Not exact matches
Stein's nutritional studies, as well as her love for homemade baked goods, certainly guided her ingredients: the cookies contain no
refined sugar (they're sweetened by organic coconut sugar) and
use millet, almond and garbanzo fava
bean flour.
I have lots of vanilla
beans left over from making homemade vanilla for my wedding and I love vanilla paste, but also don't want to
use refined sugar if I can
use something else.
I bought this to
use in things like veggie burgers (half mashed
beans, half chopped greens, egg and flour to bind), since I am trying to keep
refined flours and other carbs out of my diet.
Lower glycemic foods, like berries versus bananas, or
beans versus
refined bread, will help to reduce the immediate blood sugar spike and will help to spread out the energy
use.
Thing is, before this happened, I was eating «healthy»:
using raw sugar, honey, agave nectar, molasses, almost no
refined table sugar; drinking a smoothie of 4 - 5 fruits and veggies mixed with plain yogurt every day; very little red meat; lots of various
beans; watching caloric intake; whole grains, including wheat, spelt, rye, etc; soy -
beans, oil, whatever; fish oil and other supplements; margarine instead of butter; etc..