Better Flour

 

The best thing I have done this year was to upgrade my choice of flour.  I now buy either King Arthur or Bob’s Red Mill and what a difference it has made!  Neither one of these flours has additives, preservatives or anything weird in it.  The BFF swears regular flour has drywall dust in it (he’s joking) and it hurts his stomach.  I find it just makes me feel gross and sluggish.

 

When I upgraded my flour we stopped feeling ill after consuming items I make with it.  But!  And this is important!  My baked goods are SO MUCH BETTER!  They taste SO MUCH BETTER!  And!  Everything turns out nicer.  That Hot Milk Cake I made for Easter was SO GOOD!  I’ve never had it turn out so well before and I have made it a lot over the years.

 

When flour doesn’t have unwanted crap in it and only contains wheat, like flour should, it tastes better and our bodies digest it better.  It makes me wonder if people really don’t have gluten intolerance as much as they have an intolerance to all the crap that is put in our food.  It makes sense.

 

I keep unopened bags of flour in the freezer to maintain their freshness and once open I keep it in the refrigerator and that seems to be working really well.  I put my bags of flour into a vacuum bag and vacuum seal them before freezing because I don’t go through flour very fast and I want it to stay nice.  A five pound bag of flour fits perfectly in one of the large vacuum seal bags.  A five pound bag of flour will also fit inside a one gallon freezer bag.

 

It doesn’t seem right that we should have to pay extra for pure food, but in this particular case I feel it is totally worth it.  Fortunately pure unadulterated flours do go on sale from time to time or have coupons available to help lower the cost and that is when I stock up.  Focusing on healthier food options is truly making a difference.