Crown of Thorns Journal- Wood Cook Stove Challange

[CrownofThorns]

I intend to do the GAPS myself once it is affordable for us. I'm pretty sure it would take care of mine and hubby's problem, although I do have a family history, and we both have Native American blood in us.

BB do you have to be completely GF or can you handle Spelt? My grandmother is celiac and can handle spelt just fine. Since just a couple days ago I had my first "celiac like" reaction to wheat DH and I plan on buying a bag of spelt this next Azure order and use only that until it's gone and see if we feel any better. Too bad it's double the price of wheat or I would have been using it ages ago. :/

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

I intend to do the GAPS myself once it is affordable for us. I'm pretty sure it would take care of mine and hubby's problem, although I do have a family history, and we both have Native American blood in us.

BB do you have to be completely GF or can you handle Spelt? My grandmother is celiac and can handle spelt just fine. Since just a couple days ago I had my first "celiac like" reaction to wheat DH and I plan on buying a bag of spelt this next Azure order and use only that until it's gone and see if we feel any better. Too bad it's double the price of wheat or I would have been using it ages ago. :/

I cannot handle even the tiniest amount from wheat, spelt, kamut or barley. Not sprouted or soured either. True Celiac. Sounds like you all have more of an intolerance, which can be overcome.

Have you checked out Ann Marie's upcoming class? www.cheeseslave.com

 

[CrownofThorns]

For anyone who is interested, it took 22 Cups of kelp in 11 days for my five Nigies to become "satiated". For the first time in 11 days I went out this morning and there was still kelp in the pan. Whew! I was beginning to think they were going to eat up my 50lb in a month or two!

That shows how deficient our hay is up here

Yeah, we have been buying our hay from a family in Nenana that makes great hay. We ran out a couple months ago and had to buy some stuff locally. Not only did my goats go through it twice as fast, but now we just bought some bales of the Nenana hay that were slightly mildewy and much stemmier then the local stuff. But my goats are completely ignoring the local stuff to go after the Nenana hay. Even the worst of the Nenana hay is better then the best of our local hay.

Someday I'd like to make my own hay, with a huge variety of grasses, legumes. Grown in soil that I have been building up with fish fertilizers, manure and compost. I bet that would be some good stuff. But with only 4 acres I kinda doubt that will ever happen. :/

 

[CrownofThorns]

I intend to do the GAPS myself once it is affordable for us. I'm pretty sure it would take care of mine and hubby's problem, although I do have a family history, and we both have Native American blood in us.

BB do you have to be completely GF or can you handle Spelt? My grandmother is celiac and can handle spelt just fine. Since just a couple days ago I had my first "celiac like" reaction to wheat DH and I plan on buying a bag of spelt this next Azure order and use only that until it's gone and see if we feel any better. Too bad it's double the price of wheat or I would have been using it ages ago. :/

I cannot handle even the tiniest amount from wheat, spelt, kamut or barley. Not sprouted or soured either. True Celiac. Sounds like you all have more of an intolerance, which can be overcome.

Have you checked out Ann Marie's upcoming class? www.cheeseslave.com

I would love to but financially it's not possible right now. Check out www.welltellme.com I found that website 4 years ago, and because of the ladies on WTM I even know about this kind of stuff. Anyways, there are several who have healed food allergies doing what they could since GAPS wasn't an option for them. Specifically look for the posts of mykidsmom. She has gone through A LOT and I have learned SO much from her.

 

[miss_thenorth]

How are you guys finding the GAP diet to be expensive? I have just started looking into it--haven't read the book, --just googling for info. And BB, what are your reactions to gluten? I have only been off gluten products for a bit more than a year now. While I have no desire to go back on it rightnow, I do not know whether it is an intolerance (my belief), or whether is is celiac. (I have not been tested).

 

[CrownofThorns]

How are you guys finding the GAP diet to be expensive? I have just started looking into it--haven't read the book, --just googling for info. And BB, what are your reactions to gluten? I have only been off gluten products for a bit more than a year now. While I have no desire to go back on it rightnow, I do not know whether it is an intolerance (my belief), or whether is is celiac. (I have not been tested).

What I found that was out of my budget the most was the probiotics. You can't use just any probiotics, and what you do have to use is EXPENSIVE! Not only that but the diet is hard to follow financially especially if you want to make things that resemble normal food but with nuts rather then grains. Here in AK most groceries are so expensive that just eating a diet with plenty of fresh fruit and veggies is takes up over $300 a month for the two of us. I don't know what I would do if I had to buy my meat too! Thankfully the grand ol' state of Alaska provides us with all the moose and fish we want, and we raise chickens ourselves.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

How are you guys finding the GAP diet to be expensive? I have just started looking into it--haven't read the book, --just googling for info. And BB, what are your reactions to gluten? I have only been off gluten products for a bit more than a year now. While I have no desire to go back on it rightnow, I do not know whether it is an intolerance (my belief), or whether is is celiac. (I have not been tested).

We live in Alaska

I have not been tested, but have a family history as well.
My dad has gut reactions, whereas I have neurological reactions.
I spent all my life thinking that being tired was normal. I also had no idea that I had terrible brain fog.
I eventually went gluten free to see if that was part of the reason I miscarry. I turned into a different person within two days, and when I tested by eating some two weeks later, I was in agony for 3 or 4 days. Extreme joint and muscle pain, and an inability to stay awake.
It really was the main reason my endocrine system is so broken.

A few months later, DH and I played scrabble, and we were both shocked that I was able to play without falling asleep, and, I doubled mt normal score.
To bad I was not gluten free while in school. I thought I was just dumb!

 

[miss_thenorth]

I wondered about the probiotics they spoke of, but assumed you could use things like yogurt, kefir, kombucha and fermented foods to provide the probiotics.

 

[CrownofThorns]

I wondered about the probiotics they spoke of, but assumed you could use things like yogurt, kefir, kombucha and fermented foods to provide the probiotics.

I've wondered, but you'd have to do the research to make sure your getting the same strains of culture and that your getting the same amounts. It bears looking into for sure.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

I wondered about the probiotics they spoke of, but assumed you could use things like yogurt, kefir, kombucha and fermented foods to provide the probiotics.

No. You have to use Biokult. Those foods are added in at different times in the diet.