Quick and Easy Cheap and Healthy Spelt Pizza Crust – Great Alternative for Wheat-Free Diets

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Spelt Pizza Crust – Great Alternative for Wheat-Free Diets Posted: 06 Aug 2012 09:01 PM PDT I have really been enjoying experimenting with other grains in my WonderMill, namely spelt. Spelt is such a great alternative to wheat, because although it tastes and behaves similar to wheat, it can be tolerated by people with sensitivities or allergies to wheat. My son is one of those who cannot have wheat, but we have found that he can handle spelt. I am thrilled, because spelt is easy to use, creates a finished product very much like those made with wheat flour, and is at least as nutritious as whole wheat flour. Find my new favorite pizza crust recipe at the Grain Mill Wagon. This post was made possible by WonderMill and the Grain Mill Wagon. Thank you for subscribing to Quick and Easy Cheap and Healthy! Here's your free copy of Spring Into Smoothies All Summer Long. Enjoy!

Healthy Cookies. Yes, HEALTHY Cookies! {Secret Recipe Club ~ August 2012} Posted: 06 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT My secret blog for this month’s Secret Recipe Club was Everyday Mom, written by Kim, whose love of baking is evident when you browse through her Recipes page! I’m pretty fond of baking myself, so I had fun looking through her archives and trying to decide which delicious-sounding treat I should make: Apple Cake with Maple Frosting (when autumn comes, for sure!)? Maple Mousse (I’d never heard of that one!)? Or maybe Yeasted Coffee Cake (complicated, but - I imagine – totally worth it)? In the end, I settled for none of these, and instead made a treat that was angelically good in comparison: Banana Oatmeal Cookies, which happened to be her Secret Recipe Club post from last July. If you leave out the chocolate chips (but really, now, who does that?), they have absolutely no added sugar! And while I personally could probably never bring myself to make them without the chocolate chips, I think they would still be perfectly sweet without them because the bananas offer all the sweetness necessary. You may or may not need quite as many bananas, depending on how big they are. I think mine were larger than  usual, because 4 made the mixture very liquidy. I ended up adding some oat flour to make them more of a cookie consistency, but next time I’ll probably start with fewer bananas and see how it goes. Below is the recipe exactly as I made it. Banana Oatmeal Cookies (Sugar-Free, Wheat-Free, Dairy-Free, Egg-Free… But Full of Deliciousness!) Ingredients 4 bananas, mashed 2 cups oats 1 cup oat flour 2 TBSP nut butter or seed butter (I used sunflower seed butter) 1/4 cup chocolate chips Instructions Stir everything but the chocolate chips together until blended. Gently stir in the chocolate chips. Place a tablespoon at a time onto greased cookie sheets and bake for about 15 minutes at 350F. These were so QUICK to make; I could make a batch every week if I had enough bananas! They were super EASY, too. My Certain Little Someone happily helped me stir and spoon them out. They are pretty CHEAP, as well, using very few ingredients. And very HEALTHY, without the added sugars! The natural sugars in the bananas, plus whatever sweetener is in the nut butter and chocolate chips make these perfectly sweet. If you’re curious about the Secret Recipe Club, you can read more about it here. Thank you for subscribing to Quick and Easy Cheap and Healthy! Here's your free copy of Spring Into Smoothies All Summer Long. Enjoy!

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