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Who, these days, has time for breakfast? Yet breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Not that you need to stuff yourself with food you don't want for energy. That is an old wife's tale. But everybody needs something first thing in the morning. There is a quick start breakfast that is just right for you. Find out what works best for you. Whatever way you go, let breakfast be not only delicious but instantaneous.
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INSTANT CRANBERRY PORRIDGE serves 2
What You Need 1/4 cup of dried cranberries Here’s How Put all the ingredients except the cinnamon and nutmeg and the butter, if you are using it, into a thermos and close. Set aside until morning. You can also use Pyrex jar with a lid that closes and place it in a warm place, such as the warming oven of an Aga, through the night. Eat as is, or cover with soya milk, oat milk or rice milk. You can vary the porridge you make by using other grain flakes such as barley, millet or brown rice flakes. Other Ways to Go DATE DREAM: Use half a cup of chopped and pitted dates instead of the cranberries. FRUIT ON HAND: Make the porridge without fruit then, just before eating it, top it off with a handful of fresh or frozen berries, a sliced banana, a grated apple or whatever else you can find. |
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I like to make porridge before I go to bed when I know I will want an instant breakfast. Oat porridge is a great way to start the day. It carries the kind of slow carbohydrate energy that is steadily released into your body throughout the morning. This breakfast is particularly good if you are someone who just does not function on juice or fruit alone. Add dried cranberries or dates, maybe a sliced fresh banana or some dried figs to a good organic porridge and you have a truly gourmet breakfast. |
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COOL AS A CRANBERRY Cranberries are another of those wonderful red/orange/yellow fruits rich in antioxidants and high in flavor. Native Americans have used them for centuries as a food and as a medicine. They have anti-fungal properties and anti-viral too, except in the case of Candida albicans which they don’t seem to touch. Cranberries, fresh or dried, help prevent as well as treat urinary infections such as cystitis too. They knock out the Escherichia coli bacteria which glue themselves to the walls of the intestine and the bladder. An as yet unidentified phytochemical in cranberries appears to prevent this from sticking. Cranberries also boast a natural antibiotic – hippuric acid. Eating them carries it into the bladder and kidneys. |
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Wonderful life-giving foods, and information about what some of them can do to help prevent premature aging, protect you from degenerative conditions such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease, enhance your mood, intensify your delight in love-making, even encourage sleep inspired me to write Cook Energy, for help for all of these things is to be found in delicious foods. Recipe This Week Archives |
