Coconut Oil

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Need a great source for great coconut oil at a great price? You probably know that bulk is the way to buy good, health promoting foods to get them down to prices that are more affordable.

But, do you know why you should be using coconut oil? Raw, Extra Virgin, Organic Coconut Oil is one of the absolute best oils, with great health benefits. In fact, I’m still adding to a book I’m writing on it that I thought I had done almost a year ago. There is just so many wonderful things to share about Extra Virgin Coconut Oil. But for this post, I’ll let you read a bit about it from someone else – with impressive initials after their name. 🙂 Then, at the end of this post, I’ll let you know how you can get GREAT Coconut Oil at a GREAT price!

“A common question that many people have is whether or not food should be eaten uncooked. I personally believe that consuming a majority of your food uncooked is a cornerstone of optimal health.

“Typically, the less processed and heat-treated the food is, the more nutritious and healthier it is going to be.

“Nevertheless, most people prefer to cook their food, at least occasionally. When you do, you’re going to cook with some form of oil.

“The question is, what’s the best, healthiest type of oil to use when cooking?

“Dr. Rudi Moerck has studied oils for a long time, and offers some intriguing insights in this interview.

Cooking with Tropical Oils – Your Healthiest Alternative

“I have, for many years now, recommended coconut oil on the basis and the supposition that it doesn’t contain much unsaturated fat. As a result, it’s not going to be damaged by heat and create trans fats like some other oils. (Another tropical oil that is very similar is palm oil.) …

“Earlier this week I published an entire special report on the health benefits of coconut oil, which include:

  • Promoting heart health
  • Promoting weight loss, when needed
  • Supporting your immune system health
  • Supporting a healthy metabolism
  • Providing you with an immediate energy source
  • Keeping your skin healthy and youthful looking
  • Supporting the proper functioning of your thyroid gland

“Part of what makes coconut oil such a healthful oil for cooking is that 50 percent of the fat content in coconut oil is a fat rarely found in nature called lauric acid.  This is also one of the features that distinguishes coconut oil from other saturated fats.

“Your body converts lauric acid into monolaurin, which has potent anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-protozoa properties.

“In addition, coconut oil is about 2/3 medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs), also called medium-chain triglycerides or MCTs.  These types of fatty acids also produce a host of health benefits.

“Best of all, coconut oil is stable enough to resist heat-induced damage, which you cannot say for other oils. In fact, it’s so stable you can even use if for frying (although I don’t recommend frying your food for a number of health reasons).

“I recommend using coconut oil in lieu of every other oil, whether your recipe calls for butter, olive oil, vegetable oil or margarine.”

Mercola.com

The way to get Raw, Extra Virgin, Organic Coconut Oil (with the best health benefits) at the best price is to buy it in 5 gallon buckets. This will last you quite a while, but it will keep well (2-3 years.) If you have a very small family and don’t use much, you can share a bucket with friends and all enjoy the savings. (Although you should be using raw coconut oil regularly for all it’s health benefits. It is a GOOD fat!)

Me & My House has 5 gallon buckets of Extra Virgin (Raw) Organic Coconut Oil at great prices for you, and we can have our supplier ship them directly to you to avoid higher shipping costs.  Extra Virgin Organic Centrifuge Extracted Coconut Oil (highest quality, and very mild tasting – excellent in everything) is currently $225 for a 5 gallon bucket or Extra Virgin Organic Cold-Pressed Coconut Oil (still raw, just slightly more coconut-y taste – awesome in raw desserts and other recipes) is $205 for a 5 gallon bucket.  Plus Shipping – which we offer at subsidized (reduced) prices. We also offer smaller sizes for those wanting a cheaper up front price (but more expensive per ounce.)

You can order on our Whole and Living foods catalog page.

I know that can be a large chunk all at once for some of you, but this amount lasts our large family over a year and a half, and the 5 gallon bucket saves you about $100 over the 1 gallon price, which is a big savings over the small jar price. So if you can’t swing the full amount, find a couple friends to share a bucket with, and order more often.

I’ve used several different company’s extra virgin/raw organic coconut oils and I am very pleased with this one. It comes from Wilderness Family.

For Me & My House,
Lisa

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Friday Food ~ Caramel Apples

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Good for You-Naturally!™ Caramel Apples

‘Tis the season. Apples and pumpkins are 2 of my favorite fall crops. Raw pumpkin is yet to be tried here, but we love Good for You-Naturally!™ Pumpkin Bars, Pumpkin Muffins, and of course, Pumpkin Pie.

When it comes to apples, we never run out of ways to serve them – from fresh apple juice to apple crisp, and of course, apple pie. For a very special treat, there’s Caramel Apples. Very special, but still very Good for You-Naturally!™

Good for You-Naturally!™ Caramel Dip
for Apples and other Sweet Treats

  • 10 fat and juicy, organic medjool dates

Soak in distilled/purified water to cover. (At least 1/2 – 1 hour.)
Drain – but save soak water.
Add to dates:

  • 1-2 Tbl. soak water
  • 2 Tbl. raw, organic extra virgin coconut oil
  • 2 Tbl. raw honey [or real maple syrup]
  • 1/2 – 1 tsp. pure real vanilla flavoring

Blend all in a food processor (or high performance blender) until smooth. Add enough soak water to make it nice and creamy.

Serve with crisp organic apple slices.

Yummy!

Starve a Fever

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I was glad to see this common sense article on Mercola’s site today. This is one of the most misunderstood – and overtreated – symptoms, especially in children. This is to our harm not gain.

So many parents reach immediately for the bottle of sugared, dyed, flavored symptom suppressor the minute they notice their children have a slight fever. Some even overreact more than that, and rush their children to the Dr. at the first sign of fever. The course may continue to go further downhill from there to unnecessary, harmful antibiotics. Somehow the lie that fever is bad and must be stopped at all costs immediately has been proliferated widely. This is not a good course of action.

Here’s a bit from the Mercola article – read the rest of the article to learn the benefits of fever and know what TO do when you have one.

A great number of people have completely misunderstood fever, and believe that fever can be dangerous in and of itself – especially when the fever occurs in a child.

It’s important to realize that fever is your body’s backup defense mechanism when your primary ones – mainly your immune system — fail. Your first line of defense is your macrophages, which gobble up any invading microbes.

As long as your immune system is strong, you may not even realize you’ve been exposed to a troublesome bug.

If you are still under the impression that having a fever or 100 or 101 degrees Fahrenheit is an indication of a dangerous situation, relax! It’s not!

Many infectious agents do not survive in elevated temperatures so your body increases the temperature in an effort to eradicate the infection. It is a healthy response.

Unfortunately, most parents end up giving their child potentially toxic doses of fever-reducing medications such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen when, in reality, their child’s temperature is ideal for accomplishing healing. Worse yet, there are parents who administer aspirin at the first sign of fever, which actually poses a far greater health risk than any fever could, as aspirin may cause Reye’s Disease, which can be lethal.

Food Listening

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The post isn’t about listening TO your food, but listening ABOUT food. Learning and growing in health. I’ve got 3 opportunities for you today – all from different perspectives, and all coming with differing levels of endorsement from me. But ALL THREE are FREE! So check them out TODAY!

1) This past week and a half I’ve been listening to the conference sessions for Raw Mom Cooked Dad. Some of the speakers have good informative advise and are worth a listen.

These sessions, usually 3 per day, were only available for 24 hours. But today only, the last day of the conference, they have reposted all the sessions from everyday. If you want to take a listen, click on over and find the ones that interest you. Warning – some of the speakers come from a really unbiblical viewpoint. You’ve got to weed through to find the good stuff. In general, I found the sessions toward the beginning days of the conference to be more informative.

2) Tonight Paul Nison is hosting a FREE webinar with Drs. Jeff & Andrea Hazim. Paul and Jeff both present health through nutrition from a Biblical perspective. I’ve listened to and read Paul for going on a year now, but haven’t heard Dr. Jeff before. The webinar is live online tonight at 8:30 ET/ 7:30 CT. You do need to pre-register for it.

The webinar is called “What Nobody Tells You About Raw Food” and Dr. Jeff will be talking about “an issue no other raw food teacher is talking about.” (Paul’s challenged his listeners to guess the topic.) Jeff’s wife Andrea will also be sharing a couple of  raw food recipes. So click on over and register now.

3) Me & My House ministries hosts a complete Online Course for transitioning from SAD (standard American unhealthy food) to Good for You-Naturally!™ foods. Included in that Course is the Good for You-Naturally!™ audio Seminar. But you can get almost half of that Seminar for FREE when you sign up for our FREE 2 Week Preview Course to Good for You-Naturally!™ for Life!

Check all three out today!

Good for You-for Life!

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The holidays are quickly approaching. Would you like to be armed to not let them wreck havoc on your weight and health? You can still enjoy the holidays, without regretting what you ate overate during them on January 2nd (and every day thereafter.)

Our Good for You-Naturally! for Life Online Course and Community will help arm you for victory during the holidays by walking you, step-by-step, through the transition from SAD foods, the standard American diet of processed foods that is contributing to  chronic diseases  and weight problems, to Good for You-Naturally! foods that taste great, build your health and get your weight where it should be.

The course is easy to follow, with 1 simple step (and plenty of info to help you understand why you are implementing it) each week for 7 weeks. Our 8th week is a Celebration week. You can join the course at any time, but if you join right now, you’ll be through it and have healthy habits established before the holidays indulgence begins, and be on the road to good health (and weight loss – not gain!) by the beginning of the new year. Many of us are going through a pre-holiday review of the course, just to get us ready for the holidays.

AND the Course doesn’t end after the 8 weeks. You receive a ONE YEAR MEMBERSHIP to the Course site, so you can revisit as often as you’d like, to “brush up” on the 7 Transitional Steps to Good for You-Naturally! lifestyle of eating. In addition, the audios of the Good for You-Naturally! Seminar are included in the Course, and are downloadable for you to listen to over and over, whenever you please, even after your Membership expires.

Read on for more info about the Course.

Good for You-Naturally!™ for Life


Includes step-by-step guidance into a Good for You-Naturally!™ lifestyle of eating for
Your Health, Your Weight, Your Family—Your Life!

* audios of the Good for You-Naturally!™ Seminar
* Good for You-Naturally!™ Exclusive ebooks
* sneak previews of recipes from our new Freedom & Simplicity™ in the Kitchen ~ Good for You-Naturally!™ recipe books
* an interactive community to share the journey with you
* 1 Year Membership for continuing access to the content

Enroll Now!

Still not thoroughly convinced this is the Course for you? A FREE 2 week Preview Course is also available. You can try it out to see if you’re interested in our teaching before spending any money to enroll in the full course.

What to you have to lose (except possibly some unwanted weight)? And you have everything to gain – including your health. Go ahead, click on over to check it out now.

For Me & My House,
Lisa

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6 Food Principles

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With so many different ways of “healthy eating” being taught, how can we know what is really best for us? Of all the “good things” to choose from, which choice should I make? What are some easy guidelines for how to make our choices?

I believe that we all can only do what we can do. We can only choose from what choices we have available to us. But we each need to make the best choice available to us at the time. We may not always be able to make the absolute best optimal choice every time. But we can make the best choice available to us at the time – the best choice that we know of at the time.

I’ve been listening to the audios from the Raw Mom Cooked Dad conference, and really liked the way Dr. Doug Graham presented 6 principles for making food choices. We may not be able to always get all 6 in all our choices, but we can work toward getting as many as we can in each choice. Good advice.

Here are the 6 Food Principles to look for, for making the best choices available to you at the moment. Work toward getting as many as you are able into each choice you make.

Whole

Fresh

Raw

Ripe

Organic

Plants

Friday Food – Quick & Easy Spaghetti Sauce

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Last week I posted my Super Spaghetti Sauce – the one with the fresh herbs and all, that simmers all day. Do you want a quicker, easier – delicious, but not quite as over-the-top sauce, for those times you’re in a hurry? Dried herbs and canned tomatoes make this one a cinch. Here’s the recipe for you.

BTW, this is one of our QuikMix Recipes. Use all dried herbs/spices and mix together ahead of time. Then just open your cans, dump in your pre-mixed spices and honey, when you’re ready to make sauce. Make up several batches of QuikMix spices at a time and store each in a small jar, Tupperware container, or zip baggie, to always have a QuikMix on hand.

Lisa’s Quick and Easy Spaghetti Sauce

  • 3/4 c. onion, chopped (or 1/4+ c. dried minced onion)
  • 1 clove garlic, minced (or 1/4 tsp. dried minced garlic)
  • 1 pint canned tomatoes (1# can)
  • 2 cup tomato sauce (1# can)
  • 2 tsp. dried parsley flakes
  • 1 tsp. dried oregano, crushed
  • 1 tsp. dried basil, crushed
  • 1/2 – 1 tsp. honey
  • 1/2 tsp. salt

Mix all together and simmer for 1 hour or more. Serve over 1 pound cooked, whole wheat spaghetti.

Friday Food – Super Spaghetti Sauce

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Lisa’s Super Spaghetti Sauce

What kid doesn’t love spaghetti? And what adult doesn’t love good spaghetti? Yes, I know there are non-spaghetti lovers out there, but I have no clue how!

A great fresh sauce that has been simmering all day, served over homemade spaghetti noodles can’t be beat. Here’s mine.

Lisa’s Super Spaghetti Sauce

You can use frozen or canned tomatoes, but in season fresh can’t be beat.

Saute:

  • 1 lg. onion, chopped
  • 2-3 lg. cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1-2 Tbl. Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Add:

  • 2 quarts tomatoes, chopped (2 – 28 oz. cans whole)
  • 2 – 6 oz cans tomato paste
  • 3-4 Tbl. fresh Italian Parsley, chopped
  • 10-12 med-lg. basil leaves, chopped
  • 3-4 sprigs oregano leaves, chopped
  • 1/2 green bell pepper, chopped
  • 4 oz. fresh mushrooms, chopped
  • 1 tsp. unrefined salt (Real®, himalayan, celtic)
  • 1 tsp. raw honey

Stir together and simmer several hours – on the stove or in a crock pot.

Serve over cooked Whole Wheat Spaghetti Noodles – homemade, if possible.

(This makes a double batch, which is more than our family of 8 uses for a meal.)

Use organic for all ingredients that you can.

Friday Food – Noodles

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fridayfood2.jpgLisa’s Whole Wheat Noodles

Once upon a time, I posted how to make Chicken ‘n Noodles, but said the actual Noodle recipe would come on another day. Our 100°+ summer days are finally ending, and perhaps it is getting almost time to make this again. So today’s the day and here is the recipe for the Noodles.

Lisa’s Whole Wheat Noodles

Beat really well:

  • 2 farm fresh eggs

Add and continue to beat:

  • 1 tsp. unrefined salt (Real®, himalayan, celtic)
  • 1 Tbl. purified water

Add:

  • up to 2 c. fresh ground whole wheat flour

a little at a time, mixing with a fork, until a ball forms.

Roll out on a floured surface, adding flour as needed. You may need to divide the dough in half for rolling out. For nice thin noodles roll 1/16th”. Ours are more between 1/8″ and 1/4″ and wide to make wonderful, chewy almost-dumpling-like noodles.

Cut. We use a pizza cutter. Works best, IMO.

Cook in boiling water or broth 5-8 min.

We double (or triple) this recipe for our family of 8.