Wholesome Food Recipes
BREAD
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to this":-
White flour, water, salt, vegetable fat, vinegar, yeast, emulsifiers E471, E472(e), flavouring, Soya flour, flour treatment agent: E300
These are the ingredients in a well-known, respected brand of sliced white bread. The flour, salt, water, yeast and fat are necessary for any loaf of bread, but the emulsifiers and flour treatment agents?
Proper bread is meant to be eaten fresh, and it doesn’t keep for more than a couple of days. Additives are put into modern bread to keep it fresh for one or two weeks, but why bother when bread can be frozen?
The solution is to bake bread yourself, slice it and then freeze it. Then you can take slices as they are needed. Bread doesn’t have to go stale, but it doesn’t need emulsifiers, Soya flour or E-numbers either! Most people who think they are intolerant of bread or wheat are in fact reacting to the Soya flour. So don’t use it!
Here is my recipe for either apricot
and brazil nut bread, which is fabulous for toast or as a
tea bread, and multigrain bread,
which tastes particularly good with eggs or as a ham, cheese or
salad sandwich.
FLAPJACKS
Gardening sounds like a relaxing occupation, but my garden involves an awful lot of heavy digging. I need to pause for a break and a bit of energy without having the fiddle of taking the Wellingtons off and getting washed, so that's when my flapjacks come in.
Better than a sugary, fat-free cereal bar, they are packed with fruit, nuts and seeds for protein, plus oats for slow-release carbohydrates that will keep me going happily until the evening. In summer I have one with a bottle of water - in winter it's a flapjack and hot chocolate in a flask!
Dates, walnuts, brazil nuts and seeds also provide a lot of
help for women and girls with hormone problems.
When I wrote my book
'The Beat Your Body Chaos Diet' I included date
and walnut flapjacks, plus many other home-style recipes
that I know help with depression and anxiety.