Comments on: green smoothies, free apples, strep throat, antibiotics

By: Robyn

Robyn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:45:25 +0000

Melanie, no dicing–too much effort when your BlendTec / VitaMix is going to make quick work of it later. No blanching–kills enzymes.

Beverly, I think I have finally talked him out of any more flu shots. We’ll see. He’s been sick three times since getting the H1N1 vaccine. We will talk more on this blog soon about how vaccines may seriously compromise the immune system.

By: beverly

beverly — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:57:44 +0000

gargle with peroxide for strep throat, it works. and robyn, i think maybe your boyfriend might need another flu shot, huh?

By: Melanie Bingham

Melanie Bingham — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:09:30 +0000

do dice or blanch or do anything to your fruits and vegies before you freeze them?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:53:54 +0000

Tiffany,
I would tell your friend that she needs to change her habits first, then get the kids to go along. When I started drinking green smoothies, my kids wouldn’t drink them because they were green, so I made sure that I used spinach which doesn’t taste very green, and always berries to make it red, and a big scoop of orange juice concentrate in it. That was what I offered for breakfast and if they didn’t like it, they could wait till lunch. They started liking them, then I slowly introduced them greener and greener to them. I still put the OJ in them, but they will drink green ones now and even with other greens besides spinach.

As for the mac and cheese. Does she do it out of a box? My kids like it too, but I refuse to make it out of a box. You can actually make it healthy. Use whole wheat pasta, butter, whole wheat flour, almond milk, onion, garlic, paprika, and a little cheddar to make it orange for the sauce (sorry I just dump it in till it works, so I don’t have a recipe). My kids accept it now because it’s the only way they get mac and cheese anymore.

I think the big thing is to not make the transition all at once. That’s why I like the 12 step program because it baby steps you through it. There is nothing more stressful than doing a total overhaul on how you do food in your home. You tend to get frustrated and give up on it because you can’t deal with all the complaining from your family :) I have found green smoothies to be the key in this because once they are drinking them, they start craving better things.

By: Lala

Lala — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:46:16 +0000

there’s a new coconut kefir out that you can buy (I still want to learn to make my own to make it cheaper and healthier) but until then—I found it at good earth in american fork—just thought I’d let those know who have a milk allergy.

my son supposedly has “folliculitis” and I am putting anti-biotic oiintment on it against my better judgement–I didn’t know what else to use (and coconut oil didn’t seem to be helping?) any ideas?!!! (I decided to use the ointment to try and avoid having to end up using an internal anti-biotic.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:50:57 +0000

I have a friend whose son has asthma and he gets croup pretty easily. Quite a few people have come to me for advice on how to feed their kids more healthy foods. They are excited about it, but I don’t quite feel I’m on their level because my kids have been SO great to adapt to our food lifestyle. They have just not been picky at all. So I told my friend to get her son off dairy. She doesn’t know how she’ll do that because he drinks chocolate milk every day. I told her to find another drink that is good for him to replace it with, even if it’s not related to chocolate milk. Does anyone else have any advice for picky eaters? She really wants to change, but doesn’t know exactly how to transition. She says they will not drink green smoothies and they love macaroni and cheese.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:29:11 +0000

I’m glad you posted that about antibiotics. My friend’s son just got strep and we were over there just before they found out. So I’m hoping it doesn’t affect me. But if it does, then I know what to do! It seems like everyone is so sick this season!

By: Mom2CSS

Mom2CSS — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:34:41 +0000

http://www.medicalvoices.org/en/vaccination/articles/protecting-yourself-against-swine-flu.html
Just found out about this site today….. maybe this is why so many of us are not getting the vaccines!
Made me think of this post… I read here then went over to the medicalvoices.org site…. interesting!
My OB gave me the go around about not taking the shot… NO way are any of us going to.

By: Shanna

Shanna — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:35:08 +0000

I got after my mom the other day – 1/2 kidding and 1/2 serious. She was awesome as a mom. She never took us to a Dr. for an illness, never got us shots, and treated any infection with home remedies, herbs, etc. I remember having an eye infection as a kid, and she mixed this green salve paste, put it on my eye and put a patch on it and I had to sleep all night like that …, it felt disgusting and smelled funny, but it got better! And no medicine! She read all the books on natural healing remedies. We never had an antibiotic for anything. Ear infections? She’d warm up a spoonfull of pure olive oil and drip it in our ear then stuff it with a cotton swab – cures it quick! Chicken pox? I had to take a bath in herb tea and oats, it went away fast! She’d have us go into the fields and pick flowers and plants that she would dry and make herb teas with, etc… I was getting after her recently, because I’ve been working hard lately to learn many of the things she practiced – but she didn’t share all her knowledge with us growing up! I could have been learning the why’s of all the things she did when I was a child, but now at 39, I’m having to figure it all out myself. At least her example has instilled in me, a desire to learn how to take care of my family in a different way other than the Dr.s teach …. but I try to teach my kids ‘why’ I do what I do, and why we eat this, and not that… ect. I guess if people don’t know any other way, and haven’t been taught, they are going to listen to the Dr.s advice.