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Pseudo Grains

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psuedo_grains_image How to get the most out of Pseudo Grains.

I’ve spent countless hours reading about nutrition and how food can heal the body. I’ve dug deep in an effort to unearth ways to reduce inflammation and help heal my gut woes. 

I stopped eating grains 2 years ago. I’ve taken out, replaced and substituted. I’ve altered my habits to give my body the best chance possible to heal. I have a ‘listen to my body’ policy that works for me.

But as a mother, as a provider, I have a grain quandary? I’m the food gatherer and cook in my house. I design the menu. My family comes for the ride. I’m strict with my health pursuit but I watch my husband and children go for grains when the meals are not home cooked and I completely get it.

The grain debate is a minefield for me. The health implications for me breaking from my regime can be dire. At times, I can be adamantly opposed to having a single spec of grain in the house! Other times, I appreciate how much easier my life would be if I weren’t quite so rigid.… 

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Christmas Ice Cream Pudding

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christmas_icecream_14 Lacto-Fermented Christmas Ice Cream Pudding.

This is the best ice cream in the whole world. Really! It is so good, it’s dangerous. Few desserts leave me longing for a second helping like this does.

Creamy, spicy, fruity and crunchy. It’s all of those and more, more, more! Forgive me but I need to use the word ‘sublime’. It’s a sophisticated rum and raisin taste but to trump all, it has lacto-fermented cream. This is an optional step, (any good quality cream will substitute) but your digestive system will thank you for it.… 

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Very Strawberry Cupcakes

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Pretty in Pink Strawberry Cupcakes.

Wondering how to get the pretty, princess pink, party food wow factor back into cake decorating without artificial colouring? Simple; crush freeze dried strawberries. What a sensational little idea! So simple and so pink. 100% natural with an intense strawberry flavour – oddly enough!

They sure put a smile on my daughter’s face!… 

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24 Hour Yoghurt Vs A Probiotic Pill

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24 hour Yoghurt vs a Probiotic – Here’s why you need to make this!

Fermented food has been a mainstay of the human diet for tens of thousands of years. These days fermenting is not so common – to the detriment of our health. If you’re on the gut health path, you are probably keen to learn how to get more fermented food into your diet. Getting a dose of probiotics from homemade, naturally fermented yoghurt is a great place to start. But, it can’t be any old yoghurt – it has to be homemade 24-hour yoghurt if you want to get your fill.
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Step into probiotic heaven and make cultured cream now

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Sometimes I just have to bake with cream! 24 hour fermented cream that is. Call it, sour cream, creme fraiche, cultured cream – whatever you would like, it’s a heavenly ingredient that can’t be surpassed in your healing kitchen.

In this post I invite you to take that extra step, go that little bit deeper into culinary heaven to enhance your experience with food forever! Cultured, cream is the way to eye rolling probiotic food pleasure and, of course, easily made at home.… 

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Cream cheese made from dripped homemade yoghurt

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Homemade Probiotic Cream cheese……Dripped from 24-hour yoghurt.

Do you feel seriously indulgent if you eat cream cheese? Especially sweetened, laden on a cake or made into dessert! I used to.

How could something that tastes so naughty possibly be good for you? It can, but it must be homemade, of course! Real, homemade cream cheese, otherwise known as ‘curd’ or ‘labne’ is worlds apart from the supermarket variety.

“Homemade curd cheese is a well-spring of nourishment. It is packed with protein, rich in healing fats (the best coming from properly raised grass-fed animals) and, most important, is an excellent digestive aid. Fresh, unripened cheese made from raw cultured dairy products is bursting with probiotic (pro-life) activity.” Weston A Price foundation website… 

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SCD Yoghurt – Why it’s so good!

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Why SCD Yoghurt (Specific Carbohydrate Diet 24 hour yoghurt) is so important.

Without any doubt home-made 24 hour SCD yoghurt must be my debut recipe post on A Gut Feeling! It’s the stand out, make a difference, too good to be missed, jam packed with goodness, white, wobbly stuff that is a must for everyone’s gut!

Now we all know that yoghurt is meant to be good for us. Right? Yes, all the ads tell us so. There’s a huge market out there. That’s why people eat it for breakfast, that’s why we put it in smoothies and it’s marketed to children. Ahhh but Stop!!! Most of it is rubbish! Most supermarket yoghurt is not healthy! If you’re going to eat yoghurt, why not have the real thing? Why not have the bee’s knees of yoghurt?

Did you know that not even the most expensive, organic, biodynamic, whole milk, natural tub set, blah, blah, etc etc. yoghurt can ever be as good as the white wobbly stuff you could easily make at home? It’s true.

But before you run off and make any old batch, hear me out. It must be 24 hour yoghurt, AKA ‘SCD’ yoghurt. SCD yoghurt is the holy grail of beneficial foods. It’s not just food, it’s medicine.

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Homemade 24 hour Yoghurt

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The Best Yoghurt Ever!

I have been making SCD yoghurt twice a week for years now. It has become routine. I am relaxed and confident about the procedure and sure about the result. I wasn’t always like this, so don’t worry if you feel out of your depth!

It takes 24 hours plus a few hours chilling time but it’s not difficult or time consuming. The actual “hands-on” time is minimal; about 10 minutes. It just requires planning, because if you forget about it, you’re more than a day without yoghurt.

I only recently bought a Luvele yoghurt maker. Goodness knows why I didn’t sooner. Plug it in and step away. It’s so simple.

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