I feel a bit like a broken record with eating healthfully. We had been doing great staying off of white sugar and white flour...that was about 4 years ago before our oldest allergies took over all food decisions. Today I went in full steam ahead with making 2 loaves of bread, fiber energy bars (which I burned a tray of) and a healthy dinner. If you can't put nuts in your bars, try Nutty Flax or Nutty Rice cereal as a substitute (www.breadbeckers.com for the recipe). The bread needs to turn out right...and hopefully won't smell like wet dog. Jake shook his shower water off just as I was opening the oven to put them in for baking.
Why, you ask, is the dog wet at 7 pm from a bath? I mean, you'd think since it is an annual event it would happen some other time, not in the midst of baking. Our middle child is probably going to be a vet or dog groomer because she is getting Bathing Dogs 101 due to making the dog dirty. Tonight she decided to dump a dirty bucket of water on him. Really the class should be "Showering With Dogs 101".
Healthy tips to share--when making sweet tea in one of those big pitchers (you know, 4 large tea bags), sweeten with 1/4 c xylitol and 1/4 c fructose. Sure, you could do unsweetened but why go there if not absolutely necessary?! Another yummy tea--Celestial Seasonings has a cherry berry tea of some sort, make a pitcher and just add a splash of Agave Nectar. We loved it here, tasted more like juice than tea at times.
If you grind your own flour, get a bag of dry garbanzo beans to sit by your mill. Whatever berries you are using, just throw in a few beans for added protein. Also stretches expensive wheat a bit. Just be sure to add more flour total so it's not too sticky. My bread is now done and when asking "did it turn out", I'd have to ask exactly what do you mean by that question? 
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