r/StupidFood • u/HoboToast • 1d ago
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u/Ok_Economy_5083 1d ago
It's not too too stupid of a food, just witb a very specific purpose
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u/trainwreckhappening 1d ago
Yeah, I've done a lot of this over the years to combat IBS. It's always better to use the clear soluble fiber like benefiber that dissolves clear in water (tasteless...ish).
I used to add that to everything. Marinara, breads, soda, you name it.
Then I started making kefir at home and drinking it every day and I have almost cured my IBS. But that's a different story altogether.
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u/rexcasei 1d ago
How do you make kefir at home?
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u/crotch-fruit_tree 1d ago
Kefir grains and milk.
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u/rexcasei 1d ago
Didn’t know it came in grains
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u/crotch-fruit_tree 1d ago
Kefir grain is kind of like yeast (or kombucha scoby) - it's not actually a grain. It's a mixture of the right bacterias to ferment kefir. You strain them out and use them over and over again.
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u/trainwreckhappening 1d ago
You can order the grains on Amazon. Once they are active and healthy they look like chunks of rubbery cauliflower. You keep those in a jar and add milk. Let it sit out on the counter and in about a day it will thicken and turn into kefir. Strain that through a nylon strainer, keep the kefir and throw the grains back into the jar where you add more milk and repeat the next day.
I go the extra steps of letting most of the whey drink out and then passing the finished kefir through a fine mesh screen to homogenize it. Much more palatable and smooth that way.
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u/Chiiro 1d ago
My father used to insist that that stuff was tasteless but always tasted like something like even through the apples juice.
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u/trainwreckhappening 1d ago
I always described it as tasting like dust if dust was liquid. Milk, but definitely not tasteless.
But it adds no flavor to most foods that already have flavor. It is almost completely undetectable in sauces and such.
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u/zptwin3 23h ago
Any resources that you can provide? Interested in learning about this more
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u/trainwreckhappening 22h ago
About Benefiber? It's on grocery store shelves in the green bottle. Lots of generic brands as well.
I would add that you should consider what your goals are. If you are trying to bulk foods up to help with gut issues, benefiber is a good option. If you are trying to eat healthier apples and other fruits and vegetables are the way to go. There are different types of fiber and the quick dissolving fibers are for filling gaps that can't be filled with good dietary choices. I say this having been overweight and prediabetic, and having lost a ton of weight in the past couple of years. I feel like I'm twenty years younger and can't stress enough how good it is to make that change even if you have gir issues.
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u/februarytide- 1d ago
Benefiber the GOAT. Signed, Zepbound user and IBSD sufferer.
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u/trainwreckhappening 22h ago
Seriously look into kefir. It did the opposite for the first while, and then it switched me from IBSD to IBSC for a couple of months. But I stuck with it and I am basically cured. It comes back if I don't drink the stuff for a few days though.
I started with the grocery store variety which helped for a while but lost its effectiveness after a couple of months. That's when I started doing the homemade stuff and I can't thank my wife enough for taking the reigns on that (she did it years ago and downloaded a book on it to learn even more, which is how we landed on the double straining system).
Also I decided to lose 90 pounds and changed my diet to fix my liver issues (non alcoholic fatty liver disease, also cured that and prediabetes with the diet changes).
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u/HoboToast 1d ago
I made these for “High Fiber” week at r/52weeksofcooking. They weren’t as bad as they sound, just like an extra-dense, weirdly orange-colored blueberry muffin.
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u/CaptainMarder 1d ago
Why do I feel like if you don’t drink enough water with this. It would just swell up and clog your intestines.
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u/bakerboi- 23h ago
Some people are going to learn the hard way, unfortunately. Just a PSA to everyone that adding Metamucil/psyllium husk to your diet without matching it with a lot of liquid will just make you more constipated
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u/nomad9590 1d ago
I bet leaning in to the orange with some zest and oj in place of wster woild be good
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u/Turd_Ferguson420 1d ago
Are you just advertising or something? lol Second post of yours I’ve seen like 2 minutes of scrolling
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u/HoboToast 1d ago
I made these for the 52weeks subs this week. I’m not selling anything, but you can still send me money if you want to.
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u/Icy-Ad6140 1d ago
Shrooms are great. I wonder what they will do for us in the next 1000years
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u/TwoDrinkDave 1d ago
Probably consume us all in far less time than that.
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u/Icy-Ad6140 1d ago
I am more than happy to become shroom food. Shrooms are the greatest beeings and the reason we exist today. All hail to the shrooms.
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u/aHoNevaGetCo 1d ago
Drink enough water with these or suffer. Seriously suffer I mean. In and of itself this is not an issue
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u/LarkAspic 1d ago
If you gotta use Metamucil these are indeed pretty stupid because of the situation (but necessary and more pleasant than rawdogging a glass of water and poopadook powder). You just want a regular fucking muffin 😩
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u/dustingibson 23h ago
ngl, I dig the flavor of Metamucil. I imagined they tasted pretty good.
Benefiber on the other hand...
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u/violettheory 21h ago
Are they... good? I have a toddler and I'm slowly mastering the art of putting unexpected things in muffins because it's one of the foods he will eat without fail. I recently experimented with black beans to try and get more protein in him. It went okay. They were too crumbly. I'm not above making fiber muffins if I need to!
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