Archive for December, 2008
Canning Food
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If you garden, or have access to fresh veggies in season, canning food is something you may want to do. There is something so satisfying about those pretty jars full of delicious food on your shelves, not to mention the delicious tastes from last summer’s produce in mid-winter. With the locavore movement – that is, buying as much of your food as possible from relatively local farms and gardens – I would imagine that possibly more people will want to can summer goodies for year-round eating.
Herbal Flu and Cold Remedies, Featuring Cayenne
Here are two variations on the same theme. In both cases, people who use it swear by it and say it keeps indefinitely. These are recommended when you feel like you might be coming down with something.
(1) Combine 2 tsp cayenne pepper, 1 ½ teaspoons salt, 1 cup water, and 1 cup apple cider vinegar in a saucepan and heat the mixture over direct heat just until the salt dissolves.
Keep it in a jar in the refrigerator preferably.
This stuff is VERY HOT – as in spicy — so try a little bit at first; you can dilute it with water. At the first sign of a cold or flu, take between a teaspoon to a tablespoon every half hour for a while, then every couple of hours. If giving it to children, smaller doses are appropriate. Read the rest of this entry »
Food Storage
Storage of food and other basic supplies that you know you’ll need can help you feel more on top of things, though I don’t recommend it if you think you might be moving. Hauling all that stuff could be too much of a nuisance.
I grew up in a family that stored food. We had Mormon ancestors, and while the religion had gone out with my grandparents, the tendency to stock up on things stuck, specially with my mother.
How much might you want to store of any given item? Read the rest of this entry »
Fasting
It is said that leaner people do better than heavy ones in conditions of physical stress. They point out that the people who fast the longest are very lean, and that the body can do very well on a long-term diet of mostly raw foods in surprisingly small amounts. But someone who is overweight is used to consuming a lot of food on a regular basis. The physical effects of a change to a smaller quantity, simpler, mostly raw or natural food will often cause a “healing crisis” to occur.
