Thursday
CSA Summer goodies, Fresh Apricot Recipe and more!
Well we celebrated my Husband's Birthday and Father's day and now we are sailing into July 4th weekend! Here are some pictures of my latest CSA Box pictures as well as some recipes for some of the items in them!
Yes this is our 4th of July Watermelon!
Local Raw Honey and Fresh Apricots!
My daughter loves the "Color Changing" Squash!
Creamy Stuffed Fresh Apricots
Can you tell we love to eat? Y'all have a great 4th of July!
God Bless You,
the Good Food Mom
Yes this is our 4th of July Watermelon!
My daughter loves the "Color Changing" Squash!
4th of July cookout, Grass Fed local Hamburgers and Fresh local Sausage!
This was my Husband's Father's day breakfast:
Fresh local sausage patties
Omelet made with eggs, sausage, peppers and potatoes from the CSA
Creamy Stuffed Fresh Apricots
Creamy Stuffed Fresh Apricots
- 20 Fresh Apricots
- Block of Cream Cheese
- Fresh Whipped Cream
- 2 TBSP Honey
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/4 cup Organic Sugar
Can you tell we love to eat? Y'all have a great 4th of July!
God Bless You,
the Good Food Mom
Wednesday
What's in the box Wednesday
Here is a picture of today's produce bushel.
I am excited about the Blackberries! Can't wait to Grill that Squash and Zucchini!
With Love,
Good Food Mom
I am excited about the Blackberries! Can't wait to Grill that Squash and Zucchini!
With Love,
Good Food Mom
Tuesday
Cake, 30 and Gluten . . .
Hello again,
OK so I took a little break. Well I turned 30 last week. 30 Do you ever wonder how you got to the point in life where you are? Married for 10 years surrounded by 5 kids at 30. Life is pretty good right now but I have decided I just can't do Gluten any more. I had stopped eating it for a few weeks (again) right before my Birthday and then I slipped hard. Heaven Sent chocolate lace cookies, Shoney's Hot Fudge cake (my Husband made me do it). Yes the Good Food Mom went BAD! That happens sometimes. Wow did I pay for it. I have had GI problems since I was a child, my stomach has never been right. I was told I had IBS. I later went on to develop Hashimoto's Thyroiditis (Autoimmune low thyroid). We have a family history of Autoimmune diseases, Lupus, R.A., Thyroid, and to top it all off my 6 year old has Type 1 Diabetes (Autoimmune). When you get diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and ask them "why?" this is what they say, "Well we believe there is an environmental trigger or triggers that cause your body to start attacking itself." , you say, "What are those triggers?" , "Well we don't know" great so where does that leave us? I know we can't control everything that happens to us and that we are exposed to only God can, but we can control a lot of what we choose to eat. Learning about nutrition and how it affects our physical bodies is what inspired me to become the Good Food Mom, I have to help my children and family learn how to stop eating the S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) so that we can break the chain of disease, illness, depression and so on. Any way back to the cake, as far as I know the ONLY autoimmune disease that has a know "trigger" is Celiac Disease and that trigger is Gluten! Autoimmune disease can start with the trigger of gluten in Celiac and then lead to other autoimmune diseases being triggered as the disease goes untreated. The longer you eat the gluten the more damage occurs to your digestive system which can cause you to develop other food intolerance's as well. Wow! So where am I going with all of this? I feel better when I stop eating gluten. I have never gone die hard and tried to find it in everything that it is in but I am now before I put anything in my mouth. Do I have Celiac disease? I don't know. I went to a GI Dr. about a year ago at which time I had not been eating gluten for about a month, I had the blood test and it came back negative, the Dr. told me not eating gluten can cause a false negative and I would have to eat it again and be retested or have an endoscopy to confirm a diagnosis, I said no thank you. He told me that if I completely eliminate it and I feel better and my symptoms improve that I have either Celiacs or an intolerance and should not eat it. So there you go, that's simple enough right. Well I still can think of plenty of other things to consume that don't have gluten in them and they make a lot of really good replacements for cookies, cake, etc. out of other flours now, no those are not "Good Food" but we all have Birthday's right.
Here are some pictures from my last CSA pick ups and the giant chocolate covered Strawberries my parents sent me from Shari's Berries.
God Bless You,
Good Food Mom-Jamie
OK so I took a little break. Well I turned 30 last week. 30 Do you ever wonder how you got to the point in life where you are? Married for 10 years surrounded by 5 kids at 30. Life is pretty good right now but I have decided I just can't do Gluten any more. I had stopped eating it for a few weeks (again) right before my Birthday and then I slipped hard. Heaven Sent chocolate lace cookies, Shoney's Hot Fudge cake (my Husband made me do it). Yes the Good Food Mom went BAD! That happens sometimes. Wow did I pay for it. I have had GI problems since I was a child, my stomach has never been right. I was told I had IBS. I later went on to develop Hashimoto's Thyroiditis (Autoimmune low thyroid). We have a family history of Autoimmune diseases, Lupus, R.A., Thyroid, and to top it all off my 6 year old has Type 1 Diabetes (Autoimmune). When you get diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and ask them "why?" this is what they say, "Well we believe there is an environmental trigger or triggers that cause your body to start attacking itself." , you say, "What are those triggers?" , "Well we don't know" great so where does that leave us? I know we can't control everything that happens to us and that we are exposed to only God can, but we can control a lot of what we choose to eat. Learning about nutrition and how it affects our physical bodies is what inspired me to become the Good Food Mom, I have to help my children and family learn how to stop eating the S.A.D. (Standard American Diet) so that we can break the chain of disease, illness, depression and so on. Any way back to the cake, as far as I know the ONLY autoimmune disease that has a know "trigger" is Celiac Disease and that trigger is Gluten! Autoimmune disease can start with the trigger of gluten in Celiac and then lead to other autoimmune diseases being triggered as the disease goes untreated. The longer you eat the gluten the more damage occurs to your digestive system which can cause you to develop other food intolerance's as well. Wow! So where am I going with all of this? I feel better when I stop eating gluten. I have never gone die hard and tried to find it in everything that it is in but I am now before I put anything in my mouth. Do I have Celiac disease? I don't know. I went to a GI Dr. about a year ago at which time I had not been eating gluten for about a month, I had the blood test and it came back negative, the Dr. told me not eating gluten can cause a false negative and I would have to eat it again and be retested or have an endoscopy to confirm a diagnosis, I said no thank you. He told me that if I completely eliminate it and I feel better and my symptoms improve that I have either Celiacs or an intolerance and should not eat it. So there you go, that's simple enough right. Well I still can think of plenty of other things to consume that don't have gluten in them and they make a lot of really good replacements for cookies, cake, etc. out of other flours now, no those are not "Good Food" but we all have Birthday's right.
Here are some pictures from my last CSA pick ups and the giant chocolate covered Strawberries my parents sent me from Shari's Berries.
God Bless You,
Good Food Mom-Jamie
Thursday
What's In The Box Wednesday?
Here are some pictures from this weeks CSA share, my children Love the baby carrots! The taste difference is amazing and it is wonderful to be able to speak every week with the people who grow our food! No pesticides to worry about!
Love,
Good Food Mom
Study Links Pesticides to ADHD
Hello again,
I wanted to put in a link to the article about ADHD and pesticides, when I was a little girl they told my Mom I had ADD my Mom would not let them put me on "medicine", I have found ways to help myself, less clutter, routines, better food, etc. It is very difficult with five small children, with some of their own medical problems but with God's help I can do all things. I do not want my children to suffer any more problems than they already have. Will they, of course, but what I feed them DOES make a difference, that is why I am willing to pay .25 cents more for a pound of Apples.
Study Links Pesticides to ADHD
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I will be posting the pictures of this weeks CSA share soon!
Love,
Good Food Mom
I wanted to put in a link to the article about ADHD and pesticides, when I was a little girl they told my Mom I had ADD my Mom would not let them put me on "medicine", I have found ways to help myself, less clutter, routines, better food, etc. It is very difficult with five small children, with some of their own medical problems but with God's help I can do all things. I do not want my children to suffer any more problems than they already have. Will they, of course, but what I feed them DOES make a difference, that is why I am willing to pay .25 cents more for a pound of Apples.
Study Links Pesticides to ADHD
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I will be posting the pictures of this weeks CSA share soon!
Love,
Good Food Mom
Wednesday
What's In The Box Wednesday?
Every Wednesday I go pick up our share from the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm we participate with. We get a family meat & produce share, an extra meat share, 2 loaves of Amish Bread, and a bag of handmade Amish pasta which costs us $116.00 per week and of course the amount and variety of things we receive changes throughout the season. I will show you what kind of things you can purchase from local farmers in most parts of the country by going to http://www.localharvest.org/ and finding your local CSA program, our local program is http://www.avalon-acres.com/ . If you can't access a CSA you can also find Farmer's Markets locally and even try growing some of your own food! I think this is what God intended for us to eat, not food that's been fattened up in a lab and shipped in from thousands of miles away. It's local, it's organic, it's free range and grass fed, it's green, it comes from the USA, I don't care if it costs me a little bit more than non-organic, corn fed, cooped up foreign food at the grocery store because I think the health benefits, earth benefits, community benefits, far out way the cost difference, plus it just plain taste better and my children know that food comes out of the ground instead of cellophane!
Enjoy this weeks picks/pic's I know we will!
Tuesday
Becoming a Food Snob . . . .
I have never liked snobs. My dad is a truck driver and my mom is a waitress, I am from Mississippi. I have been trying to not be part of the redneck culture for a long time, when my advanced English teacher tried to teach us how to properly pronounce words I hung on everything he said. When my dad would take us out on the bass boat I would draw sketches of the woods and lake instead of fishing. I used to cringe when I would here my own voice on a recording because of my Southern accent. Oh well, I will be 30 in about 2 weeks and I am giving up on all of that, it's like I used to say when people told me I needed a tan, I have come to terms with the fact that I am white. What am I talking about! Well I have decided to become a SNOB! A Food Snob that is. I have five beautiful children now who depend on me to feed them and they are simply not going to eat the way I used to feed my self. I have been developing a self education in nutrition in the past four years since my son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at 21 months old. God has really opened up my eyes to the epidemic of bad food we as Americans eat! So now what? I want to share with you what I have discovered in my effort to feed my family and myself better food so that we as a country can have better health. Oh yeah and as a Stay at Home Mom of five on one income, with medical expenses we are on a "Budget" so I always consider cost! I have been called a food snob and a food Nazi, but I have decided instead to make myself a food super hero and become "The Good Food Mom!" Follow along with me and see what alternatives there are to what we have been guilted, peer pressured, expected, advertised, brainwashed, etc. into feeding our family's! WARNING-some food "manufacturer's" may become angry with me.
Love,
Jamie the Good Food Mom
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