Posts by Tigerle

I am very sorry that some of you have such a hard time finding affordable vegetables to feed your kids. It has quite inspired me to be less wasteful myself. I have to remember that we are currently paying more for food than is...

Yup, soaking and sprouting and fermenting all supposedly help. If you check out nourishing traditions, though, it sounds like very hard work, like soak for three days and rinse twice daily or so. if your husband loves them, I'm sure...

I'll add the PHD view (from the Jaminets' Perfect Health Diet): up to a pound of safe starches a day (potatoes, white rice, sweet potatoes, taro, yams) are okay and healthy. Potatoes and rice are probably the cheapest options,...

Okay, now I was curious and googled local prices a bit (my DH always complains that I have no idea what things cost..I guess he's right, must pay more careful attention). I find: 500g of fresh assorted organic mirepoix veggies, one...

apologies right off the bat if i come across as insemsitive but just how much dothose veggies cost where you live? for atraditional mirepoix i may use a couple onions a couple carrots a chunk of celery root a sprig of parsley from the...

I heartily recommend "what's eating your child" by kelly dorfman (she's got a website, too). it gave me the inspiration and the energy to enter into the hard work of changing around our familys diet (which i had always thought was...

Now what do you do about the veggies? my mom taught me to cut them up and use them in the soup, but if you cook the broth for more than three hours, they taste awful. I still feel bad about tossing them - what do you do?

I like using chicken backs (sold by one local healthfood that is, sadly, right in the city center and I rarely have the time to so) but when I can't get them, I buy drumsticks at our local butcher's and plop them in whole. Makes a very...

Oh dear I AM so sorry - we must have jinxed it for you!   I wanted to let you all know that we are home and recovering - all of us, we're so spent. When we got off the train last night after 8 hours of traveling, DS2 was...

We're on the train home! by friday afternoon they had managed to give us a supersweet miconazol gel for ds and some miconazol cream for my breasts. byfriday night they had finally found us a lactation consultant! most of what she said i...