What cereal can I eat!?

(Running from stupidity) #21

Seems like a sensible thing to do anyway :slight_smile:

#22

I haven’t tried it but this one looks really good

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#23

I’ve tried that recipe. It is very good.

#24

great! More reason to try!
Do u have any more ? @LisaBD ?

(Omar) #25

Roasted Crushed almonds with crushed peanuts and milk

Not too much though

(Retta Stephenson) #26

I find that for many people (myself included) when we began this woe, it was tremendously helpful to make what some have dubbed “transition” foods. Those that seem similar to the unhealthy stuff we ditched to get healthy. Even my kinda-sorta-not-that-committed husband likes keto granola. There are tons of free and easy to make recipes on the interwebs. Here are some:

(Allie) #27

On a podcast I listened to, actually I’ve heard it a few times now, they were saying that breakfast cereal was created by Quakers to lower the testosterone of their hospital (psychiatric?) patients to stop them from masterbating so much… so there you have it, cereal was designed to mess with your natural hormones.

(Running from stupidity) #28

IIRC, it was the Seventh Day Adventists, through the agency of Dr John Kellogg, who did this.

And I’m not sure it was designed to do that, he just thought it was so boring that it would help. (Not sure how this works, logically, but there you have it.)

#yesmybrainisastupidthing

(Stephanie De Simone) #29

Okay. Thank you.

(Jane) #30

I’ve been listening to Salt Sugar Fat on Audible and Dr. Kellogg who ran the sanitarium in Battle Creek, MI was staunch anti-sugar AND anti-salt and he invented the breakfast cereal for his patients.

HIs brother was the bookkeeper and wanted to get rich so he added sugar to the breakfast cereal recipe while his brother was away on an extended business trip. It caused a riff and a fight over using the family name (the original company Dr. Kellogg founded didn’t have Kellogg in the name).

The younger brother won the fight and established the Kellogg company and got his wish to get rich. The book avoided to ties to the 7th Day Adventists, which tells you how powerful they are.

I’m sure I will be rolling me eyes when it gets the deminizing salt and fat, but I am more interested in the history of Big Food and our diets in general.

Btw, before Kellogg came along in the 30’s the typical American breakfast was bacon and eggs.

(Jane) #31

I make a hot hemp heart cereal for my husband that is good and I will post the recipe when I get home over the weekend. He is not deranged and fat adapted so I can make his with half oats but it tastes just as good w/o it - just the texture is not as creamy.

#32

Well that recipe looks like it came from the book Fat Fast Cookbook by Dana Carpenter. Many of the recipes in that book are good. If you are asking specifically about cereal recipes, I have made several versions just by combining various nuts and seeds (I like to soak or sprout the nuts first before dehydrating them, as it seems to improve digestibility). I leave the nuts coarsely chopped for a more granola-like consistency, or grind them in a coffee grinder and add hot water for a hot cereal consistency. Coconut flakes are also great. Toasting sunflower seeds and coconut greatly improves the flavor. Seeds such as flax or chia give the hot cereal a more oatmeal-like consistency.

#33

FANTASTIC ! I didn’t even know that came out of a book I just found it on the Internet. Good to know about that book !
Many thanks!

(Carl Keller) #34

There are some coconut based cereals that have as low as 5 carbs per 1/2 cup. So if you have 1 cup of coconut cereal and add 1 cup almond milk then you are already 10+ carbs. Do you really want to spend half your daily carbs on cereal. And maybe it’s just the sugar in cereal you are craving? If you eat some fat every time you have a sugar craving, your body will get used to the fact that sugar is not on the menu… and the cravings will go away.

This!

(Running from stupidity) #35

I think you mean:

have as “low” as 5 carbs per 1/2 cup

:slight_smile:

(Carl Keller) #36

Yes “low” is a relative term. Maybe I should have said a minimum of 5 carbs per 1/2 cup. :wink:

(charlie3) #37

The answer is none. Tony the Tiger died of a heart attack when he shouted Grrrreat! one time too many.

#38

Hello, first post here, but on/off keto for almost a year now :slight_smile:

I’ve found the longer I’m on keto, the less I crave breakfast. Mostly, I have a modified bpc (French pressed, spoonful coconut oil, heavy cream, stevia; hand-frothed; sometimes add cocoa butter; might tomorrow :slight_smile:)

Sometimes I’ll have the usual keto eggs/bacon, others (usually b4 work) I’ll have a couple berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries) with a handful of nuts (gotta be careful, hard to stop).

But mostly coffee. Developed the habit while in the service, now as much a food and comfort as source of caffeine.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

And hello everyone :smiley:

#39

I make a granola that’s all nuts, seeds and hemp hearts from the Keto Connect guys’ cookbook. It’s really good and I like a serving every now and then when I get tired of eggs.

Having some on my keto ice cream for dessert tonight.

I’ve been doing this two years. Once a month, I bake up all the keto substitutes for the old carby things. I keep most in the freezer and eat them only rarely, but it’s really nice to have a tortilla or hamburger bun or some toast every now and then. I make the granola and keep it in Mason jars. I make DIet Doctor keto bread, some awesome chia-berry jams and a coconut flour-psyllium tortilla recipe. Oh and that keto ice cream, which I freeze in half-cup containers.

PS. Oh and the important things is not to use regular milk – too many carbs! I use almond or coconut milk mixed with cream on my granola.

(Joanna Parszyk ) #40

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