Sometimes in life we get tired of hearing about all the things we should change, and as a result we hold on too tightly to things we should be setting free. Oh, dear aluminum foil. I am afraid that in my home I may have held on […]
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I did it! It’s quite amazing actually. I am so not a recipe maker. A recipe modifier perhaps. And an awesome recipe tester. But holy cow it is a major feat for me to actually create a recipe. And that I did! I have been trying to […]
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It took some serious detective work to discover that my daughter was allergic to a meat if it had been fed one of her severe allergens. She could not tolerate any poultry. She had symptoms if her beef was not 100% grass fed. And in one case, […]
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In 2011, I was thrilled to attend an all day session on backyard chickens, hosted by Harvey Ussery. When I left for the Weston A Price Foundation Annual Conference, my perspectives on food and medicine had already been seriously rocked, but this conference left me seeing everything from […]
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When I first broke open the box of my precious dehydrator, I found a manila envelope labeled “sodium bisulfite”. I was completely new to the world of dehydrating and extremely paranoid due to severe food allergies in the home, so it took me about 7 seconds to toss […]
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When I first dove into this real food thing a few years back, I hit the internet looking for help. I had the GAPS book in hand, but seriously? I’m a visual learner in a lot of ways, and was totally overwhelmed. I needed help. The first […]
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Last week a sweet friend stopped me and said, ‘Hey! Isn’t it about this time last year that we did the prayer thing for Ellie?’ I had to stop and think. It is. To the month. ‘Can you believe how much has changed in a year?’ And she is […]
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I have multiple anaphylactic food allergies. I am anaphylactic to strawberries, melons, and shellfish. I say I am allergic to melons because I have reacted to cantaloupe watermelon, and honey dew. That was enough for me to stop trying melons. I also say shellfish because I have reacted […]
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(Did you miss part 1?) By the time we hit stage 4 or 5 of the GAPS Introduction diet things got blurry and began to run together. We found it became harder to stick to a designated stage, and everyone tolerated things so differently that we were […]
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I write this post with great hesitation. I have been asked and asked and asked and asked and asked about what we ate on GAPS intro. and what our menu was soooooo many times that I decided I am sticking myself out there and making it public. […]
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