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I have struggled for years with food…I like food…no…I love food!😂 I’ve tried different diets, different eating plans… you name it, I probably tried it!
Hi ya’all! Sorry to have been a stranger for the last few months. I am making strides to get back here. I have missed it. I won’t make excuses…suffice it to say…Life happens. And there has been a lot of “life” in the last few months. Loss. Gain. Heartache. Peace. Heartbreak. Love. Grief. Sunshine. Death. New Life. Deceit. Trust. Fear. Faith. Sickness. Health. Mourning. Laughing. Ecclesiastes 3:1 comes to mind…To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: ~seems that every single one of those seasons needed to show up during the last year or so of my life. Overwhelming…absolutely at times! But God. God is always faithful. Still in the thick of it? Yep! But learning…ever learning…one day at a time. Isn’t that how we need to do life anyway? One day at a time? With all of the chaos, however, I have managed to not have any major flares. Some minor issues, yes, but no major flares. We all know stress is a trigger, but thankfully I have had no major flares. I was sick seemingly most of the winter, but seems like about everyone was. It is some weird times we live in ya’all. I am a grandma again. This time to an adorable little boy. Cuddliest little guy! Love being a grandma. One of the reasons I chose this healthy path. So I could be the best “me” I could be for my family. I am needing to tighten the straps a little more and am making moves to do just that. I have noticed my energy levels are down a bit, so it it time to be a bit more strict and fix this. I didn’t have any big exciting post other than to tell you all I am hopefully back. I do have a list of some post ideas, but What would you like to see me post about? Thank you again for being here…
Fall is in the air! And with fall comes all things apple and pumpkin! I remember as a child helping mom preserve apples…canning apple pie filling, freezing applesauce…whatever else you do with apples!
Last year I figured out how to make Paleo friendly applesauce. This year I was determined to figure out how to make Apple Pie Filling that I could eat. It is so fulfilling and convenient to have canned pie filling on hand. It makes it super easy to make a quick dessert should you need one in a hurry.
I needed to make a dessert for dinner at church on Sunday. I was tired of making the same ole’ things, so I went looking for something else to make. I remembered a cheesecake bar I used to make when we lived in the south. I pulled it out and while looking at it, I thought, “Now there is no reason in the world, I can’t remake this dairy and gluten free.” So that is exactly what I done!
Made using pulp from Macadamia nut milk.
When I started this way of eating, I never dreamed I would ever have cookies again! Let alone WHITE CHOCOLATE! So, to say I am excited is an understatement!
My husband, and boys bought me an Almond Cow for my birthday a couple weeks ago. I have wanted this guy for a while! In short, you can use this machine to make all kinds of nut milks, and creamers. (Click the link above for a starter set referral code and we will both receive a discount. 😉 ) I will try to do a post soon on the Almond Cow, but I was so excited about these cookies I had to share now.
Today has been a cold, comfort food kind of day. I also had a ham bone from my Christmas ham in my freezer. I really wanted soup beans and cornbread. So let’s see what we can do about that!
Cooking beans in a pressure cooker removes the lecithins which can be inflammatory for some people. This process allows me to enjoy beans on occasion. I do not eat them a lot, but today I really wanted soup beans.
Happy New Year to you all! I want to share something with you that I have been doing for years! It seems over the course of a year a lot of things can pile up, become unused, replaced, broken, no longer needed…etc. Several years ago I started “Spring Cleaning” in January. I go slowly. Very slowly. It started that way, because I was homeschooling 3 boys, and it was just easier time wise. Now they have all grown and graduated, but I still do this slow process. It takes me all of January and part of February. I do small sections at a time. Maybe spending 30-45 min each day. Unless of course I just “feel” like doing more. But that also frees me up to do other things. Besides! What else are you going to do in those cold months you are in the house anyway? Now, what does this have to do with food? Well…food…not much…until I get to the kitchen anway. 😀 But it does have a lot to do with my mental, and emotional health. 1. It keeps me busy during those cold, slow months. 2. A clean home makes me feel so good! 3. Decluttering and freeing up space makes for less work in the long run…which also makes me feel good! How to get started. I make a list of each section that needs done. I break it down by room. (I like lists. I like marking things off of lists!) Example:Master BathroomWallsCeilingCabinets/drawers under sinkLinen ClosetMedicine cabinetWalk-in Closet x2 (I usually take 2 days to work on this. The closet is off our bathroom)tub/sink/toiletFloors I do this with each room in the house. You can work on as little or as much each day as you want, but broken down this way is so much easier for me. As I go through things…I empty every cabinet/drawer/closet…whatever I am working on…I have 4 general questions I follow. Have I used this within the last year? Does it have sentimental value to me? If I was shopping right now would I buy it? If it’s broken, is it worth fixing? If the answer is NO…it goes either to the trash, donate (a lot ends up here), or selling pile…depending on what it is. I generally start on the main living level, but by the time I get to the basement I get in a hurry to finish. So this year I am shaking it up a bit, and starting in the basement. I know I will do the main level, so I am doing it last. If you want to follow along with me, you can follow each days task in my Instagram stories. It is all part of my health and wellbeing. As for “food news”. I am back to being extra strict for a while. So basically, lots of veggies, & protein. I haven’t felt super good lately and felt like I needed to be a little stricter. So even the “allowed” treats are being put on hold for now. I will still be blogging and posting so check back often! My goal is to TRY to blog at least once a week. Sometimes that is not doable, but it is my goal…
I am stepping away from “food” for this post. This post will be considered mind/body/soul health and healing.
Where are you Christmas?
This song came on the other day and I always thought this was a strange song, but I happened to be in a rather melancholy mood, so I paid attention to the words.
You see, I was having a rough time. This year…just 3 days after Christmas…marks 10 years since my mom left us. Someone mentioned to me that there was only a few years, if that, left for “Christmas to be the way it used to be”. I didn’t reply to this family member, but for me…that ended 10 years ago. Christmas has never been the same. It has never been “the way it used to be.” It never will be. I lost so much more than just my mom 10 years ago, and it has been a long, rough road towards healing. But I have learned so very much.
My 2 month break has sort of turned into 4. I really did not mean for that to happen, but well…it just did. Listening to my body is one of the important things I am learning to do in this journey. It has definitely been a process.
I needed to work through some healing in some other areas of my life and to do that, I needed to shift my priorities a bit. I may or may not share more at a later time, but for now let me just encourage you…Emotional, spiritual, mental healing are all just as important if not more so than the physical healing. They all kind of go together. Sometimes it’s extremely painful, but necessary.