Let’s face it – GAPS is for healing. Deep, intense, necessary healing. The purpose is not for having fun. However, with a few tools and strategies, I believe parents can make just about anything (more) fun. Here are a few of the strategies I have used with my kids to bring fun into GAPS.
We use a lot of chicken stock around here but that doesn’t mean it’s superior to other kinds of stock. We’ve recently been working on adding soup recipes that are especially delicious with beef stock. Whatever meat you use, remember it should be 80% meat and 20% bone with a joint. Depending on your cut, …
On GAPS we don’t avoid dairy forever, but we do culture it to make it more digestible. Even if you are not following the GAPS diet, you may find your body likes dairy better when it’s cultured. Check out these recipes for ideas and directions on culturing and enjoying your dairy products. How to culture …
Especially in today’s toxic and stressful world, it’s important to be eating organ meats, including liver. I did not grow up eating organs. Just like most people, I was disgusted at the thought of eating liver. I didn’t make much effort to eat organ meat, especially livers. I did try to use a chicken liver …
Vegetables are SO versatile. There’s endless ways to season them and eat them. They can be fermented, roasted, fried, or eaten raw. Plants like fruits and vegetables cleanse our bodies. They help our bodies to process and remove the toxins that we are exposed to on a daily basis from the environment around us, even …
Eggs are one of the best nutrient dense foods but not all eggs are created equal! Just like choosing good meat and vegetables, it’s important to choose good, quality eggs. This topic is not discussed very often, so in this post I’d like to lay out for you some of the main character qualities to …
I have made a lot of soup in the last seven years. For a long time, I was fine with a simple soup of onions, chicken, stock soup over and over and over…until I wasn’t! I longed for soups that were full of flavors and textures and that were interesting to my body but still …
I used to dislike pico because of the cilantro in it. But I’ve come a long way! I love this simple recipe, it is a delicious and fresh addition to your table. It’s best made at least a few hours beforehand so the flavors have a chance to blend! Feel free to adjust to your …
Eggs are a great non-meat protein source. While I usually recommend eating eggs yolks running to preserve the cholesterol on them, sometimes a hard boiled egg is hard to beat! This is a recipe that could easily be doubled or tripled for a party. You can serve it spread on a romaine lettuce leaf, as …
I know from personal experience that eating soups for most or all meals can become routine and unappealing. So I have been looking for soup recipes with unique tastes or flavor profiles to shake things up. I’ve never really had traditionally made jambalaya so I’m not sure how well this stacks up but it is …
