Organic wedges tasty wholemeal bread with chocolate peanut butter spread

Guess what are in them?  I put in

 🍫chocolate spread &

Organic peanut butter.

🍞Organic seeded wholemeal bread

Supposedly,  very little pesticide & herbicide. 

Millet, sunflower seeds, linseed, poppy seeds, pumpkin seeds... 

3 hour slow proofing/slow rise by Cranks. 

Traditional ingredient:  yeast & vinegar.

No hydrolised fat or oil or butter.

Organic wholemmeal Cranks exSeedingly Tasty Bread ?
 ...er... I mostly avoid wheat & rice.
 But occassionally I had a little bit,
 especially if organic versions are available with other goodies. Vegetarian. 

10.2g protein per 100g. 

Among pre-packaged mass-produced food processed with high heat , the amount of cancer-causing chemical acrylamid in most bread are much lower than chips, crisps, coffee, morning cereals, etc.

There is tiny amount of milk single cream in the chocolate spread.

ChocolateEggOrganic

This year, the 🍫chocolate egg I bought the last one on the shelf...

hm... see the ingredient !  

😊 Simple

😊 Organic

😊 70% dark

😊 No milk 

😊 no refined white sugar.

😊 99% Fair Trade.

😊 Green & Black's. 

😉 at 50% off.

I try not to finish the whole 165g in one go or even one day.
So I broke it under a cotton towel, and store it in a air tight glass jar. 😘

Previously I read some reports about healthier chocolate, 

Green & Black, OmBar, .... 

even Mondelez Toblerone... 

Lists of the best & the worst chocolate  are in www.

  e.g.

https://healthyeater.com/dark-chocolate-best-and-worst

(This year I could not see Kinnerton free-from range dairy-free egg-free chocolate egg.)

  

( Oh, I have not finished
the organic Raw OmBar Coco Mylk Ecuadorian (with live culture) yet.
Do not try to eat more than a third of a bar each time.
That is like aphrodisiac ? )

Good to  love oneself. 

Eat something sweet, nice & healthier...

♥Light♥Chocolate♥Muffin♥steamed♥EggFree♥ButterFree

Egg-free butter-free chocolate muffins.

No milk added.

Slightly different ingredients.

The 2nd one is better. Almost like a sponge cake?!

♦ The 1st batch

♦ Belgium chocolate muffin mix:  100g

(Paul Holywood*; it has no butter & no egg:
only very little dairy in the chocolate part of the muffin mix.)
♦ yeast ................ . 10g
♦ demerara sugar.. 5g
   mixed those two in warm water.

♦ chia seeds.......... 5g soaked with water.
Total water added: a bit more than flour.
(reason: chia seeds like water)
I used a glass cover saucepan to do a bigger one in a bowl.
Due to the size of container, it came out like pudding more.


I decided to added more yeasts:
Reason:
 after reading online reviews of the product.
 And it is Winter.

♥The 2nd batch

I improved the recipe.
And put into 3 glass "ramekins"
♥ muffin mix.... 100g

♥ yeast ............... 10g
♥ damarere sugar.. 5g
♥ warm water.
♥ 1/5 of a banana.

(same muffin mix: Paul Holywood Begium muffin mix)

Total water added similar to flour.
Steamed over a saucepan in a bamboo steamer with cover/lid.

2nd batch:

1st batch:

The good thing about the 1st batch was :
 glass lid allows observation/monitoring of the rising.

In these two attempts, I

♠ did not use any cup cake cases.
Reason:
during previous use, the colour run off and migrated to the steamer.

♠ did not buy milk.

♠ do not like rice products which might present in some vegan egg replacement.

♣ I am avoiding man-made resin / plastic / silicon / PVC, etc.

💜💗 Being environmental conscious & health conscious, 
I am willing to eat with a spoon.

🛈 The muffin mix product description has this:

No added colours. No preservatives. Suitable for vegetarians. 

[ Wheat Flour (with added Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin),
Sugar,
Chocolate Powder made with Belgian Chocolate (13%)
(Cocoa Mass, Skimmed Milk Powder, Sugar, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin), Flavouring), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Raising Agents (Disodium Diphosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate) ]

Disclaimer:
* At the time of making, eating & writing,
I  am not related to and not receiving any benefit from the manufacturers or retailers or wholesalers.

chocolate muffin steamed eggFree butterFree in cupcake cases

Looking for a way to reduce fat (butter,oil) & avoid egg.
My recipe below.

I modified the recipe of a Belgium chocolate muffin mix...
Instead of baking, I use steaming.
I do without butter or oil.
Instead of egg, or even VeganEgg ,
I used pre-soaked chia seeds.

Didn't use a cupcake tray.
I do not mind the appearance as I am eating them all.

Recipe:
INGREDIENTS:

Muffin Mix (Belgian Chocolate)	half a bag. 200g	Paul Hollywood
Chia seeds (soaked with water)	1 teaspoon	any, I use organic ones
Yeast	1 tablespoon	any decent  ones
Demerara Sugar	1 teaspoon	or better
Warm water	more than normal recipe	-
Butter or oil	nil	-
Egg	nil	-

Containers

Option A: To make a larger piece: use a larger china/ porcelain / stoneware Option B: To make smaller pieces: use cupcake cases on baking trays & alike. I use a steamer over a saucepan. I chose a bamboo steamer. Electric metal ones /glass ones will also do.

METHOD:
1- Add yeast & sugar to water. Mix & wait for 10-15 minutes.
2- Add the above to the muffin mix. Mix.
3- Add the soaked chia seeds to the mix above. Mix.
4- I boiled water in a saucepan, put the steamer (& the stuff in it) on top.
Then steamed them for 20 minutes.

NOTE 1:
because the chia seeds and this muffin mix is very thirsty,
I use more water. More than half of the measurement of the flour.
NOTE 2:
Though the muffin mix already have raising agents
 of  Disodium Diphosphate & Sodium Bicarbonate,
because I do not use egg,
I added yeast to make sure it really get fluffy and soft.

This recipe is vegetarian.
No egg used. No butter used.
No artificial colour. 
The muffin mix has a tiny amount of skimmed milk powder for the chocolate.

Seen on the pack of the muffin mix, their ingredients:
- Wheat Flour (with added Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), 
- Sugar,
- Chocolate Powder made with Belgian Chocolate (13%)
  (Cocoa Mass, Skimmed Milk Powder, Sugar,
   Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Emulsifier(Soya Lecithin), Flavouring),
- Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder,
- Raising Agents (Disodium Diphosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate)

notice more difference, not be fooled...

Learnt something this Christmas,
 a time everyone had many chocolate, cakes, teas, etc.

Beyond the colourful packaging / brand names,
I have concerns about
what I really put inside my body.

From the ingredients....

Why some cakes/choc/teas are better ---
in terms of flavour/taste  and healthier....

Noticed that some cheaper ones have non-natural ingredients
substituting real things,
trying to fool us as food.

Middle and upper end market products give less man-made chemicals.

For ourselves and loved ones,
really try to read and check the ingredients.

And not be fooled by the ad-like description of product.

It might seems like a small thing like...
ginger bread chocolate without ginger
mint chocolate without mint.

Chocolate with so little cocoa?

Soon we are eating bread and cakes
 without real egg or milk or butter or flour....
but a concoction of chemical make-believe.


Hope we can all vote with our money
not to buy those which have been trying to fool us.


We'd better support good  real  healthy food, right?

I will compare ingredients of same or similar items
 of different brands of different price ranges...

You?