No wonder whole grains help you to lose weight.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I just cooked and ate a bowl of whole wheat for breakfast. (Well, actually, I’m still eating it.) I found the stuff in a bulk food store, and since I heard you can eat it as a hot cereal, I decided I’d try it. I’m talking entire wheat berries - not just whole wheat cereal - the grains as they come from a stalk of wheat. This kind of food is so different from regular cereal, I just had to share. I now know why it helps you to lose weight.

  1. This stuff takes forever to eat!!! It’s good tasting - I love whole wheat products - but requires minutes of chewing per mouthful. Very effort-intensive.
  2. It’s very filling. Even though I am (still!!) eating only about 3/4 cup of the stuff, it feels as though I have eaten about 10 lbs. I don’t think I’ll eat for the rest of the day.

If you try it - seriously, it’s no wonder this type of stuff is recommended for weight loss, plus it’s a really intense experience - please be cautioned that it takes about 1/2 hour to cook it. It’s cooked pretty much like brown rice.

That is all.

2

The human bodies they pull out of bogs in Denmark? That were human sacrifices? They have the same stuff in their stomachs.

Maybe it made a good request for a last meal–biding time. Took forever to eat.

3

You might want to go easy on that stuff at first; too much of that sort of stuff gives me awful gas. I’d have to work up to eating more than a few bites at a time.

4

Man, if you think it takes a long time to eat, you just wait.

5

If it’s taking you that much effort to eat it, you haven’t cooked it enough.

You can also cook it as a non-breakfast dish–see my first post in this thread for directions on making braised farro.