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Here's a tip that'll help. It cooks fast, is loaded with super high quality carbs, lots of fiber (important in keeping you full) and other goodies:

Quiona

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)

Energy 1,539 kJ (368 kcal)
Carbohydrates 64 g
Starch 52 g
Dietary fibre 7 g
Fat 6 g
polyunsaturated 3.3 g
Protein 14 g
Water 13
Thiamine (Vit. B1) 0.36 mg (28%)
Riboflavin (Vit. B2) 0.32 mg (21%)
Vitamin B6 0.5 mg (38%)
Folate (Vit. B9) 184 μg (46%)
Vitamin E 2.4 mg (16%)
Iron 4.6 mg (37%)
Magnesium 197 mg (53%)
Phosphorus 457 mg (65%)
Zinc 3.1 mg (31%)

Just look at that macro and especially micro-nutrient profile! Mother nature did a fine job with ths one. You should thank her.

I highlight protein content here b/c as we all know the rules during Famine. Still, 2 servings of this a day is HIGHLY recommended and you'd be obtaining 28g of protein, 736 calories. Loaded, absolutely loaded from a nutrient/calorie ratio.

Best to add chicken broth/chicken stock or one of the McCormick seasonings to it.

"Power Grain" doesn't begin to describe it. Speaking of which, POWER is what it'll give you during Feast, too. Quiona is so powerful its being considered a possible crop in NASA's Controlled Ecological Life Support System for long-duration manned spaceflights!

Reference:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi. ... 015664.pdf

And look at this! It even contains 5 different Ecdy's!!

J Agric Food Chem. 2001 May;49(5):2576-8.

Ecdysteroids of quinoa seeds (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.).
Zhu N, Kikuzaki H, Vastano BC, Nakatani N, Karwe MV, Rosen RT, Ho CT.

Department of Food Science and Center for Advanced Food Technology, Rutgers University, 65 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8520, USA.

Abstract

Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) is a hardy and nutritious Latin American pseudo-cereal. Studies on the seeds led to the isolation of five ecdysteroids using column chromatography. Their structures were determined as
ecdysterone
makisterone A
24-epi-makisterone A
24(28)-dehydromakisterone A
20,26-dihydroxyecdysone....

by spectroscopic methods. This study demonstrates that quinoa seeds are a source of ecdysteroids, which were reported to be molting hormones in insects.

CREDIT: Beefcake, for her FANTASTIC find/contribution here!! - https://www.ergo-log.com/quinoa.html

Quinoa's bursting with ecdysteroids

"If you eat 50 g quinoa from a health food shop you'll probably ingest 15-20 mg 20-hydroxyecdysone. That's more than the recommended daily dose that some ecdysteroid supplements contain. French chemists analysed samples of quinoa and found they contained high amounts of ecdysteroids..."

Now important to point out they're contained in the seed. I'm still looking into whether or not they're present in the common store bought fashion.

Even still, its a VERY interesting observation/finding.

love it.. been eating it for close two two years.. my mom actually told me about it, and subsequently gave me a 10lb bag of it for xmas..

It's great stuff. I rotate oatmeal, quiona and barley based carb meals throughout the day. Sometimes I get crazy and mix 2 or 3, but I'm an on the edge type of guy anyway

King Flatulence has spoken

Hank, that just made me laugh out loud!

I'm not the most animated guy in the world (can you tell by the pic?).

Thanks Hank..

I have seen it, but how does it better brown rice?

Brown rice contains very little protein and not nearly as great a nutritional value.

The protein in most vegetables/grains is lacking two key aminos.... lysine and methionine. Not so with Quiona!

Rob whats your opinion about the carbs in potatoes and pasta and brown bread.And white rice, and eh bananas.

When we talk about super high quality carbs were talking about complex carbs right?

Rob nailed it on the protein content of Quiona.

About the lowly Idaho spud, I have come around to praise it in recent times because it greatly benefits my biking reserves.

It is my preferred carb to load with Kre-Anabolyn the night before a day long ride and outperforms anything else for me.

I also use a blended pasta made from potato and rice that works very well.

This preference is about energy and endurance for me, not nutritional density, to be clear.

Interesting.Like to hear what rob thinks also.

Here are my thoughts:

Rob whats your opinion about the carbs in potatoes and pasta and brown bread.And white rice, and eh bananas.

A. Potatoes of all sorts: Fantastic. Pasta, doesn't do anything for me. Brown bread/bread in general, not a big fan.

When we talk about super high quality carbs were talking about complex carbs right?

A. In most cases yes. Here are my favorites:

REAL oatmeal with honey and apple cider/cinnamon
Quiona
Barley

I almost live on this stuff and never tire of it....

Presumin you dont think much of bananas or white rice then?I included bananas cause its a high carb fruit.

Bananas yes, absolutely. White rice, no...

This looks like it has the same texture base as couscous. Does it have the same texture for the palet?