Well, I have been reading a lot about the negative attributes of the modern wheat that has been so genetically modified that I personally wonder if we can even call it wheat anymore!
It makes us crave it more, has more “sugar” in it than table sugar and is even higher in gluten which makes so many more people sensitive to it!
I don’t have any official gluten sensitivities, but I have decided to go WHEAT free for a couple of weeks just to try it out. In the last two weeks the only wheat products I had were a 1/4 of a muffin that was staring at me!!! and a very small bowl of pasta that I had made a killer red sauce for that I will share another time… so of course I HAD to have some. But in the meantime, I have had no bread or sweets of the wheat based kind at all … and I have to say that the longer I go the less I’m craving… I guess it’s getting out of my system!
I don’t plan on staying 100% wheat free but I have to say that I feel good enough that I am definitely going to stick to my “moderation” rule and keep the wheat on the lower end of the scale. ( I have to share tho… I found a website where they sell the “old wheat” of days gone by that has no modern modifications to its genetic code and it’s a little expensive but worth it I think … so I may be ordering some in the near future… I’ll let you know what I think!)
OK… so anyway, last nite I decided to try out some other types of flour and make some cookies… they came out great!!! I just started mixing stuff and VOILA’! YUM!!!
Ok start with your mixer and throw this stuff in….
2 sticks butter and 1.5 cups sugar-1/2 white and 1/2 brown and mix together
3 Eggs
2 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Buckwheat flour
1 cup Coconut flour
1/2 cup Tapioca flour
1 cup Oats
5 tablespoons MILA ground chia seed
1/2 cup raisins
3/4 cup chocolate chips
Mix all together and drop onto cookie sheet… I flattened them a little because they don’t flatten much on their own (which I figured out after first tray)
Cook til lightly browned on the bottom… about 8-10 min in a hot oven! (around 350 degrees)
Well I wasn’t sure how they were going to taste, but they were amazing!!!
The kids devoured them and it was all I could do to hide a few for lunches today!
The coconut flour smelled soooo good as I opened the bag … it didn’t give the cookies a coconut flavor but it did add “something” to it…. just good stuff and the kids will have no clue as to what you are putting in their cookies!!!
Please try this and let me know what you think!!!
Love tons!!!
♥Dorina
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