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  1. Coconut oil is solid in cooler temps. and softens as it warms up. To eat it off the spoon, work your way up. It takes a while to get used to the oily feeling. You may want to eat it with your meal to wash it down with bites of food. That way you feel satisfied sooner and eat less. I highly suggest the cookbook, Nourishing traditions. It's more than a cookbook. It's also packed with information on nutrition and the effects of food on your health.
  2. Great links. I added them to my favorites so I can check them out later. I get my five gallon buckets of oil from Tropical Traditions. I get their gold label organic oil. It's around $250 including tax and shipping. Quite expensive, but we view it as our medicine to avoid drugs, doctor visits, surgeries and pain and suffering. It's quite affordable when you look at it that way. My Mom spends around $300 a month out of pocket for her drugs just to be able to move around. It's like the old saying goes... Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food. We just started the oil pulling for oral health,(swishing oil around in your mouth before eating in order to dislodge and remove bacteria from your mouth so you don't swallow it,) so I will be getting the cheaper expellier expressed oil for that and for skin and hair. This will save the more expensive virgin CO for eating.
  3. Thanks so much for posting this info! Sally Fallon and Mary Enig aren't the only ones who believe this. The truth is getting out about the healthy way people used to eat, but the big cooperations and those who live out of their pockets are still trying to hide it. They made big bucks and entire financial empires were built whey they showed "simple ignorant" people that the foods they were eating could be "improved" by buying their product. If anyone is interested in learning about cholesterol and how it is actually a healthy omega 3, needed by your body for immune system support, there is a book called The Cholesterol Myth. You can also just google the cholesterol myth and read a lot of articles on this important subject we have been deceived about. I would post some links if I knew how, but maybe someone else can find some and post them. My family loves coconut oil and what it has done for our health and skin and hair that we buy it by the 5 gallon bucket. We go through this in about a year. Even my daughter who married and moved out brings back her empty jars to be re-filled from the tub. She is using the oil on her baby to control diaper rash, cradle cap and the irritation babies can get in the folds of their skin. She also rubs a little into her eyes and nose to keep her nasal passages moist and germ free. My other daughter got her boss' family using it in cooking and on the skin and they in turn got another family using it. That is how this information spreads. You'll never hear about it on tv or in a women's magazine. It's going word of mouth, or, "word of skin, health and taste-buds!"
  4. Congrats on your new coop. I will be building a larger one for myself. I should have listened to everyone when they said to build bigger than you'd ever think you'd need. You can never have enough chickens!
  5. Homemaker

    Oy Vey!

    I hope all of your hard work brings you a wonderful bounty of crops. It's a shame about the bougenvilla bush. Youll hardly get any flowers if you have to keep it below waist level. That was my favorite shrub when I lived in AZ.
  6. I pick up some elderly ladies once a month to take them out shopping and banking. At the assisted living center where they live, a lot of residents garden in those large rubbermaid tubs. They use 2-liter bottles with the bottoms cut off, upside down in the dirt to fill with water. I am so glad the center allows them to do this. I know I would lose heart and prefer to die if I lost my connection to the soil. If I cant till the soil... bury me under the soil!
  7. Homemaker

    Anatolians

    Apparantly german shepherds follow those property laws as well. My in-laws came to visit for Easter and brought their dog. She initiated these laws against our poor border collie. I think he really didn't mind though, since he got to chase her all over the yard.
  8. What an incredible price for blackberries! I am so jealous. I could eat a whole package in one sitting. My husband and I have wars over who ate more than their share of a package, so I have to buy two at a time!
  9. Don't worry Tracy, I'm not shocked about the bones from your plate. As they say... waste not, want not. We may find ourselves discarding a lot of our modern, civilized notions as things get worse. We may find ourselves healthier because of it!
  10. What a thought! We are God's servants, just like the ones mentioned in the parable about the talents. We serve our Lord and he expects us to invest all He has entrusted us with in a way that pleases Him, not us. God has been showing me an area of my life that I have been wasteing. My private thought life. I tend to daydream a lot. This is wasted time when I could be focussing on Him and seeking His will. I drift off into la-la-land when I could be communing with Him all day. I have access to the Creator of the world, and I'm dreaming of stupid stuff, focusing on trivial events. Thanks Stephanie, for the reminder!
  11. Good for you being willing to jump right in there and share this at the spur of the moment. It sure helps in overcoming fears when you have a passion for helping others. You accomplished two things that day... You equipped others with knowledge and encouragement. You proved to yourself that you can go beyond your own limits.
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    new job position

    What a blessing! It's so good to hear a positive employment report. Congrats!!
  13. What a funny story! It's wonderful that you honored your Mother-in-Law by letting her teach you how she makes her sausage gravy. Well, at least she had a whole year to feel good about the situation before your husband ruined it. I bet you wanted to shove that plate of gravy down his throat!!
  14. It's funny, I was just looking this stuff up last week. Vitamin C deficiency is very common, maybe not full blown scurvy causing deficiency, but mildly. The different sites I looked at listed different steeping times. Also, the variety specifically mentioned was white pine. You can use other kinds. It's good to know of a highly consentrated source of vitamin C. I'm just concerned about the whole abortion thing. What is the substance that causes this and how does it affect non-pregnant people? Nothing I looked at even went into that. It would seem like an important thing to know.
  15. I've read that elevated insulin levels can cause hair loss, at least it did in a study on mice. I don't know if you can re-grow hair, but everyone could benefit from controlling their sugar and grain intake to prevent spikes in blood sugar.
  16. I know I had heard something about eggshells being used to boost calcium and other mineral levels. I googled it and came up with two ways. You can add the shells to any bones you are making stock from,( remember to add a little vinegar) or just simmer the eggshells alone. You can add crushed shells to plain vinegar and let it sit for several weeks to make a mineral infused vinegar. We tend to focus on the calcium that eggshells and bones contain, but they also contain the other necessary minerals in the right proportion in order for your body to use it. You can't build bones with just calcium because it's really quite brittle. It's when it's combined with the other minerals that it can be used. Also, your body won't be able to use those minerals if you don't get enough vitamin D. So, get out in the sun, or stock up on fish oil or vitamin D3 which is easier for your body to use than the other vitamin Ds. Slingmama, you're right about the weeds. I've seen a lot of them sold in seed catalogs. I'm not sure how to cook the bones without electricity. I guess we'd need to keep a fire going if solar didn't work. That's an area I need to focus more on for prepping.
  17. I told my husband what was in it, but no one else. We had leftovers, so we ate it for several days. No one complained about any problems. I know I felt fine. My husband was very impressed about my idea. He was all for it and loves the idea of saving money and boosting nutritional value. Tonight I'm making the meat mixture again and using it in swedish meatballs or maybe as salisbury steak. I'll cook it with onions, mushrooms and mushroom soup. Now don't forget... If anybody has other ideas let me know.
  18. Whew! From the responses so far, I feel a little less worried that you all will think I'm way out there in extreme loopyland!
  19. This post will probably shock most of you, but considering the situation we are in, I feel we need to get radical in how we feed our families. If you read reports of the extreme things people have had to do in times of great crisis in order to survive, you won't think my experiment is too bad. I was thinking about ways to stretch my food dollar and reduce waste, while at the same time provide optimal nutrition. I have posted before how I make extra nutrient -packed chicken broth for soups and gravies. Following the instructions in the book, Nourishing Traditions, I simmer the chicken bones for three days after I have picked off most of the meat. I add a shot of vinegar to the water to help draw out the minerals from the bones. At the end of the three days I strain off the broth. The bones become very soft because the minerals have leached into the water. I had been using the bones with the small amount of meat as a suppliment for my dog and sometimes chickens. Bones have been used for centuries as a human supplement and in animal feed. You can still buy bonemeal for human consumption. Asian cultures consume salted fish bones as a crunchy snack or in soup. I even found some recipes online for them. I got to thinking about using my chicken bones for my family. When food becomes scarce, and the government bans the sale of vitamin/mineral supplements we will need to go back to the old way of doing things. So anyway, I took some of my bones, ground them up in the food processor into a paste. I mixed it into meatlaf and served it to my family. They ate it. My son asked me what the crunchy bits were, (should have ground it a bit more. ) I told him it must be the seeds in the whole grain breadcrumbs I used in the mixture. My husband liked the bits and said it reminded him of the little crunchy bits in my salmon patties, ( the bones that come in canned salmon.) I know this sounds barbaric to our westernized ears, but it's really not. Now, just to warn you, I would not feel comfortable doing this with conventionally raised chicken. I use organically raised birds or the ones I raised. I would be concerned about the lead or arsenic in commercial feed that may be in the bones. Let me know your thoughts on this and if you have other strange ideas to help feed and nourish our loved ones in the difficult time we may have ahead. Remember, not only do we need to be fed, but what we eat needs to nourish us.
  20. Wow, Karelle, It's great to have you join us. I just know that Mrs. S is going to be even better now with you here...the one who taught Darlene everything she knows! And if you manage to sneak in a few stories now and then about our founder, we will be eagerly reading them!!
  21. I wonder, Is skip dipping like dumpster diving? My apartment complex where I grew up had trash dumpsters and I loved finding treasures in them!
  22. Well Useit up... You've got your inspiration, the picture in your mind. Get everything out of that pantry and make it happen! Holler at us if you get stuck.
  23. We surely do appreciate your sacrifice, Josephine! Well, to save money and get my food preps organized better, I have been snatching the empty shallow boxes that the canned food comes in at Walmart. Sometimes I have to empty out partial flats so I can get the box. I am always careful to organize and place any cans I move into the proper space they belong so I don't make more work for others or cause the store to forbid box gathering. I was thinking, as I looked at them , that they would work great for kids when they are doing a messy craft. You could put the paper in and all the messy glitter and glue, etc. would be contained in the box. We bought a new washer yesterday. I've been hand washing for two weeks!They wanted $60 for delivery and 10 to take away the old washer! I am so thankful that we could take it with us. My step-Dad works at the dump, so I'd rather pay him some of that money to haul it away for us.
  24. So canned Nerd, You don't think that having the rings on, and the weight supported by their resting on the threads on the sides of the jar ,would in any way protect the lids from the pressure?
  25. Everything I read warning you to take the rings off said it was to prevent rust. If I wash and dry the rings I'm assuming it would be safe to put them back on. Who wouldn't want to wash them anyway? They can sometimes get covered with oils from the food. Yuck! I think I will start doing this. It does seem that it would take some of the pressure off the seals when you stack.
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