Fruits, Nuts, and Flakes
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ysabetwordsmithThis year in Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I've decided to feature hippies. Today focuses on some favorite base ingredients.
Fruits, Nuts, and Flakes
Hippies make great use of fruits, nuts, and flakes. These whole foods store well, travel well, and make a rich source of nutrients. One impact of the hippie movement is that many of these ingredients are now much easier to find than they were a few decades ago. I could not find a hippie shopping list per se, but a clean eating list or whole foods list has similar ingredients. Choose mindfully what you wish to include or exclude for health, ethical, or other reasons.
Fresh and dried fruits form a mainstay of hippie cuisine. Explore a nutritional analysis of the healthiest fruits. These are some of the best dried fruits. One thing that distinguishes hippie food from other food is a preference for natural sweeteners such as fruit. Check out these mouth-watering recipes using applesauce, bananas, and dates. If you like these things, thank a hippie! Modern markets also have exciting new fruits that were difficult or impossible to find in the 1960s-1970s, so try those too.
Nuts and seeds make another major category of hippie food. More varieties of nutritious nuts are readily available now, which is great. The range of seeds has also expanded. We used to get sunflower seeds, and of course hemp seeds, but pumpkin seeds were usually scavenged from actual pumpkins. Chia was a houseplant instead of a food, which is sad because chia pudding is awesome; you can make jam with it too. My Hippie Meatloaf recipe uses chia seeds, flax seeds, and hemp hearts. Many types of nut and seed butters appear in stores. Used to be, only health food stores had more than peanut butter, and even then only a few others like almond. An Amish store near us sells honey-roasted peanut butter, which is glorious, and we can get cashew butter in various places. Enjoy a recipe for our favorite nut and seed butter. Here are some more recipes for nuts and seeds.
Flakes typically come from whole grains, and hippies have long embraced a wide variety beyond just wheat. Many are available either as cold cereal or just rolled flat for hot cereal or baking. Rings and other shapes of cereal are popular too, not just in a bowl of milk, but as a dry snack or cooking ingredient. Whole grains can be made into many foods. Again, the variety has expanded from whole wheat, brown rice, and rye or buckwheat to a wealth of choices including quinoa, teff, and ancient forms of wheat like einkorn and emmer. Explore whole-grain cereals and flours. You can also flake your own grain.
Put these things together and you get granola, muesli, or trail mix. Granola is a baked blend of grains, nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. It is bound together by a sweetener (such as honey or maple syrup) and an oil (such as butter or coconut oil) so as to create clusters. It works as a snack by itself, but it also goes well with yogurt or milk. Granola offers many health benefits. Enjoy some granola recipes and set up a self-serve bar for granola parfaits.
Muesli uses similar base ingredients of grains, nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. However, it is raw and typically contains no added sweeteners or oils, so it does not form clumps. It is too dry to eat alone, so it is usually served with milk, hot or cold. Muesli is good for you too. Here is a basic muesli recipe with variations, along with some other ideas. You can set up a hot or cold breakfast bar.
Trail mix is a family of snack mix that customarily includes a combination of grains (whole grains, granola clusters, cereal flakes or rings, etc.), nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. Some recipes add candy such as chocolate chips or dried marshmallows. Trail mix is like salad: it can be healthy or indulgent, depending entirely on which ingredients you choose to include. Unlike salad, however, trail mix is intended as a high-energy food for vigorous activities such as hiking or biking, so pack it in small portions and don't eat it while sitting still. Set up a trail mix bar where people can make their own.
So when you're setting up your pantry for hippie food, start with the fruits, nuts, and flakes!
Fruits, Nuts, and Flakes
Hippies make great use of fruits, nuts, and flakes. These whole foods store well, travel well, and make a rich source of nutrients. One impact of the hippie movement is that many of these ingredients are now much easier to find than they were a few decades ago. I could not find a hippie shopping list per se, but a clean eating list or whole foods list has similar ingredients. Choose mindfully what you wish to include or exclude for health, ethical, or other reasons.
Fresh and dried fruits form a mainstay of hippie cuisine. Explore a nutritional analysis of the healthiest fruits. These are some of the best dried fruits. One thing that distinguishes hippie food from other food is a preference for natural sweeteners such as fruit. Check out these mouth-watering recipes using applesauce, bananas, and dates. If you like these things, thank a hippie! Modern markets also have exciting new fruits that were difficult or impossible to find in the 1960s-1970s, so try those too.
Nuts and seeds make another major category of hippie food. More varieties of nutritious nuts are readily available now, which is great. The range of seeds has also expanded. We used to get sunflower seeds, and of course hemp seeds, but pumpkin seeds were usually scavenged from actual pumpkins. Chia was a houseplant instead of a food, which is sad because chia pudding is awesome; you can make jam with it too. My Hippie Meatloaf recipe uses chia seeds, flax seeds, and hemp hearts. Many types of nut and seed butters appear in stores. Used to be, only health food stores had more than peanut butter, and even then only a few others like almond. An Amish store near us sells honey-roasted peanut butter, which is glorious, and we can get cashew butter in various places. Enjoy a recipe for our favorite nut and seed butter. Here are some more recipes for nuts and seeds.
Flakes typically come from whole grains, and hippies have long embraced a wide variety beyond just wheat. Many are available either as cold cereal or just rolled flat for hot cereal or baking. Rings and other shapes of cereal are popular too, not just in a bowl of milk, but as a dry snack or cooking ingredient. Whole grains can be made into many foods. Again, the variety has expanded from whole wheat, brown rice, and rye or buckwheat to a wealth of choices including quinoa, teff, and ancient forms of wheat like einkorn and emmer. Explore whole-grain cereals and flours. You can also flake your own grain.
Put these things together and you get granola, muesli, or trail mix. Granola is a baked blend of grains, nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. It is bound together by a sweetener (such as honey or maple syrup) and an oil (such as butter or coconut oil) so as to create clusters. It works as a snack by itself, but it also goes well with yogurt or milk. Granola offers many health benefits. Enjoy some granola recipes and set up a self-serve bar for granola parfaits.
Muesli uses similar base ingredients of grains, nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. However, it is raw and typically contains no added sweeteners or oils, so it does not form clumps. It is too dry to eat alone, so it is usually served with milk, hot or cold. Muesli is good for you too. Here is a basic muesli recipe with variations, along with some other ideas. You can set up a hot or cold breakfast bar.
Trail mix is a family of snack mix that customarily includes a combination of grains (whole grains, granola clusters, cereal flakes or rings, etc.), nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. Some recipes add candy such as chocolate chips or dried marshmallows. Trail mix is like salad: it can be healthy or indulgent, depending entirely on which ingredients you choose to include. Unlike salad, however, trail mix is intended as a high-energy food for vigorous activities such as hiking or biking, so pack it in small portions and don't eat it while sitting still. Set up a trail mix bar where people can make their own.
So when you're setting up your pantry for hippie food, start with the fruits, nuts, and flakes!
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Date: 2022-05-03 01:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-05-03 08:50 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2022-05-03 09:35 pm (UTC)In many places, that's the "decolonize your diet" or "traditional foodways" movement now, which is gaining momentum. I'm very happy to see it. So much has been forgotten, and we're going to need it if people want to survive what they've done to the environment. :/
>> It has a revival, and I think the hippie movement must be thanked for that.<<
In my part of America, quinoa arrived after the hippie movement, but I think you are right that it stems from the same push toward healthier diets and historic ingredients. I quite like quinoa myself, but I worry that its sudden appearance as a "trendy" food in North America is making a former staple food unaffordable to poor people in South America. At least with bison, a lot folks making those products are actual tribes who benefit from the sale.
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Date: 2022-05-04 04:07 pm (UTC)