With summer in full swing now and plenty of hot sun available, I decided to bring back one of my old favorites: sun tea. My first memories of sun tea were of my mom brewing some on top of our car as it sat parked in the driveway when we lived in Belvidere, around 25 years ago. …
A Time of Transition
Looking around the Healthy Home Body website, you may notice that quite a few things are different! Certain pages and posts are disappearing, there's a new design, and ... what happened to all the essential oils? In order to be able to focus more on GAPS, natural health, and autism, and be able to speak …
Almond Flour Brownies with Chocolate Frosting
Tonight, I am going to share with you one of our all-time favorite GAPS recipes. It is not a nourishing broth, a probiotic-filled fermented food, or something otherwise healing and healthy. It is a recipe for chocolate frosted brownies. After we had been on the GAPS Diet for some time, I began to look for …
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Simple Social and Sensory-Friendly Games
“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.” ― Heraclitus If you have a child with special needs, you know that it can be expensive. We were recently reminded of this when our local hospital decided that our medical account had existed for too long. For the …
Breakfast Sausage
Over our two and a half years on GAPS, we have tried many different recipes for breakfast sausage and patties. One time early on in the diet, I made up a mega batch of sausage patties so that I could freeze them up and use them as needed, only to find out that none of …
