wheat flour

This summer I decided to change a few more things about my every day diet that would be healthful for me.  Many of you know I had already quit drinking soda.  This has had a dramatic effect alone, I lost 10 pounds right of the bat and haven't put it back on.  I also decided to join a CSA - Grower's Alliance in which I get 2 bags of food (meat, veggies, fruit, milk & eggs) every week for $25 and it's all organic, and grown around here. All the meat I get is free of antibiotics and growth hormones.  Along with this, I decided to try and eliminate white sugar from my diet as well as white flour.  So at home, I've been successful.  Going out to eat, not so much - but I can choose not to go out to eat.  I found a delicious Wheat flour pancake recipe that I wanted to share. 

Wheat pancakes

Ingredients:
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon common granulated sugar (I use honey instead of the sugar and just add about a tablespoon or 2 of it in the batter - I've been doing this consistently all summer with lots of recipes and it works really well)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons oil

I either spray a pan with pam or put a little bit of butter in it.  Heat it on medium.

Mix the flour, sugar/honey, baking powder and salt in one bowl.  In another bowl, mix the egg, add milk and 2 tablespoons of oil.  Mix the dry and wet ingredients together.  (Or if you are like me and don't like to dirty bowls, I mix the dry and then add in the wet and then mix it all together).
Then make your pancakes.  I add fruit to mine before frying.  I've done blueberries and banana - I think anything you like would work well (nuts too). 

I will probably make all recipes with wheat flour as time goes on and I use it even more.  The difference in taste is not extraordinarily different and it's better for me. 

The only other thing I've done is that while shopping I am very aware of the ingredients in anything I buy.  If I don't know what an ingredient is, I don't buy it - I look for the product with the fewest ingredients.  So far - so good.  It's really dramatically changed how I look at meat.  But Food Inc. did that and before that was Jillian's Metabolism book - so this really isn't new thinking for me. And if you haven't seen Food Inc., you should.  If you want a great read on nutrition, you should read Jillian Michael's Metabolism book.  Mine's loaned out right now and has a waiting line of 1, but I'm totally willing to share when it becomes available.