URRGH. If you’re reading this post then you probably know what a hangover feels like.
Mouth like the inside of a boot, the rolling stomach, the banging headache. All you wanna do is pass out again.
Hangovers are obviously caused by excessive drinking, something that tends to happen fairly often over the holiday season.
So, we’ve been looking at various different ways of trying to reduce hangovers (without drinking less of course), through the medium of food.
Research has thrown up (haha) some interesting ideas.
(Un)surprisingly, everybody has their own methods for a hangover ‘cure’. And they often don’t work.
Health Benefits – Peanut Butter Banana Sandwich
Very little scientific research has been conclusive, but from what has been seen so far, three essentials become clear. They are sodium, potassium and cysteine (1, 2, 3).
So we tried and tested our very own vegan hangover cure.
The banana takes care of the potassium, the peanut butter has salt in it (if it doesn’t, you can always add some) and whole wheat bread contains cysteine. Sorted.
It’s so easy to make that the supreme effort of rolling out of bed is justified by the speed and relative usefulness of the recipe.
You can thank us when you’re feeling better.
Anti Hangover Peanut Butter Banana Sandwich (8 Min, Vegan)
Ingredients
- 1 banana
- 2 slices bread
- 1 tbsp peanut butter
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp olive oil (or coconut oil)
Instructions
- Are you really looking for directions? Or just being lazy? It’s a sandwich dude.
- But fine:
- Smear the peanut butter on both slices of bread.
- Cut the banana into about 8mm thick slices and layer them over just ONE slice of bread.
- Sprinkle cinnamon over them.
- Place both slices on top of each other.
- Add oil to the pan and fry both sides for 2-3 minutes until nice and brown and yummy and tasty and boom! Back to bed.
Well it looks like if anyone I know complains of a wild hangover…. I will serve them up some of this with some LIME juice! 😉
I don’t drink, so I don’t need to worry! ha ha.
Ha! I’m sure many friends will need your help on the first of January. Will be interesting to see, if they can start off with their new years resolutions right after this snack 😀
I haven’t drank enough alcohol this year to get a hangover. But I don’t need any excuse to make myself this fantastic sandwich!
True, it’s definitely also tasty without a hangover!
haha, this is great! I will have to try it on Thursday. People are always trying to tell me vitamins cure hangovers, vitamins do NOT cure hangovers! I love your blog name! I just found it, excited to read 😉
Thanks a lot for checking us out! Took us a while to come up with a name we liked. I was also a fan of KitchenMavericks, but we finally opted for HurryTheFoodUp 🙂
Major kudos to y’all for taking a simple peanut butter and banana sandwich and taking it to the next level by sauteing it in coconut oil! Fantastic!
Sometimes simplicity wins. Especially on the first of January 😉
I had a rough one. So I went to the store, got the ingredients, and just trusted the science behind this recipe. Banana and Peanut Butter? Well, at least it’s healthy – unlike fish’n chips.
after eating it, it ruined partying for me. I’m not even in it for the fun anymore. I don’t enjoy drinks no more. I just get wasted as quickly as possible … looking forward to this creamy, crunchy, fruity thing of beauty.
so, cheers (in every sense of the word)
Hahahaha, thanks Donnie! Glad we helped you to get back on your (partying) feet :D. Cheers!
THE ELVIS!!!