>>Shakes for breakfast are my favorite things. What do you put in yours?
I generally like to put in either yogurt or milk or leben, whatever soft fruit i have in the house, like strawberries, grapes, peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, etc… bananas (preferably frozen, but non frozen is also ok), and lately i’ve also been adding wheat germ, whole sesame seeds, and flax seeds. Depending on the sweetness of the fruit i either may or may not add some sort of thing to sweeten it. It comes out delicious.<<
What’s great about shakes is that they’re so versatile, easy, and tasty! You can put just about anything in and it will turn out great! For my shake today I’ll have 1 c. raw whole milk, 1/2 c. kefir, 1 raw pastured egg, 2 bananas, and 1/2 oz coconut oil. For the kids I’ll be using bananas, milk, and peanut butter for the kids, with some coconut oil thrown in. But really it can be anything that is around the house – if I had to say a recipe, it would be milk/kefir/yogurt with fruit and some kind of fat. (Sometimes I prefer to have the coconut oil separately because when I use frozen fruit it clunks up into tiny pieces. ) I don’t add any sweetners – a ripe banana adds a good amount of sweetness.
I find that a shake is a super breakfast – it’s very filling, packed with nutrients, and especially helpful to me with a month old infant, easy to make and to drink.
Avivah
I see you like to use coconut oil. I’ve heard mixed reviews about it- either that its really healthy, or from my cardiologist relative- that its absolutely poison and coats your arteries with cholesterol. How do you decide which “shita” to follow, which “side” is more correct?
Does two hours really seem so long for a month old infant to stay asleep?
As far as objective reality of fats and their qualities – this is a purely scientific question and if you start to learn about different fats (long chain, medium chain, short chain) and the qualities of each, it becomes much clearer what the truth is. The bad rap coconut oil has gotten was politically driven and majorly benefitted the soybean industry (and I have almost nothing good to say about soybeans)- but maybe I’ll have to write a separate post about the benefits of coconut oil and why cholesterol isn’t an issue (cholesterol is anyway a red herring), and why saturated fats aren’t the evil that they’re made out to be. That will take me some time to put together, but I’ll try to get to it next week after the conference. If you want to do some initial reading yourself, here’s a good place to start: http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/index.html.
Thanks! I appreciate the link and look forward to the post.