Crisco as a moistureizer
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Comments (29)I've used coconut oil for cooking and baking, as well as on my face and skin for about 15-years. It even works fairly well as an alternative sunscreen. I can't use commercial sunscreen products due to the chemicals in them. Topically applied, coconut oil helps wounds heal faster and has a whole long list of other benefits including helps prevent bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. There are benefits in flax for skin issues too, but you benefit more from taking the whole seed (milled into flaxmeal using a spice/coffee mill) rather than just the oil. You can't get the oil any fresher than by milling the seed yourself, and the commercial flax oil and flaxmeal products have been exposed to heat, light and air, so they are substantially degraded before they ever hit the shelf. You really benefit from milling your own flax. Coconut oil taken orally helps keep skin soft and help heal eczema and similar skin problems. Dry skin, according to one source in my stack of information on the topic, is because "there is a relative imbalance or deficiency of saturated fats -- especially in relation to the amount of carbohydrates in the diet." The water in our cells comes from metabolizing fats. Evidently, the water we drink mostly goes into the blood-stream, rather than the cells, and then out via the kidneys. I put coconut oil in cooked cereal, hot beverage, mix with honey like you would make honey-butter, and also mixed with peanut butter (or other nut butters)..... In a pinch, it also works well as a bread spread - vegans often use it that way. The nutrients in coconut oil, especially that hard-to-find-in-foods, lauric acid, which coconut oil is a rich source of, are beneficial for the immune system as well as autoimmune disorders. Cod liver oil is also beneficial, especially in the winter when most people don't get enough vitamin D from the sun. In some people, many who don't ever realize they are sensitive to it, wheat can have a destructive effect on skin. In fact, over-consumption of simple carbohydrates can have an effect on skin, and wheat is probably the #1 source for carbs in the diet, followed quickly by sugar. Here's a partial list of gluten-related rashes and other skin manifestations: -oral ulcers (tongue, mouth) -cutaneous vasculitis -acanthosis nigricns -erythema nodosum -psoriasis -vitiligo -Behcet's disease -dermatomyositis -icthyosiform dermatoses -pyoderma gangrenosum In the link below, coconut oil has been indicated as useful for the treatment of chronic and genetic conditions, including SjogrenâÂÂs syndrome. It might be a useful point of research at any rate, and I would hope it would actually be helpful. I know it's helped a friend who has Sjogren's, but it's not a one-size-fits-all thing. -Grainlady Here is a link that might be useful: Healthy Ways Newsletter...See More2/6/11 coupon Preview
Comments (1)Ruthie, thanks for the encouragement on this. I just looked through my Red Plum and don't see those coupons. Are they in each of the individual store flyers? Or maybe in the Sunday paper? Also, I was wondering printing from the Red Plum or Smart Source page if the stores give you any trouble about those coupons, printed off the internet. That first one, Afrin, is a good deal. I just paid over $5 for Afrin earlier this week. Darn....See MoreExperimenting with pie crust.
Comments (22)Grainlady-- Your chemistry lesson is great because my mind works that way. Understanding how a crust develops makes pie crust much more understandable to me. My mother always peached that overworking the dough makes it tough and now I understand why. The explanation of water vs. gluten is very helpful. Last year I was misdiagnosed with celiac disease and learned a bit about the behavior of gluten in foods while I was on a gluten free diet. Many thanks! I am going to try a butter crust and use my grater on the butter....See MoreNeed Good Chochlate Chip Cookie
Comments (15)Today I took a Betty Crocker lemon cake mix and added 2 eggs and a 1/2 cup liquid shortening like we use in the deep fryer at work. Mixed it together until there was now dry cake mix left and made 24 cookies out of it. Then I flattened them down with a glass with powder sugar on it. I dont know how long I baked them, maybe 15 minutes I think. They were think and crisp and the senior citizens asked for the recipe. Maybe you could try it with a yellow or white cake mix and chocolate chips and see if you like it. This will work with any kind of cake mix. Last week I used a german chocolate and I dont know if I used a 1/3 cup or 1/2 cup of shortening and the eggs. They were just like the chocolate crinkles but I didnt bake them as long so they were thicker and chewier....See Morechisue
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