It all started when Donna was searching the Internet for bread recipes and stumbled on one for popped wheat. She made some, liked it and took it a step further, using the popped wheat in place of popped corn in caramel corn. She took the new snack to church, where everyone liked it. That year the Bateses gave “wheat berry brittle” as a Christmas gift, and the response was overwhelming. “People said, ‘You have got to market this,’” Donna says.
For the next four months, she worked to get a product she liked, cooking up some new variation every day after school. When Paul and Sam came in from working on the farm she would have eight different things for them to try. She wanted a healthy product, and one of the biggest challenges was figuring out how to pop the wheat without using oil.
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