Some NERC dieters also eschew grains of all kinds; I do not, but I am very careful about what grains I will allow. At a minimum, I want the whole grains that I eat to be either low-gluten, or gluten-free, and very low-carbohydrate. Oats-both regular oatmeal flakes and steel-cut oats, along with oat bran--are something I rely on for fiber--in crusts, stuffings and as a yogurt parfait garnish. Only in the case of the stuffing are the oats heated-up. Recently, I bought some buckwheat groats (from which you can make kasha, when soaked and cooked); they look and taste a little like steel-cut oats. True buckwheat is not a wheat product, by the way. I'm hoping to also sample some kamut and amaranth, as well, at some point.
As always, I look for uses and recipes in which I do not have to cook the grains, to preserve vitamins and fiber.
It's really unclear whether my allowance of corn tortilla chips (not Frito's, but actual tortilla chips) in this diet constitutes eating refined carbs or not. It's true that tortilla chips at their most simple are made with corn meal, oil and lime juice, and then baked, broiled or fried. However, corn is not glutinous in the way that wheat is...more as this story develops.
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