Tag: health

  • Yogurt with Granola Bar

    Yogurt with Granola Bar

    I’ve been buying only organic raw plain whole milk yogurt since last summer. I found some in my local health food store and now I’m hooked. Let me break it down: Organic: means the milk comes from cows that are not given antibiotics or hormones, and are fed organic grass and not GMO corn raised…

  • Green Eggs

    Green Eggs

    I started making green eggs when my daughter was a Dr. Seuss-loving toddler. I started out serving it as a sandwich spread, but now that my family is on a gluten-free diet, I serve it with salad. Let’s start with the recipe. Green Eggs Ingredients: 1 organic avocado 2 organic eggs salt and pepper to…

  • Honey Lemon Garlic Tea

    Honey Lemon Garlic Tea

    Every year I revisit this recipe, from Dr. Aviva Jill Romm’s book, Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent’s Guide: How to Make Safe, Sensible Decisions about the Risks, Benefits, and Alternatives. The recipe is listed as Garlic Lemonade, but I call it Honey Lemon Garlic Tea. Sounds sweeter (trying to just sneak in the “garlic” in there,…

  • The Pet Zapper

    The Pet Zapper

    The family that zaps together stays healthy together. And that includes our dear dog, Cosmo. We all know how many parasites our pets can bring into the home. Taking care of the littlest ones in our family is the secret to keeping everyone healthy in the household. One way to zap our furry family members…

  • 5 Ways to Fight Off Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

    5 Ways to Fight Off Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

    Over a month ago, the Center for Disease Control released a statement about the real and gnawing threat of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria. PBS’s Frontline followed up with a shocking first-hand look at this “Nightmare Bacteria” and the people affected by them. A few days ago, the National Resources Defense Council piped in with their warning…

  • Fearless Deer Tick Killers

    Fearless Deer Tick Killers

    Something terrifying happened! My husband was helping his uncle put away wood in their basement and found a deer tick on him. He showed it to me and flushed it down the toilet. The next morning he found that he missed another deer tick that had overnight lodged itself into his skin. What followed was…

  • Zapping an Earache Away

    Zapping an Earache Away

    We’ve had a really fun weekend with friends, carving pumpkins and roasting marshmallows on a fire outdoors. Then suddenly last night my daughter woke up crying and clutching her ear. My first response is to set her up with a Hulda Clark Zapper. She zapped, holding it close to her ear and under her jaw.…

  • Alfalfa Sprouts

    Alfalfa Sprouts

    Alfalfa sprouts are so good! We used to  buy them at the grocery store. We’d take this little plastic box home, open it and find alfalfa sprouts that were overpacked and soggy. So during my shopping splurge at Botanical Interests I bought Alfalfa Seeds for sprouting. The packet states that alfalfa seeds have the possibility…

  • Vodka Sanitizer

    Vodka Sanitizer

    I don’t like hand sanitizer. I see them everywhere. I see them at grocery stores. I see moms whipping them out of their handbags and rubbing their babies’ hands with them. Teachers hand them out to kids in the classroom. I hate it. It’s one of those things no one ever needed until just recently.…

  • Cauli Cauli Broccoli

    Cauli Cauli Broccoli

    What do cauliflower and broccoli have in common? They are both cruciferous vegetables, super-nutritious and best eaten raw. R.A.W. I love raw food. It feels so alive, all crunchy and juicy and electric. Other cruciferous vegetables are radish, land cress, watercress, garden cress, mustard, kale, collard greens, cabbage, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, bok choy, komatsuna, turnips,…