Quinoa And Other Foods I Didn't Know About And Wouldn't Eat Anyway

First of all lets start with the basic premise that i eat like a 10 year old. if i can't identify it, i'm not touching it. if it's green i'm not touching it. if it's sugar i'm eating loads of it. that being said going to kerri's house is always a new and strange experience in food and has been since before she had kids.
First of all lets start with the basic premise that i eat like a 10 year old. if i can't identify it, i'm not touching it. if it's green i'm not touching it. if it's sugar i'm eating loads of it. that being said going to kerri's house is always a new and strange experience in food and has been since before she had kids.
i will start with the first time i heard her talk about making a smoothie. to me a smoothie is a simple thing, a true cousin of the milkshake. the ingredients are ice, fruit, sweetened yogurt, and honey to make it sweeter, blend together and delicious sweet drinkable treat. the first time i saw her make one it involved most of those things plus flaxseed oil, some kind of aloe vera juice and protein powder. now the smoothie has been destroyed, it is no longer a cousin of the milkshake, it is some odd healthy power drink, yuck!
so if that was prior to the children what happens after? pasta, a simple food, just a vehicle for sauce really. not kerri's. it is not just whole grain pasta but it also has 17 grams of protein per serving. now i get it, her kids won't eat much meat so you have to sneak in protein where you can and she's right it doesn't taste bad, but who even thinks to look for fortified pasta. i also learned at her house that almond milk comes in chocolate, i didn't know you could milk and almond. they must have really tiny utters.
which brings us to the quinoa, which i had to look up the spelling of. after she explained multiple times what it was and how good it was for you and that it was a good breakfast cereal in the form of quinoa flakes that's when i grossed out. but maybe i'm to blame for driving her to this drastic breakfast solution. she doesn't like oatmeal and she can barely even say farina since watching me vomit it up as a kid, ahhh memories. so i went home from her house and did what any good friend would do, try to find out that the whole quinoa thing was bullshit. here is the result of that reseach, kerri is eating a good mormon breakfast! yes quinoa is an anchient grain founf in the andes mountains, it's a relative of the tumbleweed, and it is crap nutritionally. enter the mormons. on there missions to the area the mormons realized the people in the area were malnurished but not much will grow in the andes except quinoa so they took the plant to byu and through the wonders of genetic engineering there is now the current quinoa which is full of nutrients to help the indiginous population in the andes mountains and to sell at whole foods. i'm still not eating it!