In the article Transition to Real Food in 8 Easy Steps, step #2 was Change Your Fats. Contrary to what we have been led to believe, fat is not bad for us. Our bodies need fat. Fat helps with brain function, helps us deal with stress, helps …
A few weeks ago I offered some suggestions for transitioning to real food. A suggestion that I suspect wasn’t very popular was #1. Stop buying breakfast cereal. I know that this is a hard one. Cold cereal is so easy. Open the box, pour …
Last week I shared 8 easy steps to help you transition to real foods. In that post I tried to offer some suggestions to help you move toward real foods. I thought this week, you might like to see (read) just what my family eats. …
Have you heard about the benefits of a real food diet but aren’t sure how to go about making the switch from a Standard American Diet (we’ll just call that a SAD diet from here on out) to a diet more focused on Real/Whole/Traditional foods (we’ll …
One of our favorite customers, Pantry Paratus, put up a blog post this week called “Chef Nancy: Menu Planning and Weston A. Price Foundation” we felt warranted special attention.
We have been following the Farmers v. Monsanto issue close and were heartened to see this in our inbox yesterday from fooddemocracynow.org: “On January 31, 2012, 55 farmers and plaintiffs traveled to Manhattan to hear oral arguments regarding Monsanto’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, …
Several of the people who left comments on the giveaway have asked variations of, “what the heck am I going to do with all that coconut oil if I win?” That is an outstanding question, and we’re happy to help!
This week marks an exciting addition to Black Chicken Host’s blogging week – Mondays with Millie, featuring the author of Real Food for Less Money, one of my favorite food websites. Millie’s expertise with creating healthy, nutrient-dense foods on a budget is vast and impressive, and …
This morning, I baked up the soaked sourdough whole wheat biscuits for which I ground all that wheat flour yesterday. The recipe I used was from Eat Nourishing, and was one of the few soaked, whole wheat, sourdough biscuit recipes I could find. Truth be …
I tried to grind wheat into flour today. Without a grain mill. I say “tried” because I didn’t so much “succeed” as “not wildly fail.”