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I'm gonna let you in on a little secret here. And he and I are down south homegrown southerners. I grew up down in southern Louisiana. You probably can't tell it by my voice because I don't have that real deep Southern accent but I was born and raised down in Baton Rouge. I need it is from a small town in northwestern Georgia. So when it comes to breakfast food, we understand. We understand that it consists of eggs, bacon got sausage, you got the I gotta
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have cheese on my eggs too. Don't forget
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and cheese cheese on eggs cheese on hashbrown you got the biscuits with Canadian bacon and just all of these animal products. So we understand. So now you're thinking, Well, I'm going into whole food plant based because I see what what the research shows and the health benefits. So now I'm left confused. What do I have for breakfast?
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You're listening to the smarter Healthy Living podcast where we firmly believe that getting healthy should never feel like torture, where your host Jarrod and Anita Roussel were college sweethearts, and health professionals who help you redefine what getting healthy looks like using a whole food plant based lifestyle. It's time to hear from the experts and learn the best tips and tricks that helped others get me on overwhelm to create a vibrant life they love. If you're sick and tired of being sick, and tired, you're in the right place. So pull up a virtual chair, grab your matcha latte, and let's get started.
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Okay, I know we've hit a chord with that one because I can hear you say and you may not know this but podcast technology has gotten so advanced that I can actually hear you on the other side go but I know that we've hit a core because we were there in that same position like if I can't have the sausage in the the dairy. We didn't mention that before. Oh yeah, the milk and the sour cream and all just those different products. What am I going to eat?
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Yeah, what's the Dairy Queen gonna have? I mean, if she can't have her cheese on top of her omelet, along with her sour cream on top of her omelet, really, I would have an omelet and and I put 10s of sour cream and cheese on top. I mean, that was my norm and then it was very salty. And that's just how I eat on a regular basis. I mean, when I was growing up, my mom would cook a lot of times on the weekends, but if we were in a hurry, we'd be running out the door for breakfast it'd be I grabbed Pop Tarts, I finally found toaster strudel got to have all that sugary glaze on the top right. And if I had toasted be probably a white bread or a wheat bread that we thought was healthy, which probably had a lot of preservatives and things in it that we just didn't know to look for. Right? We didn't know
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and it'd be jelly with a lot of added sugar on top of butter,
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so much butter. And then, you know the times we're doing good and we were in our heart healthy, I've mainly be our packets of instant flavored oatmeal, like peaches and cream, strawberries and cream. I mean, those are some of my favorites.
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But the amazing thing is, I still have peaches and cream oatmeal. I just have it in a different way. It tastes way better, it fuels my body well.
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And now I feel like doing the things I love making the memories I want to make. And it's just it's a game changer.
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Now, the first question that we have for you is who defines what breakfast food is?
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We talked about all the things that we have in the past. But when you really go back to it, why do we eat those things? Who really defines what a breakfast food is?
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And where do we get the idea that it just has to be tasted better, and jelly or pop tarts or
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Friday, or scrambled eggs or an omelet with some sausage on this
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meal packets because they're quick and easy. And we're all very busy today, things do need to be very simple, we've got to have it in a simple way. And somehow we get this idea that if I'm going to start living a whole food plant based lifestyle, that's just going to be too hard for me, it's going to be too difficult.
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It's going to take a long time and we still have the same things. I'm a mother of four, I homeschool full time we run our business full time. And there's a lot of stuff going on in our lives that we do. But we have to be fueled well to do those things I have to have clear thinking I have to be able to just go when I need my energy, I've gotta have something to fuel myself and feel my body well. And if I don't have that not only am I going to be sick in the long run because that's exactly what happened to me. If you haven't heard our story, go back to episode one and hear what happened to me. I was in terrible shape and it really had a lot to do with the food I was eating. So instead of grabbing the packet of oatmeal now what I would do is just either make oatmeal three ways either do it overnight where I put it in with some plant milk very quick and easy in a ball jar and it's ready in the morning or I make it raw and eat it raw or I cook it you know if i Have a few more minutes and I just want something warm and it's cold outside. I might cook my oatmeal for a few minutes again and some net milk. Go back and listen to the plant milk episode and we've got a freebie for you the perfect nut milk that you need.
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So be sure to get that because it makes oatmeal amazing. But I do it those three ways. But how do I get my peaches and cream?
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So there's this brand of jelly called crofters. And I call it jelly It has nothing in it but fruit now crofters does have some other things that other products that do have sugar and things like that. So check the package is is it simply fruit just fruit? I think it's called just fruit spread. So go back and look at that. And look at the ingredients one line of their jellies and jams. It just is free. There's something free.
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Yeah, nothing else. And if you stir that in nice apricot one, and you have a really great creamy plant milk, like our recipe that we provide it for you. I'm telling you,
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it's better with making it with pecans. It's amazing.
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Oh, yeah, the pecan milk is what you're talking about.
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Yeah, like the cons of my oatmeal tape. And my
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favorite way of eating oats is raw, which when I first started that I thought can you actually eat it raw Is there any way to cook it or any way to eat it other than cook. And it really is quite amazing. It's very quick, because there's no real prep time just throw the ingredients together, I stir it well. And actually, if you take your your spoon and kind of mash on the oats a little bit, it does make the the water that I use because in my instance, I just put water on it. But it makes it almost creamy. Almost like as if you had made an oat milk
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that's inserted on it.
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That's exactly what you're doing. You're making oat milk in your bowl, which is brilliant.
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Because if I'm running out the door, and I think I don't have time to plant milk, I didn't make it last night. Although it literally takes two minutes. If you're just in that big of a hurry that you can't take a few minutes to do that. Then what do you do? Well, you just put the water in your bowl and mash it mash. Mash it for a few minutes even with your raw oats, you will end up with the creamiest best net milk that will blow any net milk off the shelves of your grocery store. And you're not getting paying your precious dollars for mostly water. And that's regularly thickeners Yeah, and you don't want those things in your body. Anyway. So that is just a quick way to get out the door. What are some other things that we enjoy for breakfast? What are some of your other favorite things,
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and I've actually liked the tofu scramble.
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You like tofu scratch a lot. Yeah, we don't do that really often. That's kind of a special thing for us. But I came up with a way to do that egg yolk. And so a lot of people do take the scramble and they'll just put cimic powder on it and just add some other things to it like their vegetables and things like that. Well we load our tofu scramble up with veggies, so it's mostly veggies and then a little bit of Thai food that you chew crumble, and basically it ends up being like scrambled eggs. And we'll talk about tofu in another episode. Some people are kind of concerned about eating that but there's really no scientific evidence backing that up. But we wanted to let you know that it's really easy to do that with tofu scramble.
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And the thing that we have done is I've come up with again, an egg yolk substitute that is very simple and easy to blend up in your blender. And just like we talked about in another episode, if you caught that we talked about our favorite blenders. So you just easily make that with just a couple of ingredients and you pour it over and it thickens and it's the color of egg yolk and it tastes amazing it makes the tofu like a creamy scrambled egg it is ridiculous. These are the things that are just simple, easy and somehow we get this idea that it's got to be hard it's just quick
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and delicious.
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Yeah, we like that too. I love it and you can vary your if you vary all that vegetables, then you get a whole different Teifi scramble experience.
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Yes, it's different than then you get a wide variety of the nutrients and you start your day off with that you don't just end your day with the nutrients like in a with a dinner. Now do you only have to eat oats with sweet flavors?
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Oh yeah, we're so used to all this sweetnesses that are in things and we want something sweet for breakfast we got to have our sugary cereal or our sweet oats but no oats can be savory it's a wonderful way Think of it as another grain so other grains we don't usually eat sweet why oh it's one is oats have to be sweet start asking yourself these questions might I like it if I cooked it and didn't add as much of the the liquid like the water or the plant milk but I just have it a little thicker. And then I stir in some greens are up at the green sim wallets cooking. And you can add some other spices like a smoky paprika that might give it a salsa g flavor you could add a bunch of other if you did some star fried veggies or you could just eat those on the side and flavor up your oatmeal that you have your greens in was some turmeric or other things like that that she'd really like pick the spices you like and season it up and try to find a way that you like it a little fresh black pepper, fresh ground black pepper, yeah salt, just those Little we all do like a pinch of salt.
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Now we also we think of oats in the morning but other grains as well and I just had a thought of occasionally we'll have some leftover cooked brown rice from the evening before.
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You could take that and repurpose that for the breakfast too.
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Oh, yeah, you could. Oh, that'd be great. So you had some leftover beans like black beans, you could make something like a Mexican breakfast dish. So you could do maybe some potatoes even. You could throw those in.
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You don't have to but you could.
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I'm just thinking like black beans, salsa, avocado and that rice. Man, that would be a great breakfast. What if you had a little tortilla you could wrap it up and make a breakfast burrito? That'd be fantastic.
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But who defines what the breakfast feeds are? Right?
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We've got to start thinking about new ways to have breakfast think it's just habit though.
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Yeah, it is we get into this routine, this routine and we just say okay, here's this little bubble of the things that are acceptable breakfast foods, and they really venture beyond that. Mm hmm.
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Well, Tony, the tiger has to be right. They are great. Or if I want to be strong, I've got to have my Wheaties for sure. So anyway, other things that we absolutely love that get our bodies just started on the right track in the morning. green smoothies are amazing. If you're having trouble with everything going well in your body as far as just your food Maven three you say, say in a nicer way. But a lot of people have this problem. It's a huge majority of people. You need to get a lot of fluids, but you also have to get your reference roughage you have to get your fiber. One of the easiest ways to do that and see a change in that is green smoothies. I mean, honestly forget Metamucil greens, forget Metamucil. Forget this other stuff. Find a good way to make an incredible green smoothie that you like start with a few greens and bump it up as you go and just have one a day. It's an amazing way to do that. If you are trying to lose weight, I just say don't be drinking a ton of green smoothies because it can pack in a little extra calories, especially if you're going heavy on the fruit with that
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if you're adding that on top of another breakfast, but if you're using that as your breakfast, then I think you should be fine.
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I think we should talk about smoothies sometimes same.
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I think that'd be a good thing to use. avocado toast. We love tofu scramble. Jared mentioned chickpeas omelets, we really like that I have a way that I make an omelet batter. It's almost kind of like a crepe. You can roll it up with the different things inside that's really good banana bread. We have a banana bread recipe it doesn't call for any added
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there's no flour to it.
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No. So easy.
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No dairy, no eggs but it puffs up it's like fluffy delicious and the kids make that a lot of times for breakfast.
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It's really good carrot cake, muffins, muffins. That recipe is amazing chick chia puddings. We love those pile those full of fruits and nuts and seeds.
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That's an excellent breakfast feed.
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Do we make that the night before
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I think it's easier to make it the night before but honestly it can be ready within 30 minutes or so it just has to sit in the liquid like your net milk. Some people use water for it. I like the creaminess of the milk because you know the dairy queens got the creaminess going on. And then fruit salad, fresh fruit salad just cut up some fruit or better yet that the most wonderful and healthy, just pre made pre packaged food that you can grab on your way out the door, an apple, a banana that come in there unpackage an orange, grab a couple of them and just eat all of them together. You end up with like a fruit salad but you've eaten it over a couple of different courses. So that's the ultimate fast food. Just grab some fruit.
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It's pre wrapped. It's in a pre packaged natural state right and you just grab it and go out the door. Grab some grapes, they're amazing.
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There's something that we've done recently that we had not ever done before, but we may well hashbrowns I think
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it was Hanukkah inspired with lacus
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Yes, that's not all happen. But Anita made hashbrowns on a waffle iron. We recently got a porcelain line waffle iron, and she graded the potatoes and then she pressed out the liquid and I forgot what else she put into but she pretty much
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it I think I did some garlic, Garlic Garlic powder or something and there you could do anything I probably will try onions at some point. I just thought for the first time I want to make sure it didn't burn and it just was one ingredient so I could watch it. But she
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took all that stuck it on the waffle iron and then cooked it and there was probably it Fanny oil it was so little that you wouldn't even know to know that it was there just to keep it from sticking the
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wallflower is one of the only times I ever use oil and I'll pour one little drop onto a plate and just brush it on with this little silicon brush on half. It's very, very minimal oil just to keep it from sticking even though it's nonstick and it's a it's a ceramic one that we got just because We don't like using Teflon. But it just it really made it where it doesn't stick and it worked great.
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And it was crispy and it was cooked all the way through it was, it was fun and that I think illustrates, get creative think outside the box. You can get on the internet and search for ideas. Of course, we're always going to be sharing with you different ideas and things that we've discovered or come up with.
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Well, you know, that's my passion. I mean, I love getting in the kitchen and coming up with new recipes and new ways to do things. Because let me just tell you something, our food has got to taste good. I grew up in a restaurant, my parents owned a restaurant, I watch them cook all my life. And I didn't go to school to be a chef or anything.
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But I developed a love for great flavors, food has got to taste good, or I'm not going to do it for the rest of my life. And one of the issues that came up with us with with whole food plant based living was we started trying to gather these recipes online. And I'm telling you, it was gross. I mean, they look good, I tried, I go buy the stuff, I'd spend all the money, spend all the time sit down and just end up disgusted and at my wit's end because it didn't taste Where was the flavor, it was so bland. And you've got to have that. So I've spent a lot of time creating these recipes.
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And actually, just to let you in on a little insider scape. I've put together a kickback that I've got already over 50 recipes in it that are tried, tested and tried and
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tested and perfected.
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Jared calls them perfected, tested
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and perfected. Because there have even been a couple recipes that she put in there.
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She tried them again. And she just said no, you know, this, this just does doesn't really meet the standard of what we want in this cookbook.
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Yeah, cuz something can be good or okay. But it's got to be really getting great if I'm going to put it in the cookbook.
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And if it's something we're going to cook more than once because I just don't we left food that had a lot of flavor.
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And we want food that has a lot of flavor. But now our goal is that feels our body so well. And it makes us feel so great that we can have the energy to do our business and help people that we can have our energy to grow as people and then our minds work right. So we can grow and learn and continue to serve and do all the things that were We were placed here and created to do.
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So we do have a big bundle that's coming up. We haven't really announced this yet. So you're the first to hear the inside scape. But it's it's coming up. And it has over 50 of our favorite family favorite recipes on there. And we also are going to be adding a bunch of bonuses to that as well. I'm putting that together behind the scenes right now. So really, you're getting the insider scape here. And just stay tuned to the upcoming podcast and be checking your email if you've if you've joined our email list as well.
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If you haven't done that yet, just go back to the episode about plant milk. And you can get your free plant milk recipe and then join Episode Five. And then we will be sending out information about that as soon as the cookbook is out with all the additional bonuses that we're offering when we first launch it. So make sure you stay tuned for that. And also have you heard, here's another one for you. While I'm sharing secrets, do you think I should share it?
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I think we need to go ahead. I think we need to share that and let it let the cat out of the picture. Do it.
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Okay. All right, we have a membership. And it's called power on plant society. And it's opening soon Keep your eyes out for that you keep your ears open, we're going to be announcing everything about it.
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It's the new year, it's a new time to get healthy. And you know what breaks my heart is a lot of times at the New Year people write these resolutions.
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And they just thought one of them nine times out of 10 is I'm going to get healthy, and they go to the gym and kill themselves doing stuff they hate. And then what do you what else do you do you take on a new diet, right? Because that's what in your mind you're supposed to do? Well, I got to get the right diet, get the right food, but we think it's got to be a diet and it just doesn't. It just
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doesn't have to be a diet. It has to be miserable.
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It's almost like we have to pay for the past sins of poor food choices. Yeah, surely I got done this. And now I must inflict all this pain on myself. And it does not have to be that way.
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Well, you don't have to count calories. You don't have to I mean, we control our portions right those because we don't want to put our pounds back on that we lost 55 pounds over 55 pounds together right and we weren't even dieting doing this. But and we've kept it off. The big thing is we've capped it off. So you want to think about how you can build a life that you love with food that tastes great. That makes you feel amazing so you can do the things you were created to do. We're so glad that you're able to join us today on smarter healthy living. We're excited to have you here with us and we hope that you've learned something new to take along the way. Did you want to say something? Yes,
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well we're going to put a link down in the description that you can go to the waitlist for the membership for
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power plants for power plants, yes.
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So that way once we have a specific opening date, you will be the first to note if you are on that waitlist
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well and the great thing about that too as we were talking about this yesterday Larkin so many insiders thanks Today, but we're talking about this today. And what we're going to do is four, we do have some members inside now that have been beta testing the membership for us. But this is going to be the first actual opening to the general public for this membership. And so they've the members in there have gotten some incredible results. And we're just thrilled to be sharing that with you coming up.
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But the one thing that we want you to know is, if you go ahead and get on the waitlist and you decide to join, one of the exciting things that we've decided to offer is special forever discount pricing for those who join us Initially, the price is never going to go up for them. So we're really excited. We've been throwing that idea around trying to decide whether or not to do that and we've decided to go ahead with it. I can't believe I told all this today I
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think we need to do it sounds like True Confessions of a dairy queen.
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Oh no. I think I've decided to rename this episode.
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Maybe we should go back and call it the spill the beans episode.
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Yeah. So anyway, we are so glad again that you guys decided to join us today. Be sure to leave a comment below and a review and let us know how you're liking things so far. And if you have any questions, send us an email at info at the crunchy couple.com and we'll be happy to get an episode out just for you.
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Okay friend. We'll see you in the next episode. And here's to your help.
