GAPS and Essential Oils

Photo credit: donnierayjones via Visualhunt.com / CC BY Anyone who has gone through the GAPS diet knows that starting the diet is not the easiest thing you've ever done; it may have been the hardest.  The Introduction Diet can be brutal, in terms of how you feel when you are in the throes of detox …

Squash Bars

If there is one thing that helped us get through the GAPS Introduction Diet the first time we did it, it was squash bars.  After days of eating soup and veggies and a little egg mixed in, the boys and I were ready for something that seemed to have a little substance to it (and …

Who Should Try GAPS?

Photo credit: teacher_caroline_acsp via Visual Hunt / CC BY If you're the average person living in America, as I am, you probably aren't familiar with the GAPS diet.  Despite being swarmed daily with a multitude of different diets, somehow healing diets like GAPS or even the SCD (Specific-Carbohydrate Diet) do not come up in everyday conversation.  You may have heard …

Homemade Yogurt

It's been a while since I've posted something new, and I apologize for that.  It's been kinda crazy around here lately.  The end of summer is always a busy time in the garden, with pickling, fermenting, canning ... the tomatoes have been coming on crazy lately, and I still have cabbages, carrots, and chard waiting …

Peach Ice Cream

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.” ― Alice Walker When people think of being on a "special" diet, they often think that it has to be tasteless, restrictive, and no fun.  Any time that I took my boys to …