The Heal Your Gut Cookbook – A Quick Review

I just got my copy of "The Heal Your Gut Cookbook" by Hilary Boynton and Mary G. Brackett in the mail today, and as I was flipping through it, I got all excited in a GAPSy kind-of way 🙂 When we first started GAPS, I got most of my recipes from surfing the Internet.  There …

Pickled Garlic

Eating garlic whole by the clove-ful may not seem like something that your child (or you too, for that matter!) would ever do. Garlic has been studied for years and promoted as a natural immune booster, an antifungal, and so much more; it also adds delicious flavor to dishes.  It is definitely worth giving it …

Chicken Enchiladas

When you make meat stock as frequently as we do when following the GAPS Diet, you inevitably have to come up with ideas for using whatever meat is left over from making the stock.  It's delicious and juicy just plain too, fresh from the broth, or great to add to other soups you are making, but sometimes …

Gearing Up for GAPS Intro

GAPS Intro: Round 3. The first time you go through the GAPS Introduction Diet, you spend a lot of time preparing; preparing meat stock in advance and freezing it up, preparing sauerkraut and other fermented veggies, preparing meal ideas, preparing lists and lists and lists, preparing to write down daily everything that went in and …

The Basics of Food Addiction

Photo via Visual Hunt Back when I first started to look at a healthier way of eating, it also happened to be around the time when I transferred to a new department in the hospital and to a different shift.  My new coworkers came to view me as someone who ate liquidy homemade raw goat's …