White cake mix ingredients: 1) Sugar, 2) Enriched bleached wheat flour, 3) Partially hydrogenated soybean oil, 4) Propylene glycol mono- and diesters of fats, 5) Mono- and diglycerides, 6) Wheat starch, 7) Sodium bicarbonate, 8) Sodium aluminum phosphate, 9) Dicalcium phosphate, 10) Monocalcium phosphate, 11) Modified food starch, 12) Dextrose, 13) Salt, 14) Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, 15) Soy lecithin, 16) Natural and artifical flavor, 17) Guar gum, 18) Xanthan gum.Frozen mixed berries ingredients: 1) frozen berries.That sounds like 3 ingredients but let’s count the number of actual number in the recipe: The recipe ingredients are frozen fruit, white cake mix and diet soda. There’s a popular Pinterest recipe called Three Ingredient Berry Cobbler. One of my food conscious friends loves to point out the ridiculousness of recipes that include highly processed food but are labeled with titles such as Three Ingredient Cookies. They are so common they are becoming ingredients for other recipes! Let’s be honest… prepackaged, processed foods are the norm in most American households. Scratch cooking does not include the use of highly processed ingredients such as cream of mushroom soup or “meal replacement” foods such as boxed meal helpers or prepackaged bags of freezer-to-crock pot entrees. This means cooking your favorite foods from basic, minimally processed ingredients such as unbleached flour, meat, vegetables and simple canned goods such as tomatoes. Michael Pollan, author of several bestselling books about healthy eating (my favorite are The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food) argues that we can take back control of our food from corporations through one simple process… What’s a snack food lover to do? My solution… make my own “junk food”! Unhealthy, preservative-filled, hydrogenated-oil containing, highly processed, artificially colored snack foods are nutritional disasters! Tasty, salty, crunchy, savory snack foods are so satisfying and delicious!
Let just start by stating the obvious: I love snacks! Homemade crackers are simple to make from scratcha nd are a great way to eliminate preservatives and unnecessary additives. Want to up your healthy snacking game? Try these easy homemade cheese crackers recipe.
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