Tuna Curry

Ingredients:

1 cup of green split peas

1 cup of Doongara brown rice

2 chopped onions

1x400gms of tuna in spring water (drained)

2 tsp of Keen’s curry powder

1 can of coconut cream

1 1/2 cups of frozen mixed vegetables

Method:

1 Put one cup of green split peas in a saucepan of water, then add one cup of brown rice in same saucepan and heat until grains are cooked.

2 Add the chopped onions to a frying pan then add the drained tuna when onions are partly cooked then add the coconut cream and the mixed veggies.

3 Then once the tuna mixture is cooked drain the green split peas and rice then add to the tuna mixture and combine the ingredients well. Enjoy!

Easy Banana, Date Loaf

Ingredients:

2 cups of oat flour

1 cup of flaxseed meal

2 tsp of boiling water

2 tsp of bicarb soda

2 tsp cinnamon

1 cup of golden syrup

4 mashed bananas

2 cups of pitted Medjool dates (chopped then soaked in hot water for ten minutes)

1/4 cup of kefir or Greek yoghurt

Method:

1 Mash the four bananas in a bowl and chop the Medjool dates before soaking these dates in hot water then add the oat four and flaxseed meal to the bowl of mashed bananas then combine the flour and meal with the mashed bananas.

2 Add the cinnamon and kefir or Greek yoghurt to the banana/flour mixture then mix well.

3 Then put the golden syrup and dates in a saucepan and heat through until golden syrup and dates are combined well and the mixture is bubbling. Then turn the heat on the stove off, and transfer the mixture to the banana/ flour mixture and mix well.

4 Next add the bicarb/ water and mix again and you can either make the mixture into muffins and, put the mixture into a loaf tin that is lined with paper.

5 Put loaf or muffins in a oven that is on 180 degrees and cook for thirty minutes.

Benefits of Eating Rolled Oats

Rolled oats or Avena Sativa is a whole-grain, cereal, that is mainly grown in North America and Europe. As the grain is a source of fiber (fibre), protein, vitamins, and minerals, and it’s an especially good source of beta-glucan.

Beta-glucan is a soluble fiber (fibre) that is in cereal grains, yeast, and certain mushrooms.

However, it cannot be digested but can slow the transit of food down that is in the intestines.

As nutrients like carbohydrates are absorbed by the body more slowly and so, this does not only steadies, the blood sugar in the body:

As another thing that beta-glucan can do is that it can also lower the level of cholesterol too, and it does this by removing it.

Also, rolled oats are the only food source that has avenanthramides which is a group of antioxidants that is believed can protect a body from heart disease.

There are three kinds of starches that are found in rolled oats and they are called:

Rapidly digestible starch, and slowly digestible starch, and there is also resistant starch in rolled oats too.

Then some other foods that have rapidly digestible starch are:

Cooked potatoes and bread and that is because a body can rapidly convert this type of starch into glucose which a body uses or may store.

Next, is the slowly digestible starch which the body can break down slowly and this form of starch is in cereal grains.

Then there is resistant starch which is similar to dietary fiber (fibre) in the way it can pass through a digestive system untouched.