No white rice

I have a rule in our house. No white rice.

This doesn't mean I don't cook with white rice, I just mix it with something else to make it more nutritious. My daughter eats rice for breakfast, it's easy on her stomach and keeps her going. I just use a mixture of brown rice, barley, carrots, and sometimes beans.

The second picture shows a bag of mixed beans and brown rice I bought at the market the other day. It needs to be soaked for 5 hours, then I just cook it with the regular rice. I chopped the carrot and added a tsp of vegetarian chicken flavor.

I recommend starting with a mixture of:

1 cup white rice
1/4 cup of brown rice, barley, or bean mixture
1/4 cup chopped carrot

Throw it in the rice cooker, use the same percentage of water to the rice as you would normally. As you get used to the flavor you can increase the portion of mixed grains.


I enjoy making a stew out of the brown rice and bean mix. I put it in the slow cooker with vegetable broth, 1/2 can of light cream of celery soup, garlic and hot pepper. I also added some asparagus, carrots, spinach and onion. It was ready to be eaten after a 5 mile trail run on Sunday and was very satisfying.