Thread: Light weight food options

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

@joelhenton and @Huntfisheat , how do you blokes cook those oats ? I am the self-proclaimed foremost NZ porridge expert and being qualified as such I know that Oats must be properly cooked to burst the starch molecules. Without doing so we cannot digest that starch fully. At home I soak my oats in the cooking pot overnight - the water breaking down the plant Lectins and thus improving our digestion. The addition of a spoonful of yogurt at soaking also helping as the Lacto bacillus breakdown the plant proteins.
Lemon juice also helps.
Most times if people say " I cant eat porridge it makes me bloated and fart like a horse" it is because they didn't cook it enough and didn't use enough water to bring it properly to the boil.

Never been a problem for me, I just add the hot water to my quick oats and eat

From a nutrition standpoint, I've never been too concerned with getting a balanced meal while hunting or hiking. I've never heard of someone having nutrition problems... 90 back to back marathons and months of eating high calorie junk foods, I survived. Pop a daily multi vitamin, too easy. I would be interested to know what's going on after I've swallowed my breakfast though... I'm not a trained dietitian unfortunately