I know it's a cliché to say that a revelation came to me as my first child was born! Yet it happened sort of something like that.
I knew that very simply we were put on this earth for that one purpose.
No more existential question of “why am I here” or “what is my purpose” … It just seemed purely, simply natural.
Nine years have past since that moment and through everything my body has been through it has brought on a new question. Why can't I fulfill a full term pregnancy?
So my path has lead me on this farm, living amongst a few alpacas, a few ducks and chicks, a few (which have multiplied fast he!) angora rabbits, my 2 busy dogs and a farm cat! Oh yes and a few fish aquariums! But that's a whole other story about aquaponics which I'll get into some other time, when our system will prove worthy to talk about!
I have a small modest garden which actually produces way more than my mother could have imagined!
A steady growing raspberry bush, a few apple trees and 2 mirabella trees! With the ducks and rabbits we raise ourselves about ¼ of meat intake per year and 1/3 of our fruit and veggie intake per year!
Everything else I buy is now been switched to strictly organic and or locally naturally cultivated (which in sense is the same thing). Some research suggest that organic foods have 30 to 60% more nutrients than conventional/ industrial foods!
Presently, I am exactly 12 weeks pregnant and I must say, lots (doctors and family members, probably a few friends too) expect me to most likely fail! But with everything I've researched and studied, I sense that I have to try! Otherwise , well I'll never know...
I won't get into the whole depth of it, because it's quite technical and possibly boring.
Basically I have an “incompetent cervix” ! Yup one stupid cervix indeed...
It has previously caused quite some problems, which in return has obliged me to be pretty much in "bed rest"
mode... I basically have narrowed my activities down to "slowly walking the dogs" and cooking!
Cooking I love, I would even call it a passion!
It has previously caused quite some problems, which in return has obliged me to be pretty much in "bed rest"
mode... I basically have narrowed my activities down to "slowly walking the dogs" and cooking!
Cooking I love, I would even call it a passion!
So this brings me to food...
Everything I've read seems to point at the food we eat! How many people could change their entire health record by simply nourishing themselves properly and or differently! Something that we've seemed to have lost with all the processed foods out there.
I have for the past 4 years “drastically” changed my eating habits, of course my family has had to follow and what a blessing that is to them!
Everything I've read seems to point at the food we eat! How many people could change their entire health record by simply nourishing themselves properly and or differently! Something that we've seemed to have lost with all the processed foods out there.
I have for the past 4 years “drastically” changed my eating habits, of course my family has had to follow and what a blessing that is to them!
I will start a daily enumeration of my daily food intake... What I eat, where I got the ingredients, the nutritional value of some produce and sometimes full recipes! This is more of a self reminder than anything else! If I slip a few opinions here and there, well I'm sorry... I am quite an opinionated woman. However I am simply stating my facts and then my recipes! Not to be taken in a medical way or anything like that!
So here's day one !
Originally written for my mother, who's a little worried about my daily vitamin intake
The e-mail was titled “Sardines and pregnancy”
-Just so you know,
I get my spirulina from kelp!
Lecithin is found in a lot of things (including eggs, which I eat regularly)
Folic acid is a lot of things too! greeny leafs like cabbage and lettuce , full
grain cereal like kamut which I eat every morning.
I'm eating "pretty close to organic" trout 1-2 times a week
I do take a omega vitamin from sardine fish oil and anchovies (only other
additive is gelatin, glycerin and purified water)
And if I don't think I drank enough nettle tea on any given day, I do take the
pregnancy vitamin supplement once in a while ('cause I paid for it, and refuse
to let it go to waste).
Otherwise I eat organic grass fed veal. Since it's
grass fed it's filled with omega's that industrialized beef has lost, and all
other meat is organic right now too!
In fact every single fruit and veggie is organic for now! (my health food store
gets fresh organic fruits in every Tuesday) keep in mind organic fruits (and
veggies) are 30 to 70% higher in vitamins than industrialized food!
Trust me I get what I need from food and tea.
It is the biggest natural health/vitamin industry's myth to make us believe
that food doesn't have everything we need! Diversification and "what they call
organic now" is the key to getting everything the body needs!
My pee is a nice yellow, not to watery meaning not much nutrients are passing
through the body, and not to brownish yellow, which means the liver and kidneys
are over working to pass un-needed nutrients...
Love,
S.
:)
ps: Todays menu?
I get my spirulina from kelp!
Lecithin is found in a lot of things (including eggs, which I eat regularly)
Folic acid is a lot of things too! greeny leafs like cabbage and lettuce , full
grain cereal like kamut which I eat every morning.
I'm eating "pretty close to organic" trout 1-2 times a week
I do take a omega vitamin from sardine fish oil and anchovies (only other
additive is gelatin, glycerin and purified water)
And if I don't think I drank enough nettle tea on any given day, I do take the
pregnancy vitamin supplement once in a while ('cause I paid for it, and refuse
to let it go to waste).
Otherwise I eat organic grass fed veal. Since it's
grass fed it's filled with omega's that industrialized beef has lost, and all
other meat is organic right now too!
In fact every single fruit and veggie is organic for now! (my health food store
gets fresh organic fruits in every Tuesday) keep in mind organic fruits (and
veggies) are 30 to 70% higher in vitamins than industrialized food!
Trust me I get what I need from food and tea.
It is the biggest natural health/vitamin industry's myth to make us believe
that food doesn't have everything we need! Diversification and "what they call
organic now" is the key to getting everything the body needs!
My pee is a nice yellow, not to watery meaning not much nutrients are passing
through the body, and not to brownish yellow, which means the liver and kidneys
are over working to pass un-needed nutrients...
Love,
S.
:)
ps: Todays menu?
Yogurt, then some blueberry pie (your recipe with a home made sesame crust)
clementines
cereal (full grain and organic) with milk and raisins
grapes
tomato cabbage soup
a piece of veal steak
probably more yogurt as a snack in the afternoon or some nutty bar
"cuisse de pintade" (not sure what that is in English, coming from the chicken
farm. It's a sort of bird!)
sweet potato and cinnamon
broccoli
clementines
cereal (full grain and organic) with milk and raisins
grapes
tomato cabbage soup
a piece of veal steak
probably more yogurt as a snack in the afternoon or some nutty bar
"cuisse de pintade" (not sure what that is in English, coming from the chicken
farm. It's a sort of bird!)
sweet potato and cinnamon
broccoli
Then something sweet like sesame snaps or apples cooked in honey and cinnamon.
(invented by me,inspired by the Greek restaurant, I discovered with you in Tarpon Springs... I love cooked apples!)
And just before going to bed, I need more cereal or some wholesome grain, other
wise I wake up in the middle of the night feeling nauseous (morning sickness
comes from low blood sugar).
And just before going to bed, I need more cereal or some wholesome grain, other
wise I wake up in the middle of the night feeling nauseous (morning sickness
comes from low blood sugar).
And that's just today!
Talk to you soon
S.
Here are 2 recipes and a few nutritional tips, for today.
Sweet potato and cinnamon! Yum both really healthy nutrients!
1 boiled sweet potato
50 ml organic milk (ideally 3.5%) , remember I'm pregnant here!
And that's it 1 ½ teaspoon of cinnamon!
Mash it all up … and yum yum yum, I'm sure your whole family will love it! Mine does!
Cinnamon has a few great health benefits
It has an anti-clotting effect on the blood.- It has shown an amazing ability to stop yeast infections.
- It can have a regulatory effect on blood sugar
- When added to food, it inhibits bacterial growth and food spoilage, making it a natural food preservative.
- Can help arthritis pain, soothing joints.
Sweet potato has ranked number one in nutrition of all vegetables!
The numbers for the nutritional sweet potato speak for themselves: almost twice the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A, 42 percent of the recommendation for vitamin C, four times the RDA for beta carotene, and, when eaten with the skin, sweet potatoes have more fiber than oatmeal. All these benefits with only about 130 to 160 calories!
(for one medium size sweet potato)
Calories 130
Fat 0.39 g
Protein 2.15 g
Net Carbs 31.56 g
Dietary Fiber 3.9 g
Calcium 28.6 mg
Sodium 16.9 mg
Potassium 265.2 mg
Folate 18.2 mcg
Vitamin C 29.51 mg
Vitamin A 26081.9 IU Source: US Department of Agriculture
Wow! Do I ever love sweet potatoes !
On that note I'll leave you all to another day !
Where my quiet journey continues... Towards a path nobody knows!
Where my quiet journey continues... Towards a path nobody knows!
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