So, I'm totally in the groove of making my own chicken and beef broths now.
I've been making my own yoghurt in the yoghurt maker for a few years, but today put on a batch to sit for 24hrs and ready to try out on the kids in a few days (have had to buy some calcium powder since the kids are getting way under the daily required amount at the moment).
I have plans for making my own baked beans now since the store bought ones contain sugar and maize flour which are both not allowed at the moment. The haricot beans (the only "legal" beans on the diet) are currently soaking and will be ready to cook up tomorrow. If successful I think I'll make a big batch and freeze into lunch portion sizes as an easy meal.
GAPS Day 8...
Breakfast: leftover patties and fish from last nights dinner, fried egg, a small chunk of cheese (first part of the dairy challenge).
Snack: dried banana, pear and peanut butter
Lunch: Fritatta - eggs, pumpkin, onion, kale, garlic, leek, salmon
Snack: almond milk, cashews, brazil nut
Dinner: Soup - chicken broth, 1/2 cabbage, 4 x onions, rosemary, thyme, salt, pinch stevia, balsamic vinegar
The dinner was a surprise. It really looks unappealing to me when on paper, but it is SO tasty and the kids scoffed it down.
7 comments:
The GAPs diet sounds delicious, although labor intensive for you. :)
Care to share your recipe for chicken broth? Mine is always so blah.
Home made baked beans have been a hit here. Useful that they can be frozen in meal portions too.
I made tonight's dinner with fish stock instead of water and it was yummy. Some of the reading I'm doing on intestinal health is blowing me away. The amount of 'badness' in the food world is almost incomprehensible!
But your efforts are inspiring me, even if the scale of my changes is much smaller. Is sauerkraut a feature of the gaps diet? I'm not greatly inspired by banging lots of cabbage in a bowl and then eating it days later, but my reading is suggesting I should be trying it.
Hi Nancy, it is labour intensive and certainly puts a perspective on if I were trying to do EVERYTHING myself in self sufficient style lol. I think we'd be having soup 3 times a day in that case!
Sandra, can you post up your recipe that you use for baked beans? Yeah, it's amazing how food is so linked with our wellbeing. I read that article you posted on your blog lol, thank goodness I'm not like that (considering Simon brings us home ice cream in the evening once the kids are in bed lol). I haven't done sauerkraut, but yet it features as a big part of the diet - can't quite get my head around it though yet...it's cool I'm getting into the kids what I am without that too I think. Considering my instructions say that the person making it could smell it from several metres away, but not so bad if kept out of the main house lol!!!
Nancy, my stock isn't anything flash, I don't cook in veges etc as I add it to vege soup anyway. I just cover the bones with water and boil for 3-4hrs, strain and freeze.
We made sauerkraut a year or so back - and yes - it was pretty stinky while fermenting! Elicited several complaints from family members. I thought the end result was nice though, as long as one doesn't expect it to taste like supermarket sauerkraut! :)
Thanks johanna! I have never tried any version of sauerkraut so at least I wouldn't have anything to compare it against (or that could be a bad thing if it tastes really weird i might think I'm poisoning myself lol).
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