I've been on low-carb diet for a few years and pretty much always have porridge oats for breakfast (with seeds and berries), confident in my belief that oats are a good slow-release energy food. I've never given my breakfast a second thought.
I've read a few books on sugar and last year I read the Dr Michael Mosley one. In it he writes that if you're going to have oats have the 'steel cut' kind, not the instant oats. 'Oh yes', I thought, 'I'm fine as I don't have instant porridge'. I assumed 'instant oats' refers to those little packets of oats that are microwaved - the oat so simple stuff - as I knew they contained added sweeteners and so on. I therefore assumed that the plain porridge oats I buy must be this steel-cut stuff.
I've just found out that I'm completely wrong 'Instant' oats are the kind I've been eating - bog-standard porridge. Steel-cut oats look more like chewy rice grains - nothing like the stuff I've been eating all these years. And a quick Google tells me that steel-cut oats have a lower glycemic load than the normal oats.
Oops.
Time to switch to eggs for breakfast!
Does anyone have any breakfast ideas please?
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Just realised I've been wrong about 'instant' oats- need new breakfast ideas
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FionaThePrincess · 28/07/2016 07:59
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