This recipe first appeared on Gary North's Non-Hybrid Gardening Forum that Geri hosts. She made the claim that one could just about live on this by itself if you added a little vitamin C. Well, I did a nutritional analysis on it and wouldn't you know it, she was right. (You can see the analysis at the bottom of this page.) Add a few sprouts to this and you'll have all the nutrition you need for the day. Used by permission.
Ingredients:
 | 2 Cups shredded raw carrots
| 2 Cups ground yellow cornmeal
| 1 and 1/2 Cups milk (I have made this with powdered, reconstituted milk, too)
| 1 Cup honey
| 4 eggs slightly beaten
| 2 Cups white, OR 1 and 3/4 Cups whole wheat flour
| 1/4 Cup vegetable oil
| 2 Tablespoons Baking Powder
| 2 teaspoons or less of salt
| |
Combine shredded carrots and cornmeal in a large bowl. Heat milk in a saucepan to boiling and immediately add to carrot and cornmeal mixture. Cool to almost room temperature. Add honey, eggs, oil.
In a separate bowl, mix together white or wheat flour, baking powder and salt. Then dump it all into the carrot mixture. Pour into baking pan(s) or muffin tins. If doing muffins, fill each cup 3/4 full. They rise nicely.
Bake in 400 degree oven 20 min for muffins, 35-45 min. for cake pans. You want them nicely golden brown and springy to the touch in the center. The oven rack should be in the center, not on the top level or you may burn the tops of the muffins or bread. Honey in the recipe will make it brown easily, so you don't want to overdo the browning too long. A telephone call diverting your attention at the finish time could give you a DARK brown-- but no less delicious--finish.
The Y2K Connection? If you do a nutritional analysis of this recipe, I think you'll find you could nearly survive on it, even without beans or other legumes added. Just add a few sprouts or a salad on the side for Vitamin C and other "live food" micronutrients and you have it made.....Geri Guidetti
Male Female
RDA % RDA %
Food energy KCal: 3602.01 124 164
Protein Gms: 88.9223 141 178
Total lipid (fat) Gms: 89.3146 93 122
Carbohydrate, by diff. Gms: 648.333 149 196
Total saturated fat Gms: 16.4747 57 69
Ttl monounsaturated fat Gms: 39.1936 No RDA Requirement
Ttl polyunsaturated fat Gms: 27.3483 See the oils below
Cholesterol Mg : 873.625 291 291
Sodium Mg : 6626.05 276 276
Total dietary fiber Gms: 53.332 162 213
Vitamin A Re : 8041.23 804 1005
Alpha Tocopherol Mg : 0 No RDA Requirement
Ascorbic acid Mg : 9.8925 16 16
Thiamin Mg : 2.22695 148 202
Riboflavin Mg : 2.80569 165 216
Niacin Mg : 25.7635 136 172
Vitamin B6 Mg : 2.60931 130 163
Folacin Mcg: 306.141 153 170
Vitamin B12 Mcg: 3.1466 157 157
Potassium Mg : 2963.5 85 85
Calcium Mg : 1384.08 173 173
Phosphorus Mg : 2323.13 290 290
Magnesium Mg : 705.101 201 252
Iron Mg : 24.4255 244 163
Zinc Mg : 14.9355 100 124
Pantothenic acid Mg : 7.5838 76 76
Copper Mg : 1.73312 87 87
Manganese Mg : 5.63874 161 161
Caprylic Acid (8:0) Gms: 0.10995 No RDA Requirement
Capric acid (10:0) Gms: 0.1572 No RDA Requirement
Lauric acid (12:0) Gms: 0.1821 No RDA Requirement
Myristic acid (14:0) Gms: 0.68525 No RDA Requirement
Palmitic acid (16:0) Gms: 7.74149 No RDA Requirement
Palmitoleic acid(16:1) Gms: 0.74477 No RDA Requirement
Stearic acid (18:0) Gms: 5.97553 No RDA Requirement
Oleic acid (18:1) Gms: 38.2512 No RDA Requirement
Linoleic acid (18:2/n6) Gms: 23.0864 770 923
Linolenic acid(18:3/n3) Gms: 3.88656 194 243
Gadoleic acid (20:1) Gms: 0.056 No RDA Requirement
Docosenoic acid (22:1) Gms: 0.006 No RDA Requirement
Phytosterols Mg : 0 No RDA Requirement
Histidine Gms: 2.19732 231 289
Isoleucine Gms: 3.90299 412 516
Leucine Gms: 7.67374 607 761
Lysine Gms: 4.10472 433 543
Methionine Gms: 1.9256 See below
Cystine Gms: 1.72659 See below
Methionine+Cystine Gms: 3.65219 462 580
Phenylalanine Gms: 4.26731 See below
Tyrosine Gms: 3.23535 See below
Phenylalanine+Tyrosine Gms: 7.50266 594 744
Threonine Gms: 3.3662 533 534
Tryptophan Gms: 1.07233 452 567
Valine Gms: 4.66309 422 529
Arginine Gms: 4.35055 No RDA Requirement
Alanine Gms: 4.44647 No RDA Requirement
Aspartic acid Gms: 6.59385 No RDA Requirement
Glutamic acid Gms: 18.9041 No RDA Requirement
Glycine Gms: 3.12522 No RDA Requirement
Proline Gms: 1.01745 No RDA Requirement
Serine Gms: 4.83759 No RDA Requirement
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