Why You Should Swap Your Oatmeal for NoOatmeal
Before I knew anything about Paleo, I’d often make up Oatmeal for breakfast. Especially in the winter, I felt it was the epitome of healthy breakfasts. Now however, I’ve gained a much better understanding about nutrition, so I thought I’d share my reasons for complete avoidance of Oatmeal.
There is something comforting about Oatmeal, particularly on a cold morning. However, NoOatmeal is a far better alternative. NoOatmeal is made using raw nuts & pepitas which you grind in your blender. You then lightly toast the nuts in a saucepan, with some cinnamon. Then you add coconut milk and an egg and stir until ready. How easy is that? Like Oatmeal, it is warm, but unlike Oatmeal I find it far more filling – and I know the ingredients are far better for me. The smell when the nuts are toasting is fantastic! I also like the fact that alone and unprepared I could eat & enjoy the individual ingredients in Noatmeal. Have you ever tried eating raw, unprepared Oats? Not so nice.
So, what’s not great about Oats?
When you eat Oats, they breakdown to glucose which causes an insulin spike in your blood – if you test your blood glucose an hour after eating Oatmeal, you’ll see a big increase (perhaps as high as 140). Regularly allowing your blood sugar levels to increase like is very damaging to your body (and can also lead to conditions like diabetes). Also soon after the spike in blood sugars, there will be a crash – which is the reason you’ll be hungry soon after eating Oatmeal. Nuts and eggs will keep your blood sugar levels constant, which is a far healthier state.
As well as the sugar issues, Oats contain high levels of lectins and phytic acid which are components that can cause intestinal imbalances and block nutrient absorption. Oats also have a high Omega 6 ratio, which in itself is very damaging. Some brands of Oatmeal also contain traces of gluten grains, which are very intolerable to a lot of people.
Whilst you can reduce the lectin and phytic acid content of oats by fermenting them – why not just make yourself some NoOatmeal instead? I tend to have NoOatmeal perhaps once a week, having saved myself time by preparing the ingredients the night before. Other typical breakfasts are scrambled eggs, omelettes, bacon and eggs – and often just last night’s dinner leftovers! Who said breakfast has to be traditional?
Have you tried NoOatmeal? Do you still eat Oatmeal? Add your comment below
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Glad the noatmeal worked for you 🙂
Thanks Erika! Itching to try your coconut butter recipe next!
I love the NoOatmeal. It keeps me feeling full much longer AND I don’t miss the cornflakes that were a staple part of my diet before Paleo.com.au converted my thinking about the food I eat. Thank you!
I am going to cook up another batch now 🙂
I would be interested in the types of nuts you used in this recipe ☺
This is great, I am always on the lookout for a substitute for oatmeal.
But don’t nuts contain photic acid too?
Yes, nuts do contain phytic acid also, and I have read that it is necessary to soak them. http://www.azurestandard.com/blog/2012/9/6/soak-or-not-soak-its-no-question-soak
When I have oatmeal or rather porridge, I am full for a whole 5 hours, while after bacon and eggs I quickly get hungry again. Plus, nuts give me – and many other people – really bad indigestion. Each to their own, I suppose. There’s just no one size fits all solution.
What about Nairn’s gluten free oatcakes?
Hi Esther, definitely better than many other oats, but they are still essentially oats, which meats they contain high levels of lectins and phytic acid.
This sounds delicious!! can someone point me in the direction of the recipe please 🙂
Erika, you recommend bacon but bacon is on the list of carcinogens!
Isn’t oats slow energy release food? I have eaten oats for many years and havd found they give me good energy during the day unlike wheat products which tend to bloat