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Whole grain flours are healthier than white flours. So you want to change them, but you don’t want to do that overnight as that will cause revolt. Therefore you’re better off changing that gradually. In small steps. You also want to make sure that you treat your grains well before consumption, so that they are …
I’m starting a series on cooking the recipes of very popular cooking book Nourishing Traditions. I love most of the recipes and have cooked many of them from 2008 on. I have learned a lot from the book and the Weston A. Price Foundation.Well used Nourishing Traditions CookbookThe BookAs you can see in the picture …
Bone broth is a traditional food that has kept humans healthy for thousands of years. It has been very important in many indigenous communities.In some communities it was preferred to other drinks.It is easy to make and very wholesome.Broth with dumplingBone brothWhen I was a child I always loved my mothers home made soups. She …
We like to keep the amount of carbs that we eat low as that makes us all feel better. It helps with staying focused and it also helps with having a good amount of energy to get through the day. I’ll share some of my favourites below. The other day I asked on Facebook what the …
This will be the quick and easy guide to sweeteners. I am also writing a lengthy article as the more I was looking into this, the more I felt I needed to share. Here is the short version, without much detail at all. Just quick guidelines.Brown sugarSugarsThis will be a very short bit of information …
Some can afford to get rid of the products they don’t want to use anymore. That would be ideal. This is how you can do it.Jars containing foodsReplacingIn case you can afford it, it is ideal to actually replace the products that aren’t nourishing with nourishing products. So when you can replace products like white …
Butter is much better than margarine. Margarine / spread is made from unhealthy oils, which are hydrogenated and with that become trans fats. We all know trans fats aren’t good for us. So why would you eat margarine / spreads?Supermarket isle with butter, margarine and spreads.Butter versus MargarineThere are quite some differences between the 2 …
There are all kinds of colourful very nice tasting salts. They all contain many more minerals than the white table salt in the supermarket.pink or himalaya saltSaltAll salts have a high content of sodium chloride. This is just the way it is. This is not necessarily bad for you as long as it goes together …
When going fully organic is too expensive for your family, there is a middle ground to be found. When we were on a very tight budget I used the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists. Tight budgetWhen you are on a tight budget you’ll want to make sure you do the best you can with your …
Another small step that will improve your nutrition without making major changes that may cause stress in the family. OrganicAnother one of the small steps that you can fairly easily do without having a whole family revolt is changing the quality of the products you buy. Organic produce is in several ways better for you and your …