Here is a recipe produces 5 simple meals in 40 minutes.
I don’t like restaurant foods and I don’t feel well after eating them due to histamine content, so I developed following recipe over the years. Some ingredients are accidentally inline with likely quite healthy Bryan Johnson’s recipes, but some things I got inspired from him. You can cook this all-in-one pot, and that is how I cooked the original variant, but for the best results, I recommend splitting it as described below.
- Prepare your large pressure cooking pot, e.g., from IKEA.
- Soak 500g of black beans (or red beans) for 8 hours, e.g., overnight. Wash beans afterward. The beans should absorb the water and be a bit softer. You can skip soaking, but you will have to cook longer.
- Then pressure-cook the beans but add:
- 1 or 2 frozen chicken breasts
- salt, 1g oregano, 1g potassium chloride salt.
- Increase the pressure fast within 5 minutes. Then cook for 35 minutes in high pressure. Rather over-cook than under-cook. If you haven’t soaked the beans, cook for 45min+.
- After this, the frozen breast should be done well. The beans should be soft almost like a paste, and must not be crunchy or sandy. Otherwise, restart cooking for 5+ minutes. Uncooked beans won’t feed and can be partially toxic.
- In parallel cook:
- 150g of quinoa (good protein spectrum) or semolina high fibre pasta cooked for 15 minutes. I prefer to under-cook to have less sugar.
- 300g of frozen mixed vegetables of cauliflower, brocolli, carrot, pepper to reduce the fibers a bit. Add 100g almonds. Cooked for 10 minutes.
- Then mix into the large pressure-cooking pot:
- Add following:
- creatine
- psyllium 5x tea spoon
- 5 teaspoons of blueberries or redcurrant
- (Optional) Add selected from these:
- pea sprouts for DAO enzyme.
- carob for flavonoids and polyphenols as a cacao alternative.
- 6x1 brazil nut, or macadamia
- carrot, bell peppers, parsley
- goat whey protein 5x 30g (this is hard to get. only the AlpenPower is good enough)
- Split into around 6 portions into containers, cool and freeze them within 1 hour for later use. (I will test stainless steel containers.)
- I eat 1 meal for breakfast and 1 for lunch.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
If you are reading this, you may have low on vitamin D. There are blood tests for that. I take fish oil and recently started supplementing more.
Histamine Intolerance Tips
Histamine intolerance can be stressing, mind-dimming, and distracting, and so progress-freezing. In addition, you risk developing a bad mindset that snaps back and self-disappoints without any other cause. But all this is all resolvable! With technologies like the internet, diagnostics, and a discipline of specific diet and habits! Easy. Keep conjecturing, criticizing, and conjecturing again, because this, even if flawed in parts, will still lead to improvements. Fortunately, histamine intolerance is such a silly easy problem if you compare to what others faced - from CEOs to cartoonists and from past to present. Reducing this health distraction and powering up new efforts, you may become more ordinary and beyond.
Consider testing following non-expert tips that may give you back your time and focus:
- Read SIGHI list and compare it with my recipe. Black beans are not optimal, but I haven’t found replacement yet.
- Try cooking above food for 1 day. My blood work is normal when using this formulation most of the time longer periods. But you may be different and my diagnostics may not be complete. I will rotate more variants in the future.
- Try stop eating earlier before going to sleep 2 nights. I eat twice a day only, which may not be optimal though.
- Try one pack of NaturDAO vegetable DAO enzyme supplement or something similar.
- Try reading 3 posts with a dose of skepticism from the dedicated histamine intolerance subreddit.
- Try rowing 2 minutes at maximum speed and max hardness for 3 mornings.
- Try to retrain your mind by repeating selected thoughts. Stress enhances you.
