What to Tell People You Eat

What do you tell the other mom about okay breakfast foods when Kiddo is going for a sleepover? What do you tell the babysitter if she wants to give the kids a snack? What do you tell Sister-In-Law when you are planning Thanksgiving dinner together?

While one option might be to simply hand-carry your own meals everywhere you go, sometimes it's helpful to have a list that you can just hand out, for other people to keep for a reference. Below is a link to the list that I have created for these types of things; I hope that you find it helpful!

Please note: for my kiddo, he can "cheat" with a little bit of starch from time to time. Some people might be able to tolerate more, some people might be able to tolerate less. Feel free to change, or omit, that section as it applies to you.
Foods Containing Starch and/Or Maltose

mmmm, peanut butter

What do you get when you take THIS:



plus THIS?


You get THIS.


Peanut Butter Surprise Muffins
Ingredients
6 eggs
2 1/2 cups almond flour
1/3 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup light cream
1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup peanut butter chips
peanut butter

Method
Beat eggs until thick and light-colored. Whisk in coconut flour. Add butter, almond flour, light cream, vanilla, sugar, and baking soda. Whisk well to blend. Add peanut butter chips.

Place a scant 1/2 cup of batter into muffin tins. Place about 1 teaspoon of peanut butter on top of each muffin, and press lightly into the batter. You just want to push it down a tiny bit so that it doesn't slide off when it hits the heat of the oven, you're not pushing it all the way into the batter.

Bake at 350° for 15-18 minutes or until done. Makes approximately 18 muffins, with about 1 gram of starch each.

Starch Free Fauxtmeal

This recipe is totally cool, mostly because it's not a recipe. But it has a great photo, so there's that, at least.




Fauxtmeal (faux-t-meal)
TVP (plain, non-flavored)
Milk (whatever kind floats your boat)
sugar (or stevia or agave or whatever you like)**
cinnamon or other spices
fruit, perhaps, or raisins, or anything else you can think of**


Combine equal parts TVP and milk. Add sugar and spice(s) and fruit to taste... all of this is completely optional. Add whatever you like!!! Place the whole lot in a cake pan or a pie plate or a 9x13 pan or any pan that you like. The only important part is that your mixture should be somewhere around an inch thick.

Bake at 350° for about 30 minutes, or until done. Add extra liquid when serving if you prefer your oatmeal to have that "soupy" quality.

That's it, and that is a non-recipe recipe if I ever saw one! Oh, and it's starch free.

*remember, honey has maltose, so don't use that if you're maltose-intolerant
** don't be silly and add potatoes or taro with your raisins, 'cause then it's not starch-free anymore

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After I posted this recipe, it occurred to me that some people might not know what TVP is. For this recipe, it's important to get the Plain variety, because it can come in different flavors, and I don't imagine that chicken- or beef-flavored oatmeal would be very tasty. I get mine in the bulk bins of my local WholeFoodMart, but Bob's Red Mill sells it in ~1lb packages.

Here is a linky to Bob's TVP on their website:
Bob's TVP

Coconut Easter Cookies

Here are some yummy cookies just in time for Easter! If you prefer, you can replace the jelly beans with dried fruit, or leave them off altogether.



Coconut Macaroon Easter Cookies
Ingredients
6 eggs
2 1/2 cups almond flour
1/4 cup coconut flour
~3 cups sweetened coconut (I used the whole bag)
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda

jellybeans, optional

Method
Beat eggs until light thickened. Whisk in coconut flour, add remaining ingredients except jelly beans. Beat well.

Place small scoops of batter onto parchment-lined pans. Press the centers down to make small depression. Bake at 325° for 15-20 minutes, depending on size, or until done. Remove to a cooling rack and top with jelly beans (you can anchor them with frosting if you prefer).

Makes about 2 dozen small cookies with less than one gram of starch each.