Wahls Protocol Diet (on a budget)

[tortoise]

Why do you have to can outdoors?

I have a glass stovetop that won't keep my pressure canner running. Something about the weight of it messing up the sensors? But a moot point since the bottom of my pressure canner is a bit warped so I can't use it on any stovetop now. I use a propane burner outdoors.

 

[flowerbug]

Lot of beans here.

Heirloom Bean Seed - By Wrights Heirlooms

We have many varieties of Appalachian heirloom bean seed.

www.wrightsheirlooms.com

Some stores will toss rather than mark down. I get things on the mark down. Hey, if you had gotten it 5 min before -- full price! At WalMart they mark day before, day of...if still there, a 2nd downing of price.

i'm not really looking for a bunch more but i can't resist it when i see some that look interesting and if they might work here.

i have several hundred different varieties already. not counting my own crosses and selections that i'm working with. the next few weeks i have to figure out what i want to take to a seed swap. not going to be easy...

most of what i see on the seed racks today are fairly standard varieties that i know about already and they don't appeal to me or i would already have them. about the only exception is the Top Notch wax bean. those are still my favorite wax beans, but i am trying out a new one this year to see if they will work here.

 

[tortoise]

This thread is overdue for an update! I only lasted a few months on Wahls Protocol each time. I would feel amazingly better, then sick again in a couple months. I would get sick after going dairy free because I was adding MCT (coconut and palm) oil and coconut products. I learned I'm allergic. I also have since had DNA test done which shows I don't have either of the genes (SNPs) associated with poor tolerance of dairy. I had been having some symptoms from milk, but later learned there is palm ingredients in the added vitamins A and D.

After each time I've gotten sick, I get food aversion to all the foods I was eating at the time. The food aversions seem to last 6 to 12 months. It makes it hard to get back on track.

I'm working toward eating similarly to Wahls Protocol again, but I'm keeping dairy. I might keep wheat too (I tolerate not-enriched wheat products that use palm-free yeast).

I am struggling with taste perception. Healthy foods taste terrible to me right now. I'm using liver capsules. I'm making leafy green capsules too. Eating colorful fruits has been a little easier. Eating meat, fish and vegetables is still harder. I'm using powdered vegetables and mushrooms to make sure I'm getting nutrients.

DS14 is pretty much on Wahls Protocol since the beginning of the school year. He packs a salad for lunch and loads it with pickles, olives, sardines, chopped veggies. I can hardly believe what he is willing to eat

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I had to go back and re-read the entire thread, lol. It's great that you know about so many of your triggers and can avoid them.

I had been having some symptoms from milk, but later learned there is palm ingredients in the added vitamins A and D.

Who knew? Looks like you might just have to get a goat, lol.

Really awesome that DS is willing to eat so healthy! What 14yo boy is willing to do that? You're obviously setting a good example.

 

[baymule]

Haha, I was thinking, You need a goat! FEM beat me to it.

 

[tortoise]

Really awesome that DS is willing to eat so healthy! What 14yo boy is willing

He gets sick just like me. He knows how miserable he can feel when he eats standard American diet. It has taken 7 years for him to be willing to eat healthy foods. But heck, it took me 30 years

 

[tortoise]

My low budget efforts today

• Cooking tomato sauce from free tomatoes
• Dehydrate tomato pulp/pomace after putting it through the food mill. I hide it in food as a seasoning
• Dehydrate swiss chard to make powder. I bought 7 bunches for $20 from a farm stand. If I buy from greenhouse, its $4.50/bunch. I dont like eating salad so I consume greens in capsules.
• Going to buy squash from someone's garden excess this aftnoon. I'm hoping to get lots of butternut squash. I make puree soup and hide it in tomato sauces and chili.

 

[flowerbug]

I had to go back and re-read the entire thread, lol. It's great that you know about so many of your triggers and can avoid them.

Who knew? Looks like you might just have to get a goat, lol.

Really awesome that DS is willing to eat so healthy! What 14yo boy is willing to do that? You're obviously setting a good example.

as a teenage boy who was working very hard most of the time i would eat about anything put in front of me. sardines are good, i like them all sorts of ways. i used to eat a lot more of them than i do now since the prices went way up. i eat more beans instead.

 

[tortoise]

I got 20 butternut squash, about 4 gallons romas, and a pile of gigantic zucchini.

Let the cooking and canning begin (again)

 

[tortoise]

@Cecilia's-life you will enjoy Deep Nutrition by Dr Cate Shanahan. There are a whole buch of books/doctors that have come to the same nutrition conclusions, each from a different angle. Deep Nutrition is focused on epigenetics and generation nutrition. It's the best book for explaining about healthy fats.

Wahls Protocol is the same type of diet formatted in a different way. Dr. Wahls came to the conclusion from mitochondrial function and neural health.