Crunch

Blessings Darlings!

I'm sitting here eating a very healthy breakfast as I type.  Freshly made hummus and freshly sliced veggies that I'm dipping into it.  This is a change.

I've been eating very badly lately.  Like - yesterday, for example.  No fruit or whole grains with breakfast, just eggs/ham/white bread, a huge sugary coffee for lunch, and two slices of greasy pizza for dinner. So I'm trying to crawl back to eating ... better. More veggies. More whole grains. 

I'm less concerned with what I should NOT eat as much of.  If I make it a point to eat good tasting good stuff, I'm hoping that will crowd out the good tasting bad stuff. 

I sure wish that cucumbers weren't a dollar each right now.  Oh well.

Frondly, Fern

Gritty Reality

Blessings Darlings!

To continue on the grain theme from yesterday ... I've been grinding my own flour again, now that it's cool and I'm doing a lot of baking again.  I don't bake 100% whole grain bread, for the record, because my family isn't fond of it.  Over time I'm raising the percentage of whole grains, but that's going to be a LONG LONG slog.

But since I am grinding and sifting and making corn meal mush and frying polenta and all, I ended up with a jar of ... well, *I* called the stuff corn grits, but in reality it was mostly husks.  Being cheap frugal, yesterday I figured I'd see if they WOULD cook up into grits.

The answer was ... not exactly.  Too many flakes of husk.  But ATSHTF, I'm sure we'd eat them happily.  They weren't AWFUL.  But we're not going to eat them until then.

Unless....

Okay, I'll probably try them mixed into a loaf of white bread and see what happens next.  Shhhh.  Don't tell my family.  Let's keep it a secret.

Frondly, Fern