Grain-Free Spicy Whole Roasted Chicken

One of the things I learned on the farm, raising our own chickens, was that farm chicken isn’t easily served up as boneless skinless chicken breasts or thighs. Most of the time, our home-grown chicken was served as whole, roasted chicken. This brought about the need to create different and interesting whole chicken recipes! πŸ™‚ … Read more

Grain-Free Carrot Raisin Salad

We’ve been making this salad since we were on the GAPS Diet (which we started approximately 10 years ago & were on for 3 years!). My kids love this salad. It is a nice dinner addition and quite easy to prepare. This recipe is in my GAPS Meal Plans. Grain-Free Carrot Raisin Salad Author: Brenda … Read more

Grain-Free Tomato Soup

This soup is from my GAPS Meal Plans & we enjoyed it again for lunch last week! This is really quite simple to prepare, and it is suitable for people who are eating GAPS, Paleo, Primal, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, and even vegetarian or vegan. My family serves this alongside gluten free grilled cheese sandwiches. There is … Read more

Paleo Chicken Curry Salad (Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Nut-Free)

I made up this Curry Chicken Salad and served it at a Norwex party at my house last week. I’ll blog more about Norwex later, my friend Erin is selling it hereΒ if you want to check them out before I get a chance to blog about them. I don’t typically like microfiber because of the … Read more

Curry Chicken Salad (Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Nut-Free, Paleo)

Curry Chicken Salad

This recipe came from my old website: The Well Fed Homestead. On that site, I wrote about our adventures in homesteading, and I published all of the GAPS Diet-friendly recipes that I had created for our family. I’ve been moving the recipes from The Well Fed Homestead over to this site, because I hope that … Read more

But I “need” grains

do we need grains?

  Someone sent me an e-mail recently with this comment/question, and I wanted to share my thoughts here for all of you.   “I’m finding (through trial and error) that my body needs grains everyday… when I first went GF, I was eating protein, dairy, veggies, and fruit with very little grains… I actually gained … Read more

GAPS Legal Chocolate Honey Cake

GAPS Legal Cake!

We got 20 eggs today (WOO HOO!), so I figured I had enough to bake a CAKE! πŸ™‚

This is yummy, but if you’re a chocoholic, stay tuned for when I perfect the flourless chocolate cake I’m working on (it’s even MORE chocolatey). This is like a regular chocolate cake–not quite as rich or chocolatey as a flourless cake or a truffle or brownies. Ya know what I mean? πŸ™‚ But it’s easy, and yummy, and it isn’t too rich for guests who aren’t chocolate-crazy like normal people me. πŸ™‚