“The food supply chain is breaking,” company chairman John Tyson said in a blog post on the company’s website April 26, warning of an upcoming shortage in steak and pork. “Millions of pounds of meat will disappear” as plants close, he added. This month, the company has shuttered a meat processing plant in Pasco, Wash., that produces enough beef in one day to feed 4 million people; two of its largest facilities in Iowa and Indiana; and a chicken processing plant in Tennessee because of COVID-19 outbreaks.
Tyson’s comments parallel alerts from JBS SA, the world’s biggest meat company, and Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s top pork producer, that consumers are likely to see meat shortfalls. On Sunday, JBS said it will shut down another beef production facility in Wisconsin."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/impossible-foods-beyond-meat-see-spike-in-demand-as-coronavirus-wreaks-havoc-on-meat-supply-2020-05-05?mod=mw_latestnews

This is the time to connect with your local food producers more than ever!  I stock up on inexpensive bones and organ meats.  Good luck with fake meat, which lacks fat soluble vitamins.  Animal fats are not the demons they're made out to be.  Malnutrition will result if people turn to lab-meat as their main source of food.  For fast food junkies, they might not care too much anyway?  This is getting interesting....the future is here.

Homemade fermented ginger ale electrolyte beverage.  Very refreshing and tasty on hot days.

• Slice a handful of ginger into 1/2-1 inches pieces.  I also added sliced turmeric root.
• Add sliced ginger to 1 quart of water into sauce pan.  
• Add 1/3 cup organic cane juice sugar.
• Heat water, ginger and sugar until boiling and turn off heat.  Let cool.  Heat will pasteurize any potential yeasts/pathogens (except botulism spores).
• After cool, pour into mason jar.
• Pinch of real sea salt (1/4 teaspoon?).
• Add inoculant (living cultures) like water kefir, kombucha or raw apple cider vinegar with the "mother".
• Cover with fermenting lid or cheesecloth and let the ginger ale mixture sit on the counter or cupboard for a few days to get started with fermentation, then transfer to fridge. 

Let continue to ferment for at least a week or more.  Tighten lid when it has pretty much finished to capture carbonation but keep an eye on it and open over the sink!  Jars can explode so take care.  Practice fermentation safety!

Make a new batch when that one is finished by reusing the previous batch ginger and some of the juice.  Add a little bit of fresh ginger for each new batch.  Follow the same recipe above for perpetual homemade ginger ale.  Great for digestion!

Add with fizzy water, plus coconut water for potassium and sea mineral drops for magnesium electrolytes with fresh squeezed lime for refreshing summertime beverage.

Lactofermented/pickled eggs

Some people use vinegar to "pickle" their eggs.  That works but is not real lactofermentation and I don't believe as healthy as lactofermenting.

If you want real pickled eggs with healthy living enzymes, then try lactofermenting them.  It's super easy.

• Hard boil eggs.  I found many simple recipes online.  Find the ones that say "easy peeling".
• After cooled, peel eggs and rinse well.
• Place eggs with favorite ingredients into mason jars.  I added fresh jalapeno peppers and red onion.
• Add a tablespoon of sugar and tablespoon of real sea salt.  Sugar will feed the culture.
• Add your lactofermention culture.  I used water kefir.  Once again you can use kombucha or living apple cider vinegar with the "mother".  It must contain active living cultures.  
• Fill jar to the top with water and cover with fermenting lid.  Fermenting lids allow carbon dioxide to escape as it begins to ferment.
• Let sit on the counter a few days to get going and then transfer to fridge.  They should be ready to consume within a week to 10 days.  The longer they sit the more they'll ferment and should get tangy.

Another batch of organic beet kvass

• Rinse and slice beets
• I also added shallots and garlic
• Put in pan of water with two tablespoons of sea salt and bring to boil. 
• Boil until beets are tender.
• Let cool
• Place beets and juice into mason jars when temp is safe
• Add extra water to fill to brim if necessary
• I added several tablespoons water kefir as the culture for lactofermentation.  
• Let sit on the counter for a couple days and then transfer to fridge.  Ready to consume within a week.

Make sure to add the culture otherwise you may ferment bad bacteria!  Very important!

You could also use live kombucha or live apple cider vinegar with the "mother" to use as the starter.  The live bacteria eat the sugars and convert them to lactic acid.  Make sure it's strongly acidic when it's finished.  Botulism dies at high acidity/low pH below 4.6.  Salt also inhibits bad bacteria, so make sure to use enough.

Beet kvass is considered a blood tonic.  It's great with meals to add digestive enzymes.  Add the fermented beets to a meal as a condiment.  Take a shot any time during the day or if you feel a cold or flu coming on. 

Oven roasted lamb shoulder

I followed a simple recipe I found online.  I used my home grown herbs, rosemary, basil, himalayan sea salt and ground pepper.  I roasted until internal temp reached 180.  It came out medium rare, tender.  

Raw milk, gelatin, kefir, coconut kefir, homemade yogurt, MCT oil, maca powder, kelp powder, egg yolk.  Add optional fruit like blueberries or cherries.

Top Superfoods

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Acerola and/or Amalaki Powder: Vitamin C
Most important dietary anti-oxidant, bioflavonoids, rutin. Up to 15 grams per day. Danger to kidneys in excess amounts. Amalaki used in Ayurvedic medicine.

Diatomaceous Earth powder (food grade): Provides silica and other trace minerals. Supports collagen and gut health, removes heavy metals, toxins, pesticides, pathogens from body. 1-3 Teaspoons daily, taken between meals. Also a good soil amendment, kills fleas on pets, controls ants.

Bee Pollen: Been used to treat allergies, asthma, menstrual irregularities, constipation, diarrhea, anemia, low energy, cancer, rheumatism, arthritis, and toxic conditions. Russian study of inhabitants of Georgia, where many live to 100 and even some to 150, showed many were beekeepers who often ate raw unprocessed honey. Contains 22 amino acids (eight essential), 27 minerals, vitamins, hormones, fatty acids, and over 5,000 enzymes and coenzymes. Can provoke allergic reactions when taken first time, but subsides with slow and small addition to diet. Avoid bee pollen that has been dried at temps above 130 degrees.

Blue-green algae, Spirulina, Chlorella: Protein, carotenoids, minerals. Does not provide B12 as often claimed. Spirulina easiest to digest and absorb (because of mucopolysaccharides rather than cellulose). Wild blue-green can be toxic under certain conditions and should be freeze-dried.

Bitters: Stimulates bile, increases digestion and improves assimilation of fats. Remedy for quesy stomach. Chinese and Hindu culture value bitters for cleansing, strengthening and healing properties.


Butter, High-Vitamin and High-Vitamin Butter Oil: Deep yellow butter from cows feeding on rapidly growing green rass in spring and fall provide vitamins A, D3 and X-Factor (Vitamin K2, discovered by Dr. Price). Blue Ice recommended!

Cod Liver Oil: Provides, A, D3, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), important for prostaglandins (localized tissue hormones), brain and nervous system, visual acuity. Maintenance dose of 10,000 IU of vitamin A and 1000 IU of D3. Combine with source of K2 (high-vitamin butter oil, goose liver, or natto) for maximum benefit. Blue Ice recommended!

Colostrum: First milk of cows after giving birth to new calf. Immune system support.

Evening Primrose, Borage or Black Currant oil: Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA).

Glandular and Organ extracts: Treats same gland or organ in human beings including thyroid, pituitary, liver, thymus, spleen, kidney and eyes. Standard Process through a holistic doctor.

Kelp: Iodine and magnesium, plus other minerals. Thyroid and metabolism support.

Noni Juice: proxeronine, contributes to proteins on cellular level.

Wheat Germ Oil: Natural vitamin E

Probiotics: Beneficial intestinal flora. Kefir, yogurt, kombucha, fermented foods.
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Nutritional Yeast: Provides B vitamins (except B12), chromium. Glutamic acid helps with alcohol cravings.

Turmeric: anti-cancer properties (curcumin). Look for fresh turmeric root.  Curry powder also contains turmeric.

Mushrooms: absorbs radiation and pulls from body. Be sure to eat mushrooms not grown in radioactive soil! Shitake, lions mane, oysters.

Tuna fish and brazil nuts (soaked for 8 hours): high in selenium. Helps counter mercury and remove from the body.

Garlic and onions: provide sulfur, which helps detoxify the body, along with anti-microbial properties.

Coconut oil: very anti-microbial and provides short and medium chain fats for quick energy.  Helps in weight loss too.

Cilantro: helps remove heavy metals.
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​Green foods in particular, like kale and broccoli: good sources of chlorophyll (magnesium), potassium and are anti-cancer foods.

THE FOURTEEN SUPER FOODS
Recommended by Sally Fallon Morrell - Weston A. Price Foundation
Why These Foods Are So Very Special

1. Butter from grass-fed cows (preferably raw)
2. Oysters
3. Liver from grass-fed animals
4. Eggs from grass-fed hens
5. Cod liver oil (recommend Green Pasture or Tuna Omega-3 Oil from Standard Process)
6. Fish eggs
7. Whole raw milk from grass-fed animals
8. Bone broth
9. Shrimp
10. Wild salmon
11. Whole yogurt or kefir
12. Beef from grass-fed steers
13. Sauerkraut (homemade)
14. Organic beets (and beet kvass)

Learn more:  http://traditionalcook.com/foods.shtml

Vitamin D in real butter was found to be 100x more effective than synthetic Vitamin D2 (source)

Kelp noodles in homemade beef broth (pasture raised knuckle bones), organic vegetables, fresh homegrown tomatoes and basil from my Aerogarden, with lots of butter!  Topped with fresh homemade kraut.