A couple of years ago, a church colleague asked me, in astonishment, why I would even consider baking cookies from scratch. "All that time!" "All that mess!" She lamented.
To each his own, but I submit "All those ingredients!" as to why I still choose to make all baked goods from scratch.
Case in point:
Pillsbury® Ready to Bake!™ Big Deluxe Classics® refrigerated white chunk macadamia nut cookies
A four-inch list of ingredients than I know what to do with, words like "hydrogenated," several ingredients ending in -ose, high fructose corn syrup, "artificial" and "white confectionary chunks", to name a few - and an entire day's worth of trans fats in one cookie.
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies (Modified from Grandma B's Chocolate Crunch Cookie Recipe)
Butter
Sugar
Eggs
Unbleached Flour
Salt
Soda
Vanilla
White choclate chips (cocoa butter, sugar)
Fresh cranberries
I'll take the mess and the time to know what, exactly, I'm consuming.
6 comments:
I couldn't agree more! Baking has also become one of the favorite things that my kids and I do together. Who needs a kitchen aid when there is always an eager toddler or preschooler near by (just put the bowl in the sink).
Fact, I just made some really good fat free blueberry muffins, and whenever I eat something "fat free" which is store bought I KNOW there are crazy chemicals in them and I almost feel like it is BETTER for me to eat the regular muffins (or w/e), b/c at least then I know the harm I am doing to my body vs. the unknown side effects of consuming all of these chemicals and weirdly processed food.
But when you cook, you know EXACTLY what is going into your body, and the effect that those ingredients will have on you.
PAW - exactly. I would rather eat one bit full fat stuff than all chemically laden fat free stuff any day.
Plus, Woodstock helped me bake. It was quite humorous. She likes to eat the flour.
There seems to be one critical "ingredient" missing from this post. Where are all the measurements so I can make these cookies myself? ;)
Ugh. Seriously. Though knowing all this doesn't stop me from the occasional consumption of chemical-laden goodies. I just try not to think about it too much then... ;) But yeah, much preferable to KNOW what you're eating. Z and I lament often the sad state of the American diet...well, much of the world, actually.
Hahah! So true. This is why I make my own bread.
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