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Food for Life – Granola and Roast

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Recipe – Granola

Submitted by Barbara Bender

In a large bowl, place the following ingredients:

8 cups rolled oats

1 cup coconut

1 cup chopped pecans

1/3 cup sesame seeds

In a separate bowl combine the following:

1 cup oil

1 cup honey

1/3 cup water

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix the wet and dry ingredients together. Spread in a large cake pan (17 x 20). Bake for 2 hours at 250 degrees, stirring two or three times during the baking process, until oatmeal is golden brown. If the granola mixture is quite thick, it may require a few more minutes of baking time to turn it golden brown.

Cool and enjoy with Sun Soy, juice, or berries. Dates, raisins, or other dried fruit may be chopped and added to the granola after it has cooled, if you like.

Raw granola can be made into a cookie by adding enough flour and water to be cookie-dough consistency and baking at 350 degrees until golden brown.

Recipe – Roast

Submitted by Teresa Grosboll

1 pound tofu, crumbled

1 1/2 cans Vegeburger

6 slices wheat bread, crumbled

2/3 cup soy sauce

2/3–1 cup nutritional yeast

1/3 cup olive oil

1/2 cup finely chopped fresh parsley

1 teaspoon sage

1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

1/2 teaspoon celery salt

1 1/2 teaspoon salt

Sauté the following ingredients in olive oil, and add to other ingredients in large bowl:

2 1/2 medium onions, chopped

1/2 green pepper, chopped

1 stalk celery, chopped

8 cloves garlic, minced

Mix all. Put in oiled casserole dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Top with marinara sauce.

Food for Life – Granola Bars

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The following quotes are from the pen of Ellen G. White. The date given after the book reference is the date the statement was said or written.

“We do not mark out any precise line to be followed in diet; but we do say that in countries where there are fruits, grains, and nuts in abundance, flesh food is not the right food for God’s people. . . .

“We are not to make the use of flesh food a test of fellowship, but we should consider the influence that professed believers who use flesh foods have over others. . . . Will any who are ministers of the gospel, proclaiming the most solemn truth ever given to mortals, set an example in returning to the fleshpots of Egypt? Will those who are supported by the tithe from God’s storehouse permit themselves by self-indulgence to poison the life-giving current flowing through their veins?” Testimonies, vol. 9, 159, 160. (May 31, 1909)

“Milk, eggs, and butter should not be classed with flesh meat. In some cases the use of eggs is beneficial. The time has not come to say that the use of milk and eggs should be wholly discarded. There are poor families whose diet consists largely of bread and milk. They have little fruit and cannot afford to purchase the nut foods. In teaching health reform, as in all other gospel work, we are to meet the people where they are. Until we can teach them how to prepare health reform foods that are palatable, nourishing, and yet inexpensive, we are not at liberty to present the most advanced propositions regarding health reform diet.

“Let the diet reform be progressive. Let the people be taught how to prepare food without the use of milk or butter. Tell them that the time will soon come when there will be no safety in using eggs, milk, cream, or butter, because disease in animals is increasing in proportion to the increase of wickedness among men. The time is near when, because of the iniquity of the fallen race, the whole animal creation will groan under the diseases that curse our earth.

“God will give His people ability and tact to prepare wholesome food without these things. Let our people discard all unwholesome recipes.” Ibid., vol. 7, 135. (August 20, 1902)

Granola Bars

Mix together:

6 cups rolled oats

3/4 cup raw sunflower seeds, hulled

1/2 cup sesame seeds

1 cup almonds

3/4 cup pumpkin seeds

1/2 cup flaxseeds

1 1/4 teaspoons salt

In another bowl, mix together:

1 cup honey

1/2 cup olive oil

1 Tablespoon vanilla or 1/2 cup natural cane sugar

vanilla bean equivalent crystals (optional)

Combine moist ingredients with dry ingredients and mix well. Press onto sprayed cookie sheet (should be about 1/2 inch thick). Bake at 250 degrees for 1 hour. Cut into squares while warm or break apart into chunks after cooling.

Adapted from a recipe from Bill Humeniuk who lives with his wife, Becky, in Carrollton, Kentucky. Bill is director of Advent Hope Ministries, Inc., a ministry to supply Bibles and Spirit of Prophecy books to Africa. He may be contacted by e-mail at: adventhope@bellsouth.net.