What I ate today

[andyswarbs]

Breakfast: oats, water, banana, ground flax seed, turmeric & black pepper. Also B12 tablet.

Lunch: juiced 1 & 1/2 cucumber & whole celery, raspberries, blackcurrants

Dinner: sag-dhal 2 chapatti, a little rice, pakora and salad.

[benwl]

Hi Andy, that sounds lovely.

One question - do you put ground turmeric or from the root in your oats and how much? Although I put it in stews and curries I don't really like its taste in oats or porridge, maybe I'm adding too much.

[andyswarbs in reply to benwl]

I use a heaped teaspoon of powdered turmeric. My mouth often needs a wash afterwards to remove the yellow lipstick look!

[Praveen55 Star in reply to andyswarbs]

That much turmeric is enough for a curry made to feed 10 people, i guess. How does your breakfast taste?

[andyswarbs in reply to Praveen55]

The taste that comes through is the black pepper.

Am I consuming too much? Mostly the concern of people eating too much turmeric is when they have it in capsule form. food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/5.... I tried turmeric capsules for a short time but inline with my wholefood approach decided it was healthier to consume as part of a normal meal.

I always, always have turmeric with food and I never have feelings of upset stomach etc.

[Praveen55 Star in reply to andyswarbs]

My comments are based entirely on my personal experience of its taste. It may be beneficial for health - I do not know. I will read through the link you have attached.

I remember I added little too much T/P in my chicken curry once and I could not eat it because of its somewhat bitter taste. I have heard T/P has many beneficial effects on health but was not sure of the quantity. I hope you take my comments in good spirit. I am not against Vegan or any diet in particular. I am an experimentalist and like to try whatever appears good before making any opinion.

[andyswarbs in reply to Praveen55]

My tolerance to T/P has grown over the last two years, no doubt.

Equally if ever I come on too strong, then I apologise. My enthusiasm to research leads me to try to discuss with people who do not wholly agree. Those challenges are very important to me. If I always discuss with people who agree with me 100% or nearly then I just feel like a fool who likes to hear what he thinks is right. Science only ever improves by being challenged.

[Praveen55 Star in reply to andyswarbs]

I do like your approach. Thanks for your understanding.

[Zest]

Hi Andy,

Your meals sound delicious.

Zest

[andyswarbs]

Yep, the purpose of juice is exactly to remove fibre, which is useful if your body needs concentrated nutrition and/or finds fibre difficult.

I know this is not a normal part of discussion on this or indeed any forum, but in the place we are renting the toilet has a bit of trouble flushing all my fibre away as it is. I won't share a picture since that's rather distasteful. But I don't have a problem with eating enough fibre, that's for sure.

[benwl]

Do you have any evidence that 1 teaspoon of turmeric is too much?

Could you also explain the process by which it "rots" the gut.

[benwl]

It's conventional for the person making the claim to be willing to provide some sort of source or evidence for their claim.

In the absense of that it's hard to avoid the suspicion that someone is "making s**t up"

[andyswarbs]

Sorry I forgot this morning. If you want to see a picture of me with a cup of green tea taken in France last summer, here you go... drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx...

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to andyswarbs]

That's a great picture with the tea, andyswarbs . Thank you for sharing it with everyone.

[andyswarbs in reply to andyswarbs]

Okay here is my yellow porridge drive.google.com/file/d/1Dd...

PS at the end of my holiday last year I met a man who also has yellow porridge each and every day. He has been successfully fighting leukaemia with diet for the last six years.

[andyswarbs]

nope. I have thought I consume enough turmeric so haven't looked at getting any more inside me

[andyswarbs]

I prefer to have oats regularly because they provide steady & slow energy release through the morning, as well as cleaning the gut.

[xOceanx in reply to andyswarbs]

We both have oats for bekkie🤗 to, with seeds & fruit🍓🍒, right im off for the afternoon to go buy 250kg of sand🌞🏝