Soaking Sprouting and Traditional Food Prep

Soaking and sprouting grains has became a fun new hobby for us. I want to give my family the most nourishing food I can and through much research and a new book called Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, I have decided to drastically change the way we eat and prepare foods. The main emphasis is real food, nutrient dense and real.

Some things include fermenting and/or soaking and sprouting grains, beans, and legumes of all kinds before cooking, drying, grinding or eating them.

•  Eating organic eggs(get these free from my mom who took all our chickens when we moved).
• Eating range fed beef and chicken or hunted and fished game and fish.(easy as my hubby fishes all the time and him and his brother and dad kill wild hogs regularly along with duck)
• Eating raw butter, cheese and milks......not so easy. I go for organic and full fat versions instead. California has very few places you can buy raw and its expensive as heck!
• Eating pesticide free fruits and veggies whenever possible
• Eating raw, soaked and sprouted nuts

 There are anti nutrients(nutrients that rob your body of nutrients) in unsoaked or unsprouted grains. Also as you sprout grains, they use their own carbs to grow the sprout which them turns almost everything very low glycemic index which has completely taken care of my blood sugar issue. Some of my new favorite sites are:
http://www.nourishingdays.com/

http://www.westonaprice.org/book-reviews/thumbs-up/393-nourishing-traditions-the-cookbook-that-challenges-politically-correct-nutrition-and-the-diet-dictocrats.html

http://nourishedkitchen.com/

http://gnowfglins.com/

http://cookingwiththebible.com/results.aspx?option=browse&type=course&q=bread (great traditional recipes, though you must use your own judgement to adapt recipes with soaked, soured or sprouted grains)

http://thenourishingcook.com/


As a side note to nutrition......I have dropped to 118! I am officially down 20 lbs in 3 months. Isnt it odd switching to full fat milks and butters, I have LOST more weight effortlessly this past month.

Update on my Crummo Immune System

So I went to the Dr and I am vit D deficient as well as glucose intolerant stillllllll:/ grrrrr A1C was high. Natural remedies? Ideas? I eat so healthy(almost no processed food), work out, am currently nursing, bmi is in perfect range(low side of normal....5'5" tall and weigh 121) but my immune system sucks and I have some peripheral nerve damage in my hands and face and some bouts of pretty icky insomnia. They told me just stop eating sugar and take 1000 IU of D3 daily and try to get 20 mins of sunshine daily at midday. I have already been taking 600IU of vit D3 daily so I guess I will add 400IUs. As for stop eating sugar, wellllllll yea I dont, and not only do I rarely ever touch a cookie, cake or candy, I rarely eat bread, white rice, etc. We eat a lot of quinoa, beans, lentils, nuts, cheese, milk, eggs, veggies galore, 1-2 peices of fruit a day if that and usually oranges lately. Ahhhh well praying summer hurries so obtaining sunlight will be easier. **sigh 

WHAT GIVES???

I'm gonna lose it, we have officially began virus number 7 in 7 weeks! WHY ME? I have cooked nothing but veggies and fruits and healthy foods and here we are sick yet again. I feel so angry. This sucks!!! Just sayin'. We at least got a 6 day break between viruses this time, but really we homeschool and hardly go anywhere, how could we get so sick so often?

I know Health is Big On Most Resolutions

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html

This has got to be the most amazing and awesome video ever. He basically talks about 9 common things that each of the worlds longest living cultures have in common. These are the keys to longevity and not just longevity but health all the way to death! Its eye opening and I know I will be making some more tweaks in our lives this year due to this video. I was inspired so I hit up amazon and grabbed Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples  and also The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest .  I want my family to live to be old old old! :0) Here's to health and longevity starting in 2011!

Fruits and Veggies GALORE

I adopted a new food regime early this year. I go to our local fruit and veggie stand and fill my cart up once a week. Each week, I try to add 1 new fruit of veggie that we have never eaten. We have tried some very interesting new things this year including Bok Choy, Eggplant, White Peaches, White Cherries and several others things I can't remember at the moment. Anyhow, my rule is that all the fruits and veggies must be eaten by the end of the week. It forces me to cook super healthy and to eat super healthy because a full cart only costs me 40 bucks and this is what I got today for that price.......

• bananas
• apples
• peaches
• plums
• kiwi
• eggplant
• corn on the cob
• 2 pks mushrooms
• cilantro
• peppers
• bell pepper
• yellow onions
• red onions
• grapes
• cabbage
• Romain lettuce
• assorted lettuce
• asparagus
• cherries
• lemons
• limes
• a giant watermelon
• oranges
• cherry tomatoes
• Roma tomatoes
• avocados
• walnuts
• yellow squash
• zucchini

The typical week at our house now is pretty healthy. We do not say no to junk, but we have only 1 week to get through all that produce so there isnt much room left for junk in the end. I dont do it for thinness though, I just do it because I have energy and I feel well when we eat this way and I know my family benefits from eating lots of produce, however, dropping pounds has definitely been a good side effect! Just wanted to share