Guest Post - Gut Healing and Lactofermentation
Today I have a guest post from KerryAnn Foster. KerryAnn shares her personal experience with gut problems and also healing. She also shares about lactofermentation and why doing it properly can be so beneficial to those of us in need of gut healing. Don’t miss the discount code she is offering at the end of this post for her lactofermentation class! I have learned so much from KerryAnn about fermentation and am learning more all the time. This class will be a great way to get your healing to the next level. If you are on GAPS and not fermenting because you are intimidated by it or because your ferments keep failing this will be a great way to get started with plenty of resources for the novice and experienced fermenter alike. -PattyLA ——- Lactofermentation is a favorite topic...
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Dehydrated Broth
Broth is the foundation of the GAPS diet. One of the pillars of all healthy diets worldwide according to Dr Kate Shanahan and it is featured prominently in Nourishing Traditions. It seems to be part of the diets of all people with good health from all cultures. Perhaps that is why we continue to use and crave it’s flavor in so many foods. Canned broth and bullion cubes are not a healthy part of any diet but an weak imitation of the real stuff that humans have thrived on for millennia. I have shared how to make bone broth, how to make meat broth, the difference between the two and about making it in the pressure cooker. I have also shared ideas for sneaking it into your families diet. Today I’m going to share another idea for broth. Many of my blog posts contain...
Read MoreRaw Peach Ice Cream
It has been a dry spring here in Missouri. This means that farmers of all kinds are struggling with getting food from their fields to their customers. This doesn’t just apply to our CSA and other produce farmers but our source of Raw Grassfed Milk is also struggling. When the fields don’t get rain the grass isn’t as lush and the cows don’t produce as much milk. It is like when a lactating mom goes on a starvation diet and loses her milk supply. This is the time of year when milk should be plentiful and cream very rich so week after week I have been ordering raw cream from my farmers and week after week we have heard that there wasn’t enough milk to make cream. One week we even all had to accept less milk than we...
Read MoreWilted Lettuce Salad
A couple of years ago I was at the farmers market chatting with one of the farmers that we got our food from. She was telling me that she had made a wilted lettuce salad and how her kids had marveled at how it shrank when she made it. I said “A what?” I hadn’t ever heard of a wilted lettuce salad. I consider myself to have enjoyed a wide variety of foods from all over the world but she was looking at me like I had lived under a rock my whole life. I just had to hear what it was about. “You cook bacon and add vinegar and you mix it into the lettuce hot” was all I got out of her. She made it sound very common place so I came home and looked in my...
Read MoreGAPS Alfredo Sauce
When I first moved out on my own I discovered the wonders of alfredo sauce. I never liked tomato sauce and so for years I had my pasta with butter and cheese. Then one day I tasted rich delicious alfredo sauce. I was in heaven! Even better was Alfredo Primavera. Pasta with alfredo sauce and vegetables. In fact it goes well with so many additions, shirmp, chicken, broccoli, the possibilities are endless! I’m getting myself all worked up over it again. I was longing for something rich and creamy and though to Alfredo sauce. Well so many of those recipes use some sort of a starch to thicken the sauce. Not exactly a GAPS friendly ingredient. Even without starch they call for fresh heavy cream, also not GAPS. I tried out an idea tonight that turned out really good!...
Read MoreSuper Nutrition for Babies Review and Give Away
I hope that you have read my interview with the authors of Super Nutrition for Babies last week. (New Book: Super Nutrition for Babies - An Interview with the Authors) and the excerpt I shared from the book all about Mama nutrition (Super Nutrition for Babies excerpt- Super nutrition for moms!). Today I have 2 copies of the book to give away! But first I would like to give my review of the book. I received a copy of the book for free. I was under no obligation to give it a favorable review and I will receive no compensation for giving it a favorable review. I have always been concerned with healthy eating and was doubly concerned with my babies, but did not learn about the Weston A Price foundation and it’s recommendations till my older child was 2. At that...
Read MoreGreen PolkaDot Box Shopping List
A few days ago I wrote Have you joined the Green PolkaDot Box yet? I promised in that post to share what my family has been buying. Over and over again I get asked “What do you buy at the Green PolkaDot Box?” Answering that question is a bit tricky since the inventory is still changing a lot so some things that I have purchased in the past are not available right now and new things are arriving all the time. I do not know when and if some of the products I have purchased in the past will be available again. So without further ado here is a listing of most of the products that I have purchased from Green PolkaDot Box over the past 6 months that they have been in business. Bac-Out (laundry and bathroom cleaner)...
Read MoreSuper Nutrition for Babies excerpt: Super Nutrition for Moms!
The authors of Super Nutrition for Babies are graciously allowing me to share an excerpt from their book with you. Even if you don’t have a baby at home I think that this chapter has important information for you. I choose this section on nutrition for nursing moms because it contains information on optimal nutrition for all people. Pregnancy and nursing put a huge tax on your body and nutritional stores and if you aren’t eating optimally you can end your nursing relationship with nutrient deficiencies that set you up for health issues and compromise the nutrition available to any subsequent babies as well. I know that plenty of my readers are following the GAPS diet because of the nutrient deficiencies you already have. While this program is designed especially for the nutrition that nursing mom’s need it is a great listing...
Read MoreHave you joined the Green Polkadot Box yet?
Late last summer I learned of this exciting new company on the horizon. The Green PolkaDot Box. They are offering GMO free natural and organic foods at discount prices to be delivered to your door. Some of these prices are 60% off retail! They were asking people to believe in them and invest and offering great rewards for doing so. Any new company has risks and unforeseen bumps in the road but we decided to take a chance and buy a founding trust membership. These were only available till the launch date so we had to invest without knowing what we would get. I will be the first to admit that they are getting off to a bit of a rocky start. They have a comittment to no selling any foods with GMO ingredients. That can be a...
Read MoreNew Book: Super Nutrition for Babies - An Interview with the Authors
I have always been concerned about good nutrition and grew up eating a mostly real foods diet although influenced by the low fat dogma of the day. I was not introduced to Nourishing Traditionsand the whole realm of traditional foods until 2006 when my older daughter was 2. When I first read Nourishing TraditionsI was absolutely fascinated by it and couldn’t put it down. When my second child came along two years later I understood the basics of how to approach traditional eating but I still found it confusing to know what to do with my infant. Since my older daughter has a wheat intolerance I was very committed to avoiding all grains with my younger daughter till her 2 year molars came in. Otherwise I really felt unsure of how to feed her and combined information I got from many...
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