What I did today – and my boys too. Guess it really was a Food Friday.
Dutch Oven Artisan Bread
Dehydrated Organic Apples
Yogurt not done yet – no picture. I have soy and also raw goat milk. Hoping I didn’t waste my precious, hard to get goat milk trying this.
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What the boys were up to while Ky and I were in the kitchen.
Successful Hunting Today - they each got one
Another snack recipe this week. This is a Good for You-Naturally!™ Carmel Corn that you can also make popcorn balls out of.
Pop 1/2 c. popping corn. (Stove or air popper, plain popcorn, not micro-wave.) Put in large bowl, and set aside while you make the carmel.
Bring to a boil (on the stove):
1/2 cup raw, organic coconut oil or real, unsalted organic butter
3/4 c. raw honey
Boil 5-6 minutes (until soft ball stage, if you have a candy thermometer).
Take off heat stir in 1/2 tsp. baking soda.
Stir real well. It will foam up and change color. Pour over popped corn and stir well to coat evenly.
Spread out in jelly roll pan (I use large stoneware bar pan).
Bake at 250-275° for somewhere around 15-20 minutes stirring every (approx.) 5 minutes.
Stir as it cools, or form into balls as soon as it is cool enough to handle but still warm enough to stick together.
Yum, Yum! Sweet treat that’s still Good for You-Naturally!™. Just one of the many snacks you’ll find in Good for You-Naturally!™ Simply Snacks recipe book.
Continued from yesterday, when we answered the questions, Does everyone need vitamin supplements and why? Today we are answering the question, What type of nutrient supplementation should we get?
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Many take formulated vitamin/mineral supplements. There are a few problems with getting vitamins this way.
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So what type of nutrient supplement can we take that will effectively provide us, in a form usable by our bodies, the right nutrients that we are missing?
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Glad you asked. 🙂 They best way to get extra nutrients – without eating a ton of extra food – is to get them from nutrient dense foods. That is raw, living foods – with the correct synergism of bio-available nutrients and enzymes – in a form that concentrates those nutrients. That is accomplished by raw juicing.
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Juicing takes the nutrients present in foods, such as in a pound of carrots that you’d be hard pressed to eat in one sitting, and concentrates them into 1 glass of carrot juice. By removing the fiber and pulp, you can easily consume that 1 pound of carrots (1 glass of raw carrot juice) and easily process it. (Even when eating the best of foods, a good share of the nutrients they contain are lost through the digestion process.) These raw vegetable and fruit juices are easily and quickly assimilated without going through the whole digestion process of separating the nutrients from the fiber, etc. They are in a sense “pre-digested”. And they are still living, raw foods with all the enzymes and nutrients your body needs in the proportions and synergism God put into them.
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As an aside, in case you were going to ask, But what about the fiber? We need fiber. We don’t get enough fiber in our diets. True, most Americans eat a diet very devoid of fiber since there is none in meat or dairy or processed grains. And many of our diseases are caused by improper elimination. But–we also need to get nutrients to cells.
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We recommend eating a diet high in fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, and seeds, with some grains and legumes – all foods high in fiber, rather than the fiberless diet most Americans eat. We don’t advocate eating much (if any) non-fiber foods such as meats, dairy and processed grains.
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Your juice should be drank 1/2 hour before consuming foods. It will be assimilated within that time. Then you can eat the fiber-rich foods you also need.
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Some of you may have one more question, What about “juicing” foods in a high-power blender that liquifies them and doesn’t remove the fiber and pulp we need. Those high-power blenders can be great kitchen tools to have, but we do not recommend “juicing”, really liquifying, foods this way. At least not as a vitamin/mineral/nutrient supplement. The nutrients are still bound up in the fiber of the food, and much will still be lost in the body’s processing of it.
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The most effective way to get high quality and sufficient quantity of the nutrients our bodies need is to make and drink fresh, raw vegetable and fruit (true) juices. Our Dr. recommends 1 glass of fruit, and at least 1 glass of vegetable juice each day as the best, most cost effective, and most beneficial nutrient supplement you can take. We hardily agree!
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See our recommendations and more info for juicers and juicing books and powdered raw juices for when you’re on the go.
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Drink your vitamins for health through nutrition,
I am,
Lisa @ Me and My House
Raw Salsa
Does everyone need them? Of course! Absolutely! Our bodies wouldn’t be able to function and would soon die without vitamins. The question is, do we need “supplemental” vitamins? In America, and most of the rest of the world, today, Yes, for nearly everyone.
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The foods produced in our over-planted, nutrient-depleted, many times highly chemicalized soils is not providing the level of nutrients we need. Not only the growing process, but also the handling, shipping, and storage processes further reduce their nutritional value.
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Then as if that isn’t enough depletion, these fresh, whole, God-given foods are usually highly adulterated and further depleted by processing them into non-food forms – “refined”, further stripped of nutrients, “pasturized” and “denatured” to kill any living property in them, and then many more “enhancing” chemicals are added to make the edible, and perhaps some artificial coal tar vitamins thrown in. They throw this into a box, can or pouch and tell us this is “enriched” food. If you eat these kinds of foods, you should now understand why you (or those that eat these foods) need vitamin supplements.
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But even those that don’t eat these adulterated, stripped foods and just eat whole foods may still may not be getting enough nutrients from those foods in our society. There’s still the growing, handling, shipping, storage problems. Especially in the growing process if you aren’t able to get all organic foods, and that is really hard, if not impossible, to do in our culture. A wide variety of all organically grown foods is not available locally, year round to most of us.
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So, yes, nearly everyone needs to “supplement” their food intake to get proper nourishment. Proper nourishment will keep your body functioning as it was made to. It will give it the nutrition it needs to have the strength to fight off all the bugs, diseases, and degeneration lurking at the door for an opportunity to come in.
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So the most important question is, How shall we get supplemental nutrients? (It really is more than “vitamins”.)
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Stay tuned for Part 2 tomorrow.
This is a very moist – no frosting needed – Good for You-Naturally!™ cake that can be made for a quick dessert or snack. It has many variations (see Good for You-Naturally!™ Simply Snacks recipe book). Today I’m sharing the one we had this week.
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Lisa’s Good for You-Naturally!™ Oatmeal Spice Crazy Cake
Mix together well in an 8-9″ square or round stainless steel or glass cake pan.
Make a depression in the center of these dry ingredients, and pour in:
Mix these liquid ingredients all together well (in the depression you made) before combining with the dry ingredients. (Of course, you can dirty up a mixing bowl instead if you want.)
Mix liquid and dry ingredients together well. Be sure to get all dry ingredients from sides and bottom of pan, and consistency is even throughout.
Bake at 350° for approx. 25-30 minutes.
“O taste and see that the Lord is good.”
Yes, it’s not only soup weather. We’ve also hit tea weather. The hot tea started here when a couple dc had scratchy throats and wanted to nip it in the bud before it got worse. Throat Coat did the trick – along with some EOs.
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But with the chilly, rainy, dreary weather, the tea spree was on. I decided to pull out my new tea pot with warming base I got from Let’s Do Tea this summer. (Cool, ain’t it?)
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Chamomile tea is a favorite around here – Sweet Apple Chamomile, Sleepy Time, and plain ol’ straight Chamomile. Nice that it’s a relaxing herb, but it also relaxes enough to make you sleepy. Not something we needed to drink all day! English Toffee is a new blend I got from Celestial Seasonings. It is an herbal coffee-sub, made with chicory root and such. I also like Teeccino. But our tea is usually just my own herbal combinations or Celestial.
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Never “real” tea. Many reasons I’ll get into on another day. But good enough reasons you should consider. For today, just go have a cup – or pot – of herb tea instead of one of the caffeine containing alternatives. It will be helpful instead of harmful to your health – and will taste GREAT! See my pregnancy herb blends here. Watch for more herb tea recipes for the whole family in Good for You-Naturally!™~ Simply Beverages.
For the last few years I’ve been toting my purified water in plastic bottles, – BPA-free, but none the less plastic, generally Tupperware – or purchasing Aquafina, RO purified water. At home I rarely even drink out of plastic because the taste has always bothered me. I use glass. But glass didn’t seem a safe choice for travel. And aluminum bottles are not an option, bringing their own dangers – perhaps worse than BPA plastic. So what’s a girl to do?
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A couple weeks ago I found some new stainless steel water bottles – on clearance at Shopko. I decided to give them a try. The plastic cap was less than ideal, but at least wouldn’t touch your drink unless you laid the bottle on its side. I came home and began to do some research. Nowhere could I find the quality of stainless steel of the brand that I bought.
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But I did find a couple other stainless steel water bottles that also had stainless steel caps (interior). After a lot of research and reviewing the brands, I went with Pura. I bought a .8L, for everyday carrying around, and a 1.2L for trips. I am very happy with them. They seal well. They look nice. They are a nice shape for handling. But most of all they are #304 (18/10) grade stainless steel (even the cap interior) – rust resistant, unbreakable, non-polluting, and especially non-leaching, non-toxic to our bodies. I love it! Now I can carry pure water with me, without using a container that adds its own impurities/ chemical toxins.
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Want to get your own? Want to read more about Pura Stainless? Want to read more about pure water?
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Quenched by the Living Water of Life – Y’shua (Jesus the Christ),
Lisa @ Me and My House
Dd has been longing for Soup Weather. I think – make that know – she meant Indian Summer, cool sunshine-y days and cooler nights, not very chilly, rainy, dreary days and nights. But happy or not about the way it came, Soup Weather is here.
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You can try 3 of our family favorite soups from our forthcoming recipe book, Good for You-Naturally!™ Simply Soups. Their recipes are posted here on this blog. And actually, we’ve had all 3 this week.
Me and My House recommends eating a large percentage of your foods raw, for Good for You-Naturally!™ health through nutrition. Why? 2 key ideas begin the discovery – enzymes and acid/alkaline ash. Today we’ll look at enzymes.
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“Every breath you take, every move you make, every thought you think and every action you take requires enzymes. Enzymes are the work force of the body. No vitamin, mineral, protein or hormone can do work without enzymes.” “Enzymes are what make all the other pieces work. Enzymes are not tangible, physical substances. Enzymes are the very life force that activates vitamins, minerals, protein, and other physical components in our body. Enzymes are the key to understanding the difference between life and death and between sickness and health.” ~ Rob Vaughan
Enzymes cannot be produced in the lab. Only God can make Life, including the life force/energy of enzymes. We were all born with limited enzyme potential. When we’ve depleted them, they’re gone.
So how do we get more? Only Life produces Life. Living foods are our source. Life/enzymes are killed at temperatures of 120° (actually beginning at about 105° or so,) so cooked food does not provide enzymes, only raw food does.
Raw foods are the key component in health through nutrition. They provide your body with the living energy of enzymes, needed for every bodily function, found in the food God has provided for our sustanance. Raw fruits, raw vegetables, raw nuts and raw seeds.
Stay tuned for Part 2 – another great reason to eat raw, living foods!
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For Rab Chai – Abundant Life,
most importantly spiritually,
but also in health through nutrition,
Lisa @ Me and My House
