News — Flourless Facts

Author:  Jenni McAllister, Freelance Writer   Should You Eliminate Bleached White Flour from your Diet? The health concerns associated with white sugar are well-documented, but less well-known are the fact that white flour isn’t all that good for you either—it’s highly processed, and consequently low in nutritional value. Luckily, while there are some recipes—like the classic chocolate chip cookie—that are thought to be better when made with white flour, in most cases, it’s easy to make substitutions that allow you to all but eliminate bleached white flour from your diet. Why is Flour Bleached? Wheat is ground into flour via a...

  Weight Watchers is a great plan in all most every aspect accept the use of refined flour.  They teach to cut out sugar why don't they tell us to stop eating flour?  Why do they make their snack foods with bleached flour?  Good Grains are good for you and yes they have more calories because they have more values for our body.

 The "gluten free" diet or "wheat free diet" has exploded recently, and with good reason. Especially in the first few months, people who take on lifestyle of eating a no wheat diet can see amazing results. With a gluten free diet, the health benefits are more about what you’re not eating than what you are. You cut out fried and breaded foods, which cuts out oil and fat, and you cut out a good portion of desserts – eliminating sugar. You’re also giving up greasy fast food and trading it for fruits and vegetables. Going wheat free lets you massively...

Replacing flour is easier than most people think.  I do it all the time in the Bizzy Lizzy Bakery but also in my own kitchen.  People all the time ask if I follow the principle and the answer is yes.  I use oatmeal to make pie, cookies, thickners in soups, dredging chicken and so on.  I also us Potato Flakes for thickners in gravy's and soups too. Eating flourless is easy if you allow yourself to think outside the loaf, the only reason we use flour is because generations before us did.  However, generations before us had decent flours to...

 There was a time when people thought the world was flat, and if you just went far enough, you’d drop off the horizon’s edge into nothingness. Now, of course we know this isn’t true, and it sounds absolutely ridiculous. But it didn’t, not to a lot of people, not for a long time, until someone was brave enough to test out the waters. This pioneering spirit is what revolutionizes the way we think, act, and live out our lives, and the bakery business is not exception! There was a time when people thought that absolutely NO WAY could you make...