Stretchy Breakfast: Fried Mush – Two Ways

One of my favorite breakfasts growing up was fried mush. My mama always made it out of cornmeal mush. It was a true ‘Stretchy’ food since day one we had cooked hot cornmeal mush cereal in a bowl topped with milk and sugar or molasses and day two the left...
Farmer Boy Pancakes

Farmer Boy Pancakes

Most of our breakfasts are quite quick. But on weekends or days without school or work, we’ll have a more leisurely breakfast. Sourdough pancakes are often requested. Due to cost, we very rarely have maple syrup with our pancakes. Sometimes I’ll make...
Basic Guidelines for Acquiring Food

Basic Guidelines for Acquiring Food

One thing that has changed in our journey to real food is how we shop. In many ways we completely relearned this shopping skill. This was not something that happened overnight and in some ways it wasn’t completely an easy task. Before we could relearn our...

GAPS Introduction Day 1

Our first day on GAPS went fairly well. I think my favorite thing to eat yesterday was carrots. I had planned to mash them but ended up just leaving them in nickels. At the end of cooking a little bit of fat from the top of a broth container was added to them which...

GAPS Introduction Day 2

> Yesterday was rough. My energy was horrible. My mood was icky and I was hungry much of the day. We did go for a walk at a park down the road and that was wonderful but about halfway through I was so hungry that I thought I was going to be sick. Funny thing was I...

GAPS Intro Day 4

> Woke up feeling good again. Not quite as much energy as Day 3, but still good. I need the energy so I can work on my from home based business and also prepare for town work tomorrow. Usually we go to town on Thursday. I leave early and go in and do business. Then...

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