Nutritious Breakfast Recipe #1
Every ingredient of today's breakfast has a nutritional purpose.
It's a great way for us all to think to ensure maximised health and longevity. Explain to yourself the nutritional value of everything that goes into your mouth.
This is a breakfast I consume every second day. The breakfast on the alternate days will be the subject of my next post.
Add all these ingredients into a blender until they are all thoroughly cruched, munched and liquid without lumps. Depending on your blender speed, this may be between 30 seconds and one minute.
It makes two large glasses of the healthiest, most nutritious breakfast you've ever had in your life, cool and delicious.
Egg whites contain 22 amino acids, including all eight essential amino acids. This makes them the highest quality form of protein found in nature - if eaten raw. Cooking egg white changes the molecular structure of the proteins and destroys some of the amino acids.
Egg yolks (from organic eggs) are full of vitamins, minerals and healthy fats. Some people worry about the cholesterol found in the yolks. The truth is that dietary cholesterol is not readily absorbed into the human body - unless it has been cooked. Cooking oxidises the cholesterol, making it the 'poisonous' form of cholesterol. Many studies have shown that eating raw eggs has no effect on your blood cholesterol levels.
Raw egg yolks contain lutein and zeaxanthin in good measure. These are significantly reduced if cooked. Lutein and zeaxanthin are nutrients essential for good eyesight and help to prevent age-related macular degeneration. Lutein is also an antioxidant that prevents the hardening and narrowing of arteries that could otherwise lead to heart attacks and strokes.
Eggs are also a rich source of B group vitamins, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, B6, Folate, Biotin, and B12, plus vitamins A,D & E.
Nutritional minerals found within egg yolks include Iron, Magnesium, Copper, Iodine, Zinc, Sodium, Manganese and Boron.
In fact, you'll find far more vitamins and minerals in a raw egg than you will in almost multi-vitamin & mineral supplement on the market today.
Frozen spinach, particularly if packaged and frozen within a few hours of being picked, retains almost all of the benefit of the fresh product. It is readily available at most supermarkets in 250 gram boxes cntaining six cubes of frozen spinach.
Spinach is one of God's superfoods. Barely a month goes by without more scientific researching discovering the benefits of the nutrients contained in this dark green, leafy vegetable. Some of the nutrients include:
Fibre - without the antinutrient phytates found in grain and legume fibre. Fibre is a wonderful internal cleanser for your digestive tracts and helps maintain bowel regularity.
Folate - A B group vitamin essential for proper neurological function, and for fetal and early childhood brain development including the prevention of spina bifida, preventing low birth weight and premature births. Deficiency of folate in adults can result in elevated homocysteine levels (a blood inflammation marker and precursor to heart disease), headaches, digestive disorders, depression, forgetfulness and behavioural problems.
Omega 3 fatty acids - the vegetable oil found within spinach belongs to the same class of essential fatty acids as does fish oil. It has anti-inflammatory properties, is heart healthy, assists neurological function and mental health, and more.
Vitamin C and beta-carotene (which your body synthesises into Vitamin A)
Vitamin E (though in low concentration - see comments on walnuts.)
Vitamin K - oft ignored and little known by the general public, deficiencies in Vitamin K can result in: Heavy menstrual bleeding, Gastrointestinal bleeding, Hematuria (blood in the urine), Nosebleeds, Eye hemorrhages, Anemia, Gum bleeding, Prolonged clotting times, Hemorrhaging, Easy bruising, Purpura, Osteopenia, Osteoporosis, Fractures, Hypercalciuria, Calcification of soft tissue, especially heart valves. Also, birth defects. Vitamin K is far more important than most people realise, and most "modern" diets of processed foods are deficient in this essential vitamin.
Lutein - the antioxidant also found in eggs and is great for your eyes.
Quercetin - an antioxidant flavanoid also found in green tea and apple skins, and known to significant reduce the risks of contracting many forms of cancers, cardiovascular diseases and even cataracts in the eyes. Improves bone density in women, and also helps in the control of asthma.
Proteins and Amino Acids - Spinach is one of the best sources of plant-based proteins, though is not full spectrum. It lacks one of the eight essential aminos.
Minerals - including Iron, magnesium and manganese.
Popeye the Sailorman knew what he was doing when he ate spinach for his strength and vitality! (Pity he was also a pipe smoker.)
Coconut oil has been wrongly maligned over recent decades by poor scientific research falsely concluding that "all saturated fats are bad for you", and particularly blaming saturated fats for high cholesterol levels. More recent research has debunked those myths. (Much of the old research debunking palm and coconut oil was funded by the multi-billion dollar grain & seed oil industry, and tested hydrogenated coconut oil, not fresh or virgin oil.)
Coconut oil contains lauric acid (also found as one of the nine different saturated fats in human breast milk) and is a knowm anti bacterial, anti fungal and anti viral agent. It is also a thyroid stimulant that can boost your metabolic rate and assist in weight loss. Good thyroid function also manifests itself in good skin, hair and nails. Some consider coconut oil an "anti aging" product because of how it maintains youthful looking skin. Research also proves that it assists human immune function responses, too.
There are two main health benefits associated with yoghurt:
Good bacteria. Sadly, pasteurisation kills not only bad bacteria in dairy products, but also the good and beneficial bacteria your stomach and intestines need for proper digestive function. Ironically, yoghurts these days are made by, first of all pasterisation that kills the good bacteria, followed by growing the very same lact0-bacteria separately then adding it back into the pasteurised dairy during the yoghurt fermentation process. We all need to regularly line our digestive tracts with healthy bacteria (for the technically minded, they are oxygen-breathing bacteria, as distinct from the bad nitrogen-breathing bacteria that can cause ailments) and fermented foods such as yoghurt are a good source.
Calcium. Yoghurt is high in the mineral calcium - higher than straight milk. We all know that calcium is good for healthy bones and teeth, but that is just the start. There are noe well over one hundred (100) known human health benefits from calcium, covering everything from muscle tone, cardiovascular strength, reduced risk of many cancers, prevention of polyps, and much more. For the weight conscious, calcium even assists weight loss by preventing muscle atrophy that commonly occurs during weight loss that then slows your metabolic rate.
There are different types of nuts and different types of fats. Accordingly, some nuts have better nutritional properties than others.
Just to add to the confusion (or clarification), not all things we think are nuts are, in fact, nuts. Peanuts, for example, are not nuts at all. (Peanuts are legumes, closely related to soy beans.)
Most nuts are high in oils. The ideal nutritious diet needs more Omega 3 oils and lower levels of Omega 6 oils than most people today consume. Most nuts contain both. (Most also contain the non-essential Omega 9 oils, such as is also found in Olive Oil.)
Walnuts contain the highest ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 of all the nuts on this planet. They have the healthiest level of the essential oils of them all.
Another benefit of nuts is that they are a great source of Vitamin E.
Vitamin E is often misunderstood. There is more than just one form of Vitamin E. There are at least eight different forms - including synthetic as found in most vitamin supplements - and each have different health properties. By consuming your Vitamin E from a natural source such as walnuts, you are getting a balance of all the natural forms of Vitamin E.
Natural Vitamin E is an antioxidant vitamin, preventing oxidation and free radical damage in the human body. As such, it is a powerful cancer preventative. (Synthetic Vit.E as found in supplements has been shown to have the opposite effect, promoting some cancers.)
It also prevents the breakdown of tissue, and thus helps maintain muscle and heart strength.
Furthermore, Vitamin E plays a role in immune function, thus assisting your body's natural defences against colds, flu, and many other viruses and diseases.
Walnuts, like other nuts, are also a source of proteins and fibre.
More Vitamin C than any citrus fruit, a source of Vitamin E, dietary fibre (pectin) of the form that reduce cholesterol levels, these are not even the most famous health features of the blueberry.
It is the antioxidant phytonutrients, known as anthocyanidins, for which blueberries are so rightly famed. The protection of the capilliaries in the eyes and thus the benefit of enhanced eyesight and prevention of blindness makes the blueberry an almost essential fruit in everyone's diet.
Blueberries also contain ellagic acid, which has been shown to have powerful anti-cancer properties.
On the negative side, like most fruits they are high in sugars that has obvious health impediments including the effects on your insulin and blood glucose levels. The key to benefiting from blueberries lies not in consuming high doses, but in consuming low doses, regularly.
For that reason, I recommended frozen blueberries rather than fresh. If you buy a punnet of fresh blueberries but eat only a small quantity each day, they will not be fresh and will lose much of their phytonutrient content before you finish the punnet. Frozen blueberries preserves the benefits for the maximum time.
In this smoothie, you could use water for your extra liquid, but the finished smoothie may not appeal to your taste buds. Skim milk makes it much more palatable.
A vegan would probably suggest using fruit juice. I'd disagree. Fruit is wonderful if eaten whole because the fibre helps to regulate the absorption of the fruit sugars into your blood stream. Fruit juice, however, should never be consumed. It is terribly high in sugar and causes sudden rushes of insulin production and wide fluctuations in your blood sugar levels during the day, causing 'highs and lows'. Other than for the vitamin content, fruit juice is just as high in sugars and unhealthy for you as soft drinks (soda, for our American readers).
Some may suggest soy milk. Never, ever use soy milk for anything. There is nothing at all 'natural' about soy milk. (Read the list of ingredients some day - it's mostly a concoction of articial chemicals.) We'll talk more about the dangers of soy products another day.
Other than water or raw milk, skim milk is the most practical liquid to add to your smoothie for liquification. Without it, your smoothie will be too thick and the taste a bit strong. You need the dilution effect to make your smoothie palatable.
While the ingredients are blending, I also chew on two Brazil Nuts. I'll explain why in the next part of this series, being the nutritious breakfast recipe I eat on the other days alternating with this smoothie.
Until then, I encourage you to stock your kitchen with the ingredients for this breakfast smoothie, and to begin enjoying the healthiest and most nutritious breakfast you have ever had in your life.
9 flowers for this post
Hey..FFL,
The raw eggs is a wee bit hard to stomach leh..?? no..??
MrsT | 28.04.05 - 10:48 pm | #
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MrsT, you really won't even notice them when blended into the smoothie, I promise.
Even so, raw eggs are easier on the stomach than cooked eggs, because cooked eggs are much harder to properly digest. Boiled eggs even give some people constipation.
Try it. You'll enjoy it !
Friend For Life | 28.04.05 - 11:00 pm | #
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Well, I'm not a big fan of smoothies (unless it's bananas or mixed fruits) but looking at the ingredients...hmmm...
Eggs, spinach and coconut milk/cream: I get this from nasi lemak for breakfast.
Bilberries: I take it as a supplement on an empty stomach in the morning.
And I drink skim milk in the morning.
Nutritional enough? *giggle*
Primrose | Homepage | 29.04.05 - 11:38 am | #
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If you're not comfortable with the idea of a smoothie(other than mixed fruits), think of it as a "vegetable & berries smoothie", or forget word smoothie altogether and just think of it as a liquid breakfast.
Good that you already know the of bilberries/blueberries, but the supplements are much more expensive and likely to have less synergistic benefit than you'd get in the whole fruit.
Leave the nasi (grain) out of your lemak, then eat the eggs raw - and go very easy on the skim milk (try green tea for an antioxidant/polyphenol rich beverage) and you'll be well on your well to life-long health, vitality and longevity.
Give my recipe a try, PrincEss. I know you'll love it !
Friend For Life | 29.04.05 - 12:30 pm | #
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Point of clarification:
To avoid any confusion, do not use whole raw eggs. Break open the eggs and just put the contents of the eggs into the blender. Please do not put the eggs in with the shells still on!
(Save the egg shells and compost them for garden fertiliser.)
Friend For Life | 30.04.05 - 12:32 pm | #
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Suggestion:
Perhaps we could have smoothie with cheesecake for breakfast??
Random Reader | 30.04.05 - 2:49 pm | #
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FFL: Haha! Whole eggs! We are no boa.
Random Reader: Hmm, a good idea indeed but not quite a good combination. Healthy vs Not-so-healthy. Heh, heh!
Primrose | Homepage | 30.04.05 - 4:42 pm | #
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Random Reader, you've given me an idea...
PrincEss, why don't you and I get together and work on creating a spinach cheescake, made with spinach (obviously), raw (unpasteurised) dairy, and a ground walnut & flaxmeal plus coconut oil base (instead of crushed biscuits and butter)?
We'll leave out the sugar and use the stevia herb for sweetening.
I'm sure that together, PrincEss, we can invent the world's first true health-food cheesecake.
The hardest part will be finding a cow (or a goat, or sheep) to give us the raw milk.
Then, our Random Reader can have his cake and eat it too !
Friend For Life | 30.04.05 - 9:00 pm | #
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Err...spinach cheesecake, FFL?
Ee-yucks! *LOL*
Primrose | Homepage | 02.05.05 - 4:09 pm | #
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It's a great way for us all to think to ensure maximised health and longevity. Explain to yourself the nutritional value of everything that goes into your mouth.
This is a breakfast I consume every second day. The breakfast on the alternate days will be the subject of my next post.
Friend For Life's Nutritious Breakfast Smoothie:
Ingredients:- Two raw eggs
- One cube of fresh-frozen spinach (approx. 42g)
- Three tablespoons of coconut cream
- One heaped dessertspoon of natural yoghurt
- Six walnut halves
- Six-to-eight frozen blueberries
- Just enough skim milk to keep it all fluid when blended (maybe 1/3 to 1/2 cup)
Add all these ingredients into a blender until they are all thoroughly cruched, munched and liquid without lumps. Depending on your blender speed, this may be between 30 seconds and one minute.
It makes two large glasses of the healthiest, most nutritious breakfast you've ever had in your life, cool and delicious.
The reasons for these ingredients:
Raw Eggs:
The best choice are eggs from organically raised, free range chickens. The natural diet of chickens is grasses and dark green weeds, plus insects and worms from the ground. Avoid barn-laid or non-organically raised grain-fed chicken eggs. The yolks will be higher in saturated fats, higher in cholesterol and dramatically lower in healthy omega 3 oils. (Some studies show free range organic eggs have 20 times more omega 3 content than barn/grain-fed eggs.)Egg whites contain 22 amino acids, including all eight essential amino acids. This makes them the highest quality form of protein found in nature - if eaten raw. Cooking egg white changes the molecular structure of the proteins and destroys some of the amino acids.
Egg yolks (from organic eggs) are full of vitamins, minerals and healthy fats. Some people worry about the cholesterol found in the yolks. The truth is that dietary cholesterol is not readily absorbed into the human body - unless it has been cooked. Cooking oxidises the cholesterol, making it the 'poisonous' form of cholesterol. Many studies have shown that eating raw eggs has no effect on your blood cholesterol levels.
Raw egg yolks contain lutein and zeaxanthin in good measure. These are significantly reduced if cooked. Lutein and zeaxanthin are nutrients essential for good eyesight and help to prevent age-related macular degeneration. Lutein is also an antioxidant that prevents the hardening and narrowing of arteries that could otherwise lead to heart attacks and strokes.
Eggs are also a rich source of B group vitamins, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, B6, Folate, Biotin, and B12, plus vitamins A,D & E.
Nutritional minerals found within egg yolks include Iron, Magnesium, Copper, Iodine, Zinc, Sodium, Manganese and Boron.
In fact, you'll find far more vitamins and minerals in a raw egg than you will in almost multi-vitamin & mineral supplement on the market today.
Frozen Spinach:
Freshly picked spinach is the obvious best choice, but how many of us grow it in our gardens or live close enough to a gardener to ensure that it truly is fresh? Many of the natural plant chemical nutrients (particularly folate) in vegetables such as spinach will halve in quantity within five days after picking. By the time you buy it at the supermarket or greengrocer store it will already be a few days old. By the time you eat it, it could be a few more.Frozen spinach, particularly if packaged and frozen within a few hours of being picked, retains almost all of the benefit of the fresh product. It is readily available at most supermarkets in 250 gram boxes cntaining six cubes of frozen spinach.
Spinach is one of God's superfoods. Barely a month goes by without more scientific researching discovering the benefits of the nutrients contained in this dark green, leafy vegetable. Some of the nutrients include:
Fibre - without the antinutrient phytates found in grain and legume fibre. Fibre is a wonderful internal cleanser for your digestive tracts and helps maintain bowel regularity.
Folate - A B group vitamin essential for proper neurological function, and for fetal and early childhood brain development including the prevention of spina bifida, preventing low birth weight and premature births. Deficiency of folate in adults can result in elevated homocysteine levels (a blood inflammation marker and precursor to heart disease), headaches, digestive disorders, depression, forgetfulness and behavioural problems.
Omega 3 fatty acids - the vegetable oil found within spinach belongs to the same class of essential fatty acids as does fish oil. It has anti-inflammatory properties, is heart healthy, assists neurological function and mental health, and more.
Vitamin C and beta-carotene (which your body synthesises into Vitamin A)
Vitamin E (though in low concentration - see comments on walnuts.)
Vitamin K - oft ignored and little known by the general public, deficiencies in Vitamin K can result in: Heavy menstrual bleeding, Gastrointestinal bleeding, Hematuria (blood in the urine), Nosebleeds, Eye hemorrhages, Anemia, Gum bleeding, Prolonged clotting times, Hemorrhaging, Easy bruising, Purpura, Osteopenia, Osteoporosis, Fractures, Hypercalciuria, Calcification of soft tissue, especially heart valves. Also, birth defects. Vitamin K is far more important than most people realise, and most "modern" diets of processed foods are deficient in this essential vitamin.
Lutein - the antioxidant also found in eggs and is great for your eyes.
Quercetin - an antioxidant flavanoid also found in green tea and apple skins, and known to significant reduce the risks of contracting many forms of cancers, cardiovascular diseases and even cataracts in the eyes. Improves bone density in women, and also helps in the control of asthma.
Proteins and Amino Acids - Spinach is one of the best sources of plant-based proteins, though is not full spectrum. It lacks one of the eight essential aminos.
Minerals - including Iron, magnesium and manganese.
Popeye the Sailorman knew what he was doing when he ate spinach for his strength and vitality! (Pity he was also a pipe smoker.)
Coconut Cream:
If you can find virgin coconut oil, use it instead. I use coconut cream as a substitute because virgin coconut oil is extremely difficult to find in my area. Hopefully it is easier to find in your area.Coconut oil has been wrongly maligned over recent decades by poor scientific research falsely concluding that "all saturated fats are bad for you", and particularly blaming saturated fats for high cholesterol levels. More recent research has debunked those myths. (Much of the old research debunking palm and coconut oil was funded by the multi-billion dollar grain & seed oil industry, and tested hydrogenated coconut oil, not fresh or virgin oil.)
Coconut oil contains lauric acid (also found as one of the nine different saturated fats in human breast milk) and is a knowm anti bacterial, anti fungal and anti viral agent. It is also a thyroid stimulant that can boost your metabolic rate and assist in weight loss. Good thyroid function also manifests itself in good skin, hair and nails. Some consider coconut oil an "anti aging" product because of how it maintains youthful looking skin. Research also proves that it assists human immune function responses, too.
Natural Yoghurt:
If you can find raw yoghurt (ie not pasteurised), please use it. Sadly, it is hard to find unless you own your own cow and make your own dairy products. Check the labels before you buy. Natural yoghurt should not have any added sugars, colours or preservatives.There are two main health benefits associated with yoghurt:
Good bacteria. Sadly, pasteurisation kills not only bad bacteria in dairy products, but also the good and beneficial bacteria your stomach and intestines need for proper digestive function. Ironically, yoghurts these days are made by, first of all pasterisation that kills the good bacteria, followed by growing the very same lact0-bacteria separately then adding it back into the pasteurised dairy during the yoghurt fermentation process. We all need to regularly line our digestive tracts with healthy bacteria (for the technically minded, they are oxygen-breathing bacteria, as distinct from the bad nitrogen-breathing bacteria that can cause ailments) and fermented foods such as yoghurt are a good source.
Calcium. Yoghurt is high in the mineral calcium - higher than straight milk. We all know that calcium is good for healthy bones and teeth, but that is just the start. There are noe well over one hundred (100) known human health benefits from calcium, covering everything from muscle tone, cardiovascular strength, reduced risk of many cancers, prevention of polyps, and much more. For the weight conscious, calcium even assists weight loss by preventing muscle atrophy that commonly occurs during weight loss that then slows your metabolic rate.
Walnuts:
What is a nut? (Some people think that I am a nut.) We all know that nuts are healthy, but also often hear that they are high in fat. What is the truth?There are different types of nuts and different types of fats. Accordingly, some nuts have better nutritional properties than others.
Just to add to the confusion (or clarification), not all things we think are nuts are, in fact, nuts. Peanuts, for example, are not nuts at all. (Peanuts are legumes, closely related to soy beans.)
Most nuts are high in oils. The ideal nutritious diet needs more Omega 3 oils and lower levels of Omega 6 oils than most people today consume. Most nuts contain both. (Most also contain the non-essential Omega 9 oils, such as is also found in Olive Oil.)
Walnuts contain the highest ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 of all the nuts on this planet. They have the healthiest level of the essential oils of them all.
Another benefit of nuts is that they are a great source of Vitamin E.
Vitamin E is often misunderstood. There is more than just one form of Vitamin E. There are at least eight different forms - including synthetic as found in most vitamin supplements - and each have different health properties. By consuming your Vitamin E from a natural source such as walnuts, you are getting a balance of all the natural forms of Vitamin E.
Natural Vitamin E is an antioxidant vitamin, preventing oxidation and free radical damage in the human body. As such, it is a powerful cancer preventative. (Synthetic Vit.E as found in supplements has been shown to have the opposite effect, promoting some cancers.)
It also prevents the breakdown of tissue, and thus helps maintain muscle and heart strength.
Furthermore, Vitamin E plays a role in immune function, thus assisting your body's natural defences against colds, flu, and many other viruses and diseases.
Walnuts, like other nuts, are also a source of proteins and fibre.
Blueberries (Known in some parts of the world as Bilberries):
Another of God's true superfoods.More Vitamin C than any citrus fruit, a source of Vitamin E, dietary fibre (pectin) of the form that reduce cholesterol levels, these are not even the most famous health features of the blueberry.
It is the antioxidant phytonutrients, known as anthocyanidins, for which blueberries are so rightly famed. The protection of the capilliaries in the eyes and thus the benefit of enhanced eyesight and prevention of blindness makes the blueberry an almost essential fruit in everyone's diet.
Blueberries also contain ellagic acid, which has been shown to have powerful anti-cancer properties.
On the negative side, like most fruits they are high in sugars that has obvious health impediments including the effects on your insulin and blood glucose levels. The key to benefiting from blueberries lies not in consuming high doses, but in consuming low doses, regularly.
For that reason, I recommended frozen blueberries rather than fresh. If you buy a punnet of fresh blueberries but eat only a small quantity each day, they will not be fresh and will lose much of their phytonutrient content before you finish the punnet. Frozen blueberries preserves the benefits for the maximum time.
Skim Milk:
Use as little of this as is necessary just to keep your smoothie liquid enough to drink. Unless you can find raw (unpasteurised) milk, milk has very few health benefits other than calcium. The dairy industry grossly exaggerates the vitamin content of pasteurised milk, and many people have mild allergy symptoms from using it. In most cases, those allergy symptoms do not happen when you use raw unpasteurised milk - but unless you own a cow or live close enough to a dairy farm to buy it direct, dairy should generally be avoided.In this smoothie, you could use water for your extra liquid, but the finished smoothie may not appeal to your taste buds. Skim milk makes it much more palatable.
A vegan would probably suggest using fruit juice. I'd disagree. Fruit is wonderful if eaten whole because the fibre helps to regulate the absorption of the fruit sugars into your blood stream. Fruit juice, however, should never be consumed. It is terribly high in sugar and causes sudden rushes of insulin production and wide fluctuations in your blood sugar levels during the day, causing 'highs and lows'. Other than for the vitamin content, fruit juice is just as high in sugars and unhealthy for you as soft drinks (soda, for our American readers).
Some may suggest soy milk. Never, ever use soy milk for anything. There is nothing at all 'natural' about soy milk. (Read the list of ingredients some day - it's mostly a concoction of articial chemicals.) We'll talk more about the dangers of soy products another day.
Other than water or raw milk, skim milk is the most practical liquid to add to your smoothie for liquification. Without it, your smoothie will be too thick and the taste a bit strong. You need the dilution effect to make your smoothie palatable.
While the ingredients are blending, I also chew on two Brazil Nuts. I'll explain why in the next part of this series, being the nutritious breakfast recipe I eat on the other days alternating with this smoothie.
Until then, I encourage you to stock your kitchen with the ingredients for this breakfast smoothie, and to begin enjoying the healthiest and most nutritious breakfast you have ever had in your life.
9 flowers for this post
Hey..FFL,
The raw eggs is a wee bit hard to stomach leh..?? no..??
MrsT | 28.04.05 - 10:48 pm | #
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MrsT, you really won't even notice them when blended into the smoothie, I promise.
Even so, raw eggs are easier on the stomach than cooked eggs, because cooked eggs are much harder to properly digest. Boiled eggs even give some people constipation.
Try it. You'll enjoy it !
Friend For Life | 28.04.05 - 11:00 pm | #
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well, I'm not a big fan of smoothies (unless it's bananas or mixed fruits) but looking at the ingredients...hmmm...
Eggs, spinach and coconut milk/cream: I get this from nasi lemak for breakfast.
Bilberries: I take it as a supplement on an empty stomach in the morning.
And I drink skim milk in the morning.
Nutritional enough? *giggle*
Primrose | Homepage | 29.04.05 - 11:38 am | #
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If you're not comfortable with the idea of a smoothie(other than mixed fruits), think of it as a "vegetable & berries smoothie", or forget word smoothie altogether and just think of it as a liquid breakfast.
Good that you already know the of bilberries/blueberries, but the supplements are much more expensive and likely to have less synergistic benefit than you'd get in the whole fruit.
Leave the nasi (grain) out of your lemak, then eat the eggs raw - and go very easy on the skim milk (try green tea for an antioxidant/polyphenol rich beverage) and you'll be well on your well to life-long health, vitality and longevity.
Give my recipe a try, PrincEss. I know you'll love it !
Friend For Life | 29.04.05 - 12:30 pm | #
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Point of clarification:
To avoid any confusion, do not use whole raw eggs. Break open the eggs and just put the contents of the eggs into the blender. Please do not put the eggs in with the shells still on!
(Save the egg shells and compost them for garden fertiliser.)
Friend For Life | 30.04.05 - 12:32 pm | #
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Suggestion:
Perhaps we could have smoothie with cheesecake for breakfast??
Random Reader | 30.04.05 - 2:49 pm | #
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FFL: Haha! Whole eggs! We are no boa.
Random Reader: Hmm, a good idea indeed but not quite a good combination. Healthy vs Not-so-healthy. Heh, heh!
Primrose | Homepage | 30.04.05 - 4:42 pm | #
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Random Reader, you've given me an idea...
PrincEss, why don't you and I get together and work on creating a spinach cheescake, made with spinach (obviously), raw (unpasteurised) dairy, and a ground walnut & flaxmeal plus coconut oil base (instead of crushed biscuits and butter)?
We'll leave out the sugar and use the stevia herb for sweetening.
I'm sure that together, PrincEss, we can invent the world's first true health-food cheesecake.
The hardest part will be finding a cow (or a goat, or sheep) to give us the raw milk.
Then, our Random Reader can have his cake and eat it too !
Friend For Life | 30.04.05 - 9:00 pm | #
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Err...spinach cheesecake, FFL?
Ee-yucks! *LOL*
Primrose | Homepage | 02.05.05 - 4:09 pm | #
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