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Organic food can have MSG?
Somehow I thought organic food had to be free from MSG. Apparently not! Check out this article from FoodRenegade.com. For the food companies, it’s all in the wording! Yet one more reason to stay away from packaged food and take an extra few minutes to make my own french fries!
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Our super duper awesome holistic doctor
My friend Kandace introduced us to a doctor in Irving that is just awesome. Her parents have been going to him, and now several people in my family have gone. His work is absolutely revolutionary. He is both an MD and a naturopath and he has more knowledge in his pinkie than I might ever have… Ok, that’s probably an exaggeration but this guy is extraordinary! A friend, who shall remain nameless for identity protection purposes, just felt really lousy all the time. Dr. Tennant put together an entire program for him, focused mostly on diet and some supplements, as well as the electrical balance in his body. A month after his first visit, he…
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I made yogurt!!
I’m so excited to have made yummy yogurt with all the good bacteria still intact! It’s definitely of smoothie-consistency but it happened to be super easy! I think I spent five minutes on it, tops. (I’m going to play with a more complicated method of making it that will hopefully make it thicker – I’ll let you know how it goes!) I hear that making yogurt from scratch works best if you have raw milk. I also bought a container of Dannon Natural yogurt from the store for this first round. For subsequent batches, I hear that I can reuse part of this batch and not have to do store-bought again.…
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Checking out the Dairy
Davy and I talked recently about where milk came from. He was excited to learn that milk actually comes from a cow! So we decided to take a trip to the dairy where our raw milk came from, just to see the facility. It worked out perfectly that we were already out of milk from our co-op delivery, so I picked up a couple more gallons. After a leisurely drive to Bridgeport (it took about an hour from our house), we drove down a nice country road, over a cattle guard, and onto a country gravel road. The farm was relatively deserted at 1pm on a Saturday, except for a…