Breakfast of Champions...

[Guest guest]

I hear your frustration (...and exhaustion). It's hard to be a " good " parent.

Don't beat yourself up!

My teenage boys have early starts at school (apparently the St. school

district didn't get the memo of how letting teenagers get more sleep enhances

learning). Most of the time for them, breakfast is just one pint of raw milk.

Quick, easy, super nutrient dense. Holds them over well until lunch.

My 22 yo daughter, healing from rheumatoid arthritis, drinks one pint of raw

milk with a raw egg yolk mixed in for breakfast, snack and lunch. She then eats

solid food late afternoons, and a hearty supper.

If you haven't sourced out raw milk yet, plain yogurt with live cultures

sweetened with a little honey or maple syrup would also be a good breakfast.

Quick snacks would be Thousand Hill sausages, fried eggs soft yolks, and

pasture-a-plenty bacon. Bubbies pickles (or better yet homemade

lacto-fermented). Hard boiled eggs, raw milk cheese, and of course fruits and

veggies are good to keep around. Canned sardines and smoked oysters or salmon

go well with water crackers I've found at the coop that are made with palm oil.

(No, they're not sourdoughed or sprouted but we live in an imperfect world.)

I scout out sourdough and/or sprouted grain breads from coops and Whole

Paycheck. The kids toast that and spread thick with raw butter.

Occasionally I do popcorn popped with coconut oil, smothered with raw butter,

and generously seasoned with Celtic sea salt. Sometimes I fry sprouted corn

tortillas in lard.

Trying to get raw animal fat and protein in my kids as much as I can. Before my

daughter's illness, we ate more home-baked cookies, brownies, etc. But my kids

have learned to prefer uncured meats and eggs for snacks. Sticks to the ribs

better, and much healthier.

Doing my best to avoid vegetable seed oil transfats - major source of

inflammation.

Best to you.

Charlene

On Jun 22, 2012, at 8:04 AM, roxilavelle@... wrote:

> THANK YOU! For all your posts this morning.

>

> May I add that seeing this group name-call/mock the producers that have gone

astray does not bring me comfort in being a newbie at this group, and actually

brings me to a level of distrust and not wanting to participate in group buys.

At what point will I become mocked and/or treated without integrity?

>

> Finally, I have been learning about natural health for 11 years, and though I

loathe to admit it, for the sake of the newbies-to-natural-health, who are

probably already overwhelmed and horrified at how far they are from their goals,

I will admit it: I do upon occasion, feed my kids those horrid protein bars from

Sam's Club. I am not proud of it, but I single parent 4 kids (ages 6 - 14) and

homeschool the younger 3. I am NOT a morning person, and so if I don't have

convenience food for my 14yo, she often DOES NOT EAT BREAKFAST at all. Am I

happy to be raising her on bars, bagels, yogurt, and other high carb grab-and-go

stuff for breakfast? NO. Am I glad she's not missing school monthly due to

malnourishment and illness this year? Yes.

>

> Life is a process. Not one of us has reached perfection and not one of us will

this side of heaven. I ask you, for the encouragement of others, to check your

pride and let your answers just be yes or no.

>

> For the newbies, just by changing one thing at a time, you're actually

changing two. If you do bars, for example, you'd be stopping the refined sugars

(yea!), and adding a healthy replacement. That's 2 steps up from where you were.

I like to start with small changes to get a few successes under my belt before

going on to larger changes.

>

> If you're here because you've been recently told your family has food

intolerances, that's big enough, go with that, and that alone. Feel free to ask

me if you need help with wheat/gluten and/or dairy/casein. Yes, in addition to

homeschooling and single parenting, I have to cook everything from scratch. I'm

not picking the bar battle yet, and I refuse to feel guilty about it.)

>

> For those of you who have mastered the bar problem, if you have gluten free,

dairy free (preferably soy free) convenience foods and/or recipes to replace the

necessary car/diaper bag snacks required by every parent of small children,

please, please share. It would rock my world.

>

> Thank you.

> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

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