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WARNING: Not Paleo

Well, needless to say I stray away from Paleo land when I do low carb baking.

I have been using some Rice Bran in baking at times. It seems to be well-tolerated by me. Also I use flax meal and cocoa powder. My new chocolate cake in a bowl turned molten chocolate is insanely good and I feel great about using cocoa powder which is low carb and full of things that are good for you. Plus I got some unprocessed stuff from Whole Foods that is amazingly delicious. Quite reddish brown, unlike the Dutch process stuff which is super dark brown.

I'd be using coconut oil instead of butter but I'm out and really don't want to pay 8.00 for a bottle of the good stuff. I suppose I will though. I think Erythritol is probably a fine sweetener, health-wise, although it definitely isn't paleo in the sense that it requires a lot of processing to extract it from fruits. And I use a little splenda still as well.

I do bowl muffins now sometimes using half rice bran and half flax meal.

I'm trying to judge if there is any effect on my intestines. A lot of health things going on right now due to pernicious anemia caused by an arthritis drug I'm taking. I thinking that some of my diarrhea was caused by the anemia and now that I'm taking a whopping huge dose to folic acid, I seem to be getting constipated. *sigh* So when I opened my freezer and saw the rice bran I remember my bowl muffins -- which I had discontinued due to the intestinal issues -- and throught... hey, maybe I can do this now!

We shall see, I only use 1 Tbl. of the rice bran and so far everything is pretty quiet downstairs.