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For some time there has been a Page Title — in the upper right hand corner of the header menu — called “Window Shopping.” If you clicked on it, you would see a browser window that goes directly to the Best Life International website, and their “Soy Amazing” ™ Meal Replacement shake.
That was it. No blurb, no explanation, just the browser window.
I have now added several more browser windows, for products mentioned here that are not available at Amazon.com. The full list of products:
Two soy shakes mentioned here:
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Soy Amazing Meal Replacement Shake, ™ from BestLife International–high soluble fiber content, high protein
- Revival Soy ™ Chocolate Daydream Shake — no fiber content, high protein.
Two probiotics for IBS reviewed here–windows to their web sites.
- Ganeden Digestive Advantage - IBS ™: currently serializing a review.
- Align. ™ Series of reviews, completed.
Use the Google site search, or the Category listings, for more information.
September 25th, 2007
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Source of the Recipe
This “recipe” is something I have adapted from a New York Times post six weeks ago or so about making coffee without using fossil fuels. The writer wanted iced coffee, and learned the following method of making it.
Reason for this Post
Also, in blog statistics I noted that someone came here on a search looking for cold-press coffee for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). I don’t quite know what s/he came away with, though I hope this post will provide a belated answer.
Coffee and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
No. I am NOT going to tell you can have coffee if only you brew it this planet-saving way. I AM going to tell you that you can have a good tasting morning drink. And if you want to live dangerously on your otherwise well-kept IBS diet and use genuine coffee for a quarter of the brew, I’ll tell you how.
RocaMojo Soy “Coffee”
Yes, this is a product endorsement. I do more of this endorsing stuff than I like, but some things work, and some things don’t. Some things taste good, and some things don’t. RocaMojo makes three kinds of product in the range of
- No coffee, only soy beans are used
- Half-coffee, half and half soy beans and coffee beans
- All coffee, using only coffee beans
All three kinds come either unflavored or with the following flavors added: chocolate-flavord mocha, vanilla, and hazelnut. Amazon.com has a terrific deal. If you order three one-pound cans at a time, you pay $18.20. For those who are not Amazon Prime members, shipping is $7.06 (or free if your total order is over $25). Just enter “Rocamojo soy coffee” in the Amazon search box on the Amazon page here.
“Coffee” Maker Needed
Okay. The next thing you need for this environment-sparing method of preparation is a French Press coffee maker, which–you guessed it–you can also order from Amazon for between $10 and $20 for a single-serving size.
Environment-saving Method of Making “Coffee”
I make strong “coffee” substitute. You may have to experiment to get the strength you like. With a clean French-press coffee maker, do the following. The night before you want your morning coffee, or six to eight hours before you would usually drink your soy beverage/ soy-coffee combination drink/ coffee (Rocamojo) do this. Measure out the recommended amount into your French press coffee maker. Add water. Stir. Add the press gadget. Sleep or do stuff. Wake up, or come back. Press. Pour. You will have room temperature “coffee.”
Enjoy!
Take your morning–or evening–dose of soluble fiber. Eat something. Zap your “coffee” in the microwave for a few seconds if you want it warmer than room temperature. Don’t add ice! But you could make double strength brew and add cold water.
Environmental Impact
This drink was prepared without using the gas burner on the stove to heat the water. OK, it uses electricity if you zap it in the microwave. However, we will (have to) develop methods of generating electricity that don’t use fossil fuels and don’t contribute to global warming. So I’m willing to continue using electricity.
What do you think? Do you have another recipe?
August 11th, 2007
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Today I worked out a very fast breakfast—probably should have done it long ago, actually. This is especially for the instant-coffee, ice-cube-in-the-coffee, speed-it-up-at-all-costs, sort of person I still am.
This involves preparing the morning shake the night before and putting it in the refrigerator. For me the shake is made of soy milk, a Revival Soy unsweetened shake packet, and a heaping half-teaspoon of Stevia. Then it goes in the refrigerator until morning. I keep telling myself that if I sip from it at night, it won’t be there in the morning when I really need it!
Also at night, clean out the single serving French press coffee maker.
In the morning, first thing on getting up, put on the right amount of water to boil, and put the mug to be used into the freezer. Then either take a couple of tablets of Equalactin plus a glass of water, or fix some Acacia Tummy Fiber. Then it’s time to put the “coffee” into the French press, and stir with a plastic knife. You could use a plastic spoon, if you like. Then while the coffee is brewing (about four minutes), drink the Revival Soy shake and take any morning medication.
Then press the coffee in the French press, take the mug out of the freezer, pour in the coffee, don’t forget to add a quarter teaspoon of Stevia, and then half again as much Stevia, and your “coffee” is cool enough to drink, your gastrocolic reflex has been put to sleep, your tummy is prepared for the “coffee,” you have a good healthy protein breakfast that will last for several hours, and you are on time and not too stressed by the beginning of the day.
October 1st, 2006
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UGH! Breakfast with unsweetened coffee (or whatever), and Unsweetened Soy Shake from Revival Soy? Doesn’t sound very good, does it? Well, I left out the best part. I found, first on the Revival Soy pages and then elsewhere on the web, a very good no-calorie organic sweetener called Stevia, which comes from the stevia rebaudiae plant found in South America. The following copy from Revival Soy sums it up:
An intensely sweet extract from leaves of the stevia plant that’s over 200 times sweeter than sugar – with no calories, carbohydrates or bitter aftertaste.
Revival Soy web site, accessed 9/27/06.
You can also read more about Stevia at this site, stevia.net.
So there is a real alternative to the low-calorie/no-calorie artificial sweeteners, called Stevia. Another place to buy Stevia is at Vitacost. Also, the IBS Shopping web site has a page in their Amazon aStore that is devoted just to Stevia–go to the “Soy Store” tab, open it, and find the “Stevia Alcove.”
September 27th, 2006
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Following on yesterday’s post, about Breakfast mistakes, I had found I was loading up on IBS triggers, that activated the gatrocolic reflex’s gateway to gastrointestinal mayhem: bloating, constipation, pain, and whatever else!
I started the changeover to a tummy-calming breakfast with the Acacia powder branded with the name of Heather Van Vorous. Acacia powder is a soluble fiber; you could also use Benefiber. Metamucil is a mixture of soluble and insoluble fibers, and is not as easily tolerated. I put the unopened big can of Metamucil down on the side table in the lobby of my apartment building, where people share items they cannot use, that someone else may be able to use. But I also noted that “soy” by itself is a soluble fiber. I didn’t think this through very well, because there’s no fiber listed in the soy product by the “Veggie” people called Veggie Slices; the next thing I ate was a slice or two of Veggie cheese, usually Swiss, as having the least sodium.
Step3a came later; I brewed some half-coffee, half-soy RocaMojo in a cheap and wonderful 12-oz. french press, that I got on Amazon. I brewed it, but didn’t drink it right away. Read on.
Step 3; this is the Revival Soy Unsweetened Shake. I have to emphasize that it is unsweetened; there are three kinds of Shakes available in all the Revival Soy flavors. The three kinds are sugar-sweetened, Splenda sweetened, and unsweetened. They all cost the same. If I have soy or almond milk on hand, I add the powdered unsweetened shake to 8 ozs. of “milk.” If not, the mix tastes okay in 6, not 8 ozs. of cold water. I have a couple of the shakers supplied by the Revival Soy people, which do a pretty good job in breaking up the powder and mixing it with water. When fixed with soy, it makes a pretty good breakfast by itself, at about 220 calories, 20 g. of protein at least, and very low carbs.
Last step: pressing the coffee grounds to the bottom of the French press, and pouring my “coffee.”
September 27th, 2006
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Once upon a time, I began the day with strong, strong instant coffee, sweetened with three or four packets of Splenda. That was enough to send my gastrocolic reflex into paroxysms of activity (diabolical, you might say). I came across a web site that mentioned that Splenda was associated with producing gas; I already had read this about other artificial sweeteners. I did try cutting down on the Splenda, with little effect. I tried mixing Sweet N Low with Equal, which works to enhance the sweetening effect of each–something I read on the web. There was a slight improvement, but not a whole lot.
Then I read Heather Van Vorous’s list of IBS Triggers; in fact, I’ll make a page for this blog, from that list and others I’ve discovered.
Reading the list, I discovered that caffeine was also a trigger. I hadn’t noticed any change in tummy pain in switching from morning tea to morning coffee, when the research on coffee started to sound good. Oh, how I had missed morning coffee!
I then made an omelet/frittata from the South Beach Diet folks, using chopped broccoli or spinach, two whole eggs, Egg Beaters or similar liquid eggs, and Lactaid, topped with either or both dairy Mozzarella and “Veggie Shreds Mozzarella or Cheddar and Pepper Jack flavors.” Oh, my! The List said “all dairy” and “egg yolks.” I also noticed, during this experimental period, that where I used to be able to eat cheese (the dairy Mozzarella) and cottage cheese, they now seemed to be the source of problems.
So my fixed breakfast routine had to go.
September 26th, 2006
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