#FIBERMAXX: BEANCEPTION

Behold, my new "easy food" - super soft pita bread made with my white bean protein bread dough, hummus with added lemon zest, roasted garlic, thyme, and sumac, and raw lentil sprouts from my own windowsill. That's a grand total of THREE BEANS in ONE SANDWICH.

We're having fun brainstorming other spreads, and veggies to add in. And I have an array of legumes in my pantry to sprout.

Notice I cut my pita in half before I even started building the sandwich... I can't eat THAT much!

When I was a tween, my favorite quick snack/meal was to toast a commercially made pita pocket, and stuff it with salad mix, shredded cheese, and ranch dressing. This feels like the more elevated, adult version of that.

My other childhood go-to snack was "matzah pizza," my family's attempt at fusion cuisine, where we topped a sheet of Manischewitz matzah bread with pre-made pizza sauce and cheese, and placed it in the toaster oven to make a crispy, thin crust pizza. Today's elevated and allergy friendly version would involve my pumpkin sauce and either goat cheese or Daiya shreds, so, again. Adult, and all that.

But anyway, as I told my mother today, the sprout wraps are completely plant based, easy to put together with foods that are easy to make from scratch, utilize cheap to obtain ingredients, and provide maximum nutrition for a single meal.

My very "this is what my stomach can handle for food first thing, nothing else" autistically repeating daily breakfast is dairy-free plain yogurt with ground flax seed and raw, local honey. My repeating daily lunch may be a sprout wrap starting today. Don't ask me to be culinarily adventurous until at least 4PM from here on out 😅😅

Oh, and for the "it's too expensive to eat healthy food" crowd, I pulled out my calculator. You can get four batches of 16 pita from 5lbs of bread flour, which costs $15. That's 24 cents of flour per pita. One can of cannellini beans is 83 cents. One pack of yeast (sold in a pack of 3) is 63 cents. There's 40 cents of olive oil per 16 pita, so, 2 and a half cents of olive oil per pita. It's $1.92 for 72 tablespoons of brown sugar, and I use 2 tablespoons per 16 pita, so... yeah. About the same for salt. Roughly 38 cents per pita, total. A good 4 cups of sprouted lentils costs 78 cents. Even if you splurge and buy your hummus pre-made, it's $2.85 for a 10oz tub at Aldi. That's a filling, nutritionally balanced, low-cal meal for about 50 cents.