Good morning everyone! Let me start by saying, that I hope everyone is doing well and working towards any personal goals they may have. I am really trying to lay off the wheat these days. Just to depuff ( is that a word??) and practice a little self restraint. Not sure I can do that for the long run, but some of the blogs I read really make me curious about the wheat free life. There are some remarkable stories of health restoration, weight loss, and general improvement in quality of life. I realize that having wheat readily available in rolls, wraps, and sandwich thins really make our life more convenient and easy. We are too busy to bake, and pre plan, and these products make our busy life easier. But do they make it healthier?
I have the book
Wheat Belly by Dr. Davis. I am getting through it slowly, but I did see him on a TV show and he makes alot of sense. His recipes look great too. I figure going wheat free can be done, but it will take some practice and some research to make acceptable bread substitutions. I don't think I can do it 100% but I'd like to try and at least decrease my consumption and dependence on wheat products.
So my first challenge was that I wanted a sandwich yesterday. Hard to do on a wheat free diet. I remembered a post from
Dawn awhile back about the sandwich thins she made using a recipe from
Elana's pantry. So I pulled up the link below and set off to make a "thin' for my lunch.
http://dawnsdailychocolate.blogspot.com/2012/01/elanas-pantry-almond-muffins.html
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| The main ingredients...eggs, almond flour, Swerve and a few other things. |
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| This handy 1/4 cp spoon measures out even amounts. |
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| Spread out the batter into a round shape. I sprinkled on some chia seeds for a poppy seed effect! Also, if you don't have a silpat or acceptable version of one, I highly recommend purchasing one for all of your baking needs. It makes an amazing difference! Easy clean up too! |
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| Carefull cut horizontally to make a top and a bottom. A serrated bread knife works great. See the spaghetti squash in the background? I nuked that for some "pasta". Great with a little butter and garlic....but I digress!! |
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Enjoy with your favorite sandwich filling! Here I cut up some leftover meatballs from dinner and added some shredded cheese.
I'd say it was a success!
Now I digress again. I love that word!!
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Helpful tips for magazine lovers:
On a side note, and totally unrelated to the rest of this post, I have a little tip for all of you magazine readers. I LOVE magazines. Subscriptions are so cheap, that if you pick up even two of most magazines sold in the supermarkets, over the course of a year, a subscription will save you tons of money. Often if you web search, you can get magazine subscriptions for about $10 dollars and sometimes less than that.
Always web search. This is a great site called
Magazine search that will let you know the lowest prices offered. Sometimes there is a coupon code too that you can put in and get even more off.
Another great tip is to then go to Amazon and your amazon account and there is a place to put all of your subscriptions, even those that you didn't purchase through Amazon ( although often they have great prices), and you can keep a nice, handy, organized list. When you log on, you know what is coming up for renewal, what price it is, and how many issues are left.
And here is my last tip. I was having coffee the other morning, looking through a stack of the latest magazines, and couldn't even get to the content with the many pages of advertising. Since I was headed to the beach, I went throught the magazines and quicky and neatly, ripped out all of the double sided magazine pages of advertisements. Of course this only works if both sides are advertisements. If you love the advertisements, you can look at them as you are ripping out. What you are left with, is a surprisingly thinner magazine, and the ability to just have content available without having to leaf through pages of advertisements to get to the articles you want to read. And it only takes a few minutes to do this. It made reading the magazine a much more pleasurable experience.
This is what the double sided advertisements looked like from three magazines! There was so much paper, and the magazines were so much thinner.
Maybe there is a message here. Get the junk out and your magazine, and you too, will be so much thinner!!
Thought for the day:
Just noticed that I have this quote on the bottom of my blog. I read it today and I realized I should be reading it everyday!
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