I was researching something about cavities and somehow stumbled onto a post about healing cavities with real food and have been hooked on learning more ever since. The book, Cure Tooth Decay
It’s all a little overwhelming so I’m just taking baby steps to change the way we eat.
What do I mean by real food? This post by The Nourishing Home sums up the basics.
One of the first things I started doing was having my family start taking Green Pastures Butter Oil/Fermented Cod Liver Oil Capsules
Some of the other things I’m doing now is making my own chicken stock, grinding my own whole wheat flour and soaking it, drinking raw milk, and using raw milk butter. I just made some homemade mayonnaise this past week and have Italian dressing, almond nut butter, and kombucha on my list to make real soon. And as I’m writing this, I have a quart of raw milk yogurt sitting on my counter I’m hoping will be ready tomorrow.
I’ve also started switching our usual processed basic pantry items like sugar, salt, syrup, and honey for it’s raw/natural/unprocessed counterpart. Now I use whole cane sugar
There’s still so much for me to change around and substitute but I’m going to do it slowly and do what I can.
I plan on posting more about this and will link to some very informative posts out there in the blogsphere.
Side note: Buying Green Pastures Butter Oil/Fermented Cod Liver oil in the gel form is much more economical over the capsules. I bought the capsules thinking my 7 yr old would have no problem taking pills. She swallowed them fine the first time but ever since then hasn’t been able to swallow them and it would be a struggle to get her to take them. She decided to just chew up the capsules and swallow.
Since she’s been able to handle that, I figured I’d get the gel and save money and got the chocolate gel flavor. I’ve read reviews where kids either like it or they don’t. We received it in the mail today and had her take her dose and she said it was horrible! Now I read some reviews where (with a different flavor) they would take it straight out of the fridge, get some out with a knife (instead of a spoon) and use their teeth to scrape if off the knife and just swallow. Will have to try that tomorrow since she had it right after we got the mail and it was quite warm.
We live in an area where it is hard to get foods that are unprocessed, but we’ve been doing a lot to eat as naturally as we can. My husband HATES seeing a long list of ingredients on a package. The fewer the ingredients the better. And unprocessed is the best. Keep up the baby steps to improving your life!!
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I love this idea of “real food”. Thanks for sharing and I will try to implement some real food of our own.
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That actually sounds really cool. I’d love to learn to make my own chicken stock or at least, a healthier, light mayo.
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I’ll be posting soon about making mayo so hope you’ll come back to read it!
I had no clue you could do that for tooth decay!!! Kinda awesome
I really try to stay away from all that processed gunk too… just another reason now!
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There are many stories of healing small cavities and such just from changing one’s diets! You can find it on quite a few blogs. Pretty amazing!
I wish I had the discipline you have! I’ve been wanting to eat healthier and more natural foods but the bad ones are just too tempting for me!
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Oh, we still eat plenty of processed snack foods, unfortunately. Hubby’s gotta have his snacks! If I don’t buy it, he’ll just stop at a gas station and get it and pay way more for it than if I bought a family size bag at the grocery store.
When you make big changes like that, you’re wise to do them gradually. I wish I was as brave as you to switch out staples and make things at home.
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It really isn’t that hard if you just try one staple at a time. Mayo is the easiest to make so far! Just pick one at start there. It’s one less item with unnecessary preservatives and such that you’ll eat!
Good for you for making your own food. I eat way too many processed foods for the “convenience”.
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I know what you mean. Sometimes, I give in to buying convenience foods.
What a great post with some great information too. I’m going to implement real food too.
Good for you Saph! Great choices. I completely agree. The health in our family improved so much when we started eating a more natural diet.
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What did you change in your diet? Do you follow a particular diet?
We are eating organic, unprocessed foods as much as possible. Also, more raw foods and more water, and less sugar. More nuts, seeds, no transfats. We’re gluten and dairy free too, because of allergies. I’d love to make more of the staples, the way you are doing.