These are porridge and muesli.
As always there are a couple of caveats to this rule. Both of these cereals contain oats, and oats contain gluten nowadays due to cross pollination, so if you are sensitive to gluten – don’t eat oats. Instead you could look for a quinoa or amaranth based muesli that you can find in the health food store or simply make your own porridge from a mix of ground rice, quinoa or flax meal. If you are going to cook porridge add a little butter or coconut oil, flax seeds, slivered almonds and some berries to the mix. If you like it sweet add a teaspoon of xylitol or cinnamon.
Also look for brands of muesli that are low in sugar and high in nuts, seeds and coconut slivers and don’t be afraid to add more nuts and seeds to the mix.
Don’t use soy milk in either of these foods either. There are mixed opinions on soy, and I believe that traditional fermented soy eaten in moderation is fine, however highly processed soy products such as soy milk, soy cheese and soy yoghurt are also junk foods. If you don’t have problems with dairy just use whole or semi skimmed milk, otherwise cook porridge with water and use some quinoa or almond milk on the muesli (I know these milks are processed too , but they are not oestrogenic like soy milk).
And don’t put juice on your cereals – that is moronic. Why would you pour sugar loaded juice all over sugar loaded grains?
Tomorrow i’ll talk about more healthy breakfast options…
