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It’s cold and flu season. If you feel something coming on, it’s best not to run out and buy something that will suppress the symptoms. Getting sick is the body’s way of “housecleaning”. In other words, your body is attempting to rid itself of the accumulated toxins. What you want to do is support the [...]

OK so here’s what I ate today on my first day back on the GAPS Intro Diet: Before Breakfast: Detox herbal tea with 2 Biokult Breakfast: Rocky Canyon nitrate-free antibiotic-free organic pork sausage cooked in duck fat, then served in a cup of homemade chicken stock (made from pastured organic chickens) 1 cup black coffee [...]

My friend Liz (above left) and I (above right) took a trip up to Three Stone Hearth last Thursday. I have a lot of photos so I’m going to split this up into a number of posts. Three Stone Hearth is a community supported kitchen (or CSK) in Berkeley, California, founded by Jessica Prentice, Larry [...]

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 [...]

Tonight we ate: Rocky Canyon Bratwurst with Dijon Mustard Homemade Lacto-Fermented Sauerkraut Kale Sauteed in Chicken Fat and Butter Chicken Broth For lunch Seth had some sliced turkey breast and avocado. He was still hungry after that (not enough fat, I told him), so I offered to make him a smoothie. The man who said [...]

This came out absolutely delicious. I started with a recipe from my friend Jungleen. She posted a comment a few days ago with a recipe for Chicken Cacciatore. It’s basically chicken cooked in homemade chicken stock and tomato sauce. I left out the vegetables and added arrowroot to make a thicker sauce. Then served it [...]

I worked all day today and don’t really feel like making dinner. But I can still make a healthy meal — quickly and easily. We’re having: US Wellness Meats Hot Dogs (all-beef, nitrate-free, from grass-fed cows) with Homemade Lacto-fermented Sauerkraut and Pickles on Alvarado St. Bakery Sprouted Bread Organic Green Salad with Tomatoes (from CSA [...]