Most people think you are allowed to eat soups on the first few stages of the GAPS Protocol. However, casseroles are also encouraged! For the GAPS Protocol, a casserole is defined as a large cut of meat with a bone or joint, alongside vegetables that are all cooked together slowly in the oven. This casserole […]
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Fish stock will give you different nutrients than other types of stock. However, if you live in an area where finding fresh fish is difficult, don’t fret. You can still heal on the GAPS Protocol without eating fish stock. I recommend making fish stock during good weather when you can have the windows open as
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One of my lifelong goals is to make organ meat recipes that are not only edible but also requested. Using chicken hearts is almost cheating because as an organ meat, they are mild and delicious. However, it is an organ meat that contains dense nutrition making it one of the best foods to consume and
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There are many reasons why an electrolyte drink may be needed. You or your child is sick and is getting dehydrated. You’ve spend a lot of time outside in the hot sun. You haven’t been getting enough minerals through your diet so your cells are dehydrated. In each of these cases, you will find this
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So you know what sour cream and yogurt are, maybe you’ve even dabbled with kefir a bit, but have you ever heard of creme fraiche? This is a go-to for my family, we try to make sure we always have a supply! It is not only delicious, but it is full of probiotics and high
“Ma had sent them ginger-water. She had sweetened the cool well-water with sugar, flavored it with vinegar, and put in plenty of ginger to warm their stomachs so they could drink till they were not thirsty. Ginger-water would not make them sick, as plain cold water would when they were so hot.” From “Little House
Let’s make yogurt! Around here we are very into fermented and cultured foods. Not only are they delicious but they are so full of probiotics, vitamins and minerals that are easy for our bodies to utilize! Fermented and cultured foods can seem intimidating to those who have not made them, but once you’ve started in
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What is the difference between fermented garlic and honey fermented garlic? The difference is mostly sweetness, but fermented garlic uses a saltwater brine, whereas honey garlic uses the liquid from the garlic cloves combined with the live enzymes and microbes in the honey to ferment. Both are very useful to support the immune system, but
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I am on a quest to get more organ meats into my diet. Organ meats have been lost to our culture but they are so important to having a healthy body, healthy pregnancy and healthy children. There has been a stigma for literally hundreds of years in western cultures that organ meats are eaten only
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While you may be tempted to throw all the ingredients together, the taste is incredibly different when you follow the recipe step-by-step. I knew this experientially, but finally came fully onboard after reading many of my old recipe books and realizing how many recipes contain essentially the same ingredients but tasted completely different because of
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