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What exactly is a “natural diet”? For me, a natural diet is instinctive, sensual, and uniquely human. Most importantly, it is free of nutritional supplements. The desire to avoid nutritional supplements is, in fact, my main motivation for exploring this topic. I do not want to have to open a jar and pop a capsule [...]
I had been experimenting with raw bread recipes for a while, and wasn’t happy with the texture or flavour of ANY of them, when I finally stumbled upon a recipe for raw crepes. . . The crepes themselves were great, but the filling, while delicious, was too complicated, so I simply rolled the crepe into [...]
I like my kids the way I like my food: raw and untainted. It’s fine for any adult to be motivated to make healthy lifestyle choices, but if you’re a parent – and a parent of three – you’re making these choices for other people too. . .and you have to be prepared for resistance [...]
There are certain tools that will make the transition to raw foods easier. You may not want to drop a wad right off the top, but if you are at all serious about eating well/better, don’t “cheap out” on the essentials – it will only cost you time, money and sanity. It can be tough [...]
Our third was due two days after Halloween 2008. It was customary to drive out to my sister’s place so the boys could shell-out with their cousins, but we were nervous about being more than an hour from home. So we made a plan: Grandma would pick up the kids and take …
When Windy was about 18 months old, we decided we wanted another just like him. So, one dreary December day, I borrowed Daddy’s toothbrush and we started re-arranging furniture. In the new year, when all was confirmed and the grandparents were informed (I love breaking the “rules”), I started hunting for a new midwife. I [...]
It was Friday, April 25th, 2003: DaddyH and I had rented a couple of movies for the weekend, from the local Vietnamese video store. We were watching Session 9, not the best movie for a new mom to see (check it out, if you must know why). I remember sitting on the edge of my [...]
My daughter is two today! And she is officially a girl. She has spent the last year and a half playing with her older brothers’ toys – Transformers, trains, cars, light sabers, swords, guns and, most recently, Lego. She’s always had fun with them. She’s never known anything else. She has also always worn her [...]
I did my first fast when I decided to have my first baby. DaddyH and I had been slowly making the shift to healthier, holistic (do people still use that word?) living. We stopped eating sugar and wheat, started filtering all of our water – not just drinking – and tossed every chemical we had [...]
When we decided to cut out meat, I knew that the old family goulash recipe would need a minor facelift. (Blasphemy!) I decided to substitute chick peas for the stewing beef, which, incidentally, shortened the prep and cooking time by half an hour, saved me from dirtying a skillet, and turned the dish into an [...]
Home-canned food has saved us from starvation on more than one occasion. On a snowy winter’s day, when the fridge was looking bare and I couldn’t go get groceries ’cause the driveway needed plowing, but the tractor was out of diesel, and the only local pizza delivery place decided they “wouldn’t risk it”, I’ve bounced [...]
It’s that time of year when I cut and dry all my herbs for winter use. The small-leafed herbs are hung to dry – tied up with twine and hung from coat hangers – but the majority of my harvest meets the heat of the dehydrator. I like that it’s done quickly but still at [...]
Pure unsweetened apple butter was my kids’ first condiment. When they had their first rice cakes, and it was too soon to try peanut butter, I gave them apple butter. When I made Apple Barley Pancakes, they were never served with maple syrup; they were served with apple butter. Their first “cookies” were sweetened [...]
The orchard is throwing up apples. We don’t spray for pests or diseases, and we stopped pruning years ago – call it laziness, busy-ness, whatever – but every two or three years, we have perfect growing weather and in spite of our lack of attention, the trees give us a fantastic harvest. This year is [...]
We’re eating enormous amounts of fresh raw food from the garden. Every day we take a bushel basket and head down to collect the daily harvest; we come back with our bellies full and our basket wanting. No dishes! And the kids love it because they think there’s something naughty about ‘stealing’ food right off [...]
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