Wholesome Sugarfree Cooking

Finally...a wholesome Amish written cookbook featuring
Whole Wheat Flour, Whole Grains & Natural Sweeteners such as
Honey, Maple Syrup, Sorghum, and the sweet-herb Stevia.

only $16.95
Includes Shipping ( via U.S. Media Mail)

Now you can have your sweet and eat it to!

Message from the
Promoter & Sponsor

Vickie J. Hamilton Springer
Speaker & Promoter of
Healthy Cooking
Bio-Identical HRT, and sponsor of this web site.

While traveling on vacation, my husband and I happened upon an old mill in  Oak Ridge, North Carolina. We had already passed the sign but could not pass up the opportunity to turn around to find out more. To our delight, we walked into the Old Mill of Guilford. A quaint place where they still make whole grain products from scratch. We purchased several bags of fresh ground whole wheat flour, buckwheat pancake mix and spelt flour.

After taking several photos of the mill and saying our goodbyes, we continued our journey up through the Blue Ridge Mountains as we made our way back home to Ohio. I said to my husband, "What I need now are some recipes or better yet a cookbook featuring the use of whole wheat flour." Sure, I knew I might be able to just try substituting whole wheat flour for white flour but I love to collect cookbooks and was curious as to if I could find a cookbook featuring the use of whole wheat flour. 

Our next stop on our journey, was in Virginia. It was there that I my eyes caught a glimpse of a book entitled, "Wholesome Sugarfree Cooking" written by Ray and Malinda Yutzy. I immediately had to browse through and rule out the use of any artificial sweeteners as the source of their claim of "sugarfree" and was pleased to find healthy substitutes! Better yet, I had found the cookbook I was seeking featuring "whole wheat flour" as well as other natural grains and ingredients!

I feel it's one of my many missions in life to be a sponsor and promoter of this wonderful, health-conscious, Amish written cookbook.

I'm enjoying getting "healthier" and I believe you will to! Cooking and baking has never been better...

                                  Enjoy,                   

Vickie
         

Wholesome Sweeteners
and the story behind refined sugar...

What is the white granulated sugar we buy at the grocery store? How is it made? Sugar is what is left over from sugar cane or sugar beets after they are chemically processed and highly refined.

Whole natural foods are always a combination of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Sugar cane and sugar beets are food, and their dehydrated juices are food. However, by the time we buy  our sugar at the store, it has been so refined that our body does not recognize it as food. While we tend to think brown sugar, raw sugar and turbinado are better for us, they too are usually just refined sugar with enough molasses added to give them the desired color.

Fructose and high fructose corn syrup are also highly refined sweeteners that are known to unbalance the blood sugar level in our bodies.

Artificial sweeteners such as Equal and Nutra-Sweet contain aspartame, which is a toxic substance that has been associated with many health problems, including depression, birth defects, pancreatitis, and seizures.

When we eat refined sugars, we are eating empty, unbalanced calories. In order to balance and detoxify, and to digest this sugar, it has to use up our reserves of insulin, enzymes, vitamins, and minerals.

When we use refined sugars for many years, our reserves are depleted and our body will need to borrow these nutrients from deep in our bones, teeth, and vital organs. This is our body's way to try to correct the sugar imbalance. Weakness, decay of teeth, disease, and lowered immunity to sickness can soon follow. Diabetes, and lowered immunity to sickness can soon follow. Diabetes, candida (yeast), food allergies, headaches, hypoglycemia, weak adrenal glands, mental illness, and chronic fatigue syndrome are just some of the illnesses that can come from eating too much sugar.

The good news is that we do have a choice. We do not have to decide that since regular, refined sugar is so bad for us, we will just have to stay away from sweets. There are all-natural sweeteners that contain many nutrients. Natural sweeteners too, should be used in moderation, because even they can cause blood sugar imbalances if they are used in excess.

Here is a list of a few all-natural sugars:

Maple Syrup - This evaporated sap of the sugar maple tree is rich in minerals. It gives a naturally wonderful maple flavor to baked goods and other desserts.

Sorghum - This syrup is made by boiling sorghum cane juice. It contains B vitamins and minerals like calcium and iron. It is delicious in molasses cookies.

Stevia - A super-sweet herb used as a dietary supplement, stevia is tolerated much better by diabetics than some other natural sweeteners. The biggest problem is adding too much, which produces an unpleasant flavor.