a garlic cauliflower puree.
- Weight loss: over at Cranky Fitness, Crabby has the secret to keeping weight off forever. There’s a lot of truth and good advice in her post . . . as well as a few strange analogies.
- Meal planning for a family: Over at Almost Vegetarian there’s an interesting post called how a single family with two carnivores, one vegetarian, and one almost vegetarian manage day-to-day. There’s some interesting stuff here about how to organise healthy daily menus and meals. The number one point is to make vegetables the base of your diet (and the bulk), something I wholeheartedly agree with.
- Lamb meat balls: this is an old recipe from Mostly Eating. However it’s perfect for this time of year:Middle Eastern style polpettine. These are crunchy, tasty lamb meatballs. Sophie serves them with hummous, rocket and flat tortilla bread.
09 November, 2007
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aww, thanks for the link Kathryn! i’ll have to tell Tim how famous he is now ;)
It’s a lovely idea. I didn’t get any cauliflower this week – but I’m planning to have a go at pureeing soon!
Your blog is fascinating! That’s great news about porridge, I love to eat it as often as possible in the winter. I always add stewed blueberries, nuts, seeds and dried fruits when I serve it – something I learned to do in Finland.
I love the hint about the thermos. I have used the trick with other recipes as well! ie kecheri for lunch. Works well.
Rosa, I’m a big fan of of dried fruit, nuts, stewed fruit on my porridge as well. My favourite is stewed rhubarb though. Love it.
VegeYum – khichari in a thermos, I’m going to have to experiment with that. Khichari is a meal I adore.
Thanks Kathryn – I had forgotten about those meatballs, I must make them again soon and take a nicer picture this time :-)
I love Cassie’s porridge tip too (I haven’t got a thermos at the moment and I must admit rather pathetically to eating cold porridge on the train sometimes when I have to commute in to London!)
Sophie – cold porridge – no, don’t do it. You NEED a thermos. We have winters that last the blink of an eye and I still have about three.
So I’m really going to have to try the cauliflower/potato/white bean trick. I LOVE mashed potatoes.
I’ve been using blue potatoes (when i can find them) on the theory that blue=antioxidants, but I don’t know if this is just wishful thinking. But especially when combined with a cruciferous veggie, I should get extra credit, right?
(And thanks for the mention! )
Neat thinking Crabby – blue potatoes and antioxidants hadn’t crossed my mind before. But yes, blue potatoes contain anthocyanins, the same antioxidants that colour blueberries. Cooking them whole, with their skins on would retain more of the a/o.
Huge credit for even eating vegetables in the first place. Let alone thinking about what you’re doing.
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