As you’ve no doubt gathered if you’ve been reading here regularly, Jesse and I are moving to a new apartment in about two weeks. One of the reasons that I am super excited about our move is that for the first time we will have a little bit of outdoor space in the form of our very own balcony. The balcony is on the smaller size, but it should still be big enough to do a little bit of gardening.…
Planning for Our First (Tiny) Garden
Why I Choose Natural Family Planning/Fertility Awareness
I don’t have any religious or moral objections to birth control. I do, however, have significant health objections to all forms of hormonal birth control. Depending on the method in question, hormonal birth control can cause side effects like nausea, vomiting, changes in libido and more serious but rare problems like heart attack, stroke and blood clots.
Even if you don’t experience any of these side effects, I think that hormonal birth control is far from benign. On a philosophical level I have serious objections to continually taking a drug designed to upset your body’s healthy functioning. Fertility is not an illness.…
One Ingredient Milk of Magnesia Deodorant
Are you looking for a new natural deodorant? You need to try milk of magnesia. I stumbled upon milk of magnesia as deodorant more than four years ago, when I was having a terrible time finding a safe, natural deodorant that didn’t make me break out in a rash. I decided to give it a go and have never looked back. I’ve tried many natural deodorants over the years, but milk of magnesia is hands down the BEST natural deodorant I’ve never used.
What is Milk of Magnesia?
If you’re like me, you may never have heard of milk of magnesia before.…
Beef/Pork Apple Sausages (GAPS-legal)
These apple sausages are amazing! Slightly sweet from the honey and apple but with a great meaty flavor. I’ve eaten them three times already in the last three days. They go well with vegetables for dinner as well as with eggs for breakfast. I’d guess that they’d also be great in recipes requiring breakfast sausages.
This is a great recipe to make for your freezer. Cook all of the sausages at once and then freeze in a single layer. Once frozen, store the sausages in a container in your freezer for easy future meals.
Ingredients:
1 pound ground beef (preferably grass-fed)
1 pound ground pork (preferably pastured)
2 large apples (I used Fuji)
1/2 medium onion
1 teaspoon dried sage
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon honey
Method:
Core the apples then grate them by hand or in a food processor.…
18 Months on GAPS
Saturday marked the end of my eighteenth month on the GAPS diet. I can’t believe I’ve been on GAPS for a year and a half. In some ways it feels a lot longer than that, but in other ways I still sometimes feel like a beginner.
I’ve been somewhat reluctant to write this post because I feel like my healing on GAPS has sort of stalled in the past couple of months. I realized that it’s just as important to share the challenging parts of the protocol as the happy healing parts, though, so here goes.
Acne
I wrote in my 15 months on GAPS post that GAPS dramatically improved my acne to the point that I was only dealing with a handful of breakouts a time.…