Want to eat wholesome whole foods? It can be hard to find good, tasty main dishes or yummy desserts without the refined products. Here is our family's own personal collection of original recipes that constitute our daily meals. Our standards for these recipes are—little meat, no refined flour, and no sugar. You'll find casseroles, main dishes, soups, breakfasts, sandwiches, cookies, cakes, muffins, and treats. I've included my favorite Whole Wheat Bread recipe too. I know you'll like "Taco Casserole," "Move Over Pizza Hut," "Subway Our Way," and more. And for lunch, we like "It's Not Tuna Sandwiches." If it's not tuna, then what is it? No one can guess, but it is 100% delicious and nutritious. Spiral bound, 120 pages, with black-&-white drawings by my son Nathan.
From the floating markets of Thailand to the exotic fruits and spices of Mexico to the cheese of France, this fabulous book may be just the key to making your history or geography studies stupendous! Taste your way across the globe with recipes from every nation! Brilliant color photos and step-by-step illustrated how-to's make these recipes foolproof. Plus, there is interesting info on the foods from each country. Could it get better? It does! Linked Internet sites (kept up-to-date) give you even more fun information on international cuisine. Paperback, color photos, 96 pages, for ages 9 and up. Highly recommended!
La Leche League (the breast-feeding moms' group) did what it takes a lifetime to do-gather recipes from mothers all over the nation who have converted over to whole foods (meaning whole grains rather than refined flours, and honey or fruit sweeteners instead of sugar). My copy of this excellent cookbook is bedraggled and beloved. Now, it has been printed with a hard cover and large spiral binding so yours won't wear out like mine did! All 900 recipes have passed the taste test and are wholesome and nutritious. Quick and complete, make-it-from-scratch instructions make this valuable indeed. This book's "Making Your Own" section taught me how to make my own cream of mushroom soup, granola, enchilada sauce, and buttermilk. Instructions are also given on how to cook all the grains and beans, and what to serve them with to create a protein complement. Besides your normal cookbook sections of breads, main dishes (meat and meatless), and desserts, wonderful information is also included on breakfasts, lunch recipes, baby's first foods, non-allergenic recipes, sprouting, and using natural food dyes for Easter eggs or in cooking. I have often referred to the quick meals listed in the section entitled, "When It's 4 o'clock" to find out what I can scurry together for dinner. You will use it daily—one of my favorite cookbooks! 364 pages.
This comprehensive recipe book shows how to make beans into every conceivable dish—from breads to desserts. Many recipes contain "hidden beans" for families who insist they won't eat beans. For those allergic to dairy, you'll be amazed to learn that white beans ground into flour can make a wonderful dairy-free cream soup. Forget to plan ahead? No problem. You can make instant 8-minute refried beans using beans put through your wheat grinder. Paperback, 195 pages. A wonderful book!
One difficult part of eating healthy is that meals often take so long to prepare. Here is a collection of high-fiber, low-fat meatless meals that can be thrown together in less than 30 minutes! From breakfasts to sandwiches, soups, desserts, and more, you'll find unique and creative ways to use good wholesome ingredients quickly. Also included are recipes for homemade yogurt, cheeses made easily from dry milk powder, and other gems. You'll find easy sprouting methods and how-to for growing greens indoors. This author knows all the tricks! A great book for those trying to improve their family's diet and use their food storage in their daily meals. Paperback, 192 pages.
In no period of our history have Americans been so concerned about the subject of diet and nutrition. Heart disease and cancer were rare at the turn of the century. Today, chronic illness afflicts nearly half of all Americans and causes three out of four deaths in the United States. In this unique cookbook, author Sally Fallon challenges the "politically correct" diet and nutrition of our day. The recipes are based upon traditional cooking methods and ingredients that have created good health in the people who ate that way for centuries. Many well-known cooking methods and knowledge which creates good health and which have been lost are brought back to light in this book. This is not just a cookbook either—my favorite parts are the interesting traditional cooking methods, eating habits of people around the world, and voluminous research data found on each page next to the recipes. Here are the much needed recipes to put the book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration into practice. Paperback, 618 pages.
Using whole grains in your family's diet can make a world of difference! Healthy whole wheat contains so many more nutrients than the white flour that most of our grocery store products are made with! It can be challenging to cook with whole wheat if you aren't used to it, and this cookbook will give you the skills you need to make healthier, yummier, less expensive meals with whole wheat. Even has a recipe for Wheat Thin-type crackers—yes! Paperback, black-and-white illustrations.
Sometimes you just can't read it in a book and figure it out—you need to see it! I think I would have saved a year of making door stops (and other assorted brick-like loaves of bread) when I was first learning, had I been able to see someone experienced do it! 50-minute DVD shows you just how to prepare wheat for cooking, how to grind it into flour and how to make up popular recipes in the cookbook, Wheat Cookin' Made Easy or with other recipes that use whole wheat.
Ever wish you had a mentor to show you how to be a good homemaker? These instructional DVDs are a breath of fresh air! Learn homemaking skills from these down-home sisters (who have families of their own) and their mother as they work together in their homestead. Watch them demonstrate how to do just about everything needed to keep your family fed, clothed and cared for! These DVDs are entertaining and friendly—and easy to learn from! It is so very helpful to see something done, rather than just read instructions on how to do it. These Christian sisters live close to the land and have a lot to share that would make your life better. I highly recommend these!
Learn to Cook and Sew with a Home Economics Course
It hasn't been too long ago when nearly every girl could cook and sew. Nowadays, a girl with domestic skills seems to be the exception rather than the rule. But the homemaking skills are so essential: everyone has to eat and wear clothes daily! Home life's joys depend in part on these skills. This homemaking course is just the thing I was seeking for our daughters, 12 years and up. Ten write-in workbooks teach, tutor through projects, and test the home skills needed to be a good wife and mother. Basic sewing, using the sewing machine, creating clothing, basic nutrition, shopping techniques, food preparation and cooking, housekeeping, home decorating, tidiness, child care and development are covered in depth. The final workbook contains guidance in becoming a godly woman, understanding herself, God's plan for her body, singlehood, and Christian courtship. This course from the Mennonites contains conservative Biblical doctrine. Ten large-size workbooks, slipcased, illustrated throughout.
I used to always be on the lookout for good, European-style bread. The grocery stores seldom have it, and if they do it is made from white flour and has a hefty price tag on it. I would buy what I termed "good bread" from specialty bakeries for special occasions. Although I baked my own bread often, my recipe was for traditional loaves of sandwich-type bread, not the tantalizing, crusty, chewy loaves of bread I remember from Europe.
Then a friend introduced me to the super simple method of making artisan bread without kneading. It seems too good to be true, but after making 20 loaves in one week, I am here to tell you that it is ridiculously easy, fast and foolproof. It has revolutionized bread at my house! No need to buy it at the grocery store when fabulous bread is this easy to make. And it only takes 4 ingredients: flour, salt, yeast and water.
Hardbound book contains 100 fabulous recipes for healthy ethnic breads, whole wheat hamburger buns, pizza, corn bread, and gluten-free baking. Although they often use a mix of white flour and whole grain flour, I use only whole grain flour and the recipes turn out great. Bake your own artisan breads for just 40 cents per loaf! Color photographs will make your mouth water. A whopping 336 pages.
Have a "healthy sweet tooth"! Make Banana-Blueberry Muffins, Chocolate Coconut Cake, Peach Pie, Fudge, Cinnamon Rolls, Raspberry Popsicles, and more! Over 150 sugar-free, dairy-free recipes for great-tasting cakes, cookies, pies, candies, breads, and muffins use only natural sweetening such as fruit, fruit juice, date sugar and other healthful sweeteners. Paperback, 216 pages.
If you are like me, you invest quite a bit of each day in meal preparation. These excellent tips, projects, and charts will save you time in the kitchen! Includes reproducible master shopping lists, meal planners, recipe organization ideas, how-to instructions for taking inventory of your food storage and freezer so you actually use what you have, and more. I couldn't help thinking that these hints took me 30 years of homemaking to figure out! Spiral bound, 44 pages.
Louisa and her friends find this darling itty-bitty tea set and recipe book utterly delightful! Easy-to-make recipes for miniature food that you can really eat include the hit, Cinnamon Roll-ups. Just use a rolling pin to flatten a piece of bread, sprinkle with cinnamon and honey or sugar, and roll up. Cut into teeny-weeny cinnamon rolls that fit on the tiny plates. Book includes a darling miniature, plastic tea set, complete with teacups, saucers, plates, bowls, and tiny knives, forks, spoons . . . and a teapot that really works! Invite your doll, Daddy or other guest for a hot chocolate Teddy Bear party, a Princess party, a Fairy party, or a Doll party with special menus, placecards and placemats. Photo illustrated and charming. Please invite me! Spiral bound, 22 pages, for ages 4 and up
Learn to cook with this funny, friendly cookbook just for kids! Spiral bound wipe-off book includes a sturdy set of measuring spoons that are well-marked (quite essential for wonderful kid-cooking!) 45 savory kid-do-able recipes will create Frozen Bananoids, Not-So-Sloppy Joes, Berry Banana Smoothie, Non-Yukky Vegetables, 4 Ways to Make Eggs, and more favorite foods. Plus, learn to whip up some great stuff: Giant Soap Bubbles, Face Paint, and Playdough! Each full-color page is sturdy cardstock, so this book is going to endure! 77 pages for ages 6 to 14 years.
Large print, simple healthy recipes contain no sugar or white flour. Whip up some Orange Julius, Banana Muffins, Potato Carrot Casserole, Nuts-Gone-Crazy treats and more! 20 recipes on sturdy cardstock. spiral-bound to stand up straight on your countertop while you cook. Great for young aspiring cooks! By Diane Hopkins.
