Taste Tested - March

Breakfast - Blueberry Muffins with Streusel Topping

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Taste: 2.0

Ease to Make: 1.0

Special Ingredients: Freeze Dried Blueberries

How Long to Make: 45 minutes + baking time

Reviews:

I'll not likely make these again. If I did, I'd only make half the streusel topping. It just poured off the muffins and made a mess under the cooking rack. They were labor intensive and not that great tasting. It was a sad day at our house. Boys say thumbs down.

Dinner - Whole Wheat Meat Loaf
 

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Taste: 3.5

Ease to Make: 3.5

Special Ingredients: Cooked wheat, Worcestershire sauce

How Long to Make: 15 to prepare, half hour to pressure cook wheat, hour to cook

Reviews:

This fell flat for us. To be honest, I think it was more the meatloaf recipe that we didn't like then the wheat in it. I think adding some wheat to a good meatloaf recipe is a better way to go. Although this isn't going to be something we eat regularly we would eat it in an emergency. My husband recommends having lots of ketchup on hand though!!

I will most likely add wheat to my regular recipe in the future. My kids didn't love it, but ate it. Kel said this recipe was a 5 for meatloaf (not a fav of his), but a 3 overall for our usual menu. I didn't love the nutmeg...

It was good and I might possibly make it again. I had to substitute onion powder for the onion since my daughter cannot eat onion right now. I used three pieces of bread to tear into large bread crumbs because it wouldn't hold the loaf shape. I didn't follow the recipe exactly because I was making it for three families and instead of 1 1/2 lbs of beef I had 2 1/2 lbs so I tried to adjust the ingredients accordingly.

Desert - Whole Wheat Carrot Cake Muffins

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Taste: 4.0

Ease to Make: 4.0

Special Ingredients: Canned pineapple

How Long to Make: 30 minutes + baking

Reviews:
This is a big (Mormon sized) batch. (24 muffins) I used two square baking pans. I substituted pecans for walnuts and topped one with pecans and one with brown sugar. Nobody could seem to decide which they liked best! I also added ½ t. nutmeg, which was pretty tasty. I would REALLY recommend testing a whole wheat carrot cake. Somehow the carrot/spice combination totally hid the whole wheat flavor and it didn’t seem heavy at all!