Carpet Cleaning (non-toxic, allergy-friendly, and frugal)
My carpet needed a serious deep clean. With a 4 year old, a husband, and a cat, it gets its fair share of wear and tear. It is also old and secretly wants to be laid to rest, but hardwood floors aren’t anywhere near the top of the to-do list. I make do…grudgingly. We used […]
Rotation Diet Menu Plan Wk of 6/9-6/15 (includes grocery receipts)
This week returns to full 7 day menu plans and follows Primal/Paleo/GAPS + starch. The grains have been ousted yet again, and we are feeling better already. ::happy dance:: Hubby is not ready to give up dairy, so you will see some dairy items listed. They are never part of the main meals. Our grocery […]
Today’s Freshly-Pressed Juice
There is always some curiosity when I talk about freshly-pressed juices. We don’t drink store-bought juices that are pasteurized and devoid of enzymes and most of the original nutrients. We use the Mini Green, a twin-gear juicer, and make our own. I make each juice to order and we have one almost every day during the warmer […]
Can’t Get Them To Eat Their Veggies? Try It 3 Ways!
No more yuck face! I recently had a conversation with another real foodie on how to get reluctant family members to at least try their veggies. That sparked an idea. Real foodies tend to spend A LOT of time in the kitchen. When you prepare each meal from scratch, you kinda want people to eat […]
What is a Locavore? The Dark Days Challenge
With all the new buzzwords, it can be hard to keep up. Locavore, ustainable, eco-friendly, WAPF, traditional foods, lacto-fermented, and slow food are some of the terms that are becoming important to people tired of the mass-produced everything in our lives. What is a locavore? Taking things one step further, a locavore is someone who strives to […]
Homemade Cough Syrup, Witch Doctor style
I recently added to my witch doctor remedies, voodoo practitioner if you prefer, by brewing up one that remedied a bout of bronchitis that was creeping up on me. There was this nasty cold that I wasn’t taking care of. Hack hack, cough cough. Lo and behold…bronchitis. I stopped coughing within three minutes of taking this, coughed […]
GAPS day 18, ‘GAPS Kitchen Syndrome’, a virus, and CHICKEN FEET
I have some weird spots popping up the last few days that are small, red, and painful. They are also clear inside where a whitehead would be. I have them mostly on my palms and the underside of my fingers and have about seven of them on my hands today. Nuts? Dairy? Regular die off? […]
GAPS day 17, still intro’ishing it
As I ruminated on and stewed over why I’m diverging off the path of true intro – when I normally tend towards perfectionism -, I think something – or many somethings – must require the enzymes in raw food to heal. Much of the healing the must take place in hubby’s organs to start producing insulin and […]
Eye of Newt and Puppy Dog Tails
I’ve been braving my way into traditional foods recently and am using them to try to heal our guts. Katie’s food allergies, my sugar addiction, and hubby’s diabetes (update on that as soon as we get his latest bloodwork report but he’s off meds and better than I even had hoped) are all symptomatic of gut dysbiosis or […]