Check out this video that explains how to make chicken bone broth (also called chicken stock) from scratch. It’s an easy, nourishing and delicious snack throughout the day, as a base for soups, stews or sauces, and a huge component of a healthy diet!
Basics & Staples
Video- How to Make Homemade Mayonnaise (and Creamy Salad Dressing)
Enjoy this how-to video that demonstrates making homemade mayo- a great spread and base for creamy salad dressings. The printed recipe for homemade mayonnaise can be found HERE
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Real Food Diet
Chipotle vs. Moe’s – and the coconut oil campaign
Have any of you have been following the discussion over on Primal Toad about Moe’s Southwest Grill winning out over Chipotle for most primal friendly fast food? There’s been some lively discussion over whether or not Moe’s Southwest Grill (www.moes.com) IS better than Chipotle (www.chipotle.com) as it’s come to light that although Moe’s (currently) serves grass-fed beef
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"Fab Real Foodie Finds" Reviews
Fab {Real} Foodie Finds…US Wellness Meats; Bring the Farm to Your Door
Working with our nutritional therapy clients and spreading the real food message of sourcing QUALITY foods, there’s something we hear quite often…” I want to eat healthy real foods, but there’s no store or farm near me that has {insert real food here}” Grassfed beef, pastured chicken and pork, raw milk cheese from grassfed cows, bacon or
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"Fab Real Foodie Finds" Reviews
Fab {Real} Foodie Finds – What is Ghee? (and why should you eat it?)
If you’ve been reading our blog for even half a minute, you’ve probably gathered that we love BUTTER- we love it a lot. Butter is healthy(huh??), tasty and we’re not talking just any butter, but REAL butter- the kind made with real milk from healthy, hormone and antibiotic free cows who eat their native species-appropriate diet of fresh green grass, rather than
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Egg Dishes
A Guide to Choosing Healthy Eggs
A Guide to Choosing Healthy Eggs Purchase eggs from pastured hens raised locally- from small farms or even a friend’s backyard flock. Or, raise your own chickens! Pastured chickens have access to the outdoors, sunlight and pasture or grass. They eat not only grass, but grubs, worms and bugs and generally these chickens do not
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Desserts, Sweets & Treats
Over 50 Varieties of Chocolate Truffles
We decided yesterday, rather unexpectedly, and rather innocently I might add, to try out a truffle recipe. At first, I was planning on using the traditional roll-ins- some coconut, some cocoa powder, and maybe a few different types of nuts. Somewhere along the way, however, my creative nature took over and somewhere between mixing Indian
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Real Food Diet
Cows eat GRASS, not corn or soy??
Cows eat grass. Yes. GRASS. That is the appropriate diet for a cow. Why? They are ruminants, a type of animal with multiple stomachs, built to eat grass and process the nutrition offered in that grass, nutrition that benefits us when we eat then eat the meat of these animals. Humans are not ruminant animals,
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Breakfasts
Gluten Free Sausage Balls (with egg, dairy and nut free options)
As you may know, I’m a Southern girl. And sausage balls are a family favorite- a tradition that goes back generations- and they’ve always graced the Christmas morning buffet. However, the sausage balls I’ve always known have contained three things- feedlot/industrially sourced sausage full of nitrates and nitrites, the highly processed and nutrient-poor Bisquick, and