About the Food That I Packed for India

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Scott and Billy asked me about the food I packed for India.

Why are you taking that much food? Is none of that (easily?) available in India? -Billy

Thank you for asking. I love having a rhythm to my life, and an important part of that rhythm is eating and working out. So I brought the fish as an insurance policy in case I needed to eat some healthy meat for two weeks while I got situated.

To my knowledge, you absolutely cannot get flax seed oil or steel cut oats here in Mumbai. I found advertising posters for the same brand of whey protein that I take (ON brand, vanilla flavor) at a Gold's Gym here. But there is at least a 300% mark-up in cost because it is all imported from the USA. And I have been told that the Indian-brand whey protein is very low quality and doesn't have the glutamine or BCAAs like ON brand whey.

Can you remind us avid readers why you love steel cut oats so much? -Scott

Sure, and also thanks to Scott for asking. First, the oats keep me regular and have lots of fiber. But mainly I love them because steel cut oats are a GREAT source of carbs. They are much better for you than regular oatmeal because steel cut oats are more nutritionally dense than regular rolled oats. It has to do with breaking down the starches.