Comments on: Baby Steps to Nutritious Eating: 12 Steps to a Real Foods Diet

By: Jen@ After The Alter

Jen@ After The Alter — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:55:28 +0000

I am so excited to have found this on the kitchen stewardship faceoff. I have just decided to start LEANING towards a more natural diet, and this is a great place to start. AS a matter of fact I just posted this link on my facebook fan page! Thank you so much I will be following your blog for more ideas!

By: Mommy4girls

Mommy4girls — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:16:11 +0000

Oh, I think I just found my new best friend! I stumbled here because a friend suggested a recipe of yours and I can’t stop reading your blog! I have yet to find ONE thing I don’t agree with!! You are doing a great job here! I’m a missionary in southern Mex with four little girls and a lot of the same passions as you.
And I have a sweet little old lady who delivers fresh milk to our door every morning! I am very blessed!

By: Deanna

Deanna — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:16:09 +0000

Amy, I am reading up on it and thinking about it. I haven’t ruled it out. I have a good source at my local organic foods store that I am pretty sure I can trust. I just can’t make the jump yet. The doctor couldn’t determine if I had brucellosis or Hepatitis A (why he couldn’t determine? I don’t know) and got sick again 2 times afterwards. Granted, being here in the U.S. now I would be more willing to try. Thanks for the encouragement!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:07:23 +0000

It works perfectly fine on small batches of flour. You cannot do huge loads at once, but would definitely be a huge improvement over your coffee grinder. But if you want to do large batches of flour, you may want to look into an actual grain mill. The Blendtec’s really plus features include it’s ability to make great smoothies with frozen fruit, homemade peanut butter, food processing, ice cream, hot soup, etc.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:03:29 +0000

Berkey is the best for a purifier that you could move around and not a potential permanent installment. There are a few other good systems if you want something that will filter your water from the source, such as the multi-pure system. For other purifier recommendations, check out this post.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:01:25 +0000

Yes, we use a bosch mixer at our house.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:28:34 +0000

Deanna, I know that getting sick is a HUGE deterrent. But I would really encourage you to not give up.
It may have been just a freak occurence on that day at that farm. Or it could have been totally unrelated. I have a friend who prepared raw ice cream and gave some to her nephews. They came down ill the next day, and everyone blamed the ice cream. Turned out it was strep throat! I don’t mean to make light of your situation, but I would recommend that you read up on the health benefits of totally raw milk as well as the relatively small risk involved in consuming it (especially in comparison to the risk involved in consuming the majority of the standard American diet).
That being said, it’s also very important to make sure that your source is clean and safe, but raw milk is health-giving, plain and simple!

By: Deanna

Deanna — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:20:08 +0000

Having become mysterously very ill after eating cheese made from raw milk (visiting at a farm), I just can’t bring myself to buy raw milk. Little by little, every month we have added something new or changed something in our diet. This month was milk. I buy Straus Family Creamery brand organic milk. It’s pasteurized (as compared to ultra pasteurized which kills jsut about everything good in milk) and non-homogonized and tastes wonderful. They have different percentages, but I noticed the only difference was the amount of cream at the top of the bottle. Including the $1.50 deposit for the glass bottle it costs me about $8.00.

For me, it’s been a slow process of weeding out and experimentation. Whole grain pasta instead of white, olive oil or coconut instead of crisco, organic instead of regular, etc. Currently I’m experimenting with palm sugar to see if I can get rid of the artificial sweetner in my coffee.

I find too that even though I’m on a weight loss journey (using Weight Watcher’s system)and real foods a lot of times are higher in “points” they leave me satisfied and I eat a lot less. God didn’t make a mistake in how He made food grow!

By: Chasity Short

Chasity Short — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:30:38 +0000

Thanks, Lindsay! Well, my bread turned out flavorful… but a bit like a chewy brick. Fortunately, my kids and husband said they liked it, but I’m going to try a different recipe next time. I think I’m just going to save up for a mill… do you use a mixer (bosch) too? Or do you knead by hand?

By: Chasity Short

Chasity Short — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:28:37 +0000

THanks guys for your suggestions! I do get raw milk (I live in Fort Worth) and pay $10/gallon for it. We’ve had to re-arrange our budget a bit, but really since we stopped buying all processed foods, it doesn’t make the total grocery bill much higher.

I just don’t know where to buy raw butter, cheese, keifer (spelling?). But, I’ll check the suggestions yall gave- Thanks! Chasity