Having a healthy breakfast is about more than not getting a heart attack.
The right breakfast should
Give you energy for the entire day and
Keep you from craving carbs late at night
Taste great!
My Awesome Oats recipe is the ultimate breakfast. Steelcut Oats are the best oats. Instant oats don’t taste anywhere near as good and they don;t have the same level of complex carbs and protein. It’s easy to prepare too. Just throw them into the rice cooker with some water and you are good to go.
My good friends Chris Lele, aka the Cobra introduced me to Quinoa. He called me up one night and said he was more ripped than ever off Quinoa and fish. I loved white rice back then so I was skeptical but I respected his opinion and went for it. Quinoa along with SteelCut Oats have since become the backbone of my diet.
Benefits of Quinoa
Quinoa is a complete protein, meaning it has all the essential amino acids. It’s almost like eating meat.
Quinoa is one of the best sources of complex carbohydrates on earth. Complex carbohydrates are not absorbed as quickly as simple ones such as white rice and bread and will thus help you to lose weight fast while giving you long sustained energy for hours afterwards.
Quinoa has a much higher protein to carbohydrate ratio than rice, meaning you will get the perfect balance of complex carbohydrates and proteins by just eating it alone.
Quinoa was so revered among ancient peoples that the Incas rolled it up into bite sized balls and gave it to their warriors before battle.
I use the links below to restock my own supplies and while I love the nutty flavor and extra protein of the red you should experiment and see which kind you prefer.
The trick is to improve the quality of your rice. Better complex carbs and more protein. We all have heard about brown rice but there is even better.
Wild Rice is loaded with protein, about three times as much as white rice. The rice I have linked to below are my personal favorites and very good for you. Try them all out until you find a taste and price range that suits you.
I have looked long and hard for pasta that made sense. The problem with white flour pasta is that white flour hits your bloodstream just like sugar and that means fat. Whole Wheat pasta doesn’t have enough protein. This stuff rocks. Give it a try.
My favorite type of noodle is Soba. This is the best pasta/noodle you can buy. The protein to carb ratio cannot be beat!
Peanut butter is muscle food. I put it in my Chocolate Muscle Potions and even in some of my food recipes. The best peanut butter I have found is Power Butter.
Benefits of Power Peanut Butter
Low sugar
Higher protein than any other peanut butter I have ever tried.
I love eggs. They are a complete protein and contain all the essential fatty acids. Eggs have everything necessary to nurture a brand new life. Anything that can support a brand new life is definitly good for you. All that talk about chelesterol and the like is bogus. Eggs Rocks.
I love boiling them to where they are not quite hard boiled and still soft and runny in the yolk. I call this Eggs MeFeshFish. This was a cute name my mother gave to runny eggs and this is how I have my eggs to this day. Maybe I give the secret to making eggs mefishfish soon but for now just enjoy eggs without guilt. I prefer to by the cage free eggs from the farmers market but any will do.
If you are looking to lose weight fast at any cost then egg whites are your ticket. Don’t buy the powder, buy the liquid stuff. A link is below.
I do not consider protein powder “food” and I have a very low opinion of them in general. Almost all protein powders are the same. They are all overpriced considering you can get far more nutrition by buying real food instead. Even worse is that most of them are made from whey which comes from milk, pasteurized milk. Read my article on the dangers of pasteurized milk to under stand why I avoid why protein powders.
Sun Warrior protein powder is different. I consider it to be food and use it in so many of my recipes. It is made of brown rice and comes in three flavors. Chocolate is my favorite and I also get the natural flavor for use in my healthy food recipes.
Benefits of Sun Warrior Protein Powder
It Raw so you know it hasn’t gone through three of four processing treatments which destroy most of its nutrients and sully it with various residues of whatever came before.
Vegan thus making it an awesome protein source for vegans and ethically minds foodists.
Has a 98% absorbability rate! This iws about three to four times higher than regular protein powders and considering you actually get almost all the protein in it, it is a huge bargain.
Coconuts are an amazing anti-aging food. Read my Coconut Hydration article to see just why they are so powerful.
My fridge is always stocked with them and I buy them by the crate! I just chop them open with my butchers cleaver and have one with my morning Chocolate Muscle Potion. I stay hydrated for the entire day and look younger to boot.
I don’t know of a online source for young coconuts so the best you can do is order the water. If you live in Los Angeles the Cooperative in Santa Monica is a great place tog et them by the crate for under two dollars. Having the real young coconut is best.
Coconut oil is my cooking oil of choice and I buy it by the bucket, literally. It gives food an amazing clean and light flavor. Coconut oil is just magical. Lauric acid, which is also found in mothers milk is found in coconut oil. My Coconut anti-aging article has more information on the anti aging benefits of coconuts. It’s a blessed food and I am thankful for being introduced to it.
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