My best carb combo

Happy fruitsandveggiesmonday everyone, with @lenasveganliving and @plantstoplanks. I was watching a interesting documentary about carbs on BBC called the truth about cars, turns out its just carbon hydrogen and oxygen that is making me fat, damn you elements! Well I must say I am quite disappointed, I always thought rice was really healthy, only to find out that a bowl of rice has nearly as much sugar as a chocolate muffin, so much time waisted on rice when I could of been eating muffins, oh well, what can you do? It turns out that there is an easy test to take which will determine how well you can digest carbs, what happens is you take an unsalted plain cracker and chew until it starts tasting sweet. Over 30 seconds and you should stay away from bad carbs, some people start to taste a sweetness after 15 seconds, these people can digest carbs well, some people don't even taste a sweetness in the cracker, like me, l have never had a sweat cracker in my life.

There are 3 main types of carbs.

White, which is food containing refined sugar for eg. Sweets and fizzy drinks

Beige, which is starches like white bread, rice and pasta

Green, which is fibre like fruit, vegetables and wholemeal whole grain bread, fruit and vegetables.

In this study people where able to reduce blood sugar levels dramatically and even going into remission with type two diabetes, although still eating fatty meat, imagine if they cut that out as well, it would transform them even further. So with this documentary in mind I made this meal with good carbs and healthiest of veggies, yes that is right kale and spinach.

Ingredients

250g kale
200g spinach
1 sweat potatoe
250g mushrooms
1 onion
1 red pepper
4 garlic cloves
2 cups quinoa
2 cups pearl barley
1 veggie cube
20g nutritional yeast flakes
Half a teaspoon smoked paprika
Pinch of salt and pepper
Squeeze of lemon

First I started with red pepper, onions and garlic.

Then mushrooms, brown mushrooms are high in vitamin d, which is essential for vegans who don't get much sun.

Then sweet potato.

Then a veggie cube with some water, smoked paprika, lemon, salt and pepper.

Chopped up kale.

Spinach.

Then cooked Pearl barley and quinoa, and the nutritional yeast flakes. Quinoa is also extremely healthy, high in protein and essential amino acids.

I use a lot of nutritional yeast flakes, it has a cheesy nut taste and it's high in 12 which Vegas lack, I only put it in at the end after cooking.

Anyway that is my healthy meal with most of the vitamins and minerals required. I highly recommend seeing that documentary and there is another called the truth about exercise which is quite interesting too, you should be able to see them on you tube. Sorry if the pictures are a bit fuzzy, I damaged my phone and the lens is scratched.
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