Bone broth is made from bones with a little bit of meat on them, which you cook for longer than you would a meat stock. You can introduce bone broths into your diet once you’re through the Intro Diet and following Full GAPS. It’s a good idea to prepare a large quantity of broth at a time; use it to make healthy soups, stews, and casseroles or simply to drink throughout the day … [Read more...]
Q&A with authors of Heal Your Gut Cookbook
Today we're chatting with Hilary Boynton and Mary G. Brackett, authors of The Heal Your Gut Cookbook: Nutrient-Dense Recipes for Intestinal Health Using the GAPS Diet. If you have health challenges, you may have read about or considered the GAPS diet at some point. If it seemed complicated or challenging, you'll want to check out today's Q&A with the authors of a new … [Read more...]
Review: Homemade for Sale
If you happen to live in one of the 42 states that passed a cottage food law and you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you might have thought about starting your own homemade food business. If so, you should check out Homemade for Sale: How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen by ecopreneurs Lisa Kivirist and John D. Ivanko. This book has everything the … [Read more...]
Book excerpt: Eat Your Greens
Lettuce makes up over 70 percent of all leafy vegetables sold in the US, and most of that is iceberg lettuce. If you were to stay up all night trying to think up the worst food distribution plan possible, you would have trouble coming up with something as illogical as the iceberg or head lettuce industry. While greens as a food category are extremely nutritious, head lettuce is … [Read more...]
Q & A with Eat Your Greens author David Kennedy
Today we are chatting with David Kennedy, author of Eat Your Greens: The Surprising Power of Homegrown Leaf Crops How did you learn about non-traditional greens? After a number of unsatisfying jobs in the janitorial and dish washing field, I decided to try life without a job by moving to the woods, building a cabin, and growing all my food. It turned out that building a … [Read more...]
Review: Eat Your Greens
If you think that Eat Your Greens: The Surprising Power of Homegrown Leaf Crops is just a book telling you to eat your salad, you are in for a pleasant surprise. In fact, author David Kennedy makes a great case against the cultivation of head lettuce that is shipped all over North America. So, what kind of greens is he talking about in the title of his book? Although most of … [Read more...]
The five most interesting Christmas dinners around the world
We all have our traditional Christmas dinner – usually it involves turkey or ham, mashed potatoes, and lots of sweets. Even though the menu for Christmas is less set in stone than Thanksgiving, people have similar meals. However, that is not so across the world. There are some very interesting – and less than appetizing – Christmas meal traditions upheld in other countries. … [Read more...]
Hens on holiday: 3 strategies for eggless living
A few years ago, a family friend asked one of our daughters, "So, where do you buy eggs when your hens stop laying?" My daughter replied that we never buy eggs. He responded with disbelief, and my daughter told him that we had not bought eggs since our first hens started laying in 2002. The friend had a hard time understanding how we lived without eggs during the winter months, … [Read more...]
6 great things about chia seed pudding
Have you heard about chia seeds? And I am not talking about chia pets here, although they do use chia seeds to create those bizarre creatures. Chia seeds are actually a very nutritious food. They are a vegetarian source of omega 3, and they have lots of fiber, as well as some calcium, iron, and magnesium. One tablespoon of chia seeds has a whopping 5 grams of fiber and 3 grams … [Read more...]
2 simple secrets to great oatmeal
One glance down the cereal aisle at the grocery store, and you know that oatmeal is far from the most popular kid on the block. In fact, oatmeal accounts for a tiny percentage of foods consumed at breakfast. And that's really sad because oatmeal is versatile, delicious, inexpensive, and good for you. It costs far less per serving than a bowl of commercial cereal, is … [Read more...]
