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Recipe Transformation Number One: Cooking Simple with Sheila Rae, page 107 1 cup Butter1 (8-ounce) Cream Cheese1 1/4 cup Natural Cane Sugar1 teaspoon Natural Vanilla3 1/4 cups Oatmeal (not quick oats)1/2 cup high-quality Chocolate Chips (Ghirardelli is my favorite) The butter and cream cheese will need to be room temperature.  Note: I prefer a mixer, this is very heavy dough.  Add remaining ingredients except for the chocolate chips.  Thoroughly mix.  Note: I let it the mixture set 30 minutes, stirred again for a minute, then I added the chocolate chips.  I used a small cookie scoop, then pressed the cookies...

Why is this a headline?  The answer is quite simple: bleached wheat flour is harming every level of society. We add it to so many food items as a thickener, an agent to keep cereals and other snack foods from sticking to equipment. Not to mention we bake everything with it: bread, doughnuts, cookies, cakes and everything else you find in the bakery section of our local store.  Bleached flour creates inflammation; it is connected to diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, weight gain and the list goes on and on. Bizzy Lizzy did not start the Bakery for allergies; we were trying...