This makes me wonder beyond salad dressing and granola:

What else is low effort to make and vastly better or cheaper than store-bought?

@jonobie

Nut butters.

Just finalized our household recipe of Wallseed Peanut Butter. Two parts peanut, one part walnut, pumpkin and sesame seeds, with avocado oil and blackstrap molasses.

Popcorn spice.

My own bespoke seven seasonings recipe includes ground allium skins, orange zest, and nutritional yeast flakes, among other ingredients. For my roommate, a simpler spice: anise and thyme with Himalayan pink salt.

Muffins.

Currently developing a ginger blueberry oatmeal muffin with crushed fennel seeds, and some of the okara left over from making soy milk. (Also working on an okara crackers recipe.)

Hot cereal.

Quinoa oatmeal and accompanying six-part seed-meal topping can be measured out and set aside in reclaimed condiment containers, to be rice cookered up a night for a dose of tryptophan, enjoyed with maple syrup and blackstrap molasses.

Sports drink.

Water, fruit juice, rounded out with lemon juice, blackstrap molasses and maple syrup again, ginger powder and Himalayan pink salt.

Body butter.

Shea butter base, with coconut oil, cornstarch, ground chamomile flowers, baking soda, garlic and ginger powders, golden seal and myyrh.

These are just items that have something resembling store-bought equivalents.

@jonobie

=== Seven Seasonings ===

1. Clean and dry spice shaker and add 1/2 tsp of fresh brown rice to jar.

2. Coarse grind (Cuisinart spice and nut grinder):
• 5 g shredded dried allium skins

3. Add to mixing bowl. Wisk well.
• course ground allium skins
• spice and popcorn remnants (sifted from last bucket of popcorn: optional)
• 1/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes
• 1/4 cup homemade orange zest
• 1 tbsp black pepper kernel
• 1 tbsp dried thyme
• 1 tbsp dried basil
• 1 tbsp kosher salt
• 1 tsp granulated sugar
• 1 tsp savory herb seasoning
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp crushed red pepper

5. Grind (Krups spice and coffee grinder) in batches, transferring ground material back to mixing bowl.

6. Once thoroughly ground and mixed, transfer to spice shaker.

=== Roommate's GERD-safe spice ===

Grind in Krups:
• 1 tbsp anise (ground: dehydrated fennel fronds, fennel seeds or star anise)
• 1 tbsp dried thyme
• 1 tsp Himalayan pink salt

Transfer to spice shaker.

We use walnut oil in our sprayer when applying either spice to a batch from the Poplite.