Friday 29 January 2010

Fantastic Low Carb Porridge Recipes

Here are some fab porridge recipes
Luxury weekend porridge
For two servings 30g pinhead oatmeal, l35ml soya, oat or rice milk, 3g goats butter or pure olive or sunflower spread, 2 teaspoons of cinnamon, nutmeg to taste, Z sweet to sweeten if required.Soak the pinhead oatmeal overnight in water in the morning drain off the excess water and add the drained oatmeal to a pan, add either soya, rice or oat milk and simmer gently for about 15 minutes stirring occasionally until the oats are thick and soft then beat in goats butter, cinnamon and nutmeg. You can add a few sesame seeds or flaked almonds or hemp seed for added flavour and a little crunch. By using no fruit or dairy this is a high protein very low carb excellent breakfast and the cinnamon will speed up your metabolism.

Cinnamon keeps blood sugar levels under control and helps speed up your metabolism by 15% for 6 hours so its a great asset to those of us who want to control weight or suffer with diabetes. Adding 3g or 1 teaspoon of cinnamon to oats daily maitains levels of insulin (the hormone that controls blood sugar)
half a teaspoon of cinamon daily will lower your blood sugar levels which is a great way of burning fat. If you dont eat oats you can add cinnamon to curries, roast meats, fish,vegetables, fruit or simply soak a cinnamon stick in a cup of tea or add cinnamon to hot water and lemon

Basic Everyday Porridge serves two 3 cups of oats (not instant ), pinch of salt, oat,rice or soya milk to serve, cinnamon, z-sweet to sweeten (only if required, the less you sweeten food the less you will need sweet things)

Put the oats into a bowl cover with water soak overnight. then add the oats to a pan and add 1½ cups water and the salt. Bring to the boil, stirring, then cover and reduce the heat. Cook on very low heat, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes add the cinnamon then serve the porridge and and add the milk.
For a creamier porridge, replace some or all of the water with rice,oat ,soya milk.

If you want variety at breakfast add coconut, peanut butter, some almonds or cashews or any kind of seeds. You can also stir in a swirl of soya yogurt or goats cream (it tastes the same as regular cream -honest). Again by leaving out dairy which is high in lactose (milk sugar) and all fruit you are making this a high protein, filling, fat burning breakfast.

You can also make fast porridge by simply soaking oats and almonds overnight in water then eating them without cooking them it tastes really good.
You can find recipes for porridge bars in my blog post on portable foods

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Marissa, just started on your programme a few days in and going good. I love porridge and I like to sweeten with honey is that OK? Also I am confused as to whether you recommend any kind of rice as accompaniments to meals being OK or not? Thanks Karen

Marisa Peer said...

Hi Karen
it's better to add Zsweet to porridge as it lowers blood sugar whereas honey raises it, when your sugar and insulin levels are lower you burn fat instead of storing it.
Wild rice is a good accompaniment to meals, as is quinoa.
Best
Marisa

Emma said...

Hi Marisa, I read your book over Christmas and just kind of started without even thinking about it. I shed about half a stone in three weeks and dropped a dress size, since then it was almost as if my brain thought I'd done enough and I have started to slip into chocolate related bad habits again - I visualise myself slimmer every day and do my affirmations (although they are never the same as I can't remember them exactly) but am in serious danger of going wildly off track...what do I need to do to bring myself back to where I need to be ??

Marisa Peer said...
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Marisa Peer said...

Hi Emma
The problem with chocolate is that sugar is a chemical and chocolate bars are often full of preservatives and this combination can have an addictive effect for some people, meaning that like cigarettes if you start allowing yourself a little here and there you can get addicted all over again. It is better to avoid milk chocolate altogether and occasionally have a little of the dark variety instead or eat food doctor seed bars when you want something sweet.
You can also take 5htp and B6 and Bcomplex as they can stop you craving sugar. Almonds are a great snack as they are full of zinc which also stops you craving sugar.
Its worth printing or writng out a few affirmations from the book and putting them on your mirror or screensaver so you are reminded of them everyday. You did it before and you can do it again and it will be better this time as you will be armed to avoid modern confectionary as it is nothing more than chemicals, fat and sugar
best
Marisa

Anonymous said...

Hi Marissa,
is agvre nectar ok to use in porridge instead of z-sweet? If not could you advise me of where to buy z-sweet from please?
I have porridge most mornings with soya milk and water with chopped banana and cinnomon? Is this ok? Or do I need to leave the banana out because of the sugar? Sometime instead of the banana I use agarve nectar for a sweeter taste?
Thanks
Charlotte

Anonymous said...

Very usefull information indeed. This is how I plan to lose weight, just little bits at a time. I like the comments as well, very helpfull.
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