Real Food Cooking
Healthy, traditional cooking: real food recipes, monthly and weekly meal plans, alternative cooking methods, and much more.
Almond Meal/Flour Pancakes
Do you ever find yourself with just a small amount of leftover whatever? In my quest to keep our food spending under control, I'm trying to limit...
Post GAPS Health Update
> I started sharing at the end of September how my poor choices over the summer resulted in me feeling horrible all of the time. There was very...
Menu Plan Week of December 4
> Last weeks menu plan was very successful. Going back and looking at some of the old menu mailers that I had was a good idea. Oriental Crock Pot...
Compromises
A couple of weeks ago one of my friends gave me a lesson in pressure canning. A different friend taught me how to water bath can a couple of years...
Menu Plan Week of November 27
> I used to share my menu plans almost weekly. I have to admit, having my menu plan written out here was a big help for me. I do write it out on...
GAPS and Us
> The 30 Days GAPS Introduction Challenge hosted by Cara at Health, Home & Happiness ended the last of October. For the most part, Joe and I...
Relearning the Importance of Fat
As a young adult I totally bought into the whole "Politically Correct Nutrition" idea that fat was bad, especially animal fat. At one time I...
GAPS and Our Food Budget
> Something that has been on my mind as we do the GAPS Introduction diet is our food budget. When we began our real/whole/traditional foods...
GAPS Intro Continues
Whew. Being away from home while doing GAPS Intro was a challenge. One I did not entirely fulfil. I did okay but not as good as I would have liked....
GAPS Intro Day 7
Meals and Mood Woke up feeling great today even though I had very interrupted sleep last night. Fall has hit Wyoming and along with fall came the...
GAPS Intro Day 6
Spaghetti Squash Foods and Feelings Joe woke up feeling very tired again. This morning he is thinking it is diet related since he feels...
GAPS Intro Day 5
How the Day Went...Woke up early to get ready to leave for town. Wasn't really ready to get up but felt fine. Joe however, woke up feeling not well....
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...
GAPS Intro Day 3
Great but slightly weird breakfast (the picture is on the left). I boiled 4 chicken thighs (bought at the Natural Grocers mark down bin/freezer for...
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...
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...
GAPS Introduction Starts Tomorrow
So far I have chicken and broth ready for tomorrow. Still to do today is make a 'pate' as described in this post, make a butternut squash soup...
GAPS Introduction in Two Days!
Photo Credit: Joana Hard on Flickr On Saturday my husband and I will be starting the 30 Day GAPS Intro Challenge that Cara at Health, Home...
Making a Change
Just over two years ago we started to slowly change from a Standard American Diet (SAD) to a Real/Whole/Traditional foods diet. Our changes were...
Road Trip: Segment 5- Part 2 of the Long Trip Home
Photo Credit: hoi polloi on flickr We are up to the final leg of our Road/Camping trip back to Oregon for my daughter's graduation. Segment 5: Part...
Mung Beans: Menu Week of May 22
This week has started off very good. Yesterday the older children went to the movies and had a late lunch/early dinner in town. Joe, Christopher and...