fatless cornbread

I attempted something new in the kitchen.

Cornbread with no fat.  Unfortunately, there was still more sugar in it than I'd like, so I need to try again.

I used 1/3 cup sunflower pulp, white flour, and whole wheat flour... sugar, honey, eggs, baking powder, cornmeal, and applesauce.  White flour?  Yes.  I'm still experimenting with new ingredients and kinds of baking.  One baby step at a time, I say.

It actually turned out pretty yummy.  It needed more cornmeal and a little less sugar.  I'm excited to try again. I feel like it's pretty much impossible to fail in the kitchen, once you know a few things.  And Jesse's pretty forgiving when it comes to bread/sweets. . . just not over excessive quantities of fresh ginger.

Shiver shiver

I went grocery shopping yesterday, since I hadn't been for about 15 days and thus had an empty refrigerator.  Unfortunately, I think everyone else in Siloam Springs decided to go shopping as well.  It was crazy.  Maybe it was due to the coming snow storm (we got 3 inches of the white stuff).  I stopped to get gas on the way back and discovered only one pump was available.  All the others were "out of order."

Wal-mart had hundreds of people waddling around with their grossly overloaded grocery carts.  My least favorite store is Wal-mart, so I always go there last.  I have never understood how people manage to fill their carts so full.  It seems impossible to me, because even when I a buy a few things I don't need (fun groceries), I still don't have to stack any of the contents of my cart.  My conclusion is that it's because I don't buy any junk food or many prepackaged items (unless varying cheeses/milks/pastas/canned goods count as prepackaged).

Sometimes the food in those carts look so delicious... and then I look up and see an obese person struggling to push it.  Then I look at the junk food and get a somewhat repulsed feeling in my stomach and become quite happy with my carrots, pineapples, kale, leeks, garlic...

I read about Wal-mart and Michelle Obama's 5 year plan to introduce more healthy foods to people.  What do you think about it?  Will it actually make a difference?  Is it actually beneficial?  Do you think more people will like Wal-mart after this, or will more people hate it?