Grove City Messenger - May 7th, 2023

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Active Lifestyles
Losing a loved one is a crushing experience. It
knocks the wind out of you so much it’s hard to
think. It’s ironic that when we are grief stricken
and overwhelmed, we must make some of the
most difficult decisions like how to honor our
loved one, one final time.
Writing an obituary, planning a service, and
choosing a monument can seem unwieldy in those
moments. What if you never discussed those
things? What if you are not sure what they’d like,
or your family members disagree? What if the
costs are not within your budget? These challenges
could be eliminated by preplanning.
According to the National Funeral Directors
Association, the median cost of a traditional
funeral today is $7,640, before cemetery and
headstone costs. Inclusive of them, it can be a
$10,000 investment or more.
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Tips to make baking more healthy
Baking sessions are a beloved family
tradition in many households. But
such sessions may not be as revered by
family physicians, as baked goods are
often prepared with ingredients, like
sugar and butter, that aren’t necessarily
sound additions to a person’s diet.
Though baked goods may never
rival vegetables in nutritional value,
there are ways for amateur bakers to
make these beloved foods a little more
healthy.
• Replace sugar with a fig puree.
Figs are nutrition-rich fruits that serve
as significant sources of calcium,
potassium and iron. WebMD notes
that figs also are excellent sources of
fiber. Soaking eight ounces of figs in
water can soften them before they’re
pureed with water. The resulting fig
puree can serve as a sugar substitute.
• Make it a ‘dates’ night. Much like
figs, dates can be pureed and serve as
a sugar substitute. However, WebMD
notes that pureed dates will not be
able to replace all of the sugar in a
recipe. One cup of pureed pitted dates
with one cup of water can replace as
much as half of the sugar a recipe calls
for.
• Replace butter with avocados. It’s
not just sugar that can make baked
goods so unhealthy. Many baking
recipes call for a substantial amount of
butter. California Avocados notes that
avocados can replace butter at a 1:1
ratio when baking. So if a recipe calls for
one cup of butter, bakers can replace that
with one cup of pureed avocados. WebMD
warns that avocados have more water than
butter, so bakers may want to reduce the
temperature in their ovens by 25 percent
and bake the foods a little longer.
• Replace white flour with whole wheat
flour. White flour is often the go-to for amateur
and even professional bakers. But
white flour is processed, which removes the
bran and germ of the grain, thus stripping
white flour of much of its nutritional value.
Whole wheat flour is not processed, so it
retains its nutritional value. Baking with
whole wheat flour may require a learning
curve, and some bakers prefer to use a mix
of whole-wheat and white flour to preserve
the flavors they’ve grown accustomed to.
Baked goods may never pack the most
nutritious punch, but there are ways for
amateur bakers to make such foods a little
more healthy.
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