Go to cereal aisle of a typical grocery store. Now, start reading the ingredients of your favorite cereal. Is High Fructose Corn Syrup on the list? More than likely. I have found only 3 cereals from the top 3 cereal makers that do not have HFCS. They are GrapeNuts, Shredded Wheat and Cheerios. There may be more but my local grocery does not carry them.

I like to know what’s in the food I eat. That’s why I make a lot of our food from scratch. I found a recipe for grapenuts and tweaked it with my own twist.

Homemade GrapeNuts

In a large bowl mix your dry ingredients (as always organic is best):

• 3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup sugar (Original recipe called for brown sugar but regular works too. I just add Molasses.)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut
• 1 1/2 cup oatmeal
• 2 tsp cinnamon

Pour in:

• 2 cups sour milk or buttermilk (you can make milk sour by adding 1 Tsp of vinegar to it)
• Before blending in the milk add:
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

Mix it all together and pour onto a greased baking pan.

Bake at 375 for 15 minutes.

Remove from oven and let cool completely.

When cooled use a food processor to break it up into smaller grapenut size pieces (I make mine a little larger so that I don’t have a lot of tiny crumbs).

Bake at 300 for 1 hour. Stirring every 15 minutes. Turn the oven off and leave in the oven until morning.

That’s it. I love to eat mine with vanilla yogurt and blueberries. Uumm, uumm good!

Pickles Fermenting in Crock

Basement

07/22/08

Leave for 2 Weeks

08/05/08

Then Can

This is the note I wrote to myself & placed on the refrigerator. Yesterday I canned them. Fermenting makes a milder, tastier pickle than just canning with water,vinegar & spices.

Here’s how you do it [Read more →]

Take a look at the ingredients on your Ketchup bottle. If it contains High Fructose Corn Syrup then you need to take it immediately to the trash can & dump it. Better yet, dump out the contents, wash out the bottle & make your own ketchup! [Read more →]