Re: Brown rice in recipes calling for white... & common sense cooking with PCOS
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:00:38 -0500 (CDT)
Jodi
I found out I have PCOS last June. I was advised to go on Metformin,
but I decided to try a few months of eating really really healthy before
we did that. I had tried low-carbing previously, and didn't feel it was
the best option even though I had lost weight. Anyway, since June, I
have been eating whole grains ONLY, and lots and lots of fruits and
vegetables, regardless of glycemic index, and stayed away from anything
processed. The health food store has been my best friend. Since June,
I have lost 42 pounds, and feel incredible. I have not been eating low
calorie at all, and generally my only rule is nothing processed,
strictly natural. I had my labs redone, and EVERYTHING improved
drastically. My doctor could not believe the results. I still show
some insulin resistance, so I am going to start the Metformin, but I
have already seen that eating very very healthy is doing way more than
any diet ever did. Just wanted to share my story and say I am with you!
Diets do not work, even low-carb, the key is eating really really
healthy and NOTHING that contains chemicals or has been chemically
processed.
I went off the caffeine also, and though it was hard, I did have a drink
of Diet Coke the other day at a baseball game (forgot my water) and it
tasted really really gross to me, almost caustic. I took that as a good
sign, because it really really is a horrible thing for your body!
In answer to your question, you can substitute brown rice for white in
just about any recipe, it usually just needs to cook a tad longer, but I
am sure that it will turn out great. A great source I have found is the
Cooking Light Books (magazine also). When it calls for vegetable spray
and other things like that I substitute natural organic butter. Rather
have the fat than the chemicals! Anyway, their recipes are geared toward
healthy eating with a lot of flavor, and I have made about 25 of them,
and they have all been great!
Hope you were able to get some insight by my story :-)
At Mon, 14 Oct 2002, anonymous wrote:
>
>OK, this is only peripherally related to PCOS... but some of you might
>know the answer so I'm asking. :-)
>
>I have this THEORY - and maybe if I could just get off the caffeine for
>more than 2 weeks at a time, I could actually test it - that a lot of
>our problems, as well as a lot of the problems of other Americans (with
>regard to our being the fattest nation on the planet) don't have to do
>with our eating carbs, or fat, but rather, bad types of both. Everything
>we eat is refined, or altered, or full of weird ingredients... unless
>you cook most things yourself ... and I think that THAT is our problem.
>So, just so no one says, you shouldn't be eating carbs anyway, Jodi...
>I'm just making clear that THAT is my theory. :-)
>
>Having little else to do now that we've moved besides be the best
>housewife in the world (not so easy since we need to buy a new
>sweeper... but other than that I've been doing very well, thank you) I
>have been cooking up some good, wholesome, healthy dinners. Tonight I
>want to make porcupines. In case you haven't eaten these, they are
>meatballs with rice in them cooked in a tomato sauce, usually a
>tomato-soup based sauce. Using lean ground meat is easy, using tomato
>sauce in place of corn-syrup filled tomato soup is easy... but what if
>I used brown rice instead of white? I have only ever made these with
>white rice, as every recipe I have ever seen for these calls for white
>rice.
>I have always wanted to use brown, but never wanted to find out until
>dinner is ready that this was a very bad idea.
>
>So... since these things cook for over an hour, which is long enoough
>to cook brown rice... it seems it should work fine. So, any bets on
>whether or not this will work? Also, anyone interested in a little
>common sense recipe exchange? It's easy to find low-carb cooking web
>sites... but I am not interested in low-carb cooking. I don't think
>it's natural. It's easy to find diet recipe web sites... but I don't
>think most of those are so great either. And then it's easy to find all
>vegetarian web sites, which use natural ingredients... but it seems
>like people who willingly eat meat are not interested in eating brown
>rice... and people who willingly eat brown rice do not willingly eat
>meat. I think I am healthier as a meat eater, so don't want to just eat
>a vegetarian diet again. What I'd like to do is find out what sort of
>back to basics, real-life-ingredients recipes other cysters find to be
>good from a PCOS standpoint, food that can actually be put on the table
>and willingly consumed by a husband who thinks Hamburger Helper is
>actually good eatin'. (And OK, I admit myself that some of the flavors
>aren't that bad... but I'd rather cook something up myself, something
>similar, but minus all those weird ingredients!!!!!!!) So, good recipes
>ladies? What about a PCOS cookbook to raise funds for PCOSA? (I've
>really got some time on my hands here, heh... and I know I'm not the
>only one finding this eating thing to be a puzzle!)
>
>- jodi
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