Suzie's Sweet Wheat: Over 250 Recipes to Get Your Family Eating Whole Wheat
I am your average American mother.  We live on a very modest budget and I am always trying to find ways to both save money and feed my family healthy food.  I have four small children and, like most kids, they are quite picky.  They like normal food with normal textures and tastes. Throughout their childhood, a couple of my children have suffered from chronic constipation problems.  These resulted in several trips to the doctor followed by meetings with specialists.  I was told that I needed to get my kids on a high fiber diet.   After researching whole wheat and the benefits of a diet rich in whole wheat, I found out that just one cup of whole wheat flour has 14 grams of fiber and over 16 grams of protein!  I had to learn to incorporate whole wheat into my diet, but actually replacing my white flour recipes with whole wheat seemed impossible.  I knew I had to switch for the health of my kids, but it was so much easier to cook with white flour.  I also found that buying the whole wheat products in the store was more expensive than purchasing the white flour counterparts.   After I began to grind my own wheat and cook with wheat, I realized something very important...wheat is cheap!  If I could grind my own wheat and make my own pasta, bread, pie crusts, etc., I would save tons of money!  This began my years of experimentation with whole wheat.   After years of experimenting with wheat, I have finally compiled a list of recipes that my family loves that incorporate whole wheat.  I never buy bread anymore and store-bought expensive pastas are a thing of the past for my family.  The recipes in this cookbook are recipes that your spouse and children will love.  You do not have to be a nature-loving naturalist to enjoy the recipes in this cookbook.   The purpose of this book is to convert your "average American family" to wheat in a way that every family member will thoroughly enjoy.