Beckys Blog

Well, shortly after last nights post on food, We bought our first cow!  Or rather, quarter of a cow.  We had been looking into buying grass fed beef by the 1/4 cow for a while now.  Thad called a farmer from church last week to ask about a cow and we were too late.  The October cow was already spoken for, and he wasn't butchering again until January.  Well, a miracle happened.  One of the people who was splitting the current cow went hunting and got a deer!  So he backed out on the cow AFTER it had already been butchered!  Yay!  So we got a call late last night asking if we were interested in our quarter cow this month instead of waiting...of course, Thad said YES!  Now we are getting 161 lbs of Grass fed, organic, Black Angus meat delivered to our house next week!  Where on earth are we going to put it!?!  We do have a mid sized chest freezer, so this week, my goal will be to primarily feed the family from things currently in ...

It's no secret that there are a lot of food allergies in my family.  We get by by only avoiding the worst offenders and not all of them.  If the whole family was to avoid everything that we are all allergic to, I would not be able to use wheat, egg, dairy, blueberries, sesame, garlic, nuts...and a LOT of other things I can't remember.  Recently, I had been having regular bad head aches and stomach aches.  Around that same time, Thad did a job at a commercial chicken farm...it was absolutely the most disgusting thing ever!  He suggested that maybe if we take chicken out of the diet, my stomach would be better...surprise!  It worked!  The theory is that the antibiotics fed to the chicken may have been killing the good bacteria that is suppose to be in my digestive track.  So...no more chicken now too.  For the headaches, I came off of caffeine 2 weeks ago, and for 8 days now have eaten NOTHING that I am allergic too.  Amazingly...the heada...