Natural Nutrition With Oats
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Nutritional Oats
Oats are well-known for their health benefits, helping in the lowing of cholesterol, aiding with digestion, being a great source of vitamin B and also for their many benefits in skin and hair care.
Oats can be added to many baking recipes to make wonderfully healthy and tasty biscuits and cakes and also to thicken soups adding fullness and great goodness.
As you can see, oats are an all round good guy to keep in your kitchen at all times for cooking and for the many other beneficial properties you can use them for.
Contents at a Glance
Ah Yum Porridge
The Low-Cholesterol Oat Plan: Over 300 Delicious and Innovative Recipes for the New Miracle Food
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A great health book using Oats to lower cholesterol.
Cooking With Oats
Oat and Raisin Biscuits
- Serves: 6
- Prep Time: 15mins
- Total Time: 30mins
Not only can we cook a healthy breakfast with oats we can also make delicious biscuits.
Whole grain oats contain seven forms of vitamin B from the B group, vitamin E and nine minerals including iron and calcium.
So If we cook with oats we are not only having great tasting but highly nutritious food as well.
Here is a simple recipe to make some oatmeal biscuits.
Ingredients
- 11/2 cups wholemeal flour
- 11/2 cups unbleached white flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- I large or 2 spoons of honey or molasses
- 1 cup low fat plain yoguart
- 1 - 2 cups raisins
- butter
Instructions
Grease baking tins.
Melt butter over low heat
Add raisins and honey and gently stir in pot
Add a little warm water if mixture is to thick, do not allow to boil
Place aside to allow for cooling
When mixture with raisins and honey has cooled gently fold into dried ingredients making a soft dough.
Drop dough with round of teaspoon onto prepared biscuit tray.
Flatten a little with fingers
Bake for 15 mins or so until golden brown on top
Place on cooling wire tray
You can add bananas or any other dried food that you like to this mix.
Simple Oatmeal Cookies
The Use of Oats In Natural Beauty
Oatmeal Skin Care
Cleanse, using the rough texture of the oats to exfoliate the skin and use the many soaps and natural body creams that are made with oats, as they nourish and moisturize your skin and are very good for very dry skin.
There are also many natural hair shampoos and conditioners with oats added as they are good for a dry flaky scalp and help stimulate healthy hair follicles.
Try this recipe for a facial cleanser in your own home the ingredients of which should be right there in your kitchen, so no excuse.
Oatmeal Cleansing Mask
This is made using Oats, Honey and Yogurt
Take 1/2 cup of yogurt
1/4 cup ground oats
!/4 cup honey
Mix well
Clean the face well, blot face with water and then apply on wet face.
Start using as a small massage applying once a week working your way up to a full mask pack leaving on for 15-20 minutes
An oatmeal pack maybe used to treat skin conditions.
The Oatmeal facial is a popular treatment to prompt smoother skin because the texture of the oats is a little rough it acts as an exfoliate and takes off the dead skin layer when used as a scrub.
Soaps
There are many natural soaps that are made with oats, and essential oils are added for scent and relaxation.
Oatmeal and Honey Soap
Oatmeal Cookie Bath - Skin Care
Oatmeal Skin Care Products
Shea Butter and Oatmeal Body Lotion
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A lovely rich body butter with the benefits of oatmeal.
Oatmeal Almond 100% Pure & Natural Aromatherapy Herbal Soap- 4 oz (113g)
Amazon Price: $4.95 (as of 02/16/2012)
Beautiful oatmeal and almond aromatherapy herbal soap
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Healthy Living
The Great Anzac Biscuits
Anzac Biscuits were baked by mothers, wives and girlfriends at home for the Australian men that went to war during World War 1.Due to the lack of refrigeration on the ships, these women came up with the perfect recipe that would help feed the troops.
These biscuits consisted of rolled oats, without an egg, and other nutritional ingredients based on an old Scottish recipe where oats are so commonly used.
The biscuits were packed in food parcels which were sent overseas to the Australian soldiers in the trenches.
To make sure the biscuits remained fresh and crisp they were often packed into used tins such Billy tea.
Here is a recipe for our great Aussie icon the Anzac Biscuit.
Our Aussie Anzac Biscuits
Making Anzac Biscuits
- Serves: 6
- Prep Time: 15min
- Total Time: ! hr
Anzac biscuits are still religiously baked by Australian families today to honour our Aussie troops.
A tasty, nutritious biscuit it is.
Ingredients
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup of desiccated coconut
- 1 cup of plain flour
- 1 cup of sugar
- 125 gms or 4 oz butter
- 2 tablespoons of goldern syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
Mix oats, flour, sugar and coconut together.
Melt butter and golden syrup together
Mix soda with boiling water and add to melted butter and golden syrup
Add to dry ingredients
Place a tablespoon of mixture on to greased tray (allow room for spreading)
Bake for 20 minutes Loosen whilst warm, cool on tray
This amount of ingredients makes about 25 biscuits
Kids Going off to Make Anzac Biscuits
Oatmeal For Your Pets
Not just for us!
Good for dry itchy skin for our dogs and other animals.
Miracle Coat Colloidal Oatmeal Shampoo 16-Ounce
Amazon Price: $10.00 (as of 02/16/2012)
Oatmeal shampoo for your pet.
John Paul Pet Oatmeal Dog Shampoo
Amazon Price: $12.99 (as of 02/16/2012)
Have your pet feeling and smelling great.
Natural Balance Turkey, Oatmeal and Cranberry Dog Treats, 8-Ounce Bag
Amazon Price: $2.74 (as of 02/16/2012)
Make sure you dog has a healthy treat with oats.
Oatmeal Products
A Field of Oats
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Healthy Nutritious Oats
Do you like eating oats for breakfast and also cooking with them?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, I love oats and have always had porridge for breakfast and cooked with them.
sandyspider says:
I do love eating oats and making cookies. I haven't ate them recently for breakfast, but I will have to start doing that again.
Posted March 28, 2011
oztoo says:
Love my porridge with some added fruit. Peaches, banana or stewed apples.
Anzac biscuits are great too.
Posted March 27, 2011
karendd123 says:
I love oatmeal. I eat it to help battle high cholesterol.
Posted March 26, 2011
No, I don't like oats very much.
aishu19 says:
I know they are good for you..but I dont like them... dont mind them in cookies though...
Posted March 26, 2011
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- Great lens on oats.
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oztoo
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- Nice lens about the goodness of oats. Love the recipes too.
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aishu19
Mar 26, 2011 @ 12:01 pm | delete
- These are some nice oat recipes..and they are really good for you ..thanks for presenting this information for us
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dannystaple
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- Mmm - porridge and oaty biscuits - especially with lashings of honey. I've not really used oat based soaps, and guys do't relaly do cleansing masks.
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