Funny story...the other night I'm bringing my wife a fresh baked banana-walnut muffin nearly straight from the oven...with a little notso butter and only about a 3rd of a muffin she says...because she is going to be asleep shortly and doesn't need to eat a whole one...which is good because the last 3 batches of muffins could pass as ottomans. They're seriously huge. Way more muffin than any one man should eat in one sitting. If I were Otis Spank-meyer, I wouldn't be too worried though because I still haven't figured out a way to mass produce them (muffins) anyway and then I'd have to give my Health Coach a massive kick back because they're her recipes anyway...but I digress.
My wife asks me (again) what is in the muffins, since earlier that day she called and told me that her wheat alergy is kicking up and was there any way I could make them without flour. So I asked my health coach and she suggests spelt I'd heard of spelt, that could work! Enter SPELT!
I've only casually heard of spelt before; sounds like something you pull out of a lake though there's nothing fishy about it, so I figured why not? Upon colluding with my health coach, operation Spelt was in full effect! I found some miraculously in Warrensburg and immediatly went to work making new muffins.
The muffins turned out fabulous and my wife
asked me for that 3rd of a whole one as mentioned before...then she asked me
that question I dread answering... "what's in these?" I started ticking off
ingredients and when I came to Xylitol on the list of things (all of about 10 or
so...find that on an Otis Spunkmeyer muffin and then keep adding
ingredients/chemicals until you hit about 40 or so) she asked me...does
everything we eat have to have xylitol in it? What other kinds of sweeteners do
you use? Oh and what is xylitol anyway? I explained that xylitol comes from the birch tree and other natural plants like some fruits and corn cobs and the reason I
use it in our food especially baked goods is because it has the reverse
effect on our bones and teeth that regular processed sugars made from sugar beets and cane have on our teeth and bones like tooth decay, and also it helps prevent osteoperosis and
so on...so that seemed to work for now...she said the name freaked her
out which I find ironically funny because this is a woman who ingests about 6 different prescription
medications daily, some of which are potentially dangerous to her internal
organs like her liver, kidneys and heart and the word "DEATH" as a potential side effect in some of them...and she's worried about xlyitol
sounding weird? That's macbre! She's coming around and trying new things so I'm very encouraged and I understand for her it will take time...Rome wasn't built in a day...It's gonna take time :)
Cheers and Happy Mosh Pitting!
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