Articles to share

Okay...I get this magazine...but there were a few articles I really liked in here, so I purchased the digital version as well, so I could share with YOU!
(with the digital version I am allowed to share it on my blog!!)

The first thing I wanted to share is on page 32-37. Just click on the magazine below and go.
Samantha, I think you will like this. You will see that it is not just me and you that feel this way.
Candi, I think you would enjoy this article as well.

Yes I did put this on here specifically for Samantha and Candi, but also for anyone else that wants to read it is welcome to.

Candi in addition to pgs 32-37, go to page 138 and page 142...those two articles are about speech and language. I was going to give you my magazine...when I saw these articles, but I guess I am greedy and wanted to keep it. (shame on me) but that is why I got this digital version to share.

Look Inside >> Summer 2009

There are lots of other great articles as well. Feel free to read as much as you want. (it will help me get my monies worth:)
PS - if you don't like reading off of your monitor it gives you the option to print it off as a pdf.....how cool is that!

and of course --- if you are reading this on facebook and the icon to click didn't transfer over....just go to my blog to click through to the magazine.

It is official....I am now grinding my own wheat!

Yep, that's right, I mill my own wheat. After hearing all the chatter about 'the bread you buy at the store is just junk food' ....and even if you make your own bread but use flour or bread flour etc....still junk food........
I decide to look into it myself. If you want more info on the subject Bread Beckers might be a good place to start. I recommend their FREE audio cd.

Anyways, seems lots of my friends were grinding their own wheat and enjoying the health benefits of it. So after talking it over with Chad and coming to terms the time commitment it would take to grind my own wheat and make my own, bread, muffins, pizza dough, etc....we decided to do it.

This is what I purchased to get started.....

The large buckets are wheat....Here is my mill that grinds the wheat...
And the bread machine that is strong enough to mix milled wheat...
So far I used the bread machine to mix and knead and do the 1st rise, but then take the dough out and bake it in the oven.

I needed to store all the extra ingredients, so I found these jars at the Container Store and they do the job nicely.
I made labels using card stock, markers and packaging tape.

Here is how my counter now looks.

The yeast I keep stored in fridge (and after this photo was taken I found out that the lecithin would last longer if stored in the fridge, so it is now in there too)

I have only had it a few days and have already made bread, cookies and pizza dough. And everything so far has been yummy! I will post later about my bread baking experience.