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! 🙂

Oats, Wheat, Calcium and Phosphorus

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I recently read an article that was published in 1929 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and I want to summarize it for all of you. It is titled “The Influence of Cereals Upon the Retention of Calcium and Phosphorus in Children and Adults.”

Keep in mind, cereal as we know it today was invented in 1877, and the Kellogg company was founded in 1906. All of the first cereal producers were Seventh Day Adventists and staunch vegetarians and believed that eating cereal for breakfast was better for humans than eggs or meat. (Side note: The Kelloggs believed that we would have a less promiscuous culture if everyone ate cereal ;)).

In 1924, Wheaties were invented: the first cereal aimed at kids, with sugar as one of the ingredients.

Baby Steps to Healthy Eating: Avoid Sugary Breakfasts

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avoid sugary breakfasts

  My friend Heidi e-mailed me last week and asked for some ideas of a baby step she could take towards healthier eating for her family. I wrote the Food Challenge in April and challenged you all to eat the way I think is ideal and healthy, but didn’t think about the fact that the whole thing … Read more

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

GAPS legal Coconut Flour Blueberry Muffins!

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I made a mistake this morning. We were going to a class where the 2 of the kids would see their birthmom, and I got them all dressed up nice and pretty, and then I fed them blueberry muffins. NOT SMART! 🙂 My suggestion? Make these muffins and serve them to your kids while they’re still in their pajamas. Or serve them, and plan to hang out at home for the day, with blueberry goobers on everyone’s clothes. 🙂 Or maybe, just maybe, make them and keep them all to yourself and don’t share them with your kids. 🙂

When you want a day filled with blueberry goobers, or breakfast in pjs, or a pan full of muffins to yourself here’s my recipe!