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Just finished my first batch of tortilla chips. Crazy to start with flour, cornmeal, and a few other ingredients and in a few minutes have a bowl full of homemade chips. Here are my reasons for making something that you can buy with pretty pure ingredients from the store.
1. I think I saved a few bucks...not that tortilla chips are super expensive.
2. Eating chips becomes a time consuming choice, not a mindless activity. If I'm hungry, a quick fix is a handful of chips from the bag. The quick fix should be an apple. Chips become a treat if I am making a deliberate choice to make them for my family, rather than a snack staple in our house.
3. No preservatives. I watched the ingredients go into the bowl and every ingredient was a good choice for my family. I can pronounce all the ingredients, so I now have moved chips from the food product category to the real food category.
It was fun. Healthy eating has been a priority for us for a long time now, but it's time to cut out some of the easy convenience foods we've allowed to slip into our diet.
1. I think I saved a few bucks...not that tortilla chips are super expensive.
2. Eating chips becomes a time consuming choice, not a mindless activity. If I'm hungry, a quick fix is a handful of chips from the bag. The quick fix should be an apple. Chips become a treat if I am making a deliberate choice to make them for my family, rather than a snack staple in our house.
3. No preservatives. I watched the ingredients go into the bowl and every ingredient was a good choice for my family. I can pronounce all the ingredients, so I now have moved chips from the food product category to the real food category.
It was fun. Healthy eating has been a priority for us for a long time now, but it's time to cut out some of the easy convenience foods we've allowed to slip into our diet.
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