Cooking Class #2 in A New Journey

I woke up feeling great, no pain from my Psoriatic Arthritis, Something is going right, I have been doing the ACV and 2 tablets of Tumeric. I am so loving the no pain. I used to be on all kinds of medicines and it was the worse feeling I ever had when I was on those poisoning meds. I used to take Gabapentin gained 50 lbs from that CRAP! YES crap. I also used to inject Methotrexate for my Psoriasis and that was even worse. I would have 4 days of feeling like I could not get up and out of bed but I had to back then. SO Once I was told about the ACV, (apple cider) and Tumeric. I wanted to make a huge change with my life once I had some heart pains. MY heart Dr told me to loose 40 lbs. SO I wanted to make some major changes on my self. Since I knew I was moving up here and I wanted to be able to get out and explore more places once I arrived up here. SO I went off of all my meds except a few such as my Asthma meds as I am controlled with my Asthma. I have not had a asthma attack on over 2 years and that has been a miracle for me! Until the last week I did have to use my nebulizer as I think I had to deal with new environments here. SO its getting better again. I am happy to say I am feeling so much better physically now.

Now let me share about the Cent$ible Nutrition Program I signed up for. WOW I learned a few new things today. It about families eat better for less. Check out this website www.Choosemyplate.gov . I have explored in that website and I love this website as it has more information on nutritional things. SO see what you can learn from it.
SO the teacher was talking about advertisement, grocery stores, and labels. I was flabbergasted that you know when you go grocery shopping on how all the ingredient on the boxes or packages are full of CRAP! They only want you to see what is like the good stuff but once you go thru the back of the Nutrition Facts you will see whats really inside the packages, like for example, Lets take a box of Pancake Mix and on the front of the box says Blueberries, NO GMO, or other things saying low calories. Well usually it can be false information. The teacher had a example box that blueberry pancake mix and wow this box had like very very few blueberries in the package and there was another example box she showed was Kellogg’s strawberries Snacks (the ones that look like gummy bears). SO we all were looking at the Nutrition Facts, I was in shock there was NO strawberries in the ingredients and imagine there is in each piece of snack it has 2 cubes of sugar in them. SO the front of the box it was saying Gluten Free....made with Fruit Puree....70 calories,....fat free…100% DV vitamin C in per pouch. I will type out all the ingredient is in each pouch ok.
Corn syrup, sugar, apple puree, concentrate, water, modified corn starch, gelatin, contains 2% of citric acid, vitamin C (Ascorbic acid), Natural and artificial flavors, red 40, blue 1.
NOW what do you think does it really have any strawberries. I was shocked!! So are the kids eating coloring stuff and SUGAR!!
After we talked about all the advertisements we are looking at when we go grocery shopping, can I ask how many of you actually look at the Nutrition Facts?? I am going to start doing that. I want to be healthy!!
SO we went into the kitchen and started making Crunchy Salad and Zucchini bread and also Taco Pie. All the ingredient was healthy and simple and fast to make even for small k
I had learned about CNP Master Mix. Do any of you know what that is??
Well it can be used for some quick baking stuff like pancakes, muffins, pumpkin bread etc. Just whip up
4 cups of unsifted enrich flour
4 cups of unsifted whole wheat flour
3 Tablespoon sugar.
1 Tablespoon iodized salt
1 1/3 cups of non fat dry milk powder
1 cup of Canola Oil
1) in a large bowl, combine flours, baking powder, sugar, salt, and dry milk.
2) Drizzle oil over the dry mixture, cut in with pastry blender, fork, or fingers until it resembles coarse cornmeal.
3) Store in covered container in refrigerator
YIELD: Approximately 10 cups. Keeps in about 3 months in refrigerator for 3 months!
Low-Altitude (less than 2000 feet) increase baking powder to 1/3 cup.
You can use this for like pancake, muffins, cornbread muffins, Pumpkin Bran Muffins, Zucchini bread, Banana bread, coffee cake, brownies, Peanut Butter Refrigerator Cookies, drop Vanilla cookies, Pumpkin Breakfast cookies,
IF any of you would like a recipe of any of them please email me at Wranglingirl@gmail.com I be happy to give you the recipe. I can scan the recipe and send you a copy of what I have.

SO the class was a learning place as I also found out when you are measuring flour in a measuring cup and then you use a knife to scrap off the extra flour to get it just at 1 cup, I was told that instead of packing the flour down and then wiping the extra flour over the cup to make it exactly 1 cup. DO NOT DO THAT!!
I was told to spoon the flour in the measuring cup and then wipe the extra flour. that is the correct way to do it. When you are packing it in, you are putting too much flour in the measuring cups.
Try it how I described it. You will noticed that the one you packed with flour there is more flour in the measuring cup.
Take Bowl and do one cup of flour each way I told you and you will see what I am talking about!
Gosh I hope I made sense in this. Please let me know If I need to explain better.

SO WE also made some crunchy Salad, WOW that was good too.
Here is the recipe for that one
Crunchy Salad
1 package of ramen noodles
1/2 head of cabbage, shredded
1 apple, chopped
2 green onion, thinly sliced
1) break up the ramen noodles and combine with cabbage, apples and onions. Mix well
Dressing
1/4 cup of vinegar
2 tablespoon of canola oil
1 Tablespoon sugar or honey
1/2 salt
1) combine vinegar, oil, salt. Mix thoroughly
add dressing to salad and toss.
Makes 6 servings!

I really don’t like ramen but this was good. You can add other ingredient of you like such as raisins or something that can be crunchy.

I really enjoyed this class today. I am meeting other ladies as well. MY daughter and I are going together and hoping she will use some of these recipes.

Well Kiddos will be home soon and I got some examples of the Master mix I plan to have JB and I make some banana bread once he gets here.

Have a great evening