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What Kate Ate Today: Breakfast: Eggs and onions scrambled in butter and duck fat Two pieces of bacon Lunch: Leftover bacon Homemade mushroom soup (made with homemade chicken stock and shiitake mushrooms) with raw cream Homemade sauerkraut Local organic grapes Dinner: Chicken livers sauteed in bacon fat and butter Salad of tomato, Italian parsley, arugula, [...]

Here’s what Kate ate for lunch on Sunday: Wild smoked salmon Homemade pesto "Crispy" pine nuts (raw, soaked and dried) Raisins Gazpacho (a few bites — she made a face; I’ll keep trying) A sippy cup full of whole raw milk from grass-fed cows A few months ago I had tried giving her peanut butter [...]

Yes, cheeseburgers are healthy! This is a burger made with grass-fed beef (from Organic Pastures in California), with raw milk cheese (from the Amish in PA), organic fruit-sweetened ketchup and organic mustard, and homemade lacto-fermented pickles. I cooked the burger in a little duck fat. No bun. Kate doesn’t eat grains yet. I’m not going [...]

Kate’s dinner tonight: Duck liver and heart sauteed in butter Pickled beets Watermelon Whenever I get a duck from the farmer’s market (usually every other week), I roast the duck for Seth and me and give Kate the organ meat.

Kate’s dinner: Leftover baked beans mixed with some organic grass-fed beef and beef liver. I modifed the Nourishing Traditions baked beans recipe. I soaked the beans for 48 hours (just because I was busy and didn’t have time to make them sooner). I used chicken fat instead of butter and olive oil — just because [...]

Some of you have expressed an interest in what I feed Kate — so I thought I’d document some recent meals. 1. Breakfast: Two pastured eggs scrambled in butter, with raw organic grass-fed beef liver (frozen and grated) and sea salt. Plus organic cantaloupe and blueberries. Since then, I’ve stopped giving her raw berries and [...]

Here’s what Kate ate today: Morning Bottle: 5.5 ounces of raw milk formula Breakfast: 1 slice of bacon 1 banana fried in bacon fat 2 eggs scrambled in raw butter Mid-morning: Sippy cup with raw milk Lunch: Leftover homemade roast beef with white wine reduction sauce (made with pan drippings, beef stock and butter) Leftover [...]