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  1. domesticactivist
    How's that for a Weekly World News headline!
     
    The American medical community wants us to believe that heart disease is a modern invention. Our hearts are failing because we're sedentary. We eat too much sugar and meat. We smoke and we're stressed out. To beat heart disease, we need to get more exercise! Quit smoking! Quit stressing! Eat less sugar! Cut out meat!
     
    Let's look at the Egyptians. They got plenty of exercise. Refined sugar hadn't been invented y...
  2. domesticactivist
    This post is part of Kelly the Kitchen Kop's Open Original Shared Link.

    Jupiter said, "This tastes like Open Original Shared Link chicken fingers, only better, because it's healthy!"
     
    I have mixed feelings about my kid comparing my lovingly prepared grain and vegetable oil free oven fried chicken to processed crap. But I guess I'll take the compliment as it is intended: highest praise.
     
    Jupiter ate a drumstick, a thigh, and a wing. When he turned h...
  3. domesticactivist
    No matter what your special diet is, it will take some doing to stick to it. I don't even think about our diet much when I'm at home, because we've set ourselves up for success. The whole family is cooperating, the foods we can eat are easy to get to, and the foods we can't eat right now are out of sight and out of mind.
     
    But it gets a lot harder when I go out with friends and everyone is sharing appetizers I can't have, or when we're invited to dinner and know that ...
  4. domesticactivist
    I think Day 4 might be even more boring than Open Original Shared Link. Check your kraut. Fix the water level if needed.
     
    I'm going to leave you to your own fermenting devices now. Check your kraut daily. I'll post again when something interesting happens with this batch.
     
    Until then, good fermenting luck!
  5. domesticactivist
    Miss something? Go back to Open Original Shared Link or Open Original Shared Link.
     
    Day 3 is pretty boring. Check your kraut. Make sure the water level is right. If it's too high, pour some water out of the pint mason jar. Too low, either push down on the jar or add a little brine (1 c water to 1 T salt).
     
    Give it a good sniff. Smells like cabbage, huh? Give the friendlies a couple days to really get to work. It will start smelling sour pretty soon and l...
  6. domesticactivist
    Miss something? Go back to Open Original Shared Link!
     
    I got up this morning and was just so excited to check on my kraut! It had been sitting on the counter since yesterday and I had pushed down hard on that mason jar every time I passed it. When I went to bed, the water level was almost to the top of the cabbage. I had high hopes that the cabbage would be well submerged by morning.
     
    Well, my hopes were realized and more! The water had actually overflowed a...
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    This post is part of The Healthy Home Economist's Open Original Shared Link!
     
    I have never had any kind of souffle, so I am not sure if these little treats resemble it in any way other than it puffs up and falls. When I hit on this recipe, the kids were immediately in seventh heaven. Souffle is our number one requested food around here.
     
    Winter Squash Souffle
    Serves 4
    1/4 c Open Original Shared Link
    1 c Open Original Shared Link, cooked
    8 ...
  8. domesticactivist
    In the fall, when winter squash are in season and CHEAP, we buy lots of them. We roast 'em, bag 'em, and freeze 'em. That way, we have winter squash puree all year. Winter squash is an incredibly versatile ingredient and adds a nice sweetness to soups.
     
    Our favorites include buttercup, ambercup, carnival, delicata, sweet meat, pink banana, and hokkaido. If you do not have a meat cleaver or ax, stick to the smaller squash like delicata and ambercup. Otherwise, go for ...
  9. domesticactivist
    In Open Original Shared Link I came to the conclusion that writing myself off as a "Crazy Diet Person" isn't the best choice I can make when describing our diet or turning down an offer of a meal. If we want to succeed at maintaining our family's health through our diet, we need to believe in it, and not discount ourselves out of hand. We need to be clear on the reasons what we are doing actually makes good sense.
     
    But maybe our diet is kind of crazy, just like any ...
  10. domesticactivist
    A variation on a theme! Quite rich and so delicious. Open Original Shared Link - it makes them digestible and, in the case of walnuts, makes them less bitter.
     
    Makes approx. 2 cups
    1 c crispy almonds
    2 c crispy walnuts
    1/2 c ghee (room temp) or coconut oil (barely melted)
    1 T raw honey
    1 t sea salt (finely ground Celtic or Himalayan)
     
    Grind nuts and sea salt in food processor to fine powder (like flour). Add honey and coconut oil or ghee a...
  11. domesticactivist
    A couple weeks ago we went to the Oregon Coast for a few days to visit Kelsy's grandma. Even small trips like this always take quite a bit of planning and preparation in order for us to maintain our diet!
     
    Kelsy packed us up - this is what we brought:


    Eggs from our hens
    Homemade sauerkraut
    Ghee
    Baked winter squash
    Chicken stock
    Borcht (beet soup in a beef stock base)
    Roast beef
    Cauliflower
    Kale
    Broccoli<...
  12. domesticactivist
    I bought our little falling-down house on a big city lot back in the late summer of 2007. The 1/4 acre lot complete with large shade trees enchanted me. I imagined the kids in tree-houses, me in a hammock, a thriving vegetable garden, chickens clucking, and friends having dinner around a fire. We've put a lot of work into trying to achieve that dream over the past few years, but it's been a haphazard process of trial and error.
     
    This year, we decided to scale back ...
  13. domesticactivist
    Lately people have been asking us for where to go on-line to get good information and support for the GAPS Diet. This diet is aimed at restoring the health of the gut, and the balance of the bacteria and fungus that live there. By giving the gut a chance to heal, many health problems can be reduced or eliminated.
     
    It can be tricky to find good information, because a lot of people who think they are doing GAPS are not actually following the diet! Additionally, there ...
  14. domesticactivist
    UPDATE: This post is part of Kelly the Kitchen Kop's Open Original Shared Link!
     
    Way back when, I had a vegan husband. He wasn't just any vegan, he was one of those vegans who actually didn't own a piece of leather, avoided drinking beer, and wouldn't use china because of the bone in it. I learned to cook vegan, pack food to other people's houses, and make polite excuses for his unconventional diet. When we got divorced, one of my favorite things was not having to ...
  15. domesticactivist
    This blog is basically a mirror of the blog that Open Original Shared Link keep at Open Original Shared Link. You'll see a blitz of posts for a while as I get all our old posts transfered over here! We randomly post about what we're eating, the garden, and whatever else might come to mind. Because our family is on the GAPS diet and is 100% gluten-free, that's a bias! You can read about how we ended up making those dietary choices at Open Original Shared Link.
     
    Here'...
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