I’m sticking with the “less is more” theme again today. Grab your coffee or favorite morning bevie and have a look at these links that I think you’ll like. As always, let us know what you think down in the comments – I love to hear from you. While I may not have time to reply to each of them, I always read every single one!
- I thought I’d share three of last week’s tweets that turned out to be quite popular. The links are from posts in my blog archives that you may have missed:
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- What if SEX was bad for you? (Don't forget your brain.) https://tiny.cc/6sp90
- Suffering from chronic CONSTIPATION or other digestive issues? https://bit.ly/3eNKD2 (Do you like how I bolded that word?)
- Remedies for colds and earache: https://bit.ly/TKF1I – these suggestions work well for our family!
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- Don't miss my other new post today with my nephew Keegan's Best Chicken Wing recipe! (That's Keegan to the right.)
- This is the saddest story I’ve ever read about soy.
- An oldie but a goodie from Mark’s Daily Apple: Corn is not a vegetable.
Have a great week everyone!
KitchenKop says
LOL! It takes a LOT to tick me off. The raw milk thing definitely has me goin’ though, but not at you! 🙂
Christy says
shawoooo! see how important those little words are to read correctly.
KitchenKop says
NO! I’m not ticked off AT you!! I’m ticked off WITH you about the raw milk thing, silly girl!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally AGREE with you!!!
Christy says
I don’t know why – sorry. Please delete my post and this one.
KitchenKop says
Christy, I’m ticked off with you…
Lindsay, to be honest, no, I don’t think there is much difference in taste. Sometimes the batch will turn out more sweet, but other times it’s more like vinegar. That inconsistency is why I now make kefir soda instead: https://kellythekitchenkop.com/2009/09/5-reasons-why-homemade-kefir-soda-pop-is-better-than-kombucha-tea.html
And this is also why I no longer have kombucha starters to give away – I’m sorry!
Kelly
Lindsay says
Hi Kelly,
I found your articles about kombucha from last year. I’ve been interested in making my own because I’ve tried the Synergy brand, and I think it tastes like vinegar. I’d like the health benefits, but I’m having trouble with the taste (and the price) of the store kind. Do you think there is a big difference in taste between homemade and the bottled stuff?
Also, my husband is in Grand Rapids right now…maybe he can pick up a mushroom from you 🙂
Christy says
It is so crazy that we live in a world that outlaws RAW milk. It is just one more area that the government and big business are in cahoots. They will let me buy all the alcohol, cigarrettes and polyunsaturated oil I want, Hoho’s Twinkies – go for it, heck I can even jump out of an airplane if I want. But heaven forbid I drink milk straight from the cow.
Jeanmarie says
Raw milk is still legal here in California, although I know of only two producers who sell at retail, Organic Pastures and Claravale, which has much more limited distribution than OP (and better milk from an all-Jersey herd). The state health bureaucrats have been trying hard to eradicate raw milk here, too, but so far Mark MacAfee of OP and the Claravale folks (I’ve met them, forget their names) and thousands of loyal raw milk drinkers have staved off the worst, with assistance from the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, I think.
I’m in Northern California, and possibly there are other retail producers still in business in Southern California, I’m just not familiar with them.
Soli says
Emily, I’m in Connecticut. There’s a store called Edge of the Woods, they sell no meat, but they do sell raw milk from a local farm. Plus, as I mentioned, there’s a vendor at the Saturday farmer’s market in New Haven that has it along with amazing raw milk cheese.
Emily says
Soli, where do you live that you can still find raw milk in a store? I thought CA was the last state, and that they had outlawed it! (Thank God that at least in TX, you can still get it from local farms.)
Tina–I read that soy story and commented, too. Mainly, that there is a huge difference between pasteurized milk (which is what makes people sick) and raw milk.
It’s hard to get people past that, though, since most of the nutrition/diet books of the past 2 decades have made milk the enemy and soy the ally.
Tina says
Hi Kelly,
The following is a response I left on Harte Online comments about soy. I wrote about milk too because someone else wrote a comment about how he/she thought milk could be bad for us.
I avoid soy like the plague. It
JC says
At this rate, we’re going to be wearing t-shirts that say “Ask me about raw milk” — at least those of us who live in states where it’s legal will be wearing them!
KitchenKop says
Soli, that IS interesting, I love it when you still find people who use plain old common sense and don’t need to be hit over the head with it like I did!
Soli says
Hey Kelly, I have a little story to share. Yesterday my mother and I went out to see a play in the afternoon (The Fantasticks), then the plan was to swing by the local natural food market so I could hopefully get some raw milk, and out to dinner. Unfortunately, the store was out. When I came out, she tried to start the car. It’s a Prius, she got it in August. It wouldn’t start. Called a tow truck, and between us all thinking and trying different things determined that somehow the computer thought the emergency brake was engaged so would not start.
Got towed, and the guy driving the truck asked why I was at the market. I told him-raw milk. He was floored because he remembered growing up on it and having it delivered from a local farm. When I told him that you could still get it (there’s also a vendor at the Saturday morning farmer’s market who sells it), he was thrilled. And then mentioned that his father or grandfather had been commenting on kids hitting puberty so early and being so fat, and said it was the food people eat now.
It’s so nice for me to hear other people who may not specifically be TF but still in a similar mindset. The more the merrier.