2011 December | Loving Our Guts

What are oxalates?

Many have asked for help understanding oxalates so I decided to give a very brief description of what they are and how to know if you should look into this further. This is far from exhaustive and I am far from an expert but since this has had such a profound impact on the healing [...]

Cranberry Cake with Hot Butter Sauce

My mother-in-law’s cooking is legendary among all who knew her. Sadly, I am not one of those people. She died a couple of years before I met my husband. Some of her recipes have achieved mythic fame in her memory and I hear about them from my husband, father-in-law and others. Many of the dishes [...]

Detox Showers - A simple detox habit everyone has time for

An important piece of the GAPS diet is detox.The diet supports detox in several ways and one very important way is through detox baths. When I think about a detox bath I picture this. Calm, relaxed, time away. It sounds wonderful!

In reality however few days have time for that sort of a bath without [...]

Green Polkadot Box

I want to tell you about an opportunity is only available through the end of this year.

The Green PolkaDot Box is an online buying club for natural and organic foods. They opened up and began shipping orders for a limited number of customers a bit before Christmas. When I first heard about them back [...]

Leptin Reset

Give up Snacking? In December? What am I, Crazy?

One of my great joys of the holiday season is cookies and hot coffee drinks! And I finally figured out how to make cookies that we can all eat!

With my usual jump in with both feet attitude I began the Leptin Reset the Saturday after [...]

Essential Oils Year End Sale on Everything in stock!

I joined Be Young in the spring to get high quality essential oils at discount prices. You can to. Joining is free. Or you can just place an order if you would rather do it that way. These are very pure high quality essential oils and I have been very impressed by their ability [...]

Tongue Tie

This is a topic that seems to relate primarily to newly nursing babies or possibly shy people in social situations. We have neither of those here so why do I bring it up? Because 3 out of the 4 of us have a tongue tie! And all 3 will hopefully have this remedied in [...]

Blessed so that we can bless others.

For the past several years our Christmas gifts to our parents have been the gift of a donation to others in need. This year we had some fun giving them clue gifts from their grandchildren and now we will reveal what the “real” gifts are. This year those gifts are real and tangible for [...]

Christmas Menu for Low Oxalate GAPS

I think the foods of Christmas are the strongest memories from my childhood and the ones I most want to recreate with my own family. Some are much easier than others on the GAPS diet. Of course, then there are the pesky traditions of my husband’s childhood that must also be taken into consideration. Thankfully [...]

Dark Days Challenge meal #3

Welcome to week 3 of the dark days challenge. With all the Christmas stuff going on with my family it has been hard to focus on this meal but I had one of the veggies planned for a couple of weeks. We had this squash at our friends house for Thanksgiving and it was [...]