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  • Garden Art

    Garden Art

      Just a very quick post today with two of my favorite gardening photos. I am hoping I will have enough energy to have a garden this fall which is the best gardening season for Arizona. Cool winter gardening means spinach, Swiss chard, onions [affiliate link] [affiliate link], radishes, beets, carrots, cabbage… Read the rest
  • Lettuce for Lettuce Wraps

    Lettuce for Lettuce Wraps

    I remember before I started on the GAPS Diet I used to hear about people eating hamburgers with lettuce leaves wrapped around them and I remember thinking that I would never do that. Why would I? I had “regular” hamburgers buns to eat, gosh darn it! And then I started… Read the rest
  • Cherry Cheesecake Ice Cream Dairy-Free

    Cherry Cheesecake Ice Cream Dairy-Free

    First off, let’s be clear that GAPS allows fermented or aged dairy products. I went off dairy (including butter!) for six weeks when I did Introduction for the first time and when I’ve tried to re-introduce, it kicked up some respiratory symptoms for me with which I was unwilling to… Read the rest
  • Review: Cherry Pitter

    Review: Cherry Pitter

    It’s cherry season (somewhere – since I don’t think cherries actually grow in the Arizona desert) because they are on sale at many of the local grocery stores. My husband has brought home several pounds and they are huge and juicy and delicious. Matthew has been helping me to pit… Read the rest
  • Are You A Fat Burner or a Sugar Burner?

    Are You A Fat Burner or a Sugar Burner?

    I enjoyed reading this article at Mark’s Daily Apple: What Does it Mean to Be Fat Adapted? Mark goes into detail answering the question, and then he says to ask yourself a few basic questions: Can you go three hours without eating? Is skipping a meal an exercise in futility… Read the rest
  • How to Rid Your Home of GAPS Illegal Foods

    How to Rid Your Home of GAPS Illegal Foods

    Hopefully your whole family is going on GAPS, because this will be the easiest for everyone concerned. If not I will share some ideas on how we have dealt with this problem. The first thing you should do is to print out the list of GAPS foods that are allowed,… Read the rest