Barley, hulled or flaked.
Barley is an amazing grain with so many benefits. Most people only seem to think its great in turkey soup but I will give you many reasons to find ways to introduce Barley into you diet at least a couple of times a week. Mostly we find hulled Barley or pearl Barley on the shelf at the grocers. Hulled is better than pearl as because the husk is removed but not all the beneficial coating that they remove in pearl barley. But now I found out that flaked Barley is another option. You can cook it like oatmeal for breakfast. It cooks in 10 minutes! Whereas hulled Barley you have to soak overnight or for at least a few hours and then it still takes about 60-90 minutes to cook. Barley has some gluten which we do want to reduce. However it has about 50% less than wheat and the benefits of Barley outway the small amount of gluten present. Here is an exert from Vaidya RK Mishra's Health Compendium on the benefits of Barley: "In SVA we know that barley bi...