Homemade by Sereen

Active bubbly starter ready to bake bread!

BUT

I was not ready to bake with it.

I fed this starter at about 6:00pm and it was ready 5 hours later. It had doubled, was full of bubbles, and was thick and stringy (not really sure what its called but when you see it you know what i mean).

I didn’t want to stay up late or get up early to make the dough so I covered the active starter and put it in the fridge until 9:00 the next morning. This significantly slows down the fermentation process. If I had left it on the counter it would have started to fall and become less active which means it will not make bread rise.

In the fridge it did fall a little because it does that when it gets cold. I used it in my dough straight from the fridge but if I had let it come to room temperature it would have started to rise again.

How to help your kids not be picky (in my not expert experience)

We have tried to keep a culture of having fun trying new things.

We especially encourage trying familiar foods we know we don’t like in new forms. Out of 4 kids they all have ONE way they like to eat broccoli and don’t like it any other way.

I experiment in the kitchen. The kids experiment in the kitchen. I have been known to put a pan of eggs, flour, way too much salt, onion peels, milk, whatever the 3 year old mixed in a bowl into the oven just to see what happens.

When I take the kids to the grocery store with me we often come home with one new produce to try.

In this picture we all tried Dragon Fruit for the first time.

I’ve also learned the kids go through phases. Sometimes those phases last years and sometimes it’s a few weeks but we stay consistent in offering lots of varieties of food and teaching the kids the importance of nourishing and listening to their bodies

What has worked in your family to help with picky eaters?

It’s a good idea to stay consistent on the type of flour you feed your starter (not a hard and fast rule) but you can change up the flour in your bread to whatever you want! No matter what flour is in the starter you use.