Recipes for frosting often call for creaming butter and sugar with a food processor or hand mixer, because I do not have these items, let alone any small appliances, I need to do this by hand, but cannot find any suggestions for this.

I winged it, in a saucepan, I put 1/3 cup of Nutella Ferrera 1/3 Knotts Seedless Red Raspberry jam. And a half cup of heavy cream, whisked and then ran throught the food processor. Ran through a fine sieve. Put in a squeeze bottle. I don’t want to try it til tomorrow because I am [...]

Things like barley , when they are crushed in food processor , do they have more calories per cup then whole grains ?

i only have enough money to buy a high quality
FOOD PROCESSOR
OR
BLENDER (high power)
Which one is more useful for a raw food newbie???

I mean, I’ve heard there’s ways to make "bread" by dehydrating certain things…
but just general, "leave it alone", no blender, food processor, dehydrator, nothin…knife at best…
How do raw foodies eat grains? And other ‘cookamust’s’, like potatoes and lentils…