Modern Wife

Author: Modern Wife

  • Travel With Your Zapper

    Travel With Your Zapper

    Sometimes the reality hits me: I have been zapping for over 20 years now! I can’t think of a time over the past 20 years when I didn’t have a Hulda Clark Zapper within reach. I’ve lived in three different states in the USA, visited countless places in three different countries, roughed it in many of them. I’ve always managed to have a Hulda Clark Zapper either packed with us or waiting for us when we arrived. Just as the mobile phone and internet has crept into people’s daily lives, the Hulda Clark Zapper has become indispensable in mine.

    There had been situations when my family felt queasy after eating out at a restaurant. We took turns zapping in the car and felt instantly better.

    One time while at a family picnic, my husband, my daughter, and I avoided the dairy dish that had been sitting in the sun too long, but my cousin didn’t. I found her looking pale and purple-lipped. I offered her use of my Hulda Clark Zapper and within twenty minutes of zapping while chit-chatting, she was back to her vibrant self. She almost forgot that just a few minutes prior, she was feeling sick.

    Water in certain parts of the world can also be sketchy. Using the Hulda Clark Zapper either by zapping with copper handles or by zappicating food and water with a Food Zappicator can help minimize bacterial culture shock.

    So pack your Hulda Clark Zapper with you when you travel. You never know the next time you or someone you love may need it. Here are some tips on how to bring your zapper with you on your trip:

    Pack Your Hulda Clark Zapper when you travel

    Traveling in your own vehicle?
    Pack your Hulda Clark Zapper in the glove compartment. Keep the copper pipes surrounded by a layer of paper towels so it’s ready to use. A spray bottle of water is handy to have in the car for easily spritzing on your paper towel-covered copper handles. Also store extra 9 volt batteries. Do not zap while driving. Leave the zapping to the passengers. If you need to zap, pull over to a safe zone like a rest area or a parking lot and zap there.

    Traveling by land or going on a ship?
    Pack your Hulda Clark Zapper in your suitcase. The copper handles are staining, especially when moist, so you want to protect your clothing from contact with it. Pre-wrap the copper pipes with paper towels and put in a resealable plastic bag. Pack an empty spray bottle you can fill with water for moistening your paper towel-covered copper handles. Remember to bring extra 9 volt batteries.

    Traveling by plane?
    The Hulda Clark Zapper with copper handles is perfectly safe for use mid-flight but it may arouse suspicion from airport personnel who are unfamiliar with this device. Consider mailing your zapper to your destination address. It only takes 2 to 3 days to deliver anywhere within the United States. There are also a number of shipping options for international mail. Paper towels, empty spray bottles, and 9 volt batteries are common items that can be purchased at local drug stores all over the world, but if you are headed somewhere rural and remote, you may want to mail yourself those items as well.

    Have a great time on your trip!

  • Autumn Apple Pie

    Autumn Apple Pie

    This is a basic apple pie recipe that your grandmother likely already has in her recipe box, but here you go. Now you can have this apple pie recipe online as well.

    Apple Pie

    Ingredients: Perfect Pie Crust
    3 cups pastry flour
    1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
    pinch of salt
    1/2 cup iced water

    This is my perfect pie crust. I learned how to do it from a vintage recipe when I got married in 1996 and have perfected it all these years. Mix flour, butter and salt, until mixture is in crumbs. Toss with iced water. Do not overmix. Divide pie crust dough into two. Use the wax paper from one of the sticks of butter to grease the pie pan. Roll out one part of the dough and lay in the pie pan. Roll out the second part of the dough and cut out holes to let the steam out.

    Ingredients: Apple Pie Filling
    7 organic apples, peeled and sliced thin
    1/2 cup organic cane sugar
    1/2 cup organic brown sugar
    3 tablespoons organic and unbleached all-purpose flour
    1 teaspoons organic ground cinnamon
    1/4 teaspoon organic ground ginger
    1/4 teaspoon organic ground nutmeg

    Preheat oven at 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix all apple pie filling ingredients in a large bowl. Pour into the pie crust bottom already in the pie pan. Cover with the top pie crust. Pinch together and push a non-metal fork’s tines on the edge of the crust. This is a good time to put the assembled apple pie on the Food Zappicator and turn the zapper on to zappicate the pie. Brush whisked organic egg white on the top crust while zappicating. The egg white wash will give the pie a nice golden color once baked in the oven. Bake for 25 minutes. Turn the pie in the oven and bake for another 25 minutes. Cool before serving.

  • Quail Eggs

    Quail Eggs

    Aren’t quail eggs cute? Five of these quail eggs would have the caloric equivalent of one large chicken egg. They’re rich in vitamin A, choline, selenium, and iron. (Source)

    You may encounter raw quail eggs on top of tobiko in fine sushi restaurants. It makes my mouth water just typing those words up.

    I bought mine at my local farmers market. At home, I hardboil them for 3 minutes, peel, and serve with soup. Here’s a quick recipe that is done in minutes. You’ll spend more time peeling those quail eggs than cooking this meal. Ya!

    Noodles with Quail Eggs

    Miso Noodles with Quail Eggs

    Ingredients:
    1 tablespoon dulse
    2 tablespoons miso
    3 cups water
    6 oz. soba noodles
    1 nardello sweet pepper, chopped
    hardboiled quail eggs
    green onion

    Bring water to boil on high heat. Add dulse and miso. Once boiling, add noodles. Cook for 4 minutes. Toss in sweet pepper and quail eggs at the last minute. Serve with green onion garnish. Serves 3.

    Lunchtime!

  • Sriracha Shrimp

    Sriracha Shrimp

    Google sriracha shrimp and you’ll get 20.5 million results. It’s that popular. I think I’ll give some of those recipes a try this winter. I have my own version of Sriracha Shrimp, and I’ll stack mine up against some of the internet’s best reviewed recipes. I’ll have my family vote.

    You can vote, too. Try my recipe below and let me know what you and your family think.

    Sriracha Shrimp

    Ingredients:
    1 cup rice
    1 lb large shrimp, peeled and deveined
    2 tablespoons coconut oil
    1 onion, sliced
    4 cloves garlic, minced
    1 sweet pepper, minced
    1/2 lime
    1 tablespoon sriracha sauce
    1 teaspoon sugar
    1 green onion top, chopped

    Start by cooking rice the way you usually do. Stovetop, steamer, rice cooker, it’s all good.

    While the rice is cooking, melt the coconut oil in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Cook the shrimp until pink, then add onion, garlic, and sweet pepper. While all that is cooking, mix together the lime, sriracha sauce, and sugar until sugar is dissolved. Toss the sauce into the pan with the shrimp combination until well incorporated. Serve on a bed of rice. Garnish with green onions.

    If you think there’s a better Sriracha Shrimp recipe than mine, comment below. I would enjoy trying it.

  • What diet does Hulda Clark recommend?

    What diet does Hulda Clark recommend?

    Although Hulda Clark wrote a lot about food in her books, she did not recommend a particular diet. Whether you are on an omnivorous, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, paleo, or any other kind of special diet, you can benefit from Hulda Clark’s lifestyle recommendations.

    Let me simplify the rather dense books she published. Hulda Clark discovered that all diseases have only a combination of two causes: parasites and pollution. The more we avoid parasites and pollution, the healthier we can be.

    We can avoid parasites by washing our produce well. Lugol’s Modified Sodium Iodine can be used as a veggie wash. The Oxygenius Ozonator can also be used to purify water for drinking or for soaking fruits and vegetables. Ozone is FDA-approved for killing micro-organisms. For foods that cannot be soaked in water, such as liquids or cooked food, the Food Zappicator emits a positive offset square wave frequency in 1 kHz to shatter micro-organisms to death.

    Pollution in food is not as easy to avoid. Almost everything that is manufactured for mass consumption is tainted with toxic chemicals to some degree. At the very least, the manufacturing machines are greased with petroleum instead of the more expensive food grade oils. Bottles and jars are required by law to be sterilized with a petroleum solvent before food and drinks can be bottled in them. You can thank lobbyists for Big Chemical Companies for that.

    Then there are the ingredients of mass produced food themselves. If the long list of ingredients is populated with chemical names, you can bet it’s more pollution than nutrition. For instance, propylene glycol can be found on the ingredients list of many baked goods available in grocery stores. (Any chemical with “prop” in it means it is petroleum-derived.)

    Hulda Clark’s books go into it in more detail. Try not to get overwhelmed with the amount of information she lays out for you. If you are able to change one habit a week, think how far along you will be in a year… two years… twenty years! That’s how long it has been for me. I came across Hulda Clark’s book, “The Cure For All Diseases,” in 1997 and boy, did it changed my life!

    A few guidelines for food shopping:

    1. Certified Organic. This means the food is as free from toxic chemicals as it can get based on industry standards. For meats, this means the animal is not injected with hormones and antibiotics. This also assumes the fruit and vegetable is non-GMO.
    2. Kosher. This means the food satisfies the strict requirements of Jewish law.
    3. Farmers Markets are an excellent place to buy your food from. Bring home produce with no stickers! And you can talk to the farmers themselves about their process.
    4. Non-GMO.  This means that the food is not genetically modified. It still can have pesticides and other chemicals.

    Eat a variety of foods as close to nature as possible. Avoid processed foods. Use the Hulda Clark Zapper.

    Got any more questions about the Hulda Clark lifestyle? Leave me a comment below. I’ll try my best to answer it as soon as I can.

  • Strength and Grace

    Strength and Grace

    What’s amazing about having a blog that has been around for more than a decade is that I can quickly click through the posts to see my daughter growing up. From the moment she was born to this day, I am filled with gratitude and pride in her good health, strength, skills, and grace.

    I feel lucky to have come across Hulda Clark‘s work, which made a difference in my health long before I decided to become a mom. Following the Hulda Clark lifestyle gave me the confidence to raise a healthy child with as little medical intervention as possible. Our philosophy and methods are different from most families we know, but it’s hard to deny that whatever it is we do has brought us wonderful results.

    My daughter is now a Junior Olympic Level 6 competitive gymnast under the USA Gymnastics program. It’s challenging for the whole family because we have to spend a lot of time traveling to competitions. All this time on the road is exhausting and exposes us to a lot of elements. Imagine getting a food-borne illness from eating at a restaurant while so far away from the comforts of home. That’s why we always travel with our Hulda Clark Zapper. We zap preventively to keep us in top condition and keep it in our first aid kit in case of emergency.

    If your kids are into competitive sports, you know that our support as parents is essential to making it happen for them. I’ll do anything to help my daughter succeed. Being in good health is the foundation of it all. Wish us luck this competition season!

  • Date Balls

    Date Balls

    Last Christmas, while gathered around the dinner table at Aunt Faye’s, we got talking about Mammy Flanders’ Date Balls. My husband said it was one of his favorite snacks Mammy made. Aunt Faye didn’t like it much, so it was always missing from her dessert spread during the holidays. My husband wanted to have a taste of them again.

    Aunt Faye brought out (gasp) Mammy Flanders’ recipe box, filled with handwritten recipes from several generations back.

    “Here,” she said. “You can take that home and go through it. It’s gotta be in there somewhere.”

    The cousins all looked longingly at Mammy Flanders’ recipe box. I myself was astounded at how easily it was to pry that heirloom recipe box from Aunt Faye’s hands, but she must have known it was in good hands. My husband felt a responsibility to give back to the family, so he transcribed Mammy’s recipes and posted it as an ebook for everyone to enjoy.

    Since then we’ve been going through the recipes one by one and trying them out. Give this one a try.

    Date Balls

    Ingredients:
    1/4 cup butter
    1 cup sugar
    2 eggs
    1 teaspoon vanilla
    ¼ teaspoon salt
    1 ½ cup ground dates
    3 cups rice crispies

    Cook all ingredients except rice crispies in frying pan over high heat for 10 minutes, stirring constantly to keep from burning. Remove from heat, then add the rice crispies and mix well. Once cool enough to touch, form into tight balls and roll in shredded coconut.

    Enjoy!

  • Coconut Quinoa Cereal

    Coconut Quinoa Cereal

    You might be surprised by how delicious and filling this Coconut Quinoa Cereal is, while being quite possibly the healthiest breakfast on the planet. Let’s look at the ingredients.

    Quinoa is a versatile whole grain that can be made into a salad, a lunch casserole, or a dinner side.

    Quinoa is gluten-free, high in protein, and one of the few plant foods that contain all nine essential amino acids. It is also high in fiber, magnesium, B-vitamins, iron, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin E and various beneficial antioxidants.

    – 11 Proven Health Benefits of Quinoa
    Authority Nutrition

    Coconut milk is no slouch either. Coconut milk improves heart health, builds muscle, helps lose fat, prevents fatigue, stimulates digestion, relieves constipation, manages blood sugar, and prevents anemia, joint inflammation, and ulcers. (Source: Dr. Axe)

    Don’t you feel healthier already? Now go and make this cereal.

    Coconut Quinoa Cereal

    Ingredients:
    1 cup coconut milk
    1/2 cup quinoa
    1/3 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
    Maple syrup or raw honey to taste
    More coconut milk to taste

    Heat the coconut milk until boiling. Add quinoa and cover. Lower heat to simmer until the coconut milk is absorbed but still slightly wet. Mix the shredded coconut in. Serve warm with maple syrup or raw honey and more coconut milk to taste. Makes 2 servings.

    Experiment with some of your favorite toppings. Sliced apples with cinnamon, berries, bananas, nuts. Have a happy healthy start to your day!

  • Coconut Oil Toothpaste

    Coconut Oil Toothpaste

    Hulda Clark tested commercially available brands of toothpaste and found every single one of them tainted with toxic chemicals.

    For instance, Colgate’s list of ingredients begins with fluoride, a much-debated chemical added to most water systems in the United States. What’s crazy about this debate is that it’s really like comparing apples to oranges. Let me explain. All published research regarding the benefits of fluoride used naturally occurring calcium fluoride in their studies. What is actually used in water treatment and toothpaste manufacture is hydrofluorosilicic acid, a waste product of the phosphate-fertilizer industry, and known to contain carcinogenic chemicals such as arsenic, beryllium, lead, cadmium, mercury, silicon, and radioactive polonium. You like that glowing smile? It’s radioactive! (Source)

    Next on the list are abrasives: calcium carbonate occurs naturally in aragonite and calcite. Silica gel is a form of silicon dioxide made synthetically from sodium silicate. You’ve seen an iteration of this in little white packets marked “desiccant” and “do not eat.” Aluminum oxide has been found to kill blood vessel cells in the human brain. (Source)

    Sweeteners: Saccharin was found to cause bladder cancer in rats. Sorbitol has a laxative effect in large quantities.

    Sodium lauryl sulfate is added for foaming effect but has been found to cause skin irritation and cell toxicity. (Source)

    Colgate Total and Crest also contains triclosan, an antibacterial agent that has been implicated in the creation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, hormone disruption, and cancer. (Source)

    Hulda Clark published simple recipes for tooth care in her books. She recommended food-grade hydrogen peroxide as an effective antibacterial that also whitens teeth, but should only be used if you have no metal dentistry. I have no problems there, but my daughter is currently wearing braces.

    I did a lot of research online for homemade toothpaste recipes, and found that they mostly had extra virgin organic coconut oil and baking soda in common. Those two ingredients alone is your basic toothpaste. Coconut oil has excellent antibacterial and tooth whitening properties, while baking soda acts as an abrasive.

    Oregano oil is a powerful antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal, making it effective against periodontal disease. Peppermint oil is effective against bacteria that can cause gum disease.

    Do those ingredients look good to you? All the benefits of toothpaste without the side-effects. Here’s my recipe.

    Coconut Oil Toothpaste

    Ingredients:
    5 teaspoons extra virgin organic coconut oil
    2 teaspoons baking soda
    5 drops peppermint oil
    5 drops oregano oil

    Mix all the ingredients together until well incorporated. You only need a pea-size glob to brush your teeth with.

    Happy brushing!

  • Stay Healthy While Planning Your Wedding

    Stay Healthy While Planning Your Wedding

    Photo by demesa.com

    This is a guest contribution from Mark Wilcox of WeddingIntro.com.

    Wedding planning is a must, but it is also stressful. If you are not careful you can make yourself sick planning your wedding. In this article, we will look at some ways you can stay healthy while planning your wedding.

    Eat Well

    The most important part of health is proper nutrition. Later we will talk about exercise, but you cannot outrun a bad diet. If you eat only junk, it is going to make you feel like junk.

    I have found through my own personal testing that two mechanisms work better for diet. First is to cut back on sugar and carbs, processed foods in particular. Second, consider fasting. This isn’t the same as starving yourself. Rather consider skipping a meal or two. This will seem weird at first but you will get used to it. This skipping of meals is called intermittent fasting. For more information let me point you to Dr. Jason Fung.

    Exercise To Feel Good

    The most important way exercise can help is by releasing endorphins to control stress. Taking a break from wedding planning and getting your body moving will actually help you think of more creative solutions.

    Consider looking into weight training. I’m a big fan of kettlebells. But you can choose your own program. You will not end up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Instead, it will make you look toned and fit.

    Taylor Swift before the 1989 tour was a skinny girl with a cute face. After going through her training for that tour she toned her figure to the point where many people said she looked better than Victoria Secret models.

    Another example is Ronda Rousey. She is beautiful. So beautiful they put her on the cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in just body paint.

    Relax

    There is no point in trying to plan a perfect wedding, because you will never have perfection. Instead, focus on the experience. You are planning to only get married once. If you spend time only worrying about the perfect wedding you will miss out. Don’t compare your wedding to your friend’s wedding. Or a wedding you read about in The Knot. Or worse some wedding you see in a movie. Just relax. Pay attention. Spend time with the people you love.

    Weddings are magical ceremonies, and one of the best days of your life. So eat well, get exercise, and relax. I hope you have an amazing wedding!