Blogs the ‘Budget Eating’ Category
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
You can buy a gallon of unrefined organic coconut oil from Mountain Rose Herbs for $39!
With all the baking I've been doing, not to mention slathering the baby belly with coconut oil morning and night, I have been going through a lot of coconut oil. A 54-oz tub from Nutiva, ...
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
Bulk Bins!
What are you looking at?
navy beans
garbanzo beans
black beans
lentils
split peas
hemp protein powder
raisins
baking powder
demerara sugar
evaporated can sugar
panko bread crumbs
vital wheat gluten
instant refried beans
rolled oats
tapioca pearls
whole wheat pastry flour
cornmeal
thyme
rosemary
coriander
cumin
chipotle chile powder
oregano
tarragon
mama-to-be tea
shredded coconut
chocolate chips
...Just a sampling of what you can get in a well-stocked bulk section...
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
This week I was in the mood to make bread. Plain old hearty wheat bread. But alas, I had no yeast. And I'm trying to limit trips to the store. So, what did I do? Improvise! I made yeast-free bread from a recipe I found online.
The great thing about yeast-free ...
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
I hesitate to post this. It is not a vegan or vegetarian cookbook. But I really admire the concept of it, and I think some of my "non" cook friends will appreciate it (you know who you are). Stone Soup has put out a free e-cookbook of what the author ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
I cooked a lot. I have been experiencing occasional insomnia. So today, I baked Blueberry Apple Spice muffins (gluten-free). At 4:30 a.m. Hubs awoke to a big batch of muffins sitting on the kitchen counter. The recipe came from the Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook. It's the Cranberry Apple Spice muffin ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
A while back I bought some dry mung beans, not knowing what to do with them. I think I had read that they are in the same family as adzuki beans, which I love for their versatility and low-gas-producing factor. Mung beans are little green beans common in East Asian ...
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