bone broth (for Keen)

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" No, what is a bone broth and how do you make it? "

I am answering this in a separate email because I think it is so important, and

definitely needed by anyone with intestinal problems, like leaky gut!

Save your chicken and turkey bones. In fact, I never buy just chicken breast

without the bone, because the bones are just as valuable (if not more so) than

the meat. As an added benefit, it is always cheaper buying it this way too. If I

am making a dish using only the meat, like for homemade chicken nuggets or a

chicken curry stir fry, I will cut the meat off the raw bones and store them in

the freezer until I am ready to make broth, actually it is called stock when you

use bones I suppose. Anyway, I also save the cooked bones from a roasted chicken

and/or turkey.

When I have enough bones saved to fill the pot I want to use, I cover the bones

in water, enough just to cover. Oh, if you can crack any of the bones first, do.

I also try to always make sure some of the bones in the pot are raw. I am not

sure if this is important or not. I am just afraid that all the " good stuff "

might be used up in cooked bones. You can also save the juice from roasting a

chicken or turkey to add to the pot too! I add a splash (a couple tablespoons)

of vinegar. For the Candida diet, we will have to replace the vinegar with lemon

juice. This just adds acidity which helps draw minerals from the bones. You can

also add onion, carrots, celery, etc. for flavor and nutrients.

I cook mine on very low heat for 12-24 hours. I leave it on overnight with no

problems (after a friend of mine tried it first). :-) You can then refrigerate

it and skim off the fat that collects at the top, especially if the fat bothers

you. After that, strain the broth, discarding the bones and veggies. Most of the

time, I will throw an entire chicken into the pot and cook it with all my bones.

Then if I want to make chicken soup the next day, I already have the chicken

cooked. You can add necks, livers, etc. too when making the bone broth.

With the broth, you can then make homemade chicken soup, or any other kind of

soup. If you are eating brown rice, you can cook your rice in this instead of

water. It aids in the digestion of the rice. Homemade bone broth is very healing

for your intestines. It is a good source of calcium and gelatin. The gelatin is

healing to your intestines. You may even notice that your broth gels when left

in the refrigerator overnight. Sometimes mine gels, sometimes it doesn't. If you

can drink a cup of this with each meal, in between meals, or throughout the day,

I bet it would do wonders for your guts. You can even fast on it for a few days

to rapidly heal your guts, but I am not sure about adding certain veggies, etc.

to get more nutrition if that is all you are consuming. You will also want to

add salt to it to make it drinkable- at least I do- and to add more minerals!

Oh, and drink it warm- well, I always do. Cold broth- yuck!

Keen, out of curiosity, what country are you in?

HTH!

-Olif