so what is everybody eating for breakfast these days?

I like having a peanut butter and bacon sandwich ... or a scrambled egg with some turkey sausage ... or a smoothie with almond milk, fresh fruit, a dollop of wild honey and bulgarian yogurt.

My Pumpkin Protein Pancakes:

4 egg whites
1 cup of oats
1/2 cup of organic pumpkin (farmers market brand)

Blend, pan fry, enjoy! :)

Here you go i_love_coffee, copied directly out of my UC recipe book haha:

Ingredients
- 2 and a 1/2 cup of ground nuts (eg. almonds)
- 1/4 cup melted no lactose butter (or home made yoghurt)
- 1 cup of runny honey (1/2 cup hot water + 1/2 cup of honey)
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon of sea salt
- 3 eggs (if you can't eat eggs then pureed fruit can be substituted)
- Blueberries
- [OPTIONAL] 4 table spoons of shredded coconut

Method
a) Put the everything except blueberries into a blender
b) Add some blueberries and mix with a spoon
c) Spoon the mixture into tin lined with paper cases (or non-stick muffin tin)
d) Optional - sprinkle some sunflower seeds on top of each muffin
e) Bake at 190 degrees for 15 to 20 mins

Enjoy!

Good thread.

I mix it up but currently 2-3 scrambled/poached eggs on gluten free toast with side of avocado.

I had been having Pumpkin egg panckaes with avocado. Sometimes omelettes with a little chicken or organice sausage.

Two big questions.

1. Why are people who are eating eggs for breakfast avoiding the egg yolks from the eggs? The yolks have great nutrition? I would have thought UCers need all the easy to digest 'good' nutrition we can get and egg yolks are big bang for buck imo.

2. It seems like a lot of people eat something and drink something at breakfast together. Just my 2 cents but I never drink with a meal. I always have my liquids half hour before or hour after eating. Diluting your stomach acids and enzymes with a glass of juice/coffe/water/milk while it's trying to breakdown food you've just eaten isn't a good idea. It puts stress on your digestive system that you don't need and easily avoid. You don't have to avoid the drink but just have it separately.

Curious to hear what others think on these points.

I understand that egg yolks and cholestral health issues have historically been linked - i  believe incorectly  There is a huge amount of material that debunks the egg cholesterol myth. Yes we should avoid Trans-fats and hydrogenated fats. Egg yolks on the other hand are excellent nutrient dense foods.

Old Hat - maybe you missed my point. Yes you need to rehydrate. It's the 'combining' that I was trying to raise. That is why not rehydarate then 30 minutes later eat solids? You'll be doing your gut more favours than having all those solids & liquids slushing around at the same time diluting your gisetive acids and enzymes. Or is it a time factor?  not enough tiemine th morning to split it up liek that? I do like the sound of your breakfast though. Oats and blueberries especially.

Post Edited (Jimbo NZ) : 8/12/2012 5:58:40 PM (GMT-6)

There's no truth to the egg yolk/cholesterol from much research...it's an easy obvious for telling people to avoid eating them.

An egg supports a living being from it...can't get more perfect than that regarding the nutrients from them. My breakfast has sustained me for 7 hours...Can't do a day without them.

I drink coffee with/after breakfast...no time to not do so and wait later. My enzymes will just have to work harder..lol.

q

JSE that sounds delicious. I can vouch for Banana+mango+coconut milk smoothies too. Heavenly.

Another good one is a little water/coconut water/coconut milk and banana + a couple of juicy medjool dates. Like Banana caramel.

I'm surprised anyone with a GI disorder can tolerate grains - they're probably the foods most likely to cause GI distress. I've not eaten them for pushing a decade. Main reasons for going grain-free

1. Weight loss (grains are the number 1 cause of obesity)
2. Heart health (all those diseases blamed on dietary fat...? It's not guilty! Carbs - and particularly grains - are the number 1 cause of CHD, stroke, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, dementia - if it gets blamed on fat, it's caused by carbs!)
3. General health. Humans only began cultivating grains 10k years ago (same with legumes) - our bodies haven't evolved to digest them... CD may be an extreme reaction to wheat gluten but EVERYONE is grain-intolerant to a greater or lesser degree. Without being too unkind, do you have a bloated belly even when the UC isn't flaring...? It's known as 'wheat belly' for a reason; a NYC-based cardiologist (William Davis) wrote a book about it.

I'll NEVER eat grains again! I'd sooner eat my own arm!

If anyone wants more info, Mark Sisson has some excellent articles on his blog (marksdailyapple.com - search for 'grains', 'lectins' and 'antinutrients').

As for what I eat for brekkie - eggs scrambled with EVCO and a banana (sometimes - I need to limit my carb intake). Every single day. Creature of habit, me!

"General health. Humans only began cultivating grains 10k years ago (same with legumes)"

Man! 10,000 years is LOOONG TIME, thats wayyyyyyyyyy past egyptian times... (i.e pyramids were created circa 2600 B.C. )

2600+ our year 2012 ...thats like close to 5,000 years. So double that...lol only 10,000. It had time enough to evolve.

Hey Christine, I'm gonna say something in polish...

I'll write it phonetically: Yak-Shi-Mash :D

Jimbo-- I don't have anything "sloshing around" when or after I eat meals which are liquid/solid combos. Nothing feels uncomfortable. My diet works fine for me, and my vital signs & bloods test well. I don't have gluten issues. High cholesterol causing major health problems as one ages is not a myth; it contributes to build-up of plaque in the arteries that can eventually clog them, causing heart attacks or stroke. Even Dr. Oz, a very popular heart surgeon in the U.S., says that people should limit whole egg consumption! Right now it's fashionable to blame a lot of digestive problems on gluten & weight-related ills on carbs. My feeling is that food-processing is the real problem in most instances because it can expose us to chemical stabilizers & preservatives, dyes, artificial sweeteners, excess salt, & saturated fats-- not to mention the antibiotics & pesticides that creep into the food chain. IMHO those are the culprits that contribute to chronic illness. / Old Hat (31 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)

I drink fluids when I eat b/c my mouth gets dry and I get thirsty. And I drink PLENTY of water throughout the day.

Old hat, i'm not suggesting cholesterol isn't a problem. I'm suggesting the link between eggs and bad cholesterol has been overstated and that the choelsterol in eggs is actually 'good' for you and not of the 'plaque' forming cholesterol which is a problem. That was my point.

Also I'm not suggesting you can hear a slushing sound but are you seriously disputing that drinking liquids with meals *does not* dilute gastric digestive juices? Again that was my point and whether or not you're in good health (and it's great that you are) is not really a valid case for something being correct or incorrect. My point was that people may actually *improve* the load on their digestive systems by implementing good food and liquid combining techniques.

I completely agree with you about processed foods and additivies and antibiotics added to foods being a big problem and contributing factor to digestive health disorders.