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Today’s Menu – On the Road

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Real Life Good for You-Naturally! Menu Planning

Today’s Menu

Not much “planning” went into Today’s real Menu. I thought I had posted ahead to cover today while we were gone, but it’s not here, so I’ll give you my “on the road” menu for today – doing the best I can when choices are limited.

Breakfast:

  • Barley grass Juice – Barley Life/ Barley Max (raw juice powder, brought from home and mixed with a bottle of RO water – Aquafina. This is a good choice when you can’t make fresh juice, and actually good anyhow, because most people don’t fresh juice a lot of greens. We drink this several times a week at home too, usually for our second glass of fresh juice for the day, the first usually being one we juice fresh.)
  • Dried Apple Rings (home dehydrated with no additives, brought from home – the fresh organic pears we brought from home are gone – mmm-mmm, so good!)
  • Sprouted Wheat Bread – Food for Life brand
  • w/ butter and raw honey spread on it

Lunch:

  • Romaine Lettuce Salad with Walnuts and Vinegrette Dressing
  • Bottle of Reverse Osmosis Purified Water – Aquafina

Snack:

Really Raw Almonds (brought from home) & more RO bottled water

Supper:  We will get home just before suppertime, and then we have a couple classes/practices, so it will be fast and easy prep, probably:

  • Whole Wheat Spaghetti with Prego Organic Spaghetti Sauce with Mushrooms
  • Frozen Organic Sweet Corn – steamed
  • Romaine, Carrot, and Tomato Salad with Olive Oil and Red Vinegar Dressing (If we have time we’ll make it an Italian Vinegrette)

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For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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The Cycle

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Attitudes play a major factor in your health. One thing attitudes (affecting the whole realm of our soul) do is affect our choices in eating. When we make bad choices we feel bad (physically – and many times emotionally also.)  This creates an ongoing Cycle, that takes us increasingly down.

Bad eating and bad health is a downward spiral. We eat bad – then feel bad – then eat more bad – then feel worse … and on and on. Most “bad” foods bring an addiction to them. Refined sugar is especially addictive, as well as caffeine, and many more, even meats can be. People have to take a step to break out of the cycle. They have to force themselves to eat what is Good for You-Naturally!™ because it isn’t what they want to eat. (And they may feel worse for a bit while their body is “detoxing” and going through “withdrawal”.) They naturally are going to follow their addictions, as well as turn to their “comfort” foods. But doing what comes “naturally” is not always “Natural” or Good for You.

Although a few people can try to claim ignorance to what they should be doing (“I just eat what I like/what my family has always ate/what is convenient and have never given any thought as to whether it’s good for me or not”), I don’t think there is a person, (in America at least) who really thinks coffee or Coke or donuts, etc. are “good” for them. For some people it’s just a physical “addiction” (“I know what I’m eating isn’t good, but I catch myself eating it anyhow,” or “I try to stop, but ‘can’t'”).

For some it is a depression thing – a defeatist attitude. The “I feel bad (not just physically, but also emotionally) for eating wrong, I can never change, so I’ll just keep on doing it.” They just give up trying to do right.

For some people it can be a controlling emotional thing, even a reaction to guilt thing, in “I don’t deserve good health/to feel good because I’ve done wrong, so I’ll just eat wrong to punish myself (or for some, in their mind to “punish” others. Instead of repenting, since this is usually a “prideful” person who won’t humble themselves to repent.) It’s kind of a self-destructive thing that they’ll eat what their flesh really wants, but knowing it will harm them (perhaps thinking, in someway, it will “hurt” someone else instead – a vengeful thing). It’s a control thing – anorexia and bulimia can fit in here, as well as gluttony. “No one can control me in eating. I’ll eat what I want.” Or, “I’ll show you.”

Many various factors can come into The Cycle, to various degrees – these are some of the most extreme, there are, no doubt, MANY more. It’s a combination of physical and emotional things that interconnect. We have to learn (renew our minds – and our bodies) to eat to live, not live to eat.

In renewing our minds, we need to look at why we are eating what we are eating – and should we be? As always, the first step is recognizing the problem.

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For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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GFY-N! Corn Bread – Friday Food

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fridayfood2.jpgOn these great chilly fall days nothing beats a pot of homemade Chili Non-Carne and a pan of Good for You-Naturally! Corn Bread with honey butter, to warm the tummy. But be sure to include plenty of raw veggies with it to get your optimal nutrition. I shared this menu in my Today’s Menu this week, and since I’ve already posted my Chili recipe, I figured I’d complete the meal by posting my Corn Bread recipe today.

Enjoy!

Lisa’s Good for You-Naturally! Corn Bread

Mix together:

  • 1 c. whole corn meal/flour (freshly ground organic)
  • 1 c. whole wheat flour (freshly ground organic)
  • dash unrefined salt (Real®, himalayan, celtic)
  • 2 tsp. non-aluminum containing baking powder (Rumford’s)

In a separate bowl, mix together:

  • 1 farm fresh egg (from free ranging organically fed chickens)
  • 2 Tbl. raw organic coconut oil (melted) (or extra virgin organic live oil)
  • 1 Tbl. raw honey
  • 1 c. not-milk

Combine the contents of both bowls, mixing lightly.

Pour into greased 8″ cake pan or muffin pan – or preferably a greased cast iron skillet.

Bake at 400° for 20 minutes for pan bread, 10-12 minutes for muffins.

Makes 10-12 (so obviously, we double or triple.) 🙂

Honey Butter

  • 1 stick softened, real unsalted butter (preferably organic)
  • 1/4 c. raw honey

Mix well.

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Where’s the Meat?

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Thanksgiving is quickly approaching. I’ve been asked lately about meat eating and the Good for You-Naturally! lifestyle of eating. These two (Thanksfgiving and meat eating) are not necessarily directly connected. But in answering the question, I came across a post I wrote to my egroup in 2002 for Thanksgiving – on meat eating. I’ve added it to our webpages. Read it here.

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Today’s Menu

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Today’s Menu*

Breakfast:

  • Fresh Raw Grape, Apple, Lemon Juice
  •     (later in the morning)
  • Old Fashioned Oatmeal

Lunch:

  • Layered (Pea and Lettuce) Salad
  • Raw Nuts

Supper:

  • Chili Non-Carne
  • Good for You-Naturally!™ Corn Bread
  • with honey/butter
  • Carrot & Celery Sticks

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(*This may not be exactly “today’s” menu. I write these posts ahead based on our menu plans, which may end up being served on a different day.)

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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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More on Almonds

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Last year I posted notice that the government had once again overstepped their bounds and in cohorts with the CA Almond Board made a ruling that almonds must be pasteurized. This does not need to be noted on the label AND the label can still state "raw" almonds.

  • "The new rules do not require the disclosure that in fact these almonds have been pasteurized by either high heat, a nerve gas-like agent, or radiation." – http://organicpastures.com/
  • "a requirement that raw almonds be treated with propylene oxide (a toxic fumigant recognized as a carcinogen by the EPA) or steam-heated before they can be sold to American consumers." – http://www.cornucopia.org/

This of course did not make people happy – growers/ small handlers nor those that know the importance of raw food sources for health, conscientious consumers.

At the time I learned of this ridiculous, controlling law I passed on to you some sources for obtaining truly raw almonds, unpastuerized, direct from the grower. Now I’m hearing that even the grower cannot not ship directly to the consumer, who has knowingly and intelligently chosen to buy unpastuerized almonds, but that they only way they can sell them is directly on location.

I’m checking into this, to see if we can still purchase unpastuerized almonds. http://organicpastures.com & http://www.realrawfood.com/wholesale-raw-nuts.htm#almonds still have them on their site – which appears to be good news. dansranch.com still offers them if you can pick them up at the ranch.

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Raw Cashew Milk – Friday Food

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fridayfood2.jpgThis week we tried a new not-milk. I’d heard that Cashew Milk is good, and realized that in all our experiments we hadn’t tried it yet. So we did. And it was.

Here’s the SIMPLE recipe we used.

Raw Cashew Milk

Soak 3/4 c. raw cashews in plenty of water to cover for 4-6 hours (or overnight). Put into filter cup of SoyaJoy Milk Maker, and attach cup to motor head.

Add pure water to the fill line in the SoyaJoy (aprox. 6 cups) and place motor on it and plug in.

Do NOT hit Start. Push the MOTOR button FOUR times, (listen for the beep 4 times) THEN push Start. (We do not want the machine to go through the Heat cycle, as we want raw not-milk.)

The machine will go through a few grind and rest cycles for just a few minutes, and then your Raw Cashew Milk will be done! Strain, if you like, and Chill. See other ideas for “additions” to your not-milks here.

You can also make not-milks in your blender, see more info here.

Here’s what we found. Cashews, make a nice creamy not-milk. It has a slight nutty taste, more so than almond, but still mild. Being a soft nut, cashews break down more so than other nuts and grains, so there was very little “sediment” in our strainer. But more in our not-milk container after sitting a while.

I didn’t add anything to this batch, as we were mainly pouring it over Sweet Rice – and I  made a cup of not-coffee cappacino with it. (Recipe another day. If I don’t get this posted NOW, it won’t be Friday.)  🙂

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Today’s Menu

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Today’s Menu*

Breakfast:

  • Fresh Raw Apple Pear Juice
  •     (later in the morning)
  • Sweet Rice (short brown rice with not-milk, honey, cinnamon, and raisins)

Lunch:

  • Fresh Veggie Tray (broccoli, cauliflower, green pepper, carrots, homegrown cherry tomatoes) with homemade Ranch Dip
  • Homemade Mini Pizzas (whole wheat crust, homemade sauce, mushrooms, black olives, onions, and cheese substitute)

Supper:

  • Country Veggie Pot Pie (potatoes and other mixed fresh veggies in a white sauce)
  •     with Biscuits (as topping for Pot Pie, and also on the side with butter)
  • Lettuce & Veggies Salad

Read more about a Good for You-Naturally! lifestyle of eating!

(*This may not be exactly “today’s” menu. I write these posts ahead based on our menu plans, which may end up being served on a different day.)

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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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For the Birds

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5 new birds have come into our home this weekend! It’s not as bad as it sounds. We weren’t invaded by wild birds. Nor by a ton of pets to care for.

The first is a cockatiel. A guy we know was getting rid of it, so we got cage, food, everything – for FREE! Just had to do it. He is a very gentle bird, hand fed since a baby, so very tame and great with the kids. They are having a lot of fun playing with him.

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The other 4 birds, don’t require any care – not anymore anyhow. The boys went turkey hunting and brought home 4 on their first day out. So they did require a bit of care when they got home, but I didn’t have to do it. They are now are nicely waiting in my fridge for a few nice meals.  When I will have to do their final “care” – most likely in the crock pot.

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Easy Rice Pilaf – Friday Food

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fridayfood2.jpgTime for a main dish recipe. The key to most of our main dish meals is simplicity. In our large, busy family I want 4 things from our meals. They need to be Good for You -Naturally!™, inexpensive, simple, and taste great. We have some great “company” and “special occasion” menus too, but for everyday fare, simple is key.

Brown rice is a staple, that is served at least once a week at our house. We enjoy it in many different ways. Today I’ll share with you a simple Rice Pilaf. Since we add steamed veggies to it, all we need to round out our meal is our large foundational fresh veggie salad.

Lisa’s Easy Rice Pilaf

  • 3 c. dry long grain brown rice (you can substitute 1/2 c. wild rice for 1/2 c. of the brown)
  • 1 – 1 1/2 c. chopped celery, peas, and/or diced carrots (any combo you choose)
  • 1/2 medium onion, chopped
  • 1/4 – 1/2 c. chopped mushrooms (optional)
  • 1/2 – 3/4 c. chopped raw almonds (optional)
  • 1 – 2 Tbl. dried parsley
  • 1 – 2 Tbl. vegetable broth powder

Pure Water (proper amount depends on the method of cooking – if your appliance recommends different amounts, use them)

  • 6 c. water for cooking in Rice Cooker or on stove or in oven (9×13 pan @ 375°)
  • 3.5 c. water for cooking in rice steamer
  • 4.5 c. water for cooking in pressure cooker – if using pressure cooker, steam peas/carrots separately then add them after the rice has cooked.

Mix all ingredients together (except peas and/or carrots if you are steaming them separately). Follow cooking directions for your appliance.

Cooking time – approx. 1 hour in rice cooker, stove, or steamer. about 18-20 minutes in pressure cooker.

Makes – enough for our family of 8.

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