0 Plant-Based Diets are Powerful!

When you have some time, these are two awesome videos, well worth the time, from Dr Greger, a physician who gets to the bottom of nutrition research, and with some humor, makes the amazing-ness of a plant-based diet super-clear!

Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death

This video focuses on studies published no earlier than 2012 in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals. "Dr Greger offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse many of the top 15 killers in the United States."

Here he shares the report that eating the amount of FIBER in just one cup of oatmeal per day, decreases our risk of death by as much as running four hours per week!

Here is an summary of the second video: "Dr Greger has scoured the world's scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and this brand new live presentation on the latest in cutting-edge research on how a healthy diet can affect some of our most common medical conditions."

More than an Apple a Day: Combating Common Diseases

This is another post about Dr Greger and his awesome videos (he's made hundreds!).  These two video links are each around an hour, while most of his videos are only a few minutes long.

Now you want a way to get lots of veggies?  Try this!

Rainbow Veggie Lasagna

This is Raise the Roof Sweet Potato Lasagna from the Engine 2 Diet!

Check out 5 Reasons to Make Your Meat Portions Small!

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0 Nearly as FAST as Quick Oats!

Oats (oatmeal, rolled oats, Old-Fashioned oats) are a 100% whole grain -- NO added ingredients!

They're FAST and they are CHEAPER and HEALTHIER than flavored, quick oats!

Oatmeal is high in fiber, protein, and healthy carbs to give you energy that will last all morning! Oats also contain iron and zinc, without cholesterol or saturated fat, and provide folate, niacin, thiamin, vitamin B6, riboflavin, and vitamin A.

Plain rolled oats are almost as easy as pouring a bowl of cereal!  Simply pour some oats into a large glass bowl and cover oats with water.  One cup of oats will cook in the microwave to a perfectly moist fluff in 3-4 minutes!

Eat it right away or try it with some added flavor!

Try Yummy Flavored Oatmeal! or Chocolate Oatmeal (or Peanut Butter Oatmeal if you omit cocoa!..PB Oatmeal is what we have most often!) or Hearty Oatmeal Combos!

If you're still reading this AND you don't enjoy hot cereal, you might try Creamy Refreshing Carrot Soup OR Chocolate Raspberry Kiss Muffins!

Creamy, Refreshing, Tangy Carrot Soup

Chocolate Raspberry Kiss Muffins

WHY Old-Fashioned oats? Well, they mainly have the same nutritional value. However, the more you process, in this case cut up, and partially cook (the "instant" ones in packets), the more nutrients are potentially destroyed (through oxidation, for example). Plus, flavored instant oatmeals contain unhealthy ingredients, especially refined sugars, added, decreasing the nutrient density of the food.

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0 Grains Galore -- Grab Something New Now!

Looking for healthy GRAINS?

There are SO very many delicious options!

Bran, buckwheat, whole wheat orzo, Barilla Plus pasta, whole wheat couscous,
quinoa, wild rice, rye flakes, farro  grain, wheat germ, Mama Mary's whole wheat pizza crust.

If you take a chance at stepping away from Wonder Bread and regular, white pasta and rice,

there is SO much available!!

READ here about WHAT to LOOK for on BREAD LABELS!

Here are posts including these some of GREAT GRAIN options!

Fabulous Flavored Oatmeal

Chocolate Oatmeal

Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal (omit chocolate from recipe)

Thomas Bagel Thins

Boboli Whole Wheat Pizza Crust

Mama Mary's Whole Wheat Pizza Crust

Multi-Grain Flatout Roll-ups

Food for Life Ezekiel 4:9 Cinnamon Raisin Bread (any Ezekiel bread is awesome!)

Food Should Taste Good Multigrain Tortilla Chips

Barilla Plus Pasta

DeBoles Jerusalem Artichoke Pasta

Shiratake Miracle Noodles

Better Baking Breadcrumbs can be added to any dish!

Gluten-Free Grains (click on link for many gluten-free grains)

NUTRITIOUS and GLUTEN-FREE GRAINS: amaranth, buckwheat, quinoa, and teff

Great Grains are great for energy -- read more on EATING for ENERGY!

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0 YUMMY Flavored Oatmeal! -- try MINT CHOCOLATE!

Love those packets of INSTANT OATMEAL with all the yummy FLAVORS?

Here is a way to have them, and AVOID sugar or artificial sweetener!

Ahead of time, you can prepare any LARABALL flavor, but leave as a crumble, instead of shaping into balls.

We have been especially enjoying MINT CHOCOLATE OATMEAL!

2-3 Tbsp chia seeds

1 c or so of rolled oats (Old Fashioned Quaker Oats are great!)

1/4 c or so of Laraball SKINNY MINT crumble

In a large microwaveable, glass bowl, combine all ingredients and cover in water.  Cook in microwave for 4 min or so.  Stir up and enjoy!

WHAT DO YOU THINK?  Do you enjoy your oatmeal plain or sweetened?  Do you do it yourself, or packaged?  What crazy flavor can you imagine?:

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