I
am pretty frustrated with the whole grain situation here in my little corner of
the world. I looked at each of my three local grocery stores last month for any
type of "flour" that wasn't wheat. All I found was a tiny, and I do
mean tiny, bag of rice flour on the gluten free corner of the cereal aisle. I
was pretty disappointed.
This month I have looked for Barley. I checked all
three stores again, and I found one box of instant barley and that was
it. Not a single bag of regular barley—the type I’d add to soups or cook
in a normal way. I am frustrated by this!
While on the subject of griping about
whole grains: The other day we were bread shopping at a different store than we
normally buy our bread. We had stopped to pick up milk and baby food, and so we
stopped on the bread aisle to pick that up instead of making a special trip. It
would have been comical, if it wasn't so frustrating.
When we first for
married we were different types of bread people, my kids had always eaten
"brown bread" or wheat bread. My husband's kids were "Wonder
Kids" meaning they ate the fluffiest of the white bread. We have had a
hard time mixing the two. My kids don't like the "sticky" white
bread, and his kids don't like the "scratchy" wheat bread. Oy Vey! It
is the little things that will drive you crazy, isn't it?
So my husband picked
out a loaf of brown bread and I said, "Be sure it says whole grain.” He replied, "It does,
it says whole wheat," and I got the opportunity to teach a little bit and
explain that whole wheat does NOT mean whole grain. We ended up buying a fluffy
white bread that was 30% whole grain. And I ended up secretly resolving that I
was not going to run out of bread and be forced to buy what I had already
decided against. I wasn't going to wean my family off it all over again!
