Kevin's Watch

... mmm what are "hemp hearts"

I believe this is a retailer of nutritional products, so take some of what they say with a grain of salt. But, as a substitute for bulghur, I'm happy with it.

About hemp hearts

Wow who knew .. so many uses for hemp

Pretty much a god send this plant

Breakfast scrambled eggs on toast .. changing it up from my vitabrits lol

Hemp hearts in pancakes are the bomb, yo.

Nutritional benefits of hemp seed are well known. Personally, I usually eat any seeds (we call them pips though) I find, although these days, since legalisation, I save the ones from strains I'd like to try and grow.

--A

Aye and you would

Im a seeds and nuts fan myself ...

Did a water fast yesterday and am attempting to carry through today to kick me back in to ketosis after the holiday splurging. I'll break my fast tomorrow morning with my cuppa with cream and stevia.

What comprises a water fast? Just water? Nothing solid?

Just 24hrs I take it?

Just water. Not even any tea or coffee.

I did it for three days, and tried to slowly reintroduce clean keto. Had no problem with starting solids again, but even clean keto didn't keep me from gaining weight back. I've just been way too sedentary the past couple if years, and it's catching up to me.

Walking is good activity so long as your joints are good

Hamberder for breaky

No one is eating breakfast anymore LOL

My wife and I have mixed fruit (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, banana, and mango) with yogurt and granola. It sounds like a lot but its really a single bowl.

Weekends we have at least one day that we have bacon (or goetta), with eggs, and a multigrain English muffin.

We would love to have bread with everything and every meal but as we have aged we find that we cant exercise off all THOSE calories.

This morning, I had a ham and american cheese omelette and a cup of fruit. (grapes and cantaloupe)

Cutting down in general on bread and potatoes.

Homemade café con leche with my various powders, to be followed by breakfast pills.

I’m working on finding a substitute for pastina, as I can’t find individual boxes locally. Oh, I can order online at the ridiculous price of $4/box, or get a 16-count case which averages $2/box via amazon. But I don’t have the room to store a 16-count case, nor do I crave it often enough to justify finding room for such.

I’ve tried other small shapes, such as orzo, stelline, and acini di pepe, but none of them cook up satisfactorily. The taste is reminiscent, but the stelline was slurpy and the others were just off in the porridge texture I’m looking for.

I’ll keep looking for a local vendor which carries pastina, but in the meantime will continue to experiment with alternatives.

I know the East Coast brand Ronzoni discontinued making it, but I haven’t seen Ronzoni since moving out here. Barilla is plentiful in other shapes, and I know they still manufacture pastina, but I haven’t seen it locally in several years. I also know there are Italian brands that make it, but I haven’t seen those anywhere either, and I haven’t sourced an Eastside Italian market/deli to look there.

The search continues.