Peanut butter on rice cakes?

ncmc

I think I saw in a thread yesterday about this being a good breakfast (can't find the thread now). I'm looking to replace my porridge as I feel it is leaving me feel very full and stodgy. Would the PB and rice cakes be a good alternative? I would have thought PB was full of fat and sugar. I don't really like cereal or muesli so finding it hard to hit on a healthy alternative.

ApeXaviour

Peanut butter on rice cakes are definitely not a good breakfast, by any stretch. Rice cakes are pretty much refined simple starch. Peanut butter is sugary crap. Nuts are good, but peanuts aren't nuts, they're legumes. They contain too much omega 6 fat, lectin anti-nutrients, and phytates (which bind to important minerals like calcium, magnesium, zinc etc and prevent you from assimilating them).

Have you tried eggs? They are probably the healthiest food that is traditionally served for breakfast. There are many ways to prepare: baked, hard boiled, soft boiled, fried, coddled, scrambled, deviled, microwaved, poached, not to mention the near infinite variety of omelets.

Transform

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Peanut butter on rice cakes are definitely not a good breakfast, by any stretch. Rice cakes are pretty much refined simple starch. Peanut butter is sugary crap. Nuts are good, but peanuts aren't nuts, they're legumes. They contain too much omega 6 fat, lectin anti-nutrients, and phytates (which bind to important minerals like calcium, magnesium, zinc etc and prevent you from assimilating them).

Have you tried eggs? They are probably the healthiest food that is traditionally served for breakfast. There are many ways to prepare: baked, hard boiled, soft boiled, fried, coddled, scrambled, deviled, microwaved, poached, not to mention the near infinite variety of omelets.

Oh please - keep it simple and stop the drama.

Natural peanut butter from the health food shops is grand (no massive amounts mind) put it on ryvita with the oats and seeds or good old oatcakes.

2 is enough for most women and 3-4 for blokes

CerebralCortex

ApeXaviour wrote: »

Peanut butter on rice cakes are definitely not a good breakfast, by any stretch. Rice cakes are pretty much refined simple starch. Peanut butter is sugary crap. Nuts are good, but peanuts aren't nuts, they're legumes. They contain too much omega 6 fat, lectin anti-nutrients, and phytates (which bind to important minerals like calcium, magnesium, zinc etc and prevent you from assimilating them).

Have you tried eggs? They are probably the healthiest food that is traditionally served for breakfast. There are many ways to prepare: baked, hard boiled, soft boiled, fried, coddled, scrambled, deviled, microwaved, poached, not to mention the near infinite variety of omelets.

Jesus what peanut butter do you eat?

ApeXaviour

Transform wrote: »

Oh please - keep it simple and stop the drama.

Respectfully, I'm not a huge fan of woolly buzzwords. I'll be as simple as necessary.

Transform wrote: »

Natural peanut butter from the health food shops is grand

Yes, peanut butter of the unprocessed variety >> than the supermarket trans fat sugar goo I was referring to. Still though, peanuts contain a good few anti-nutrients. I'm not demonising them, sure like, eat them if you like them, but don't think that they're good for you.
There is also good evidence to suggest that a diet heavy in peanut based products is heavily artherogenic (causes heart disease) http://www.springerlink.com/content/rl22685092608856/fulltext.pdf

Jesus what peanut butter do you eat?

Heh, I think the point is that I don't.

Supercell

Transform wrote: »

Oh please - keep it simple and stop the drama.

Natural peanut butter from the health food shops is grand (no massive amounts mind) put it on ryvita with the oats and seeds or good old oatcakes.

2 is enough for most women and 3-4 for blokes

In fairness where are the (high gi) ricecakes in your post Transform?

Transform

Supercell wrote: »

In fairness where are the (high gi) ricecakes in your post Transform?

I gave options for the high GI rice cakes as i thought ape covered that well enough in his post.

Yes rice cakes as not a great option but fine before and after exercise only (i presonally love the dark choc covered ones before training (i have 1 or 2) as they work really well for me)