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October

My Story

June 13, 2011 by KerryAnn 49 Comments

Note: I am neither a dietitian nor a doctor.  I do not dispense medical advice nor do I offer any information on treatments nor cures for any medical condition. Always consult a physician before proceeding with any treatment.  Our full disclaimer is at the bottom of this page.

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In June and July on the blog, we’re going to discuss gut health.  Gut health is a hot topic in the traditional foods world because so many people are not healing despite a traditional foods diet.  I became seriously ill and healed my gut before the currently fashionable diets came out.  This is my story.

A very wise man in my life often tells me, “A problem well stated is half solved.”  Five years ago, we knew all of the problems, but had none of the answers.

I was born 7 weeks early to an undernourished mother who was 95 pounds when I was conceived.  My childhood was rather uneventful health wise, other than huge tonsils and repeat ear infections.  I grew normally and had none of the digestive problems associated with celiac disease.

I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2001 and was told I’d never had kids.   I changed my diet to traditional foods after seeing my cat, Blue, have an ‘incurable’ and life-shortening health problem healed by a species-appropriate diet. I was told he wouldn’t live long and would require expensive, difficult medication until his death.

It had worked for him why can’t it work for me?

 

[Read more…] about My Story

Filed Under: Best Of, Celiac disease, Dairy, Food Allergies, Food Matters, Grains, Gut Health, Health, Series Tagged With: butter, Celiac Disease, children, dairy, Enjoy Life, ER, fat, flu, food, Gluten Free, IQ, kids, liver, MSG, October, ONE, PCOS, Whole Foods

Holidays at the Foster Household

November 15, 2010 by KerryAnn Leave a Comment

Every year, in early October, I sit down with my husband and go over what we will be doing for the holiday season.  Halloween is always taken by my grandmother’s birthday, so we don’t do anything else.  This year, we will have my family with us for Thanksgiving day, Jeff’s family the day after Thanksgiving and it will just be the four of us for Christmas.

Thanksgiving is our major holiday every year, and it is both mine and Jeff’s favorite holiday.  We plan on re-roofing our house the week of Thanksgiving, so I will be doing a small meal for us and my parents, plus anyone else we know who needs a place for the holiday.  The day after, Black Friday, my husband will undoubtedly hit the stores at 4am to secure the Christmas gift for the kids and then we will have family visiting that afternoon.  I plan on low-key, easy food for the whole weekend since it looks like we will be extremely busy.  I will likely be choosing a ham large enough to feed plenty of folks over two days instead of a turkey.  Sweet potato casserole, green beans, maybe some rolls or sourdough loaf bread.  Pumpkin pie with a coconut flour crust.  Mom might ask for a salad.  Quick, simple and easy.  Dad will ask for my mom to make a pecan pie, the one thing he requests every Thanksgiving.  Mom and Jeff are both cutting carbs to help deal with health issues, so I don’t want to put a lot of carby dishes in front of them so we’ll likely skip the dressing.  I’m sure the kids will oblige in providing plenty of decorations in the days before the meal.

I am still trying to decide on the Christmas Eve meal.  This year, Jeff totally left that ball in my court and informed me that he didn’t really care what I picked as long as his belly was full when the meal was done.  I will likely ask the kids to pick, and I imagine we will wind up with something like homemade pizza.  Today a friend stopped by and told me about using the coconut flour peanut butter pie crust from Bruce Fife’s Cooking with Coconut Flour cookbook and making a mocha pie.  I thought about making a rich and decadent pie involving chocolate filling, whipped coconut milk and that pie crust…. we’ll see what I come up with. We have some parts and pieces of a half-cow still in our freezer, and we found the tenderloin while digging through the other day.  I plan on cooking the tenderloin Christmas afternoon.  If we don’t have snow or freezing cold, I might even grill it or talk Jeff into grilling it for us.  I’ll probably allow the kids to choose the side dishes and help in their preparation.  We will spend a quiet afternoon playing with the kid’s new toy.  The four of us will be getting one joint gift this year. I’d so much rather spend my time in the living room, having fun with the kids, than to spend the whole day in the kitchen and not feel up to or not have time to enjoy the family.  I will be sure to fix some favorite treats around the holidays, with them instead of for them.

As a Southerner, black-eyed peas with some form of pork is traditional on New Year’s Day.  I will likely leave that meal up to my mom and she will ensure that the kids get the pennies in the pot for good luck in the coming year.

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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.

Filed Under: Holidays, Kids Tagged With: beans, breakfast, chocolate, Christmas Eve, coconut flour, dessert, family, kids, Menu Mailer, New Year Day, October, soup

What’s in Season- October

October 6, 2010 by KerryAnn Leave a Comment

October is my favorite food month. You have the end of the Summer season coinciding with the new Fall produce. It’s also the month with the most produce in season. Stock up now, because the blah, never-ending root vegetable-only diet of January and February is coming.

Produce is always cheapest when you buy it in season for your location. While I can not list every single area of the country and what is in season, this is a general over-view of what is currently in season for most of the United States. If you only buy local produce, not all of this will be available to you, but if you do purchase from stores, this is what should be the least expensive and the most fresh right now, even if it’s being trucked in from another state. Use this as a guide for purchasing large amounts from non-local farmer’s markets for canning, freezing, lacto-fementing, dehydrating and preserving. If you can purchase locally and it is within your budget, please do. However, if you are new to eating seasonally or don’t have a local farmer, this list will help you make the best purchasing decisions.

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Filed Under: Food Storage, Seasonal Eating Tagged With: breakfast, budget, dessert, family, February, food, food storage, fruits, Menu Mailer, October, seasonal eating, soup, United States, vegetables

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I'm KerryAnn Foster, a crazy vibrant Jesus Freak with a heart full of hope. I'm not afraid to love on the least of these or get my hands dirty. This blog is my journey from ineffective, uptight, obese wallflower to a woman on fire for God and living the most vibrant, passionate life possible!

I live in the mountains of Western North Carolina with my husband, Jeff, and our two teens. I blog about self-confidence, health and home, homeschooling and living a vibrant, wide-open Jesus-centered lifestyle. I have over seventeen years of real food, natural lifestyle and health experience. We have homeschooled our children since birth and both Jeff and I run home-based businesses. We're crazy, we know it, and we love every second of it!

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