I try to buy local, too, when I can, but being in a major metropolitan area where local actually does include northern Mexico, it's kind of hard to know what's safe and what's fudgy on the great slide scale of organic squishiness.

smilingcat - when I read your post I had a flashback of reading something once upon a time that molasses was used as an additive to irrigation systems to restore the minerals in farm soil. I wonder if that might help your yield and replete your soil.

I love crusty whole grain bread - someone called it artisan bread, and I didn't know that it was low-gluten and all that until I read it on this board. Interesting stuff. Now I'm looking for it every time I go shopping as there is a new Trader Joe's on the way home from my favorite bike workout. Woohoo!

Of course, I'm supposed to be off wheat to test for a wheat allergy that might be hanging up the weight loss effort, but getting off wheat is h-a-r-d. For me, at least.

Susan, how are you milling your own grains? I've got a small coffee grinder that I've used for grinding millet and flax, but after that, I don't know much what to do with it. The one bread I tried didn't taste very good, alas.

Do you have a good recipe for millet and flax bread?

Roxy