Granola

Here is the basic recipe I use for granola. I take all parts in stride. A little of this, a little of that works well for granola but it is nice to have a basic sense of amounts etc...

I never use the dries milk and because otto likes to share with me i generally omit the nuts, but they would be yummy!

Ingredients

7 cups rolled oats, uncooked
1 cup toasted coconut
1 cup wheat germ
1 cup almonds, sliced or broken up
1 cup pecans or walnuts, chopped or broken up
1 cup sunflower seeds, raw or toasted
1/2 cup Baker’s Special Dry Milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup maple syrup
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup raisins
additional dried fruit/nuts as desired
Preparation

In a large bowl, combine the oats, coconut, wheat germ, nuts, seeds, and milk powder. Mix well. In a separate bowl, whisk together the salt, oil, maple syrup, and vanilla. Pour over dry mixture in bowl, stirring and tossing till everything is very well combined.

Spread granola on a couple of large, lightly greased baking sheets. Bake in a preheated 250°F oven for 2 hours, tossing and stirring mixture every 15 minutes or so. Remove pans from oven and cool completely. Transfer granola to a large bowl, and mix in raisins and additional dried fruit, as desired.


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Deodorant

3 tbsp shea butter

3 tbsp baking soda

2 tbsp cornstarch

2 tbsp cocoa butter

vitamin E oil few drops

essential oil to taste (0r smell really)

avocado oil to help thin if necessary

melt all ingrediants in the microwave. a few 30 second spins in mine. pour into old deodorant containers. fills one old secret two times with a bit to spare. Extra can be stored in anything then remelted and poured into deodorant container as space is made available.

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Lip Balm

Lip Balm

1 tsp Beeswax pellets

1 tsp Shea butter

6 ml olive oil or avocado oil

5 drops vitamin E

melt in microwave carefully, stirring every 20 seconds, then pour into cleaned out containers.

Note, this needs more information, how long to nuke, how much does it make? I will add them next time I make a batch.

great info here

like she says:

Lip balm from Denmark

5 - 6 grams of beeswax (the scale couldn't decide which one, so I'm guessing
it was very close to 6 grams - it was a little more than one teaspoon of my
beeswax, when it was grated)
1 teasp of shea butter
6 ml of castor oil (I read somewhere that this gives more glossy lipbalms)
6 ml of almond oil
5 drops of e-vitamin
5 drops of lemon EO

It is a really great lipbalm/gloss! I didn't want to add any colour, so it came out looking yellow - I'm guessing partly because of the lemon EO. It's hard enough to have in the lipstick container - and gives a really great gloss on the lips.

Oh, and it's true that lemon might not be good in very sunny weather - it makes you burn (or tan) more easily. But the shea-butter actually works as a sun screen (factor 4 european - don't know what that is in american sunproducts), so I guess it evens out.