Safe Swap: Cookie Dough
I grew up in a very conscious home…
Vegetarian until I was about 12, taught to plug our noses walking by the candle isles, (still) never had a fast food burger, had my first taste of cows milk at 16 years old, and never had an OTC medicine until I had a broken leg and was casted from my hip to my toes.
But sometimes if Mom was having a tough day, she would bake cookies for breakfast and call them “scones”. We love to laugh about it now but honestly… my kids had “scones” for breakfast this morning too. And no, I didn’t bake them from scratch.
Most take and bake cookie dough is loaded with garbage, which is so unfortunate because it doesn’t have to be.
You’ll find these toxic offenders in your traditional Pillsbury, Toll House, and Betty Crocker…
❌ Zero organic ingredients – we choose organic to avoid exposure to pesticides and herbicides that are suspected to cause cancer: https://foodrevolution.org/blog/why-choose-organic/
❌ Enriched Bleached Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid) – a big red flag on any label should be “bleached”… but combining inorganic bleached flour with synthetic vitamins that our body cannot properly absorb is less than ideal: https://www.organics.org/bleached-vs-unbleached-flour/
❌ Propylene Glycol Esters Of Fatty Acids – if it is banished from being applied to my skin… I certainly don’t want to ingest it: https://wellnessmama.com/155497/propylene-glycol/
❌ Natural And Artificial Flavor – this is a HUGE can of worms to open up as any type of flavor (yes, including “natural”) can hide thousands of additional chemical ingredients that aren’t required to be labeled: https://myplatebodyandmind.com/danger-of-artificial-flavors/
❌ Yellow 5 – banned in many other countries, it’s gonna be a no for me: https://www.healthline.com/health/yellow-5#composition
❌ BHT – the United States Department of Health and Human Services lists BHT as known carcinogens: https://thegoodhuman.com/what-is-bht-butylated…/
❌ Caramel color – sounds innocent (I love real caramel) but sadly it’s anything but: https://www.institutefornaturalhealing.com/…/the…/
But of course, I’ve got clean and easy solutions for you that make a delicious “scone” on a tough day…
🍪 Sweet Loren’s:
✅Gluten Free
✅Non-GMO ingredients
✅No artificial flavors or synthetic colors
✅No hydrogenated oils
✅RSPO Certified palm oil
✅Non-GMO ingredients
✅No artificial flavors or synthetic colors
✅No hydrogenated oils
✅RSPO Certified palm oil
🍪 Simple Truth Organic:
✅Certified Organic
✅No artificial flavors or synthetic colors
✅No hydrogenated oils
✅Unbleached flour
✅Non-GMO ingredients
✅No artificial flavors or synthetic colors
✅No hydrogenated oils
✅Unbleached flour
✅Non-GMO ingredients
🍪 Annie’s:
✅Certified Organic
✅No artificial flavors or synthetic colors
✅No hydrogenated oils
✅Unbleached flour
✅Non-GMO ingredients
✅No artificial flavors or synthetic colors
✅No hydrogenated oils
✅Unbleached flour
✅Non-GMO ingredients
🍪 Immaculate:
✅Gluten free options
✅Certified organic options
✅No artificial flavors or synthetic colors
✅No hydrogenated oils
✅Non-GMO ingredients
✅Certified organic options
✅No artificial flavors or synthetic colors
✅No hydrogenated oils
✅Non-GMO ingredients
These are much easier to find at stores than they used to be, and our local Kroger Marketplace, Whole Foods, and Fresh Thyme have them!
Happy baking, Mamas 🍪
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