I was saving sugar in this container for over a year, "just in case" people came to my house and wanted sugar in their tea or coffee. I think we may have used it once during that time, most people are fine with honey. I decided that we didn’t need to keep the … Read more
I have been spending a lot of time in the garden. I got to thinking, really, who needs INSANITY when you’ve got one of these: Seriously? Yesterday I think I spent about 5 hours using something like this (mine isn’t this exact one, but close!). This kind of tool is AMAZING for getting out big clumps … Read more
I wanted to make GAPS legal stir fry. It’s an easy dinner, quick, and it would be amazing to have this perfected when summer veggies show their faces! 🙂 This isn’t going to be a recipe, but more of a list. How do you measure stir fry ingredients? Seriously. 🙂 My family … Read more
We wanted to share with you the rough plans that my husband drew up in Visio to go with Joel Salatin’s Pastured Poultry Profits . The book describes how to build the chicken tractor in Chapter 10, The Pen, but in a paragraph form. My husband used that paragraph to draw up these plans.
Oh this is amazing!! It is not GAPS legal (sorry!), but it is a healthy version of custard and oh so good!! Ingredients: 6 farm fresh eggs 2 cups raw milk 2 cups raw cream 1 cup Raw Honey 1/2 cup Raw Cacao Power pinch of salt Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Scald the milk … Read more
When I was a kid, I LOVED Yoplait Mandarin Orange Yogurt. Often, they would come out with peach yogurt and they’d stop carrying my favorite orange kind (though it was tricky, the peach kind LOOKED like the orange kind). I was sad. I liked the orange kind. Then, I think when I was … Read more
We’re on the GAPS diet, which is a big jump for a lot of people! We didn’t start here. My husband grew up on a lot of packaged and boxed, processed foods. I grew up on a lot of homemade dinners, but SAD ones (Standard American Diet, including Rice A Roni, Cream of Mushroom Soup … Read more
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.
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! 🙂