Comments on: Food as a Spiritual Practice

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:26:59 +0000

OH Kay you make me smile a big smile!

By: Kay Lilland

Kay Lilland — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:08:41 +0000

What do I do just for myself?

I groom my hair with No. 2 guard on the clippers! So freeing! My mother almost worshipped my hair–among my earliest memories.
My first husband groused every time I had a haircut.

Hooray for a buzz-cut!

By: Patricia

Patricia — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:35:43 +0000

Davina,
I am truly in burn out with attempting to assist people with food and then they don’t follow through or have so many excuses – and then the “know it alls” just drive me up the wall…

If I can model something here that supports someone – then that is good…I am attempting to get the skin products company to put ads on my space and the glutenfree dot com folks to put up a link…along with the vitamin company I have worked with for 18 years….I do not have enough subscribers…

now I am focused after the ebook on building subscribers so that I can make some money with my expertise…

The State will not give be a Counseling Lic. after 7/1/2010 and are not grandfathering me in after 20 years of service because they need to get the 8 year old self ordained Pastoral Counselors off the roll books and I did not do a Doctorate or write 5 best sellers….It was my choice to cook instead of study in school?

Hope you are feeling better…I have been thinking about you all day and wishing it is so..

By: Davina

Davina — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:10:04 +0000

Hi Patricia.
Oh, I wouldn’t sell yourself too short. Yes there are a lot of nutritionists out there earning a living at this sort of thing. But there is room for everybody. Plus, you have years and years of valuable hands-on experience that could prove useful to a lot of people. I closed my nutrition business over a year ago… you can step into that space I say, if you’re passionate about it and it “feeds” you, go for it!
Davina´s last blog ..93 Million Miles From Home

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:14:04 +0000

Evita,
I also love the rhythm in my hands when I am chopping and stirring and the lack of pressure about cooking too…I have been eating raw since August to work on healing my body, but have found I need to cook the winter beans!

I make a very hearty whole wheat, oat honey bread which I have been having as a bun with a salmon patty 1 time per week to increase the omega 3s and B vitamins that are water soluble and do not stay long in the body…since October and this has helped with the craving issue on straight raw/vegan for me….

The Monk’s story is wonderful – I think of it often.
writing the blog is assisting me in getting more human contact into my life because as much as I love to eat – I need more human interaction and discussion to problem solve and move forward in my vision.

Thank you for sharing with me

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:04:38 +0000

JD
The “experts” do not believe that Celiac Disease is preventable, I question that since I have found Canadian research that shows the dis-ease is 98% passed on….so if you know your parent or grandparent has Celiac D. you might be able to not eat Gluten’s and dairy for a generation and modify the genetic disposition out of the system.

CD is huge in our state like MS and is part of the mystery…CD is huge in countries dependent on wheat like countries that are dependent on rice have high rice allergies and intolerance.

Generations off do not discover they have CD until they get ill from something else – Rheumatoid Arthritis or pneumonia…
The genetic modifier in my husband’s family was his grandfathers exposure to chemicals in the logging industry and then the release of toxic material from Hanford….

Canada found dozens of people in Mental Hospitals misdiagnosed as various depressions and anxiety diseases and when they eliminated gluten they had amazing recovery and were able to get on with their lives.

CD folks need lots of exercise – daily….need to listen to their body messages – need to understand the other allergy problems associated with the genetic change, understand depression and
eat with great care.

Not having a spontaneous heart attack or spontaneous blindness from macular degeneration seems worth it to me to understand…but most folks try to avoid knowing…so they can be “normal”
I think when you listen to your body and eat what it needs then one can live normally and fully – we all need different foods.

Then to answer in the energy medical realm – why not heal it completely?

My partner avoids conflict, so he doesn’t like to know what his body is telling him or make change….he does let me feed him and he will eat on program to avoid confrontation with me…
I have put his Rheumatoid Arthritis in remission 6 times now, but his brothers and niece who all have the same problem are just into taking the pills – all day long.

I have long answers – sorry…I get so frustrated trying to get folks to make change…I see why Drs just hand out the pills..

Stages begin with eliminating all gluten and dairy from the diet, this is very hard to do….Only eat organic free range chicken or turkey. Avoid grasses…..eating raw and organic is a good way to begin.

Drink warm rice milk to sooth the cilia in the whole body…avoid antibiotics and synthetic vitamins like the plague….30 minutes aerobic exercise every day…

Listen to classical music – softly everyday – those little cilia are in the ears and sinuses…..one it trying to take down inflammation for every nook and cranny of the body – lots of water…

I will be glad to share more information via email…

By: Patricia

Patricia — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:39:37 +0000

Snaggletooth,
I know what it is like to live without an oven – I did 3 years with just a MW on top of the refrigerator and a clawfoot bathtub…and it was tough and taught a lot of creativity! I am researching a table top convection oven right now – My mum had one when she moved into her small apartment and it just worked like a wonder…
I am wondering if the recipe for Impossible Pumpkin Pie is on line…no crust and works well in many shapes.

I think pumpkin pie works in tart pans too…which would fit.

Simple food is the best for one I think…but sometimes that does not qualify for comfort!

By: Evita

Evita — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:06:33 +0000

Hi Patricia

This was a very healing reflection…yes go back to yourself and discovering back all sides of you.

Getting back in touch with ourselves is such a healing in itself.

Love the story about the monk! Thank you for sharing.

As for me, cooking is a joy because I am putting in time for me – to nourish this – my physical body – and more and more I don’t even call it cooking as I am eating more and more raw. And that feels really good too.

A lot of people are afraid to cook or say they can’t, but for me cooking is all about expressing personal creativity… all of us have that!
Evita´s last blog ..Green Beaver: A Canadian Natural Personal Care Product Company

By: J.D. Meier

J.D. Meier — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:59:14 +0000

Food is one of my best experiences in life. When I travel, I make it a point to eat the local food and soak up the culture and history.

Is Celiac Disease preventable?
What are the keys to curing it?
J.D. Meier´s last blog ..4 Stages of Competence

By: SnaggleTooth

SnaggleTooth — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:03:53 +0000

Now that I’m by myself, (a decade now) cooking is very simplified. I’ll cook only one food item after work, then eat the leftovers together as a meal later in the week. I’ve been oven challenged, n really miss it! Been trying to bake in the toaster oven, but it’s trial n error.
My grandmother’s holiday recipes will always give me the most comfort, I think. (don’t know how I’d convert those for Celiacs)Wish I had the oven… My next try will be pumkin pie in a rectanular bread pan-

I do remember the Joy of cooking on my Mother’s shelf. Thanks for the wonderful Tassajara prose!
SnaggleTooth´s last blog ..Yel Low