Pop-Tarts
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A couple of weeks ago I saw them at Ranch. But they are frequently unavailable, and flavors are limited. I suppose they do cost a fortune, I haven't looked.Originally Posted by _noir
It isn't hard to make a healthier homemade version: make a sugar-free piecrust using whole wheat flour (if you can find THAT! - sometimes Kemchicks has it) and sneaking in a few nutritious extras like ground flax seed (readily available here), ground walnuts, etc. (Truly serious nutrition nazis may want to use corn oil for the butter - I usually use half butter and half oil.) Use cooked fruit with no added sugar for the filling, thickened with a bit of cornstarch. Mango and apple are both good choices.
You can even roll out your dough and make pop-tart shaped tarts, although I recommend against that because it is difficult and time-consuming, and you shouldn't put the result into the toaster anyway. Just make regular small tarts, that is very quick.
It's a guilty pleasure for my kid to have pie tarts like these for breakfast - and they are not nearly as hideous as highly processed commercial poptarts.
Full disclosure: we have poptarts in the cabinet as I write this. Yup, those nasty Kellogg's things. I wouldn't dream of buying them, but my husband will periodically. (Yes, as a matter of fact we do have one of those marriages where HE wants to go to McDonald's and I don't ... why do you ask?)
I'll head over to Ranch Market/BATS/Kemchicks when I land a bonus. LOL.
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