Comments on: Tasty Treats: Sweet Potato Pudding and More Christmas Cookies

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:17:02 +0000

Hi - just new to the site and read Tami’s comment. Have you found a good cracker recipe that your kids will like? I’ve been thru a few with my boys and no luck!

By: Tami

Tami — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:45:30 +0000

I’m still planning on making this pudding with the sweet potato that is sitting on my counter right now. I don’t have a very good grater though so I’ll likely run it through the Champion Juicer on the blank plate. Lately I’ve been using the juicer more for things like that than for juice!

Joanne — I agree with Tera, get a dehydrator. I’m still working on a cracker recipe that my girls (3 and 11) will devour, but the cookies, fruit leather, etc. sure gets eaten up fast. Actually, my husband LOVES the crackers I make even if they are just plain flax crackers. But so far I can’t get the girls to eat them. So I’m in search of a good basic cracker recipe that kids will love, and I would also love something that mimics a graham cracker (all gluten free of course). It has to be relatively easy though if I’m going to make it too often. And my sprouting abilities are still a work in progress so if it requires me to sprout a lot, then it’s not easy. Soaking I can do, but sprouting I’m still working on.

However my FAVORITE thing about my dehydrator (I invested in the Blendtec blender and Excalibur dehydrator when I decided to really “go raw”) is that it helps me not waste food. I’m not really fond of raw soups and dips that have been stored very long in the refridgerator, so whenever I have some leftover, which is nearly every day, I pour it out onto a teflex sheet and dehydrate it for another day. Then this ties in perfectly with my second favorite things about it — it helps me stay raw, and not hungry, when traveling. That dehydrated soup now can be stashed in my purse (!!!) and taken out and mixed with some warm water when I need a little pick me up. For better mixing it’s best to grind the dehydrated soups to a powder before storing, but I usually just deal with lumpy soup. And you would be surprised at how yummy some dehydrated soups and dips taste just eaten like a cracker (or like “nut cheese” I guess but you just use what you have).

I’m going to have to try the banana cookies in order to have some goodies to take along on our big Christmas road trip. But I have no idea what rice flakes are — do you just grind up rice or is this something special. And I’ll have to replace the oat with buckwheat or something (gluten or rather cross contamination in oats).

MMmmm… now I’m hungry. Which reminds me of the one negative about the dehydrator — all the yummy smells coming from it make me want to eat at night sometimes. But I can deal with it.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:19:55 +0000

I hear ya, sista! I keep seeing all those scrummy cookie and cracker recipes and know that my family would love them (a friend has a dehydrator and my girls loved crackers made from it). I really think it will make a difference.

I’m putting it on my ‘will-buy’ list for next year – for after we’ve bought a house!

Thanks for the push!

Love Jo

By: Tera

Tera — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:02:54 +0000

With all that financial planning you do, Woman, it’s time to invest in a dehydrator. I didn’t do it for years and years and I can honestly say it has made a BIG difference in my kids ability to go raw. Now even my ex-husband is onboard. I’d say he’s about 90% right now. Definitely a gluten free vegan and 90% raw. Not bad…. not bad at all.

So put it on your wish list…

Love you,
Tera

By: Joanne

Joanne — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:32:22 +0000

Wow, Tera – those puddings and cookies sound great! I don’t have a dehydrator (and will leave trying the slow oven approach until summer’s over!), but I will definitely give the puddings a try. What a great colour! And I love Mika’s enthusiastic grin!