What we eat for Breakfast and Why

Cereal, instant oatmeal, cream of wheat, poptarts, toast,frozen waffles... All items that are acceptable and encouraged for breakfast in America. As a mom with young children it is nice to use convenient foods, especially for breakfast.  However, what if those foods cause harmful reactions in your children?  You improvise, adapt and overcome by making your own convienent breakfast with similar or higher nutritional value.
Matthew is allergic to soy, peanuts, rice, wheat, casein, corn, eggs and gluten and sensitive to oats.  We eat almost no processed foods.  Like most moms I find it helpful to have something quick and easy for breakfast.  I wasn't able to find anything to buy, so I made our own convienent yet healthy breakfast with instant potatoes as the base.
 Kiddos have two servings of instant potatoes with a spoonful of coconut oil.  Then I add different items depending on what we have on hand.  These items include, but are not limited to, almond meal, coconut flour, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds,  hemp seeds, cultured fruit and leftover vegetables. I also use superfood powders when I find a good deal. This breakfast provides kiddos with a large bowl full of breakfast that includes calories, healthy fats and protein.  It is also simple and quick.

Giveaway!

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A Valentine giveaway

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A random winner will be chosen on 7 February, 2016.

The winner will receive a hand crocheted dish cloth, hand made hair tie and a bag of organic rosehip & hibiscus tea.

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For My Sailor

(But I desire and long every day to go home and to look upon the day of my return...for already I have suffered and labored at so many things on the waves.)

-Homer 

Fun with a Box

Nat

Happy and handsome little guy...

Overalls from Grandpa

Meatball Cupcakes

Meatballs:
Ground beef
Chia seeds
Apple cider vinegar
Maple syrup
Thyme, oregano, bail, sea salt, pepper
Carrots, chopped
Black olives, chopped
Onion, chopped

Top with mashed potatoes and gravy

Gravy:
Saute sliced onion in 1/3 cup olive oil
When onion is browned add 1/4 cup brown rice flour and stir while cooking on low heat
Add 2 cups liquid (broth, kombucha, water)
Stir and increase heat to medium high
Stir until thickened...takes a few minutes

Enjoy!

Digesting the Word

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon
English author, courtier, & philosopher

A New Year

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:

"Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown!"

And he replied:

"Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.

That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way."

So, I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night

And He led me toward the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.

So, heart, be still!

What need our little life,

Our human life, to know,

If God hath comprehension?

In all the dizzy strife

Of things both high and low

God hideth His intention.

The Desert 1908

Minnie Louise Haskins 1876 - 1957

Christmas Dinner

Baked acorn squash filled with beans
Turkey
Collards steamed and seasoned with mustard, red pepper, apple cider vinegar, sea salt and pepper
Topped with homemade gravy

Turkey Leftovers

Turkey left over from Christmas served with peas, onions and northern beans.

Christmas Salad

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Ballet

Abby was blessed to attend a Christmas Nativity Ballet with a friend. Here is a picture of Abby in one of the poses from the ballet.