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I saw an episode of 60 minutes not too long ago that had a segment on a plant grown in Africa that staves off hunger. Leslie Stahl talked to a businessman that's trying to grow this plant there. It's a hard plant to grow, but he's coming up with creative ways to grow it etc. She ate a piece of the plant while they were walking around, and she said she wasn't hungry the rest of the day. This is great I think. I also think oatmeal is a little like this plant. I know it's carbs, but if you get the raw oatmeal (not the instant) and eat a bowl of that in the morning, it takes a long time for your stomach to break it down. It's what, 2:00 right now? and I'm not hungry. I ate the oatmeal about 9 this morning, and I haven't had lunch. I expect though to be hungry soon. The problem about oatmeal is two-fold. First when you put it in the microwave, you have to put a paper plate on top of the bowl and underneath the bowl, because the oatmeal volcanoes up. The plate on top stops it from getting on the top of your microwave, the plate on bottom catches all the oatmeal that spills over. The other problem is that oatmeal is stronger than superglue when it dries on your bowl. You can not even scrape it off with a sharp knife. I of course run water into the bowl before I jet out the door, but sometimes parts of the bowl don't make contact with water, and that spells trouble.