Tuesday, March 29, 2011  Homemade Fritos!  Yes Virginia, you can
make your own fritos-type corn chips. Do they taste exactly like
fritos? No. Are they super easy? I think so. Can I feel good
about consuming all of the ingredients in homemade fritos? YES!
One of the things we try to stay away from is corn or any corn
derivative  in food products because it's most likely a GMO. I
know the GMO debate is a touchy subject, but we try to avoid it
in my house. That means that items we would normally just buy
(like Fritos) I try not to because of the potential of the GMO
corn.    These were fairly simple to make, they make a good
corn-y tasting chip and they take 4 ingredients. I made them
today and used them in frito pie for our lunch. now, sometimes
when I make frito pie 2 things happen: 1) it can seem really
salty because of the commercial fritos and 2) the fritos seem to
dissapear into a soggy mass of congealed chips. Some people may
like that, and more power to ya, but I don't.  Like I siad, I
used these today a