If you suspect that you don’t react well to gluten, please read this article!

If you are going to be tested for celiac disease do it before going gluten free on your own or you might not react to the blood test.

But if you’re like a growing number of us are, intolerant to gluten instead of having celiac disease, try eliminating gluten and see how you feel.  Then slowly add foods back in and keep a diary of your symptoms.

I have an intolerance to wheat but can eat spelt and oat flour.  See what works and doesn’t work for you before spending lots of money on gluten free products.

And remember, just because it’s gluten free down not mean it’s healthy!  Watch your portions and don’t fall into the same track that snagged us years ago with the “fat-free” craze.  These “fat-free” foods had tons of sugar and caused people to gain, not lose, weight.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204136404577206891526292590.html

Jack in the Box thinks so! “Because our customers love bacon.”

So if a vanilla shake infused with bacon syrup sounds good to you, please let me know why.  Personally, I don’t think I’d ever want, crave, or enjoy such a concoction…

I LOVE cornbread, but since I have a problem with wheat and dairy I usually abstain.

But when I heard that turkey chili was being served at my neighbor’s Superbowl party, I knew I just had to have some cornbread with it.  

So I took a very traditional recipe, swapped spelt flour for regular flour, soy milk for regular milk, and coconut sugar for regular sugar (because it’s supposed to be lower on a glycemic index).  Guess what? Everyone LOVED the cornbread and nobody guessed that is was made with spelt and dairy free.

So double this recipe for you next party, and enjoy!!!

Spelt Cornbread

1 cup corn meal

1 cup spelt flour

1/4 cup coconut flour

1 Tbsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 cup unsweetened soy milk

1/3 cup safflower oil

1 large egg

Preheat oven to 400.  Spray an 8”x8” pan.  If you have a cast iron pan all the better!

In a large bowl mix your cornmeal, spelt flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.  In a smaller bowl mix your soymilk, oil and egg.  Add to the dry ingredients and blend gently.

Bake for 20-25 minutes.  Serves 10!

These oils contained GMOs, meaning products that are genetically modified, even if the label says 100% NATURAL!!!

So don’t be fooled!  Use olive oil, grapeseed oil, coconut oil or safflower oil for cooking and baking.  

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/urgent-throw-these-cooking-oils-in-the-trash.html#ixzz1lf4sYEkt

If you care about the poisoning of our food supply and water sources, genetically engineered frankenfoods becoming more prevalent, the fact that CORN is in everything, all the junk food that is aggressively marketed to kids who are becoming more sickly and obese, not to mention the inhumane treatment of livestock, please watch this video and pass it on!

http://www.youtube.com/user/renagade12?feature=mhum re-upload this is great!! more kids need to get out of the whole brainwashed mindset.. and start looking …

California had the good sense to pass a law in 2009 which required that “downer” or “nonambulatory” livestock, animals too sick to walk on their own, be euthanized rather than put in your local grocery store’s meat department.  

Our great state was moved to make this sensible decision after the Humane Society turned over a video.  The video showed that sick animals are shocked, then dragged, then killed along with the healthy ones.

Well guess what?  The Supreme Court just unanimously ruled to OVERTURN this law, since, in their view, it is up to the federal government to set standards that all states then have to abide by.  They are siding with the National Meat Association.

It seems that our government thinks it’s just dandy for consumers to eat weak, sick livestock.  But they insist that this is not the case!  Because, as they state “The vast majority of nonambulatory pigs are merely overheated, stressed, fatigued, or stubborn, and if allowed to rest, will stand an walk unassisted.”

I’m not making this stuff up!  I guess they have swine psychologists on staff that understand these things, while we do not.

Hmmm.  Maybe they should improve the overall conditions that these animals are forced to endure, so that the really sick pigs can be distinguised from the fussy ones. They’re just that pissed off about their heinous living conditions and the fact that they are about to die.

And if the next time you eat ribs they’re from a sick pig, well sorry, that just is not really important enough to the powers that be.

Only dinner option on night 1-baked potato.  Night 2-bread.

Read on for a humorous take on the challenges of being a vegetarian in the Midwest!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/dining/a-vegetarians-struggle-for-sustenance-in-the-midwest.html?_r=1&hpw

If you are a devotee or practice yoga occasionally this is a good article to read.  It warns you of the potential dangers in yoga, so you’ll be careful not to push too hard and to listen to your body!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hpw