Why and When to Buy Organic Foods
I started my organic journey in 2008. My husband and I had just moved to Gulfport, Mississippi and we realized that we needed to make some life changes. I was struggling with IBS. He is in the military and needed to keep fit to pass his fitness tests. On top of it all, we wanted a family. Nothing gets you started thinking about organic foods more than having a baby. We did not know what …Read More »
More about Delicious Bone Broth – Troubleshooting
Past the Fundamentals of Bone Broth In 2014, I wrote a post covering all the fundamentals of making –> bone broth. Since that time, I’ve learned even more about bone broths, stocks, and meat broths. If you are just getting into bone broths you may want to start at my basics of bone broth post. However, if you are ready for some more bone broth knowledge, read on. Gelatinization One of the goals of making a …Read More »
No Veggies for Me: Guide to Children and Vegetables
As a health coach for families and mothers, I hear one common problem that appears in most families and at most dinner tables. Aversion to vegetables. “No Mommy!!! I won’t eat my ________!!!” Fill-in-the-blank with your choice of vegetable. It’s always the vegetables, rarely the mashed potatoes, the macaroni and cheese, or the cookie. If it is colorful and vibrant in flavor naturally, an alarm goes of in their little brains with a warning, “WARNING: …Read More »
Real Food Hummus: Fantastic Snack or Side
If you are searching for a recipe for real food hummus you have come to the right place. Real food hummus is great; hummus is adequate, but not fabulous. Considering hummus is so easy to make, why not make it fresh and as real as possible? Try this real food hummus recipe and get your family snacking right! Real Food Hummus 2 cups – Chickpeas, cooked or canned (or Garbanzo Beans) 1 tablespoon – Tahini (or …Read More »
Roasting a Pumpkin – a fall tradition
Roasting a Pumpkin Can I just say that there are a million different ways to cook a pumpkin? So while it may seem like cooking a pie pumpkin is a radical activity, it really isn’t. In fact, it is more rewarding and financially smart than buying those cans of pureed pumpkin. The benefits? Roasting pumpkin in the fall gives you a ton of raw material for recipes, is extremely affordable, and is memorable. A pumpkin is a …Read More »
Whole Grains and Phytic Acid – Process grains naturally
Whole Grains: Good or Bad? In reaction to the over-processed, nutrient-deprived grain products that fill our supermarket shelves, many families have returned to using whole grains. Whole grains are what our ancestors used before we reinvented food to what you see today. So shouldn’t this return to the past be great? Yes, but we are missing a pivotal step. Whole grains are what our ancestors used, but we have lost the skills that allow us …Read More »
Paleo Egg Bacon Muffins – Whole 30 Approved
Paleo Egg and Bacon Muffins Whether you are paleo or doing a Whole 30, these Paleo Egg and Bacon Muffins definitely fit the bill for a quick and easy breakfast recipe. Make this recipe with a 12 cup muffin pan and you have breakfast all week long. What gets simpler than that? Ingredients 12 pieces of bacon 12 eggs 4-6 mushrooms, sliced 1 sweet red bell pepper, diced (optional) Process Set your oven to 350 …Read More »
Simple Chicken Curry
Simple Chicken Curry I absolutely adore curry. I used to think that curries were hard things to make and very complicated . . . until I realized that they were simply a method of adding ingredients together in a certain order. Use these ingredients or switch it out to other similar ingredients. You are the artist in this kitchen. I hope you enjoy your chicken curry and whatever other curry you dream up! Ingredients 2 …Read More »
My Real Food Timeline – How It All Started
My Real Food Timeline I started this Boholistic Mom website in 2013 to reach out to my friends, family, and any of those who were interested in real food like I was. Yet my real food timeline and journey started many years before that point. So many people get bogged down and frustrated when they think about all the different changes they could made and maybe should make, but when you realize that life is a process it isn’t …Read More »
Making a Bone Broth
Making a Bone Broth When considering real food and traditional foods, the journey cannot truly begin without the basic knowledge of bone broth. Our ancestors could not have survived without broth (or stock) and many traditional cultures used broths as the fundamental building block for many recipes. Only within the last 100 years has broth become a thing of the past being replaced by broth in a carton, can, or even worse broth by bouillon …Read More »
Baked Oatmeal Recipe with Black Currants and Walnuts
Today, I made something wonderful. I made the BEST baked oatmeal recipe that I have ever eaten. As if that wasn’t great in itself, this recipe has no gluten, no sugar, and no dairy. I’m ecstatic! First let me tell you where I found my starting recipe. Martha Stewart shared a baked oatmeal recipe on her website that she originally found from the cookbook Super Natural Every Day by Hedi Swanson. My new recipe isn’t really like the …Read More »
Real Eggs Vs Borg Eggs – Learn More Now
Almost everyone uses eggs. Recipes call for them. You may have them for breakfast. You pick them up in white sterilized Styrofoam at the grocery store. You know about real eggs, right? We know a version of eggs that have been washed, resealed, packaged, and made to look all identical by selecting all the same sizes. It’s like calling Borgs from Star Trek human. And if you are not a Trekkie, just ignore that last …Read More »
Real Food, Real People: Jessica
space space space by Jessica I’m reading a Kindle book. I know, I know. But it was cheaper. It’s called “It Starts with Food.” It’s about the Paleo diet – AKA eating food that’s actually good for you. Foods that actually add to your health rather than detracting from it due to unnecessary additives and processing and fake sugar and the works. And about how, if you’re eating real food that really is good …Read More »
Tantalizing Cauliflower and Sweet Potato Curry
Cauliflower and Sweet Potato Curry I started making my regular curry, heating the oil, adding onions, adding garlic, and then I had cauliflower. So I knew I was making a cauliflower curry, but I wasn’t planning to get creative. Then I was heating up some leftover sweet potatoes at the same time. Then I started thinking . . . I could add these sweet potatoes to my curry, but do sweet potatoes go with …Read More »
Four Food Myths to Watch Out for
I am a little worked up about health lately. So many people around me are ill and I want to do something about it. I truly believe that a lot of illnesses are preventable, treatable, and, most importantly, brought on by false nutritional education. Many illnesses are preventable. I believe that we were created to have good health. Why don’t have good health then? Many of the reasons that we have poor health is …Read More »
Healthy Fats
I don’t know how you were raised, but if you were raised during the 80’s and/or the 90’s you may have been raised on a low-fat diet. Fats were bad. All of them. Butter was replaced with margarine. Lard was not even mentioned, much less used. Cheeses were artery cloggers and vegetables were all eaten plain. This was my life from 1983 until around 2001. I mention in my other post how confused I was …Read More »
Whole 30 Diary: Start
If you haven't heard of the Whole 30 Diet, you should definitely look it up. While some people are doing it as a "diet" as in do this and you'll lose weight, I find the Whole 30 much more than that. I think it is a GREAT first step toward a healthier lifestyle.Read More »
Use the Entire Chicken in Four Steps – Boholistic Mom
Using the Entire Chicken Traditionally, in order to eat chicken a person would take an entire chicken that had lived in their yard or farm and kill it. They wouldn’t have just cut off a breast and left the rest. The chicken would have eaten grubs from the ground, weeds, grass, seeds, and insects. It had the freedom to move about the yard and farm without having to step on its own feces. When the owner was …Read More »
Elderberry Tea Recipe – Reusing Elderberry Syrup Berries
Do you love elderberry syrup, but hate throwing away the used elderberries? This this elderberry tea recipe is for you! Print Elderberry Tea Waste not, want not. Why waste all those beautiful elderberries after you make your elderberry syrup? Use them again by enjoying elderberry tea. Prep Time 5 minutes Cook Time 1 hour Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes Ingredients 2 teaspoons organic elderberries 8 ounces filtered water Instructions Boil 8 ounces of water. …Read More »
Kombucha 101 – Fermented Sweet Tea
If you have found my Kombucha 101 page, you may have heard me talking about the concept of making fermented sweet tea with a SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast). Kombucha tends to come up in many of my conversations with my friends, because I am excited about it! Most people do not ferment their beverages anymore. However, for centuries, traditional cultures have fermented their drinks and their food in order to increase the …Read More »
