1. I've actually gained some weight because the homecooked, all natural stuff tastes really good. Unprocessed, pure foods just taste better. Gotta watch my portions.
2. So...
I used my grain mill for the first time to turn wheat into flour. Let me tell you...even Dan was excited to use this newest appliance in our home. It looks like this---------------------------->So, we put the wheat in (I recently received my order of almost 200 lbs. of wheat and oats), turn the switch and "Wallah!" you have flour. It was pretty neat. Dan and I were both impressed. Here's the thing I didn't know. If you want to use whole grains...you need to add something to the bread to make it rise a little more fluffier. Yea, well. I was so proud, used my newly made flour in the bread maker....it cam out....very tasty, but flat. No, I don't mean just flat, I mean like maybe an inch in height. Experiment number one in baking with newly ground wheat....taste - point 1, sandwich capacity - 0. This story will be continued.
3. Everyone I know is going on this health food kick now. No steroids, no hormones, all natural, unprocessed, NO HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, organic, etc... I'm not complaining. The more people who do it, the more the prices might actually come down.
4. Did you know that just about everything out there has high fructose corn syrup in it? Okay...examples: graham crackers, most cereals, syrup, ice creams, sodas, vanilla wafers, Eggo waffles, oh....and that Lipton Onion soup mix that you flavor stuff with...yep...that too. Nasty, nasty stuff that replaces real sugar. We've all been taught that sugar is bad...it isn't, the stuff that they replace it with as an ingredient in most of the foods that we've grown up on - that is the evil stuff.
Okay, I'll get off my soap box for now.....This won't turn into the health food channel...I promise. I'll post more kid pics next post.
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