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on August 18, 2010

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I should not try to assess my life when I'm suffering from a three week head cold.

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Fermented Rice Milk

Being unable to get raw milk in Canada, we are left with little choice but to drink what is available. Unfortunately, my husband, Monkey and Little-E all have a food sensitivity to pasteurized milk. Using purchased analog milk, I learned last week from Kelly , is just another possessed food with no real "food value." So what is a mother to do? She makes her own milk analog, of course. (I want to make milk kefir but I don't have the grains.) Almonds cost too much (especially when they are raw) to be throwing away most of it. I like to do things without spending much money. So how about rice milk. Rice is cheap (for now.) Cheap is good. This recipe is also fermented. Fermented is great! I found this in Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (seems I'm always using this book) but I put it together a bit differently. Fermented Rice Milk You will need: *1/2 cup...

Beet Kvas

(Photo taken by my son C-Rex.) We love Beet Kvas. All it rooty goodness. Salty and earthy. Yum! When I was pregnant with our last child I had some serious salt cravings. Chips were high on my list of necessities. I also had some uncomfortable indigestion and bloating. Kvas hit the spot for both. My husband has been eating to heal his gut for about 17 months and kvas has been part of his daily routine. He also will drink some when ever his stomach feel a bit uncomfortable. It's very healing for him. Beets are full of minerals. The beets root reaches deep into the soil to pull nutrients and minerals from the way down in the earth. These minerals are stored in the root ball that we then eat. Fermenting the beets adds wonderful probiotics to the mix. To make Beet Kvas you will need: -a 4 litre jar -4-5 beet medium beet roots -3-3 1/2 litres of spring water -2 tablespoons of Celtic sea salt -1/3 cup of whey (from yogurt) Peel and chop your...

Yard Sale

The boys have been asking and asking for us to have a yard sale. I've been putting it off. Too much work, I'd tell myself. Don't I have other more pressing matters to take care of? Wow, I'm surprised at how easy it actually was! Easy peasy ! Not only was it easy, the boys did most of it. It was their idea. They gathered, sorted, priced and sold their own toys to earn their own money. (I refuse to give an allowance . "In the real word" people earn their money, it isn't given to them.) They took out the tables and set everything up themselves, even the few items I had out there. They collected the money and gave out change. They even kept track of how much money they each made. During the slow times (and sometimes when busy,) they played with bubbles, their baby sister, friends and neighbours. We read books on a blanket and tried to keep the mosquito's away...then we counted the mosquito bites. Talk about school! But isn't life school? It is in t...

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