Bran pancakes

As always a week before important race I follow a carb-loading diet. The first three days are to deplete glycogen from the body, so the products must be based on protein and sufficient fat content, with the minimum amount of carbs. I usually begin this diet with bran pancakes – it’s a kind of my ritual already. They contain a […]

Groats – the source of health

The traditional Polish dinner is invariably associated with potatoes. For breakfast we most eagerly reach for bread or buns (mostly white). Meanwhile, we have a lot of healthy replacements of the common bread. One of them is rice, which you can read about in the article RICE – CALORIES, VARIETES, NUTRITIONAL VALUES Today I propose another, much healthier […]

rice – calories, varietes, nutritional values

There are several types of products that can replace bread in your everyday diet. Rice is one of them. It comes from the area of present India. From there it came to Egypt and Greece, and then to Spain and Portugal. It also gained popularity Africa. In the Middle Ages its expansion reached Italy, then France, […]

Oatmeal – breakfast of champions

Oat flakes, like groats, are slowly coming back to our tables. Runners and athletes quickly completed their menu with oatmeal, which is a lightweight but very nutritious breakfast. It delivers a dose of slowly released energy, richness of elements, and most importantly, it can be combined with many extras, creating countless variations. Thanks to this, oatmeal can never get […]

Hummus

The recipe for hummus was one of the first I met after switching to vegetarianism and from that moment, this brilliant paste has become an everyday quest to my fridge. It is a great addition to breakfast, but similarly great in a form of a healthy snack between meals or substitute for unhealthy cravings (eg. Crisps swallowed […]