DIY chips and crackers expand experimentation, flavors and decrease expenses

January 2019 — Eliminating chips and crackers from your grocery list doesn’t mean you have to give them up entirely. Save money by making them yourself and experiment with new flavors and different cooking methods.

Www.cookinglight.com offers fried and baked chips – potato, zucchini, kale, beet, apple and pear. Www.eatwithureyes.com offers baked and fried sweet potato chips. YouTube offers a tortilla chip demonstration from The Rocking Raw Chef. Some cooks use mandolin cutters, but others like www.minimalistbaker.com assert that manually cutting the chips will still yield tasty treats. Some chefs even use a microwave; others use a spiralizer to cut chips into thin ribbons.

Crackers can be gluten-free or made from wheat, include oil or oil-endowed ingredients, use several leavening agents or none. YouTube cooks Rain Country, The Hidden Veggies and The Healthy Maven used regular ovens for more complicated graham, very simple seeded and crackers made with soaked quinoa. Raw cooks www.therawtarian.com and Rawlicious with Mai on Facebook used dehydrators for up to 12 hours, combining nuts with vegetables. All the cooks made cut marks before heating so that the crackers would break apart easily after they were done.