Pumpkin Cookies
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. honey
2 eggs
3 tsp vanilla
1 Tbsp vinager
1 c. raisins
3 c. wheat flour
1 1/2 c. rolled oats
2 tsp baking powder
3 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
2 c. cooked, mashed pumpkin (can used canned pumpkin, not the piefilling, just plain canned pumplin.)
Cream butter, honey and molasses. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix dry ingredients together and add alternatley with Pumpkin. Last add raisins and mix thouroughly. Drop by teaspoons onto lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes. May be iced with creamcheese frosting if you wish.
Those of you who don't like the healthy taste, are probably not going to enjoy these cookies as much as I do!  But like I told Todo, if you love sweets and suddenly you can't have anything with refined sugar in it, you will go to great lengths to replace your sweets with something that you can eat! For example, instead of ice cream, I got some Rice Dream ice cream! It's really good and doesn't have refined sugar in it. I can't tell it from icecream! It's especially good with Strawberries on it!
I also made a yummy Pizza Crust with wheat flour today and Todo loved it, he couldn't hardly stop eating it!
I talked to Aunt Lou a couple days ago, Aunt Lou bakes with whole wheat flour and uses a lot of honey and molasses, some fructose. And much less meat than a recipe calls for! She use to live about 20 minutes from where I live now. But 10 yrs ago or so, they moved to the west coast. Anyway she was able to give me a lot of information on where to get organic chicken and milk! Some Amish neighbors they had when they lived here! So one of these days I need to run out there and see what I can find! She said the prices are so much cheeper than at our Food Co-op! I was wondering how we were going to afford 3 gallons of milk a week @ $5.99 a gallon! But for my situation we were just going to do it! Sometimes health is worth the price! She also gave me a great bread recipe, which I made Tuesday, along with 2 big batches of granola! I had such a fun day! I ended up with 3 loaves of soft oatmeal bread and a batch of fruit and nut granola and a batch of maple nut granola! It's all wonderful! I'm so excited!
Last evening, I went to our new Grocery Store in town and found very reasonable prices there! And they have free range chicken that wasn't fed hormones and steroids! Yay! And the prices were better too! So looks like we'll be eating a lot of poultry!
Tomorrow I hope to go pick a bunch of strawberries and Todo want's to go get a freezer for me so I can freeze a bunch of whole berries and make some fruit spread! When Blueberries come into season I'll freeze a bunch of those too. And sour cherries are ready in July, so Great Aunt and I may go up to MI and pick some sour cherries. I'd like to freeze quite a few of those for pies, shakes, smoothies and such! It's so nice to have that stuff all year around and not have to buy it! I just don't buy frozen berries very often. Can't bring myself to pay the price!
Well I'm getting droopy eyed and it's only 7:20pm. Berylac and Olo are in bed, Olo had an early nap today and Berylec didn't take a nap today so they went early tonight, however, I can hear them in there talking so they haven't gone to sleep yet.
Any suggestions and comments about our diet lifestyle are always welcome! |
