March 25, 2014
The Annunciation
Today we celebrate the day Our Lady said "Yes" to God and agreed to become our Savior's mother. She knew it wouldn't be easy, in fact, she knew it was going to be difficult as she was yet to be wed to Saint Joseph. But she did it, willingly because she knew that God is always good and loves us. She knew that her obedience would be worth it.Our First Day on "The GAPS diet"
Speaking of submitting, we are finally starting on the GAPS diet. We talked about it last night during our Gaps-a-palooza feast. It was kind of a Mardis Gras of sorts. We had gluten free spaghetti and our favorite bottled sauce with chicken Italian sausage from Sprouts. Daddy made baked apples (ironically it will be one of the first fruits we introduce :)Anyway - the discussion - we talked about how Mary said "Yes" and her obedience was rewarded with may good things. God loves us and if we trust him, he will take care of us. Mom and Dad love you too, so trust us, we are here to help. Our food adventure continues. We will sacrifice now, for all of our health and well being and will all feel better and will be better when we are done with this! Sacrifice it for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory! Be like Our Blessed Mother!
We have messed around with diet in our family to accommodate food allergies and food sensitivities for years. We are still seeing signs of ASD and now we are seeing lots and lots of TICS in son number 1. They've been around occasionally since about age 4 or 5, but have since become really bad. Son number 2 also has a leaky gut, multiple food allergies/sensitivities/hypoglycemia and all kinds of bad things going on with his pancreas.
We know both boys have leaky gut, and with Peanut's history with dairy and soy allergies from day 1 and Big Girl having weird allergic rashes occasionally, and having dyslexia - things gotta get better!
And speaking for parental units. I know my health isn't what it should be, hypothyroid, frequent viruses, cold sores and acne breakouts (yuck) and MY hair is turning white! What is that about?! This wasn't supposed to happen until I was much older, according to my Dad's genes (which I thought I got!) Don't know if that will change, but ya never know! Sweet Hubs has a family history of cardiac issues, colon cancer (and he had some polyps removed himself a few years ago) and he's had skin cancer. Need to keep that sweet man healthy!
If you want to know more about it, go here to learn about the GAPS diet.
On the Menu Today
Breakfast
Lots of water
Chicken Stock( half a mug full with a tablespoon or so of Sauerkraut juice)
Chicken warmed up in broth
Lunch
Butternut squash soup
Snacks
cold chicken!
Dinner
Boiled broccoli florets - VERY boiled
A simple version of my Albondigas soup (Meatball soup)
4 lbs of grass-fed hamburger
1 yellow crookneck squash de-seeded and peeled and diced
two carrots diced
5 green onions diced
little salt and pepper, a dash of cayenne pepper, paprika and cumin - (yes, spices are a cheat-but I've got to sell this diet!)
Squash all the above together, make meatballs and drop it into simmering chicken stock.
Everything went ok until Peanut made a stink over the Butternut squash soup and refused it. OK, she went to PE anyway. Yes I am a pushover. Offered it again at dinner and she raised another stink. OK, up you go - take your epsom salt bath girlie. No more fussin!
We talked and she undertands we all need to go through Intro stages together, so we know what we are sensitive to and so we can all get through this and onto Full Gaps sooner rather than later.
Little peanut helped me prepare some nuts for soaking today (she loves em!) I think the more she is on board the better it will be.
The trips are going great - little troopers!
Tonight - cooking ahead
Ok - we are soaking walnuts and pecans - check!We've made some more Albondigas - check!
Chicken sock in fridge and cooked chicken meat in fridge - check!
Now to roast some carrots tonight and put some up! (I mean ferment some carrot sticks for snacks)
