That is my latest goal. Or at least cut down on how much we eat. I got two books on making mixes, dressings, etc. on my own. They have some great recipes and I love not having corn syrup and other additives in my food. So, once I use up the processed food, I replace it with a mix of my own. 
I made fruit snacks for the kids last week--they loved them! Gonna make some more with with less gelatin to make it more like the processed kind. It is just 100% fruit juice and plain gelatin! I have some candy molds and the kids will help me make some more tomorrow!
Here are the mixes I did today:
Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal Mix...good bye Quaker Instant Oats packages! Cornbread Mix--no more little Jiffy boxes! Pancake and Waffle Mix--sorry, Bisquick! Healthier and cheaper too! Next is my dressings, bye bye Newman's Own, gonna be "Nana's Own Raspberry Vinaigrette" :)
The ingredients for the Jiffy Cornbread is as follows: Wheat flour, degerminated yellow corn meal, sugar, animal shortening (contains one or more of the following: Lard, partially hydrogenated lard, contains less than the following: baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, salt, mono calcium phosphate, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mono nitrate, riboflavin, folic acid.
Mine: cornmeal, sugar (but I use half) whole wheat flour, baking powder ( I use half of what it calls for) and a little baking soda. NO LARD!!
I didn't add any more salt because there is plenty from the baking powder but I have control over how much to add and I like that!
Feels good to do this for us and for the grandchildren too! Small steps for good health!
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