Pearl Chimes In: I was so torn over which twelve of my latest recipes should go in Rashida’s Trim Healthy Future book. Sounds ridiculous but I literally lost sleep over it . . . I’d wake at night mulling over which recipes have been the most blessing to my life so they could bless yours, too. Please see the Protein Note below in the Notes Area for updated protein suggestions. Super Slimming Porridge is a single-serve recipe and is found on Page 102 of Trim Healthy Future!!
Super Slimming Porridge
Description
Pearl Chimes In: I was so torn over which twelve of my latest recipes should go in Rashida's Trim Healthy Future book. Sounds ridiculous but I literally lost sleep over it . . . I’d wake at night mulling over which recipes have been the most blessing to my life so they could bless yours, too. Please see the Protein Note below in the Notes Area for updated protein suggestions. Super Slimming Porridge is a single-serve recipe and is found on Page 102 of Trim Healthy Future!!
Ingredients
Instructions
- Put all ingredients (except blueberries) in a small saucepan set to high heat, whisk well, and bring to a quick boil. Turn heat to low/medium and allow to bubble/simmer for a couple minutes, whisking much of the time. Take off the heat.
- Put blueberries into breakfast bowl and with the help of a spatula, scrape porridge into the bowl and over top of the blueberries. Allow porridge to sit on blueberries for a few minutes. As it sits it will thicken up further and thaw the blueberries. You can eat this as two layers, almost like a cobbler (as I do) or stir in if preferred.
Note
PROTEIN NOTE: Be sure to add 15-20 grams of whole food protein to this meal, or feel free to use the TH Optimized Whey Protein, Optimized Plant Protein, Pristine Whey Protein or Optimized Collagen powders to meet the suggested protein goal of 25-30 grams of protein per fueling.
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From Trim Healthy Future
Intro continued... I was actually going to call this "Weirdo Porridge" because honestly, the first time you try this, the texture might seem well . . . perhaps . . . the slightest bit weird. But wow . . . once you start digging into this, it does wonders for your life and any thoughts of weirdness fade away! It truly is delicious in my opinion . . . like a comforting hug that greets you in the morning. I do have to give credit to my friend Karen though. She’s an inspirational Trim Healthy Mama, a breast cancer survivor. After chemo she’s had to tweak her THM journey to make it work for her new hormone altered body as her former way of doing THM didn’t work as well for her new needs. She eats less fat overall now and does a lot of plant-based THM meals. We talk a lot online about our latest healthy meals and recipes. I sent her this recipe to try and it was honestly a lot weirder at the time. She tweaked it . . . added the maple extract, the chia and psyllium, all of which helped with taste and texture, so thanks to her it is now much lower on the "weirdo" scale.
The star ingredient is flax here and one of the most awesome things about this humble seed is that it retains all of its health benefits even after cooking. I used to eat a lot of flax when I first started my THM journey but then somehow, I kinda forgot about it. I recently read about its incredible fat shredding and health boosting abilities in the book “How Not to Diet” by Dr. Michael Gregor so I’ve been eating a lot more of it again. (While I think that book is fantastic, this doesn’t mean I agree with all aspects of it. He promotes avoiding animal products which is something I did for 12 whole years earlier in my life. I have no desire to fully return to that, but we can learn from everyone and I learned much from his excellent book).
This porridge is a boon to my digestion (but drink lots of water before eating it), it helps me
be super happy with my weight and I have less pain and stiffness in my body when I eat it
several times a week due to the way it reduces inflammation. Give this a go and let me know what it does for you. Oh . . . and read my notes and tweaks below the recipe.
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NOTES:
• As written this breakfast doesn’t have massive amounts of protein . . . close to 10 grams and that seems to be enough for me for breakfast sometimes in my particular season (various meals on THM will be naturally higher or lower in protein but it all balances out). As written, I usually find this filling enough and it sustains me until lunch with no blood sugar dips or highs. But you can always add a teaspoon or two of collagen to your coffee or right into the porridge if you need more protein as I sometimes feel I do depending upon the day.
• I actually prefer to grind my own flax for this. I put 2 tablespoons brown or golden flax in my coffee grinder and do a coarse grind . . . not grinding it all the way smooth. This yields 3 tablespoons of a crunchier flax meal texture and that’s how I prefer it. But to save time, using pre-ground flax is fine.
• You can use any blueberries but the little wild ones are healthiest and they take the least time to thaw. I get the huge bag of them at Walmart, Kroger, or Publix. If you don’t have blueberries, any other small berry can also work.
• I understand putting these ingredients together in the morning takes a few minutes. It is a good idea to take 15 minutes on a weekend to take all ingredients out and fill small Ziploc baggies with the dry ingredients so you have single serve amounts already made up. Then all you have to do is dump into your saucepan and add liquid. Or take with you to work and cook in a microwave (just don’t tell Serene). I am so excited about this recipe though that hopefully at some time in the future we can manufacture it so Drive Thru Sue’s like me can just buy it pre-mixed in packets rather than having to put it together ourselves.
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Pearl's PPP Story~
I also make a fantastic E porridge in a similar way to this. I call it PPP which stands for Perfect Poop Porridge, but you can certainly call it something else if you hate that name. But it does do fantastic things for your bowels and your waistline!
In a small saucepan, put 2 tablespoons quick-cook steel cut oats, 4 tablespoons old fashioned rolled oats, 1 slightly rounded teaspoon each of Whole Husk Psyllium Husks and ground flax, 2 doonks Pure Stevia Extract Powder (plus more sweetener of choice, if you like things sweeter), 2 pinches Mineral Salt, and 2 cups water (or try 11/2 cups if you prefer less goopy texture and don’t need to eat as big a bowl full). Bring to a quick boil and then turn down a little to let boil vigorously for another 5 minutes, stirring several times. Take off heat and stir well with a fork for about 30 seconds (it will look goopy, but don’t worry, that will go away). Pour over bowl of frozen wild blueberries in the same manner as directions for S porridge. Cover bowl and then let sit for about 15 minutes to set into a cobbler-type breakfast before eating. (Note: If you don’t have the quick cook steel cut oats, just use a full half cup old fashioned rolled oats).
