I'm trying to get any idea from folks on what type of breakfast options are out there while on abx? It's been hard giving up my coffee, bagel and fruit!
What having you been eating?
Are there any good cereals out there to replace my fave Kashi?
thanks!
Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
I have a smoothie made from vanilla undenatured whey protein, water, and raspberries (I added organic whipping cream to it when I was on Mepron for the fat).
Sometimes I'll also have a piece of "fudge" with it -- I've posted the recipe before ... if you want it let me know and I'll repost. Posted by Aniek (Member # 5374) on :
Eggs are one of the best, easiest choices. You can also get some all natural hot dogs that are nice and easy to cook. If there is a Whole Foods store near you, they have a brand (I can't remember the name) that has no preservatives.
Some people continue eating whole grains, like oatmeal. But you want one that is slow cooked, not instant. And you should put some protein in your stomach first.
Almonds are good. Leftovers are easy. Quinoa is a high protein grain that you can cook in advance and eat cold. Mix in whatever you like.
Posted by clairenotes (Member # 10392) on :
I drink whey protein shakes in the morning also, and recently added some phosphatidyl serine, which helps me think clearer.
I also like pre-soaked almonds for protein in the morning and at other times of the day. And avocados have become a morning staple, with Realsalt sprinkled on top.
If you can tolerate some carbs, Van's frozen wheat-free waffles might be good, with some berries.
And sometimes I eat leftover's from dinner the night before, which is often chicken/fish and some veggies or salad. Or leftover soups can be nice...
Not sure about breakfast cereals. There weren't any that I could tolerate. But Aniek's idea might be good, though, as I have heard of this but did not try it myself. I used to make sure to eat some 'good' fat with a carb (coconut milk if tolerated, or avocado).
Claire
Posted by tailz (Member # 10014) on :
I eat canned peas for breakfast lunch and dinner. A little grapeseed oil and a dash of sea salt.
Yum.
I have food allergies, so everything makes me sick. When this is all over, I want a three-cheese pizza, a stromboli with extra ricotta cheese, and a super-sized vanilla milkshake - and that's only breakfast.
Maybe some beer, too. Actually, I used to like greyhounds, although two of them pretty much did me in for the night.
Posted by JimBoB (Member # 8454) on :
I would think that SEA salt is not good for us with all the mercury, etc.. I do have some sea salt that I bought BEFORE I thought about that.
For breakfast, which I am just finishing, I have pretty much the same things every day.
Aldi's brand of Cheerios. In skim milk. A banana. A cup of Decaf coffee, with skim milk. A glass of juice concoction I make up by adding half glass of distilled water, C-Salts, Periwinkle tincture, Red Root tincture, and all my herbs as my second course. Then drink my coffee with a roll or donut.
That is it for at least 340 days a year, if not more. Then usually skip lunch, and have a late supper.
Jim Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
JimBob, you're right ... you want to get a pure sea salt. I use "Real Salt". You definately don't want to get just any sea salt.
Posted by dch1112 (Member # 13148) on :
thanks for all the suggestions....keep 'em coming!
Anyone try any of the Food For Life or Erewhon Cereals? I know they have carbs but I think I'm ok so far with small amounts.
Also I was told that c antelope and strawberries are very low in sugar and on the "safe" list. Is that true?
thanks again for the help
Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
Berries are okay. I don't know if cantelope is or not, but in general, I think fruit is good, especially the watery ones (not bananas).
I have had the Erewhon rice cereal and like it. I use a little agave syrup on it ... I don't usually eat it for breakfast, rather lunch .
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
I force sardines down sometimes for their great effect (covering with cilantro and garlic powder helps).
For a tastier treat, I see that Trader Joe's just started carrying a gluten-free granola. Rice milk or soy milk (unsweetened) w/ stevia if you want a cereal thing.
Frozen organic peas are a godsend. I mix with brewer's yeast, olive oil, any green seasoning like chives, parsely, cilantro and garlic powder and sea salt. You could add tofu chunks.
Left over veggies, cold salmon, warmed over brown rice help as morning is a challenge. I find it helps to have a breakfast cooked before bedtime or I just do a protein powder and a greens powder 'til noon.
If you are perky in the am millet, quinoa (rinse in a very fine strainer first) . . .buckwheat . . .wild rice. Greens are good in the am, too.
I have a wonderful rice cooker that is stainless steel. no plastic 7 no telfon. Miracle -- something.
Ezekial bread makes good tortillas, too. From sprouted grains but might have some gluten to them. Still, better than from the mature wheat.
Nut butters, apples. Hazelnut butter is my fav. Almond next.
Dr. H. was very insistent that I give up the cereal for breakfast and eat animal-based protein.
Posted by mojo (Member # 9309) on :
I have coffee as soon as I get up. A large cup of cold brewed (to remove acid) organic mostly decaf with organic half and half. Then I have organic oatmeal.
Late morning I have something else (maybe a sandwich on Ezekial bread, today I just had Ezekial toast and real butter) and usually have a smoothie. I make my smoothies with Organic Plain Yogurt and fruit. Usually berries. Sometimes banana. Today it was banana and fresh peaches. I make a HUGE smoothie for me and a large smoothie for hubby (his office is at home)
Dinner varies.
Posted by jennyflyer (Member # 12792) on :
On the days I do eat breakfast (I know, I should every day), I will have an egg, or turkey or chicken sausage; sometimes a whole grain waffle; sometimes just yogurt.
It's been tough, but I've almost completely cut out cereal and oatmeal, which is killing me because I love both.
Posted by GiGi (Member # 259) on :
Our breakfast starts with a "mush-mousse" prepared in a 3 cup chopper (Black & Decker EHC650 $15.) that always sits on our kitchen counter because I use it several times a day (deserts, lumpy sauce, creamed spinach......)
Start with a slice of pineapple - still fresh ((this time of year, or a couple of Frozen Pineapple bits from Trader Joe (nothing in it but pineapple).
I add any fruit and vegetable in season, in small amounts, to fill the chopper. Let it run 5-10 seconds. That's all.
(When I come home with my veggies and fruits from store or garden, I fill washed larger pieces in a container with lid to give me almost a weeks supply to quickly grab for the blender in the mornings. Otherwise it becomes too much of a chore.)
That amounts to at least for 6 servings of fruits and vegetables - fresh.
When I was still taking certain powders, supplements, etc. I added it in there
(When I come home with my veggies and fruits from store or garden, I fill washed larger pieces in a container with lid to give me almost a weeks supply to quickly grab for the blender in the mornings. Otherwise it becomes too much of a chore.)
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Today: I used pineapple, green pepper, red pepper, orange pepper, celery, rutabaga, carrot, cucumber, and pear.
I usually buy a whole pineapple. On day one I take the "tree" off and one slice. I set it on a small glass plate, cut section facing glass, in the fridge. I take a slice off from the big piece every day. It lasts almost a week before I start a new pineapple or a bag of frozen.
Always start with the pineapple in the chopper - it supplies the juice as you start grinding and you need no other liquids. It's nothing but plain fruits and veggies full of enzymes and fiber.
If I don't feel like anything else, I toss a few bits of cereal in it. It tastes very nicely.
But usually we then have either eggs, waffles, pancakes, oatmeal, cream of wheet, with a good cup of coffee (which my husband prepares before I climb out of bed.)
Breakfast is a ritual - in the summer it is outside on the deck. It used to be on weekends only, but since we have now long been retired, it is a favorite part of the day.
Now we have our grandchildren coming over on some Saturday --- one likes pancakes, one likes sausage, one likes waffles. Softtouch here does it all. They love it. Only now, we have three of them and we almost have to pull out the dining table.
Keep at it, get well. Life is full of new joys...discoveries....
Take care.
P.S. But even the kids love the "mush-mousse"!
P.P.S. We did the same routine when still ill. Coffee, fruit, and all. I mostly use whole grain. For a time when I thought I reacted to wheat, I cooked millet in larger amounts and froze portions. Discovered that I reacted to EMF caused by metals in my body and was never allergic to wheat. So make sure you deny yourself something for the right reasons. Since dealing with eliminating the load of heavy metals, I have not reacted to anything.
[ 09. October 2007, 04:09 PM: Message edited by: GiGi ]
Posted by JimBoB (Member # 8454) on :
quote:Originally posted by sixgoofykids: JimBob, you're right ... you want to get a pure sea salt. I use "Real Salt". You definately don't want to get just any sea salt.
Six: WHERE do you get PURE sea salt. I had gotten my from StarWest Botanicals. Which is a good herbal company. BUt I have heard that ALL sea salt is bad.
I understand that Mountain salt, preferably from the Himalayas, is what we should have.
Jim Posted by JimBoB (Member # 8454) on :
quote:Originally posted by sixgoofykids: Berries are okay. I don't know if cantelope is or not, but in general, I think fruit is good, especially the watery ones (not bananas).
I have had the Erewhon rice cereal and like it. I use a little agave syrup on it ... I don't usually eat it for breakfast, rather lunch .
Six, why are bananas NOT good? I try to have one every day, as with my lack of a colon, I retain absolutely NO potassium. Jim. Posted by GiGi (Member # 259) on :
Once you try this salt, you will not like other salt any more. It is available in most health food stores, or you can have it sent from Utah direct. But today I see it even the smaller health food stores, about $2. a pound.
Take care.
Posted by Aniek (Member # 5374) on :
JimBob - Bananas are high in sugar. They are bad if you are doing yeast prevention or elimination or trying to eat low sugar.
Posted by mojo (Member # 9309) on :
JimBob - My LLMD told me that watermelon is better for potassium than bananas.
Posted by twopuggles (Member # 10971) on :
Brown Rice Cereal with Rice Milk, or Kamut cereal. Granny Smith apple with Almond Butter. Or, Rice Bread with Almond Butter. Sometimes a smoothie with rice protein, rice milk, and mixed berries. Allergic to eggs.
Boy I couldn't choke down peas for breakfast if I tried. I would probably be praying to the porcelein god. To each their own. I think I was conditioned as a kid to eat cereal or toast for breakfast. One doctor I saw told me I should be eating soup for breakfast. It makes sense, but the brain won't comply.
Strange about the sea salt. My ND said that that is what I should use.
Posted by CaliforniaLyme (Member # 7136) on :
Depends on the morning! Every weekend we have big breakfasts- pancakes, waffles, French Toast, sausages, bacon, GoldenRod Toast... Most weekday mornings I have oatmeal or an English muffin with butetr & peanut butter. This morning I had a plain cake donut (yum*)(!
Diet doesn't make my symptoms any better or worse. I know for some people it matters.
Posted by lorima (Member # 11925) on :
I'm on doxy, so no calcium within two hours of the dose. I eat Kashi Go Lean with RiceDream ORIGINAL rice milk (not the enriched, it has a lot of calcium). Look at the nutrition info if you're not sure, if it only has a few percent of the RDA for calcium you're fine. I put sunflower seeds and dried apricots on the cereal.
I don't drink coffee, gives me a stomach ache, BUT I buy caffeine tablets online and take anywhere from 200 mg (one tablet, = 2 cups of coffee) to 50 mg (one quarter of a tablet).
Now taking 50 mg, but when my monthly (hormonal) migraines roll around I'll up it to 100, or even 200 if needed. I try to keep it low, because I like to taper it down again after "headache week", so I don't get habituated and have to take increasing amounts to get the same effect.
I'm one of the sleepy, not the insomniac, lymies, so a little caffeine is really nice to help me get out of bed.
Posted by GiGi (Member # 259) on :
Lorima, could you post the link where you buy the caffeine tablets. I have often wondered about that - I know some Parkinsons people do well with coffee, but don't like to drink it.
Thank you.
Posted by lymeHerx001 (Member # 6215) on :
Oh my GOD
Dont listen to California!
She has the eat anything strain of Lyme, and her genes are naturally resistant to YEAST!!!!!
OMG!!!!!!!
Would you be willing to switch bodies? I dont mind changing sex. Posted by JimBoB (Member # 8454) on :
quote:Originally posted by Aniek: JimBob - Bananas are high in sugar. They are bad if you are doing yeast prevention or elimination or trying to eat low sugar.
Okay, Aniek, I am not concerned about yeast, as I have rarely had ANY problems with it. So I guess I can stick with bananas, though I don't really care for the flavor of them. I do like the taste of watermelon, but it is pretty gaseous for me.
I like lots of salt AND sugar, so I will have to get that RealSalt also. I wonder if any of the online herbal companies, like 1st Chinese Herbs handles it?
Jim Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
JimBob, I see the questions on both the Real Salt and the bananas were answered.
Try eating the watermelon on an empty stomach and don't eat anything for at least 15 minutes afterward. Watermelon is digested very quickly, so if anything else is there to slow it down, it can cause those symptoms you describe.
Watery fruit is also detoxifying if eaten on an empty stomach, like first thing in the morning.
Posted by CaliforniaLyme (Member # 7136) on :
Yup, I have a cast iron stomach too- comes from living in India as a kid I think*)!*)*)!
I don't think you would really want to switch with ME though. Out of all the local Lymies, I was sickest except the ALSers. You don't want to have THAT*)!*)!
Seriosuly though, all the people I know who went into full remission- only ONE watched their diet carefully and did supplements big time- the others all just did antibiotics and nothing else really otehr than basic probiotics!!! Truth.
From my experience I think the chronic chronics are the ones who need to watch their diets big time. People who never get as much wellness as I have... or into full remission. I feel sorry for them frankly. I would hate to give up waffles and syrup and yummy Southern cooking with lots of butter and fried stuff*)!*)!
But you know what? After all I haev been through I am glad for me, I am glad I get some little sweetnesses in life because I lived 3 years of living heck that I wouldn't wish on anyone, pure agony 24-7, progressive horrible disability-
ANYWAY, I hope we all get to live happily ever after*)*!)*)!!
Posted by JimBoB (Member # 8454) on :
Sarah: WHAT does *)*!)*)!! Mean?
Jim Posted by bejoy (Member # 11129) on :
Redmond Real Salt is great whole mineralized salt.
It is mined from around the Great Salt Lake of Utah, so it was there before the Earth got polluted with mercury.
You can find it in many grocery stores on the salt shelf. You can probably find it in whole food stores.
After using this as table salt, my family much prefers it over the flavor of plain iodized sodium chloride.
The label says: www.realsalt.com 1-800-367-7258
Posted by CaliforniaLyme (Member # 7136) on :
JimBob- !)*!*)! is HAPPY!*)*)!)*!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It means I am bouncing with happiness. I am a very enthusiastic person and sometimes hop up and down in excitement*)!*)!*)!*)!*)!!!!!!!!
!!! are exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The more stars the happier I am!*)!*)!*!!
&*!^%@$#! is swearing!!!
swearing with not a single star means I'm really upset (!@&!
STeere or the bad Guys get $$$ in my language
Like Steere would be... ($$!!$@ and Wormser would be Worm$er or !$$%!! or )!&@!$
Posted by JimBoB (Member # 8454) on :
Sarah: Okay, I know what @#$%^& is, but I had never seen or heard of the *)*!)*)!!! before.
And of course I know what an exclamation point looks like.
Jim Posted by MKP (Member # 12544) on :
I think a good diet is crucial. This morning for breakfast I had hot ginger tea with lemon, and while I was sipping that I shredded in my food processor half a sweet potato (raw), a macintosh apple, and 1/4 cup of raw cranberries. I put all three in a bowl with ground flax seeds, raw honey, two tablespoons of orange juice, two tablespoons of olive oil, a little sprinkle of nutmeg and a big sprinkle of cinnamon. Then I made a shake with organic coconut milk, raw almond butter, one banana, cold water and protein powder made from goat's milk. I put a little chai spice in it too.
Posted by lymeHerx001 (Member # 6215) on :
Wow MKP you really get into it!
Posted by daisys (Member # 11802) on :
Avocado has a lot more potassium per unit than bananas.
Bananas are known for their potassium content, because of paid advertising.
Avocados don't need a selling point. They're just plain ole good. Posted by IMHisda (Member # 6998) on :
I hardly have any problem with yeast. I think it's from 6 weeks of HBOT 2.6 ATA. It brought out babs though. It's gotten remarkably better. Maybe it's because I put garlic in everything .
Breakfast, hmm I like eating the center of the quiches at Panera bread but it's always a pain to figure out what to eat for breakfast. When I was on straight Atkins I bought their crustless quiche from their store (expensive but you don't have to make an egg, etc.).
Posted by daisys (Member # 11802) on :
These are tasty and so healthy, thought I'd post the recipe. Coconut helps keep yeastie beasties unhappy.
Coconut/almond muffins
In a large bowl, mix:
1/3 cup coconut flour 1/3 cup almond flour Sweetener of choice to match 1 cup sugar. (I use 1/3 cup xylitol in the dry mix, and 1/3 cup agave in the wet mix) 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking powder 1/3 cup cocoa nibs (optional)
In a medium bowl, mix:
4 large or 5 med. eggs (room temp.) 3/4 cup coconut oil, melted, not hot 1 tsp. vanilla 1 1/2 tsp. almond extract
In a small bowl, combine:
1 cup shredded coconut ~1/4 cup coconut milk, whatever will soften the coconut without getting runny.
Mix shredded coconut into the wet mix, and then mix that into the dry mix.
Bake 350 for 20 minutes. Makes 12 muffins. I use nonstick muffin tins (They're actually some sort of rubber)
About 300 calories, and 3 carbs each.
Posted by Tracy9 (Member # 7521) on :
I must admit I haven't followed any particular diet...but every morning I put a little crushed ice, a cup of skim milk, a tablespoon of Carnation Malted Milk and a packet of Carnation Instant Breakfast in my Magic Bullet and take my pills as I drink it. It's so delicious!!!
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