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Nothing makes chicken or pork taste better or look prettier than dressing it up in a thin layer of fine bread crumbs. Especially when you are eating healthy. You want to feel like you are eating comfort food now and again and baking a nice crispy chicken breast makes for a tasty dinner.
Imagine my surprise when I saw that Progresso Bread Crumbs have partially hydrogenated oil in their ingredients!! In fact the first four ingredients are Bread Crumbs, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup (yes in addition to high fructose corn syrup they add more corn syrup!), Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil...
Tsk! Tsk! I never dreamed that poison would be in my bread crumbs. I always assumed bread crumbs were made out of....well....bread!
I bought a large tub of this stuff at Cosco. I am not sure what I am going to do with it now...maybe feed the birds.
I do have a great solution on hand. My Great Grandma was Jewish and she made the best Matzo Ball Soup. Oh goodness, I really miss her. I tried to make the soup like she did but it just wasn't the same. So I had the Matzo Meal crumbs in my cupboard and used those to bread my meat. It turned out so much better than the Progresso Bread Crumbs!
The Matzo Meal looks like this:
You can find this in almost any grocery store, usually in the specialty food isle shared with the Asian and Mexican foods. There are literally 2 ingredients: Enriched Unbleached Wheat Flour & Water. Plus it is Kosher! You can never go wrong with Kosher!
These crumbs come in handy for just about anything. You can season them as you wish or leave them plain and they still taste wonderful. The best part is there are none of those icky corn syrups or nasty hydrogentated oils so you aren't poisening your body when you want to dress up your meat!
On a side note - if anyone has a good authentic Matzo Ball Soup recipe please share it with me! It is the best for colds (I have a nasty one right now) and I really do believe Chicken Soup is good for the body & soul! Especially Kosher Matzo Ball Soup!!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
It's even in my Bread Crumbs!
Posted by Tamara Dawn at 3:41 PM
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Hi, thanks for visiting my blog. You should look into the dangers of pork. Have you read "The Maker's Diet" by Jordan Rubin? It's great, you should. Love your site.
I liked Joran Rubin's book too, but I couldn't hang with week one of the diet. Making your own bread crumbs isn't hard, but most bread has all those bad ingredients in it anyway.
Rather interesting blog you've got here. Thanks the author for it. I like such themes and everything that is connected to this matter. I definitely want to read a bit more on that blog soon.
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