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free skin care · Fri Dec 06, 2013 10:33 am

We all know bread is bad for skin.
I even had an assistant at a bakers shop tell me that she never eats bread!(i guess she knows the facts from inside).And recommend to eat instead the following.

So there is this recipe i really love.
Its called dakos and it is barley crackers that you stuff things above them.

Vegans might want to skip the cheese and add others vegetables(like onions).

Here is the recipe.

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Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

1/2 of a large round barley rusk (about 5 inches diameter)
1 large or 2 small ripe tomatoes, coarsely grated (discard skin)
2-3 heaping tablespoons of feta cheese or aged myzithra, crumbled or grated
extra virgin olive oil
freshly ground pepper
Greek oregano (rigani)
Preparation:

Run the rusk under a spray of water (about 4-6 tablespoons) to moisten. Grate the tomato with a vegetable grater (or the large grate on a multi-grater) into a strainer over a bowl so most of the liquid drains off.

Spread the grated tomato on the rusk and top with cheese. Sprinkle with pepper and a good amount of oregano, and drizzle with olive oil.

Yield: One rusk serves 1 as a light meal, 2-4 as a meze.

Notes:

Aged myzithra cheese is the traditional cheese for this dish on Crete.
Some like to add a couple of thin slices of bell pepper and/or onion. They aren't part of the original recipe, but can be used if desired.

free skin care · Fri Dec 06, 2013 12:10 pm

I've always made my own breads. I know what's in them and use wholegrains.
Nevertheless, I limit myself to 2 slices a day. I would never touch refined flours unless I was starving.
I am known for my great skin.
I've even had women come up to me in a store to ask me about a product (I've been mistaken for an employee more than once in the summer: it happens even at the library!) and they comment on my beautiful skin.
But a lot of bread is another matter. I also drink smoothies made with kale and sprouted broccoli.

free skin care · Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:09 am

Yea, too much wheat is bad. Really, it's not the same wheat that our grandparents grew and ate.

I've been meaning to try Spelt for an occasional treat, but I mostly just stay away from bread. It was hard to get used to going without it, but it's worth it, you feel so much better if you leave out wheat products.

free skin care · Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:53 pm

If you want to be gluten-free you cannot eat barley, rye or wheat.

free skin care · Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:39 pm

SoftSkin wrote:

If you want to be gluten-free you cannot eat barley, rye or wheat.

It is really difficult to have a gluten free diet. Any tips?

free skin care · Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:20 pm

It is difficult because it's in a lot of processed foods.

I am not entirely gluten-free, but I avoid it when I can. Gluten free bread just doesn't taste or feel right to me, so when I want garlic toast or something like that, I use real bread. But one thing I like to have instead of regular crackers or chips are raw flax crackers - made with ground flax seeds, sesame seeds, salt and herbs and "uncooked" in a dehydrator. You can cook them in the oven too at about 200 but they won't be considered raw then. They're pretty tasty - make a nice open face "sandwich" with avocado slices and tomato.

free skin care · Sun Dec 22, 2013 10:02 am

Autumn1995 wrote:

SoftSkin wrote:

If you want to be gluten-free you cannot eat barley, rye or wheat.

It is really difficult to have a gluten free diet. Any tips?

Stores like Wegmans and Whole Foods have gluten-free foods sections.

Even stores like Giant have a section that sells "health foods" and you can find gluten-free foods.

There are plenty of ideas within your reach.

free skin care · Sun Dec 22, 2013 10:21 am

Nonie, that was SO COOL! Love that site, bookmarked!

free skin care · Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:39 pm

Gluten free diet tip- get to know the products at the company Udi's. They make a mean pizza crust and several varieties of bread and bagels. This will get you through the first few weeks till you re-learn how to cook. I don't miss eating gluten one bit and find the diet as easy to follow as any other. Spend more time in the kitchen and really get to know the ingredients going into your meal, it really is re-learning how to cook since the parameters have changed.

free skin care · Thu Jan 02, 2014 3:25 pm

When I went gluten free for a couple of months I found it relatively easy. I craved pasta for a while but that was only because it had become a habit of mine to buy 10/$10 Michelina frozen pasta for work lunch.

However, I wasn't crazy about the gluten free substitutes when I ate them. I seemed to get indigestion probably because it was made of things like tapioca starch, potato starch, rice flour and other stuff with little nutritional value. The texture was either like styrofoam or like a brick.

I am eating normally now. I wish more ancient wheat type products were available because I'm guessing you'd get the taste and satisfaction of wheat without anything that might cause problems. If there is consumer demand, I'm sure we will get it.

free skin care · Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:40 pm

Here's an article (one among many) about modern wheat and what is wrong with it. Excerpt:

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For 10,000 years, we cultivated wheat, stored it, milled it and consumed it. The system worked, and it nourished civilization. Then, in the industrial era, we changed things.

First we invented mechanical technologies to turn wheat into barren white flour. Then, we invented chemical and genetic technologies to make it resistant to pests, draught and blight and easier to harvest, dramatically increasing yield per acre. And, while we were tweaking genetics, we also figured out how to increase glutens for better “baking properties” (fluffier results).

So, put another way: We have mutant seeds, grown in synthetic soil, bathed in chemicals, then deconstructed, pulverized to fine dust, bleached and chemically treated to create a nutritionally void industrial filler that no other creature on the planet will eat. And we wonder why it might be making us sick?

http://www.grainstorm.com/pages/modern-wheat

free skin care · Sat Jan 04, 2014 12:33 pm

At least we can buy organic wheat.

free skin care · Sat Jan 04, 2014 6:01 pm

Oooooo. Nice bump!

I don't eat much wheat these days myself, except for wheat grass. I don't see the point. Tons of carbs and very little nutrient density. Just seems like a bad idea now that we know more about glycation.

Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:21 pm

Thank you for posting about the raw flax crackers which sound really good. I found a recipe on Google.

I do not eat bread very often because 1) I get a bloated wheat belly from it and 2) I tend to watch my carb intake.

My late grandma was born in 1902 and died in 1993. During the last 10 years of her life she always commented on how food - bread in particular - tasted different than it did when she was young. At the time I thought it was her aging sense of taste, but in recent years I have come to believe it may have been the frankenfood so prevalent in mainstream grocery stores.

free skin care · Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:53 pm

SweetishBlonde wrote:

Thank you for posting about the raw flax crackers which sound really good. I found a recipe on Google.

I do not eat bread very often because 1) I get a bloated wheat belly from it and 2) I tend to watch my carb intake.

My late grandma was born in 1902 and died in 1993. During the last 10 years of her life she always commented on how food - bread in particular - tasted different than it did when she was young. At the time I thought it was her aging sense of taste, but in recent years I have come to believe it may have been the frankenfood so prevalent in mainstream grocery stores.

If you can find organic .Because to be honest brown bread causes less inflammation than commercial barley crackers.

Anyway,everything is poisones nowdays.Your grandmother was totally right.I looked into the sky yesterday and show a load of chemtrails-air gases (it doesnt matter what it is cause either way all this stuff goes down to us with the rain).

So i am stopping this diet researching.We need soul these days.And thats my aim.
So i am going to keep it simple,with high carb vegan(lots of fruits) kelp for the iodine and herbs.
I remember myself being numb on meat and processed diet,so its really the last thing people want these days,even if some are benefit from them.Numbness is the cause of all of this.

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