Cutting carbs too much is dangerous, just replace them with complex carbohydrates and use al dente technique.
I'd specifically recommend oatmeal, and of oatmeals, steel-cut is the best. You can get McCann's at most grocery stores but it's way overpriced compared to the nearly identical product you can get in bulk at your local hippy-dippy store. It is reasonably high in carbs and lots of other good stuff for you, but because they have to be broken down slowly in digestion, they aren't junk carbs that just spike your blood sugar, so despite having a lot of carbs, it has a quite low glycemic index, and those carbs kick in over hours instead of the obnoxious rush followed by crash that lots of high carb things give you.
Also it's like a broom for your colon. Maybe you whippersnappers don't need to be concerned with that, but let's just say, you will.
Also you can mix in pretty much any other hippy-dippy thing you like, from nuts and seeds to fruit.
Or just eat it completely traditionally with a splash of buttermilk and a pinch of salt.
The trick to making this actually part of a nutritious breakfast, at least if you're an asshole like me who wakes up the exact minute that it's just barely possible to get wherever I'm going on time if I rush and absolutely nothing happens, is to get a rice cooker or multi-contraption or whatever that has a timer, put all the ingredients in, and have it cook it so it's ready exactly as you're leaving.
Then I get wherever I'm going with a nice carb load that will be dosed out over several hours, plus a coffee, but because of the carbs, I'm not just going to plummet off a cliff in an hour from a caffeine crash, which leads to time-wasting multiple cups of coffee, or some miserable energy drink in a desperate attempt to stay awake.
It may not be "instant," but it's instant to me, since I just woke up.
There's also fridge oatmeal, which is fun as well.
I can't read this and not have this run through my head:
It was nice of Wayne's World to redeem the most annoying Queen song. Not that I've ever outright hated the song, but the main enjoyable thing about it is they were obviously enjoying doing it. It was basically a showcase for Freddie's magnificent vocal cords and skill, and you do have to admit the man could seriously have been an opera singer, whatever you think about him specifically or Queen in general.
Obligatory on-topic: I just realized a cat I've had for a few years, who was fat as hell as an adult cat when acquired, is now of normal weight! I hope this isn't actually bad. The other cat, who I was certain was a goner a couple months back, is still feeble but not making me agonize about whether I need to put him down just yet. I had literally already dug his grave, but it's got a board over it for now. It sounds morbid to do that in advance, but if you've ever had to dig a grave for your best buddy in the snow on the day he died, you know why I'd want to avoid that again.
Also made and ate a really nice Dutch baby and for the first time, it completely came together and worked. It's not like they're complicated but there's a bit of nuance to it. In this case, the final tip I got was let the batter rest. And they said something like "at least six hours."
Any time a recipe says that, that means even more is usually better, so I did 18. Results were perfect.
really appreciate it man. stuff like this is really valuable since i'm still young and stupid.
