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Baby Steps- Transitioning to Traditional Foods in April

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Last year on the forum, we started a Baby Steps section to help people new to traditional foods. Each month, I will be posting those baby steps to the blog in case you’re wanting to start your own Traditional Foods journey.

For April, our theme is veggies. This month we turn to upping vegetable intake and soaking grains. This will be easier now that we have reduced our sugar intake and increased the trace minerals in our diets since the beginning of the year. [Read more…] about Baby Steps- Transitioning to Traditional Foods in April

Baby Steps- Transitioning to Traditional Foods in March

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Last year on the forum, we started a Baby Steps section to help people new to traditional foods. Each month, I will be posting those baby steps to the blog in case you’re wanting to start your own Traditional Foods journey.

For March, our theme is to begin reducing sugar intake now that we’ve upped the vitamin and mineral content of the meals.

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Baby Steps- Transitioning to Traditional Foods

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Last year on the forum, we started a Baby Steps section to help people new to traditional foods.  Each month, I will be posting those baby steps to the blog in case you’re wanting to start your own Traditional Foods journey.

January begins with the most basic steps.

1. Make your own chicken stock from scratch instead of buying canned stock.
2. Switch the type of fat you’re cooking with to a traditional fat- coconut oil, lard, butter, tallow, ghee, palm oil.
3. Eat fruits and vegetables that are in season for this month.
4. Move to consuming the best quality dairy that you can find &/or afford. If you can not locate or afford raw milk, you will not receive any flack from board members. We all understand limits of availability and budget. Instead, let’s discuss ways to make non-raw milk as healthy as possible, such as kefir, yogurt and other cultures.

If you’d like to discuss this with other TFers, you can join in on the thread on the forum.

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KerryAnn Foster runs Cooking Traditional Foods, the longest running Traditional Foods Menu Mailer on the internet. KerryAnn has over nine years of traditional foods experience and is a former Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader. Founded in 2005, CTF helps you feed your family nourishing foods they will love. Each mailer contains one soup, five dinners, one breakfast, on dessert and extras. You can learn more about our Menu Mailers at the CTF website. For a free sample Menu Mailer, join our mailing list. You can also join our forum to chat with other traditional foodists and learn more.

Baby Steps- Transitioning to Traditional Foods in Feburary

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Last year on the forum, we started a Baby Steps section to help people new to traditional foods.  Each month, I will be posting those baby steps to the blog in case you’re wanting to start your own Traditional Foods journey.

February continues with the basic steps.

  1. Add vegetable intake via sneaky veggies where it is possible.
  2. Change breakfast to being healthier but in a form that is still acceptable to your family. Move from cold cereal to oatmeal, scrambled eggs, soaked pancakes or waffles and the like.
  3. Change to sea salt if you have not already. Sea salt contains many trace minerals that iodized salt does not.
  4. Start taking cod liver oil.
  5. If you’ve already changed salt and started CLO, consider a trace mineral supplement if you feel you might be deficient.

If you would like to discuss these steps with other traditional foodists, you can do so on our forum.

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KerryAnn Foster runs Cooking Traditional Foods, the longest running Traditional Foods Menu Mailer on the internet. KerryAnn has over nine years of traditional foods experience and is a former Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader. Founded in 2005, CTF helps you feed your family nourishing foods they will love. Each mailer contains one soup, five dinners, one breakfast, on dessert and extras. You can learn more about our Menu Mailers at the CTF website. For a free sample Menu Mailer, join our mailing list. You can also join our forum to chat with other traditional foodists and learn more.

Baby Steps in May

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Last year on the forum, we started a Baby Steps section to help people new to traditional foods. Each month, I will be posting those baby steps to the blog in case you’re wanting to start your own Traditional Foods journey.

For May, our theme is veggies for the second month in a row. For June, our theme is more vegetable intake. This will be easier now that we have reduced our sugar intake and increased the trace minerals in our diets and adjusted to the flavor of hidden veggies. [Read more…] about Baby Steps in May