• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    Aren’t oats supposed to be pretty good too? Although they are fairly high in carbs. Far cheaper than legumes, can get a kg of dry oats for about £0.50 while a similar amount of chickpeas is around 4 times that price.

    Problem is if I simmer some oats in water and a pinch of salt then add some fruit my partner says it isn’t a proper dinner.

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      8 hours ago

      Yeah, leafy greens and legumes are good because there’s a bunch of extra vitamins.

      Oatmeal (especially fortified) has a bunch of other stuff tho.

      Like, don’t literally only eat a few things. Anything high in fiber keeps you full for a long time.

      Especially for the dudes, eating fiber is a very easy preventative measure for colo-rectal cancer. And it’s hard to look at the correlation between modern low fiber high processed food diets and the skyrocketing rates of colo-rectal cancer and say there’s zero correlation.

      But convincing people to eat fiber gets a weird amount of opposition

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        7 hours ago

        I usually get rolled oats. Not sure if oatmeal is an American thing, I don’t think it’s common here? I have never heard of it anyway.

        Here you usually get plain rolled oats or ultra processed instant porridge in various forms of packaging.

        • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
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          6 hours ago

          Oats are very much a thing in the US. Quite common. Stores sell rolled oats, steel cut oats and sugary packaged oats. The trick is buying the rolled/steel cut and not the packaged sugar garbage.

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      6 hours ago

      greek yogurt mixed with uncooked oats is good. it’s chewy. and the carbs in the oats helps to feed the probiotics in the yogurt–good for gut health

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      8 hours ago

      My eyes are bad and I read that cats are pretty good. And I surmised that they are high in carbs. because of what the mice they caught had eaten.