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I thought I would mention a new e-course on real food/traditional food preparation fundamentals. $27 a month/ 5 months. (I signed up for it, but I'm not getting any kickbacks or anything.  )
Her blog, GNOWFGLINS, (it stands for "God's Natural, Whole, Organic Foods, Grown Locally, In Season") also seems to have a wealth of information. She posted a sneak peak of the course, a tutorial for making soaked-grain muffins. (Which look pretty good.  )
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Wow! Thanks, Angela. I want to eat this way so bad but I'm a complete failure at it! I make all these big plans, read the books, start and then get overwhelmed and stop all the time.  Maybe this will help. 
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Angela,
Have you ever looked at or used the cookbooks by Sue Gregg? I watched the video you linked and it was the exact way she explains soaking and making muffins in her cookbooks.
One more question, how do you find time to cook and eat this way with a busy family? I only have 4 kids and with school, home and outside activities for the teenagers I'm so overwhelmed!
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Hi Angela,
Thank you for the link! It looks good!
I am making the leap into deeper Nourishing Traditions myself. and YES I feel overwhelmed because it is a new normal that I haven't quite figured all the bugs out of...like the extra large dishes and pacing and the rest of life....If you don't wear blinders when reading that book you can be tempted to sigh and stop!
I did talk to a lady that I know from my homeschool group that has been doing this for a long time. She has a large family too and I KNOW she is busy, but she offered to get together with several of us and talk/exchange recipes/ share tips...etc...
I would LOVE to take that course, but it isn't in the budget. I need to save that $$ for my raw milk. I hope that I can learn enough on my own that I can share it with anyone else that wants to learn like my friend is doing!
Sometimes I get overwhelmed by how much good I want to do and my wallet prevents me from learning more...or I am spending so much time learning a new thing that I feel that I am spread so thin. I know this is something that my family NEEDS so I will figure it out one way or another. There are a few good NT blogs out there that help. As far as the wallet stretches, whether it is this, online highschool classes, home repairs...or whatever I sometimes feel like I am missing out being a better me or making the family better. I just want to do GOOD and it is so hard to learn on your own, isn't it? My hope is that I can take the lumps and share whatever I learn as heartfelt mentoring, for free, to whomever wants or needs the information.
So yeah, I wish I could take that course! Sorry for rambling but it is something that has been on my heart and I am trying to figure out how to make the whole Nourishing Traditions thing more accessible for me and those I know that want to learn, but have to keep a strict budget...KWIM?
I am rambling, aren't I? Back to our regularly scheduled bathroom scrubbing...
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Have you all seen the blog "Kitchen Stewardship"? She is a Catholic mom!!! I just discovered it and she is very gentle in her methods... One little step a week towards Real Food kitchen. I was otherwise overwhelmed and indecisive about priorities in changes...
The pages load slowly, but otherwise she has great info and sends regular emails with the next challenge. I know my post here is not doing her any credit, so please check it out and click around...
Kitchen Stewardship
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A couple of other good resources are Organic & Thrifty and Kelly the Kitchen Kop. Carrie of Organic & Thrifty spoke at the Northwest Catholic Family Education Conference last year.
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Lisa R wrote:
Angela,
One more question, how do you find time to cook and eat this way with a busy family? I only have 4 kids and with school, home and outside activities for the teenagers I'm so overwhelmed! |
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Well... I was hoping that the e-class might give me some tips.  To be perfectly honest, our journey toward more traditional food is being taken in baby steps over a period of years. We started out by switching to all local sources of pasture-raised meat. Once we had meat in the freezer, we stopped buying any kind of meat from the grocery store. I learned how to make stock... but we don't eat as much of it as we should, because I have trouble planning for it. (Another problem is that my 2 yo still does not take a reliable nap in the afternoons unless it is on me. Makes it hard to start a dinner that needs a few hours to cook, even if it's easy.)We also got rid of all the vegetable oil in the house, switching over to butter and olive oil only. We switched to whole milk and whole milk organic yogurt (not raw, so I guess it's not perfect, but better than what we were doing), tried raw milk cheese, and added a bit of coconut oil here and there.
We planted a garden early on and learned how and where to shop for locally grown organic produce. Then we got chickens and learned about how much better "farm-fresh" free-range eggs taste. We raised our own meat chickens and turkeys, and *that* was a little exhausting but the taste is incredible -- much better with the heritage breeds than from the standard broilers, even pasture-raised, but... not a lot of meat on a bird.
So we've done all that around activities etc... and writing it out I don't know why I think making yogurt and soaking grains will be harder! But right now we're dealing with some health/behavior issues that have made it increasingly clear that I need to figure out how to get the last pieces of processed food out of our house. Since getting pregnant we've really done some backsliding, mostly because I'm the cook and when I can't cook... my poor family must resort to frozen pizza or go hungry. But this takes a toll on everyone's health, and I'm seeing it right now in eczema, asthma, hyperactivity, etc... so... praying for some extra organizational ability here... but I really need to at least *try* to add in the extra pieces to the puzzle.
Anyway, the point is (I think), that any little change you can make will benefit your family. So I think it is far better to concentrate on what we *can* do, no matter how small the change, because the small changes will eventually add up. I don't know that it is realistic to expect to entirely change the way we eat, cook, and live overnight... but doing our best and making little changes along the way, I do believe that it can be done.
Well, that's what I tell myself anyway, because it's my tendency to see everything as one giant, overwhelming whole at first. Sometimes it takes me a while to talk myself down.  (Actually, although this blog post is about handling the Lenten Fast in the Orthodox Church, I think it applies here, too: Labor Within Your Strength
And Donna-Marie... please don't feel guilty about not having money for the class. Personally I think having a real, live friend available for questioning would be far preferable to a video course anyway.
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We do many of the same things as Angela has listed. I do get raw milk once a month and it lasts a couple weeks. I signed up for the course for the things that I am not as comfortable with yet like the whey-pickled foods. I just can't quite get comfortable with that yet... I tried to make myself make dill pickles that way but I was afraid I was going to spoil all my hard work and did them the conventional method.
I do soak over half of our baked goods but I need to get better on the meats. I can't pass up the boneless, skinless chicken tenderloins on sale at the good 'ole Food Lion and those big sales on beef...
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