A little bit of sugar is ok, right?

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is sugar okay?

We’re not allowing our kids to have sugar on Easter. We’re terrible parents, aren’t we? 😉 I will make honey chocolates, and they won’t miss a thing. My kids don’t complain about not having sugar. They do not lack good food, that is for sure!

We have lots of reasons we’re not allowing sugar this Easter. Every one of us is healthier without it. I’ve read a lot about sugar, too. Did you know that in a correctional facility for aggressive juveniles, there was a 44% decrease in aggression and anti-social behaviors just by decreasing the amount of sugar that they ate?? That is phenomenal.

Thoughts about phytase, phytates & phytic acid

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phytase, phytates & phytic acid

I mis-spoke in my blog about Grains and Iron. I said that humans don’t have the enzyme phytase. That isn’t completely true (I learned tonight). We do have phytase, but we have such a tiny amount of it that our bodies are not able to process unfermented grains.

I read an article that compared the amount of phytase in a human gut to the amount in a rat’s gut. The article is called Phytase activity in the human and rat small intestine. My husband thinks the things I read are boring, what do you think? 🙂 I get excited over studies like this! 🙂

Mmm…Butter!

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I fed my kids butter today. Straight butter, with a spoon. My friend Rhonda mentioned this idea the other night, and I decided to try it! So I made butter today and put it on spoons for my kids to eat. Why am I feeding my kids butter? ~The brain is made up of protein … Read more

Real Food for Rookies

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This is an advertisement, but not a paid advertisement! 🙂 No affiliate linking here.Kelly the Kitchen Cop is hosting an e-course called Real Food for Rookies , and I just wanted to suggest it to all of you out there who want to make the jump to cooking real food but don’t know how. My family is in … Read more

Taco/Pizza Eggs

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This is a fast and easy dinner/breakfast that I made up and we ate this evening. It’s a way to make eggs go further when you don’t have enough to feed your family. My family (of 6) can easily eat 15 eggs. Yes, we’re big egg eaters. Our chickens are only producing about 9 eggs … Read more

Easy, Yummy Coconut Brown Rice

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Rice isn’t on the GAPS diet, so we don’t usually eat it, but we did today. We had a potluck at church–and making large quantities of GAPS friendly foods is expensive, so we went with rice today. A friend told me that brown rice digests like a protein. Can anyone confirm that? I would love … Read more

GAPS Legal Stuffed Bell Peppers

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I first have to apologize that I’m not doing a very good job at capturing photos of our food! Our evenings have been busy and it always seems like we’re getting dinner started later than we hoped, and we’re all *STARVING*…You know what I mean. Anyways, I think about taking a picture about 1/2 way … Read more

Quiche Night!

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I love quiche. I know, we eat eggs for breakfast, don’t I get tired of this many eggs? Well, no. 🙂 Quiche is more about the other ingredients, and less about the eggs for me. It’s all good together though. It’s a great way to use up leftover meat and veggies. Besides, we have a lot of eggs popping out of our beautiful free-ranging chickens these days! (Serioulsy, we have like 5 dozen extra per week–anyone who lives near us want to come buy some? :))

Grains and Iron

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Do you know why most (all?) cereals are "iron fortified"? It is because of the phytic acid that occurs naturally in the grain.  Humans (and cows, for that matter) do not have the enzyme phytase to break down phytic acid. (Hint, hint: we weren’t meant to eat grains, at least in the way that they’re … Read more