We made a delicious meatloaf last night that the kids are still raving about. They are actually begging me to please make it again tonight! Now, again, it's just meatloaf. We haven't had it for a long while. Usually meatloaf has bread in it and topped with a ketchup mixture. Bread and ketchup is out so we made up a recipe that we really liked.
I took about 4 pounds of hamburger, grated 2 large carrots, chopped half of a large onion, 5 eggs, about 1 1/2 TBSP cilantro, 1 1/2 TBSP parsley, a couple large pinches Celtic sea salt, minced 4 cloves garlic and mixed well. For the top I took 1 can Muir Glen (organic) tomato paste, added about 4 TBSP chopped tomato, added garlic powder, oregano, basil and a bit of salt and smoothed it on top of the meatloaf. I baked it at 375 for about an hour and watched them gobble it up. We served it with steamed cabbage and green beans with olive oil poured on it. The topping was good and the cilantro, parsley and garlic really added good flavor to the meatloaf.
It made two large loaf pans. I would personally have loved a large, baked potato with it but that is out for now. We continue to see good results from this diet. The little girls' legs are getting so smooth and my older girls' arms are still smooth. My oldest continues to be free of stomach aches. My son with health problems has grown since starting this diet! My husband loves the diet and wants us to continue on. He feels better and is very satisfied with the meals. I am so glad. I am missing toast with peanut butter and rhubarb jam, raisin bran and enchiladas with sour cream.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Too bad...
I just discovered from another blog that our yogurt maker doesn't keep a temp of 110 degrees and that isn't OK when you make yogurt on this diet. It probably isn't OK for anyone because higher than 110 degrees and the culture is no good so what is the purpose of eating it. I guess it's like eating most of the food on the Standard American Diet, it just fills you. We have to get a dimmer switch for that outlet and dim the switch some to get the maker to keep between 100-110 degrees. Our other yogurt maker gets the yogurt up to 118 degrees. Wow! I just didn't know. All these weeks and we probably weren't getting much benefit from the yogurt. What a lot of work for nothing! It's all a learning process.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Snack...a good beginning
Raw almonds raisins, celery, and natural peanut butter with only salt added. This has become a common snack around here. A handful of almonds and raisins or add apples or celery and peanut butter and you have a very nutritious snack that doesn't include crackers or cookies. When anyone asks, "What can I do to change my eating habits?", I usually say that changing snacks is the first step we did. We quit eating the crackers, cookies or bread and replaced it with fruit or nuts. It is the smallest and easiest meal to begin with if you are planning to overhaul your eating habits. Then I would look at breakfast. Breakfast and snacks are the two meals that I see tend to be the most unhealthy. As we have discovered with most of us having a Candida (yeast) problem, breads, grains and sugar keep the problems going by feeding the bad bacteria in your gut until it is out of control and causing trouble. I have to add also that we have discovered Candida overgrowth can affect your whole well-being. It can cause digestive problems, other bacteria to grow too much, your insulin balance to be off because you crave sugar and bread stuff when you have Candida taking control.
We continue on the full-GAPS diet and enjoy more variety. We had a birthday party where most of us did "cheat" and eat a hot dog on a bun and then we had graduations yesterday where everyone had one sandwich. Eating a small thing didn't seem to affect anyone but I know if they eat too much somewhere they could get sick. Technically, we should not have done that. According to the GAPs protocol it interferes with healing. I am looking at healing the gut for everyone but also know that this process has already improved our digestive health and have seen such immediate results with all three girls who had eczema having cleared up.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Full Gaps Diet
We are officially of the intro diet and on the full-GAPs Diet again. We had been on it a few weeks before the intro. Salads with tuna, black olives, tomatoes and avocados, almonds for snacks, raw fruit and veggies. My kids are so happy to have bananas in their yogurt, watermelon and cantaloupe for snacks! I have been increasing the amount of juicing we are doing. In the morning we have been having a carrot, apple, beet concoction (liver cleansing) and in the evening we had cabbage, apple, celery (kidney cleansing). My 6 year old likes the evening juice and wanted more. I was surprised at how sweet it tasted and I liked it very well too. Juicing is an excellent way to get a lot of nutrients without having to eat a lot of things. Juicing on an empty stomach also is a great way to absorb a lot of nutrients. I've recently heard radio ads and have read this in several books that 90% of multi-vitamins that you take over-the-counter do not get absorbed. So, for every $100 you spend, $90 is down the toilet. Most multi-vitamins are made out of synthetic materials and your body doesn't recognize them for what they are intended to be for you. Herbals are really the best as they are taken from the whole plant and juicing is another way to get vitamins and essential minerals in their whole form. Happy eating!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Simple things...
OK, so having a hamburger and veggies isn't too thrilling but all my life I have looked for things that have lots of flavor. I loved the green Doritos with the burst of spiciness they gave. I love even more to dip them in baked beans (not homemade) because of the wonderful flavor. I love mayo, ketchup, honey mustard, salt, seasoning salt, sauces that have great flavor. Since changing around the way we eat, we don't use condiments (unless homemade and I haven't gotten around to that yet) and I have to find ways to eat my food that will give them some flavor or I will cheat big time on this. The first time I eat something outside the diet I will be lost forever I fear. So, today I fried up some hamburger and added onion to the pan. I boiled some Broccoli Normandy from Sam's Club. They added yellow carrots to the mix now. It makes it look nice. I salted and peppered the hamburger added the onions and sliced avocado on top. Perfect taste sensation! I added some olive oil to the veggies after cooking and salted lightly. Just the right combination to help me feel satisfied. I only have 5 kids home today and one is a baby so she didn't eat this but 2 of the other kids followed what I did and liked it. Change is good our doctor is always saying.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Day 10 and 11
Day 11
Lemon juice in water
Carrot, apple, cabbage and asparagus juice (freshly juiced)
Breakfast: fried eggs and yogurt with honey.
Lunch: Steak soup made from beef broth, onion, garlic, salt, green beans, carrots and peas. It was tasty and I am not too thrilled with eating soup anymore. Only had one complaint from the youngest and that was the carrots. We added lettuce, cucumber and avocado salad. We are officially all the way on Stage 5!
Supper will be a stew made from the same broth but adding broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and cabbage.
Snack tonight will be raw apple. (Stage 6)
We are nearing the end of the intro diet.
Day 10 of the intro diet
Breakfast: hard boiled egg and yogurt with honey
Lunch: Another stir fry (I love them) I made three of them. I don't cook Isaac's food in teflon coated pans so his had to be in stainless steel. I have this great wok fry pan but it is coated. I'll have to look for one that isn't but for now I will use this one. I started with chicken. (This was a bit challenging to find)
Let me stray a little bit here: The ideal food for the GAPS Diet is organic and pasture-fed animals. This is a huge challenge for a family with 10 people so while I buy organic as much as I can, I do compromise on this. I was looking for chicken breasts in the store yesterday so we could come home and cut it right up and cook it. I only have frozen whole chickens and didn't plan on making chicken stir fry so decided to buy some. Well, Wal-mart only sells chicken with a 12 percent solution added. This solution contains chicken broth. Any company can add broth to their food and not label what is in the broth. This is a huge problem for me. I now buy different tuna because the cheap, regular tuna has broth in it. It probably has MSG. Huge problem for our one son and huge problem because I just don't want to eat MSG. I went to the grocery store in town and again ran into the same problem but they did have chicken breasts that said no preservatives, no additives, all-natural. You can check this out for truth by looking at the sodium content. The chicken I bought had 45 mg of sodium and the chicken with solution added had 200 mg of sodium. I find this wrong because at first glance the chicken says "All natural" and it just isn't true. Who wants this stuff in their chicken anyway. If mass numbers of people called these companies would they stop???? I just don't know.
OK, I stir fried the chicken in a bit of ghee and then added minced garlic and onions (lots of them to one of the pans). One pan ended up being chicken, onion, mushroom, zucchini, carrots and green beans. The one for our son in the stainless steel pan had everything plus asparagus but all cooked in cold-pressed coconut oil. The other one had chicken, carrots and green beans with a smidgen of onion and zucchini. It was a huge hit and we had a bowl leftover for Dad's lunch and everyone got 2nds and some got thirds. We used a lot of veggies for it and about 4 pounds of chicken breasts.
For "supper" we had steamed apples and peas and yogurt. One child put the apples on high thinking someone else would come watch it. The other child didn't realize I said to cook this and they ended up scorched. They all ate this with honey anyway and I guess all turned out well. I was trying to plant strawberries before dark.
Lemon juice in water
Carrot, apple, cabbage and asparagus juice (freshly juiced)
Breakfast: fried eggs and yogurt with honey.
Lunch: Steak soup made from beef broth, onion, garlic, salt, green beans, carrots and peas. It was tasty and I am not too thrilled with eating soup anymore. Only had one complaint from the youngest and that was the carrots. We added lettuce, cucumber and avocado salad. We are officially all the way on Stage 5!
Supper will be a stew made from the same broth but adding broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and cabbage.
Snack tonight will be raw apple. (Stage 6)
We are nearing the end of the intro diet.
Day 10 of the intro diet
Breakfast: hard boiled egg and yogurt with honey
Lunch: Another stir fry (I love them) I made three of them. I don't cook Isaac's food in teflon coated pans so his had to be in stainless steel. I have this great wok fry pan but it is coated. I'll have to look for one that isn't but for now I will use this one. I started with chicken. (This was a bit challenging to find)
Let me stray a little bit here: The ideal food for the GAPS Diet is organic and pasture-fed animals. This is a huge challenge for a family with 10 people so while I buy organic as much as I can, I do compromise on this. I was looking for chicken breasts in the store yesterday so we could come home and cut it right up and cook it. I only have frozen whole chickens and didn't plan on making chicken stir fry so decided to buy some. Well, Wal-mart only sells chicken with a 12 percent solution added. This solution contains chicken broth. Any company can add broth to their food and not label what is in the broth. This is a huge problem for me. I now buy different tuna because the cheap, regular tuna has broth in it. It probably has MSG. Huge problem for our one son and huge problem because I just don't want to eat MSG. I went to the grocery store in town and again ran into the same problem but they did have chicken breasts that said no preservatives, no additives, all-natural. You can check this out for truth by looking at the sodium content. The chicken I bought had 45 mg of sodium and the chicken with solution added had 200 mg of sodium. I find this wrong because at first glance the chicken says "All natural" and it just isn't true. Who wants this stuff in their chicken anyway. If mass numbers of people called these companies would they stop???? I just don't know.
OK, I stir fried the chicken in a bit of ghee and then added minced garlic and onions (lots of them to one of the pans). One pan ended up being chicken, onion, mushroom, zucchini, carrots and green beans. The one for our son in the stainless steel pan had everything plus asparagus but all cooked in cold-pressed coconut oil. The other one had chicken, carrots and green beans with a smidgen of onion and zucchini. It was a huge hit and we had a bowl leftover for Dad's lunch and everyone got 2nds and some got thirds. We used a lot of veggies for it and about 4 pounds of chicken breasts.
For "supper" we had steamed apples and peas and yogurt. One child put the apples on high thinking someone else would come watch it. The other child didn't realize I said to cook this and they ended up scorched. They all ate this with honey anyway and I guess all turned out well. I was trying to plant strawberries before dark.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Chicken stir fry with snow peas, carrots, onion, mushroom
This would be wonderful on rice or noodles but alas, it's not allowed. It was delicious. I just could have eated 4 times this. This is from Friday. I got my camera card to work.
Day 9, Between stage 4 and 5
We are somewhere in between these two stages because we added the steamed apples in Stage 5 but not the soft parts of lettuce and cucumber. We do juice now with carrots and apples added to it which is a stage 5 thing to do.
My main "problem" with the diet is implementing everything everyday. We are to be adding egg yolks to each cup of broth, and avocado and adding the juice from fermented veggies to each cup too. We are to pour olive oil on each meal. I just don't get to these things always because we have had errands to do and running around makes everything rushed. I can see planning on staying home during this intro would ensure you follow it all completely. I believe healing is going on but for it to be optimal you need to do it all.
Day 9
We continue to have lemon squeezed in a glass of water each morning when we rise. I have done some research into the alkaline/acid diet and this is great to do to create an alkaline PH level in your body. Alkaline bodies with a PH above a certain number cannot have cancer living in them, that's what I have heard anyway. So, your goal is to eat more alkaline foods. I am curious to take our families PH level. I have some test strips to do that.
Today, we had a cup of chicken broth while we waited for the muffins. We ate almond bread made with zucchini with honey. I borrowed a friends stoneware muffin pan and it makes wonderful muffins. The test today was we made 12 muffins in that and 12 in our regular metal pans. The stoneware made the nicest looking muffins and best moisture content. We only use this pan for our son with a compromised system because we don't want him to have any residue of wheat just in case of a reaction.
We did errands so didn't get to eat lunch til nearly 5 p.m. An egg, half of a muffin, and a helping of steamed broccoli. I did juice carrots, apple with a touch of asparagus when we first got home. Juicing works best on an empty stomach. All the good nutrients are quickly absorbed. I have fresh asparagus growing in my garden! It's nice not to have to buy everything.
For supper I wanted to make my own stir-fry because we were in Sam's Club and found mushrooms, baby carrots and onions. Now, I've done stir fry before but this time I sauteed onion and garlic in ghee ( I cannot fry things in coconut oil for myself, I can't do the coconut taste), added carrots cut julienne style (they look so nice this way), added zucchini and mushrooms and then when it was all about cooked through, added grated ginger. There was no need to salt or pepper it. We baked some perch with salt and pepper and added lemon slices to the meal. I was surprised how taken the kids were to squeeze lemon juice on their fish. My 6 year old boy ate 3-4 lemon slices this way. The fish was great. I buy it from Wal-mart. Two bags was enough. I could have doubled the stir fry veggie amount because again we only had one helping but they got as much yogurt as they wanted afterwards.
OK, a note about fish. I am frustrated to shop in any store lately. I searched through all the fish at Sam's Club and out of about 8 selections only found two that were just fish. They had some reasonably priced Salmon that said No preservatives and other things but when you read the label it added color to it. It didn't say what they used to color it. I can't do color in this diet so I wasn't too happy. People will buy food without the color added!!! You can barely see the product with the packaging. Also, ALL of their fresh chicken had solution added to it. Completely false advertising when they write all over that it is minimally processed with no preservatives when they go and add a solution with broth. You may not know it but labeling laws let them put the word broth down and it can having anything in it. It most likely has MSG.
My main "problem" with the diet is implementing everything everyday. We are to be adding egg yolks to each cup of broth, and avocado and adding the juice from fermented veggies to each cup too. We are to pour olive oil on each meal. I just don't get to these things always because we have had errands to do and running around makes everything rushed. I can see planning on staying home during this intro would ensure you follow it all completely. I believe healing is going on but for it to be optimal you need to do it all.
Day 9
We continue to have lemon squeezed in a glass of water each morning when we rise. I have done some research into the alkaline/acid diet and this is great to do to create an alkaline PH level in your body. Alkaline bodies with a PH above a certain number cannot have cancer living in them, that's what I have heard anyway. So, your goal is to eat more alkaline foods. I am curious to take our families PH level. I have some test strips to do that.
Today, we had a cup of chicken broth while we waited for the muffins. We ate almond bread made with zucchini with honey. I borrowed a friends stoneware muffin pan and it makes wonderful muffins. The test today was we made 12 muffins in that and 12 in our regular metal pans. The stoneware made the nicest looking muffins and best moisture content. We only use this pan for our son with a compromised system because we don't want him to have any residue of wheat just in case of a reaction.
We did errands so didn't get to eat lunch til nearly 5 p.m. An egg, half of a muffin, and a helping of steamed broccoli. I did juice carrots, apple with a touch of asparagus when we first got home. Juicing works best on an empty stomach. All the good nutrients are quickly absorbed. I have fresh asparagus growing in my garden! It's nice not to have to buy everything.
For supper I wanted to make my own stir-fry because we were in Sam's Club and found mushrooms, baby carrots and onions. Now, I've done stir fry before but this time I sauteed onion and garlic in ghee ( I cannot fry things in coconut oil for myself, I can't do the coconut taste), added carrots cut julienne style (they look so nice this way), added zucchini and mushrooms and then when it was all about cooked through, added grated ginger. There was no need to salt or pepper it. We baked some perch with salt and pepper and added lemon slices to the meal. I was surprised how taken the kids were to squeeze lemon juice on their fish. My 6 year old boy ate 3-4 lemon slices this way. The fish was great. I buy it from Wal-mart. Two bags was enough. I could have doubled the stir fry veggie amount because again we only had one helping but they got as much yogurt as they wanted afterwards.
OK, a note about fish. I am frustrated to shop in any store lately. I searched through all the fish at Sam's Club and out of about 8 selections only found two that were just fish. They had some reasonably priced Salmon that said No preservatives and other things but when you read the label it added color to it. It didn't say what they used to color it. I can't do color in this diet so I wasn't too happy. People will buy food without the color added!!! You can barely see the product with the packaging. Also, ALL of their fresh chicken had solution added to it. Completely false advertising when they write all over that it is minimally processed with no preservatives when they go and add a solution with broth. You may not know it but labeling laws let them put the word broth down and it can having anything in it. It most likely has MSG.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Days 6-8
Detox reactions:
I haven't seen anything new with anyone. One child is still on edge and crabby but it's gotten less. One still doesn't have bumps on her arms! Oh, one child who is usually constipated wasn't today. Her bowel movement was pretty normal.
Diet observations:
#1 Tons of dishes. I am always washing up dishes from making yogurt, broth, cooking up a soup. Three pans for eggs and pancakes plus all the dishes from preparing the stuff. Now we are juicing twice a day so we wash that up. I made my hubby a raspberry kefir shake and had to wash up the blender. I made up food for the baby and had her things to do. I made up food for the son who is on a little bit different stage of the diet separately than us twice today so that made some extra dishes plus we milk goats twice a day and that is two different buckets. AHHHHH! I really don't like it!
#2 Hunger. I am usually hungry. I can give the kids a bowl of yogurt with honey and they are satisfied longer than me. I don't care for the yogurt so don't choose it too often. I make up quite a bit of food (it looks like it in the pan) and it feeds us all one helping. No seconds! We are used to having 2nds or 3rds sometimes. We find more things to snack on. Once we are done with the intro diet we'll be adding salads to our meals and snacking on raw fruit and nuts and veggies between meals.
Day 8
I stir fried garlic in oil, added some stir fry veggies that included snow peas, carrots, mushrooms and onion. I added chicken cooked in the slow cooker for about 3 1/2 hours and grated fresh ginger and it was delicious. The ginger added so much flavor that it didn't need salt. I am a huge salter of my food and I was so enamored of this that we had it for supper too. I took a picture but my card won't work on the computer. We had apples again for a bedtime snack. The kids beg for avocado during the day.
Day 7
We ate pretty much the same as yesterday. Soup for one meal, eggs and pancakes for breakfast and roast chicken this time for supper. We added steamed apples for a bedtime snack. Everyone really liked these.
Day 6
We roasted a couple roasts with carrots for supper and added olive oil poured over it today beginning stage 4.
I haven't seen anything new with anyone. One child is still on edge and crabby but it's gotten less. One still doesn't have bumps on her arms! Oh, one child who is usually constipated wasn't today. Her bowel movement was pretty normal.
Diet observations:
#1 Tons of dishes. I am always washing up dishes from making yogurt, broth, cooking up a soup. Three pans for eggs and pancakes plus all the dishes from preparing the stuff. Now we are juicing twice a day so we wash that up. I made my hubby a raspberry kefir shake and had to wash up the blender. I made up food for the baby and had her things to do. I made up food for the son who is on a little bit different stage of the diet separately than us twice today so that made some extra dishes plus we milk goats twice a day and that is two different buckets. AHHHHH! I really don't like it!
#2 Hunger. I am usually hungry. I can give the kids a bowl of yogurt with honey and they are satisfied longer than me. I don't care for the yogurt so don't choose it too often. I make up quite a bit of food (it looks like it in the pan) and it feeds us all one helping. No seconds! We are used to having 2nds or 3rds sometimes. We find more things to snack on. Once we are done with the intro diet we'll be adding salads to our meals and snacking on raw fruit and nuts and veggies between meals.
Day 8
I stir fried garlic in oil, added some stir fry veggies that included snow peas, carrots, mushrooms and onion. I added chicken cooked in the slow cooker for about 3 1/2 hours and grated fresh ginger and it was delicious. The ginger added so much flavor that it didn't need salt. I am a huge salter of my food and I was so enamored of this that we had it for supper too. I took a picture but my card won't work on the computer. We had apples again for a bedtime snack. The kids beg for avocado during the day.
Day 7
We ate pretty much the same as yesterday. Soup for one meal, eggs and pancakes for breakfast and roast chicken this time for supper. We added steamed apples for a bedtime snack. Everyone really liked these.
Day 6
We roasted a couple roasts with carrots for supper and added olive oil poured over it today beginning stage 4.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Relief...
Blessed Relief! A friend who turned me to the GAPs Diet emailed today and she is consulting with a medical doctor in California who specializes in this Diet and he does not recommend doing the intro diet more than a week unless there was some serious condition!!!!! I am so happy and so are my children! I was willing to do whatever it takes to give them the best of health but I am relieved that my life will get easier in a few days. Plus, I can quit sneaking peanut butter and honey, well, maybe I'll still do that. I am so hungry!
Day 5
We had the squash, nut butter, egg pancakes for breakfast with yogurt and broth. Everyone loved the pancakes.
We had kefir with honey and vanilla (the real stuff) for lunch with our chicken veggie soup. Some liked but not everyone liked the vanilla in it.
Today we are adding scrambled eggs for snack.
For supper I'm doing the normal soup but making three different ones with deer meat and stew meat to satisfy every one's uniqueness. One will be deer meat and green beans with onions. One will be meat with green beans, onions, and peppers and the other one will be meat, onion and broccoli and cauliflower.
Day 5
We had the squash, nut butter, egg pancakes for breakfast with yogurt and broth. Everyone loved the pancakes.
We had kefir with honey and vanilla (the real stuff) for lunch with our chicken veggie soup. Some liked but not everyone liked the vanilla in it.
Today we are adding scrambled eggs for snack.
For supper I'm doing the normal soup but making three different ones with deer meat and stew meat to satisfy every one's uniqueness. One will be deer meat and green beans with onions. One will be meat with green beans, onions, and peppers and the other one will be meat, onion and broccoli and cauliflower.
Monday, May 11, 2009
GAPS Diet-Intro Days 1-4
We have started the GAPS Diet for the whole family. Our son has been on it for 2 months and we are seeing continual progress in his healing. We decided to give it a try for the rest of us because we have read it will clear up eczema, asthma, depression, anxiety, autism, dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, constipation, colitis and more. The goal is to give your digestive tract a break from eating foods that are difficult to digest so it can heal. You start out with soups made from boiling bones of animals. They are incredibly nutritious and contain many valuable nutrients like calcium. This gives your intestinal tract a good start in healing. You take out foods that are starchy and hard to digest like potatoes, rice, any grains, sugars except for honey, and corn. It feels like we will starve but that is because we've made these foods a staple of our diet. While it is trying to come up with some interesting things since hot dishes are now out, it is so rewarding to feed your kids nutritious foods that don't give them a stomach-ache. I've had many good comments from my older kids about how they are feeling now since starting this. We have been eating the Full Gaps Diet for over a month now and only this week began the intro diet.
Day 4 GAPS Diet
Again the same but this time we cooked the egg in the broth awhile and used the whites too. The kids liked this better but not the same as a hard boiled egg. For supper I actually made up a soup with deer meat and added peppers from the freezer (from the garden) and added onion, green beans and garlic. A big hit for my DH and I actually liked it. I am burning out from so much soup. We strain it now and drink the broth and eat the veggies and meat separate. Kids like the ginger tea and make it up themselves when they feel like it. I am having a hard time keeping up with the yogurt production. It has to be 24 hour cultured yogurt and I have 2 machines going all the time. I only have 3 gallons of goat's milk in the fridge so I am keeping up fairly well with that, it's just that everyone likes it so much they eat and eat and eat it until we our wiped out. I have two jars of kefir started on the counter to help keep up. I have read that kefir is even more detoxifying than yogurt so we'll see what happens.
What we have seen so far:
Oldest child has a perpetual cold 365 days a year with a sore throat and stuffy head and hay fever. Her ears have cleared up for the first time in months.
Next child has eczema on her arms which bothers her every time they are wet. It cleared completely in two days on broth. She loves the feel of her smooth arms. I read it can happen that fast for some.
We also see those who with a fungus, that it is acting up which means it is trying to get out. It isn't being fed breads and sugars that it wants so is leaving. It means some itching but to get to the good you have to take some bad.
I have been searching for other's doing this diet and found someone in the UK who is on Day 80 on the intro diet still. The intro diet is 6 stages and we were planning on spending 2-3 days per stage. I'm a little confused why some spend so long on it but we have decided that cleaning up our digestion is the main goal and we believe it will benefit all of us greatly.
Day 3 GAPS Diet Mother's Day
Again the same except for Breakfast and Lunch we added an egg yolk to our hot soup. DH (darling husband) liked it much. Some kids thought it was OK and others hated it. Tried changing the veggies and added zucchini and yellow squash to one of the soups. Some liked this and some didn't. Some kids only had chicken soup with no veggies. We are recovering from a virus so some kids just don't feel like eating much yet. I did make a jello that is SCD compliant but not GAPS (gelatin, organic grape juice). I wanted the kids to have something in them.
Day 2 GAPS Diet
Basically the same as the Day 1 plan except we added honey to our yogurt and tried a different variety of veggies. One soup we put broccoli and cauliflower and another peas, onions, carrots and green beans and another time just carrots. Using onion, garlic, Celtic Sea Salt (moist), pepper and basil to taste.
Day 1 GAPS Diet
Breakfast: Lemon juice (fresh squeezed) in water.
Chicken broth
1/2 cup goat's milk yogurt
Lunch: Beef veggie soup made with bone broth and carrots and green beans.
1/2 cup goat's milk yogurt
Supper: Same as Lunch
Snack: Ginger tea (mmm, we like) Grate fresh ginger, pour boiling water over, set 3-4 min., drain and add honey to taste.
Day 4 GAPS Diet
Again the same but this time we cooked the egg in the broth awhile and used the whites too. The kids liked this better but not the same as a hard boiled egg. For supper I actually made up a soup with deer meat and added peppers from the freezer (from the garden) and added onion, green beans and garlic. A big hit for my DH and I actually liked it. I am burning out from so much soup. We strain it now and drink the broth and eat the veggies and meat separate. Kids like the ginger tea and make it up themselves when they feel like it. I am having a hard time keeping up with the yogurt production. It has to be 24 hour cultured yogurt and I have 2 machines going all the time. I only have 3 gallons of goat's milk in the fridge so I am keeping up fairly well with that, it's just that everyone likes it so much they eat and eat and eat it until we our wiped out. I have two jars of kefir started on the counter to help keep up. I have read that kefir is even more detoxifying than yogurt so we'll see what happens.
What we have seen so far:
Oldest child has a perpetual cold 365 days a year with a sore throat and stuffy head and hay fever. Her ears have cleared up for the first time in months.
Next child has eczema on her arms which bothers her every time they are wet. It cleared completely in two days on broth. She loves the feel of her smooth arms. I read it can happen that fast for some.
We also see those who with a fungus, that it is acting up which means it is trying to get out. It isn't being fed breads and sugars that it wants so is leaving. It means some itching but to get to the good you have to take some bad.
I have been searching for other's doing this diet and found someone in the UK who is on Day 80 on the intro diet still. The intro diet is 6 stages and we were planning on spending 2-3 days per stage. I'm a little confused why some spend so long on it but we have decided that cleaning up our digestion is the main goal and we believe it will benefit all of us greatly.
Day 3 GAPS Diet Mother's Day
Again the same except for Breakfast and Lunch we added an egg yolk to our hot soup. DH (darling husband) liked it much. Some kids thought it was OK and others hated it. Tried changing the veggies and added zucchini and yellow squash to one of the soups. Some liked this and some didn't. Some kids only had chicken soup with no veggies. We are recovering from a virus so some kids just don't feel like eating much yet. I did make a jello that is SCD compliant but not GAPS (gelatin, organic grape juice). I wanted the kids to have something in them.
Day 2 GAPS Diet
Basically the same as the Day 1 plan except we added honey to our yogurt and tried a different variety of veggies. One soup we put broccoli and cauliflower and another peas, onions, carrots and green beans and another time just carrots. Using onion, garlic, Celtic Sea Salt (moist), pepper and basil to taste.
Day 1 GAPS Diet
Breakfast: Lemon juice (fresh squeezed) in water.
Chicken broth
1/2 cup goat's milk yogurt
Lunch: Beef veggie soup made with bone broth and carrots and green beans.
1/2 cup goat's milk yogurt
Supper: Same as Lunch
Snack: Ginger tea (mmm, we like) Grate fresh ginger, pour boiling water over, set 3-4 min., drain and add honey to taste.
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