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So glad to see you all back this week!
I hope that you are having a wonderful, at least somewhat restful, Holiday season.
We are celebrating slowly. One present per day for the kiddos, and not many presents at that.
And tonight (Monday) we watched It’s a Wonderful Life. We stayed up too late, so hopefully I will sleep in tomorrow morning 
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I look forward to seeing what you all have to share and I hope you enjoy my treats – Taste Test Winning Cinnamon Sugar – Made Healthier! and a really wonderful Baked Oatmeal Recipe – 2 Ways!
Welcome back to our Nutritious and Delicious Linky Blog Hop — Traditional Tuesday!
What is Traditional Tuesday? Well,
- if you are a blogger, you can share your whole food related tips on this blog and it will be shared on all five blogs
- if you are a blog reader (I guess we all are, right ?) you can stop by now as well as later to check out the great tips that participating bloggers have to share. And there should be some great stuff, so come back later this week and check it out!
Here is some more specific info:
Traditional Tuesday’s Nutritious and Delicious Blog Carnival is for anything involving traditional foods.
Recipes, techniques, tips, discussions on the hows and whys we do what we do, kitchen organization, appliances used, fitting traditional foods into your life and schedule, anything under the banner of traditional foods is wonderful.
Posts, Facebook pages or websites on the politics of real foods and action alerts for individual states or topics are also welcome.
This blog carnival is hosted by:
KerryAnn @ Cooking Traditional Foods
Jessica @ Delicious Obsessions
Dawn @ Cultured Mama
And… me 
Here are the Rules :
- If you are linking to a recipe, it must be traditional foods. No white flour, white sugar, yeast, packaged or processed products and the like.
- Please link to your article only and not directly to your blog front page.
- Please place a link back to this post. Place the URL of the carnival post, copied from your browser address bar, at the bottom of your post. A badge is below, if you wish to use that instead. To link back, just edit your post and put a link to this blog post at the very bottom of your post. It’s good etiquette and it helps both of us.
- Please only link posts that fit the carnival description. Old and archived posts are most welcome as long as you post a link back as described above.
- Links that do not follow these rules will be deleted.
Please note – if you see something that doesn’t fit the mission of this blog, please let me know .
- Linky will stay open from 12:01AM Tuesday to 11:59PM Friday EST.
Adrienne is the owner of Whole New Mom, wife to David, and a homeschooling mother of two boys, one of whom has Asperger’s Syndrome (high-functioning autism) and life-threatening food allergies. In her past life she worked in the financial services industry and also taught in Japan. She has a passion to help others navigate the sea of information on the road to healthier lives while trusting God for the results of their efforts.
Because she loves to (and can’t afford not to ), she specializes in making whole foods and green living affordable and simplifying special diets (allergen-, gluten- and sugar-free). You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter.
Hi,
I shared my GF DF Coconut Bread French Toast and my mock cocoa fudge. Also an article on how to reduce BPA exposure and a study about infants and salt.
Thanks for hosting! Happy Holidays!
Hi Jill – I saw that French Toast – it looks great! I’ll check out your other posts too!
Hi Adrienne,
I shared my Fig Pecan Bread (Grain and Dairy Free) this week. Happy New Year!
Laura – that sounds great!
Hello There Adrienne~
Sounds like you are enjoying your Holiday, making it your own and taking it easy. It goes by so fast! My husband takes two weeks off during this time so we can visit family and just spend time together. We try and treasure everyday. I love having him home. Oh my goodness, I get SOOOOOO much done in the kitchen and he’s so sweet about washing dishes for me, as I’m mighty good and making a complete disaster in the kitchen when I get on a baking fix.
Anyway, this week I am sharing my submission to this month’s “Go Ahead Honey” carnival: Roasted garlic yellow lentil hummus (an SCD friendly recipe).
Be Well,
–Amber
Hi Amber. You are very fortunate to have a husband willing to clean up your mess. I can make a constant state of disaster
. I think your hummus looks great – I left you a comment over there on your blog- I don’t know what yellow lentils are….I just have green and others that are more brown and red. Which kind did you use? By the way, I’d love to hear how your battle with Chron’s goes. I talked about it w/ my practitioner today. She said it typically goes w/ food intolerances and heavy metals. I wonder if you’ve ever checked into that? I don’t mean to bog you down…I know how it can be to look at all of the health info out there. Take care!
Starting January 15, I will be hosting a 30-day GAPS Challenge. We will offer each other support as we commit to 30 days of GAPS eating, whether it be Intro Diet or the Full GAPS Diet. Either way, you will be helping your body heal. Come join us!
http://www.ournourishingroots.com/30-day-gaps-challenge-starting-january-15/
I haven’t committed to doing the GAPS, though I am close, but that sounds great!
I love this but just want to say… for people who are not already gluten-free when starting GAPS to PLEASE get screened for celiac disease before doing the challenge! I’ve got a series of posts in progress called “Celiac Testing Myths” that outlines the hows and whys of celiac screening!
http://theliberatedkitchenpdx.com/physical-health/celiac-testing-myth1-no-symptoms-no-celiac/
Thanks, Joy. Now why would you recommend that? Is it important to know your celiac “status”? My husband does better gluten free, but never tested positive on a celiac’s test.
I’ve practically written a treatise on the subject on my blog linked above. I’ll try to summarize a bit here. There are good reasons for people to know whether celiac damage is occurring or not before going gluten-free, even if they are committed to staying gluten-free, especially for children.
Health: celiac disease can be occurring without you being able to feel it. This autoimmune damage leads to other health problems down the line. Even tiny amounts of cross-contamination can trigger this damage in celiac people. Many people who are “gluten-free” are actually “gluten-light,” which is not good enough for someone with celiac disease.
Other people have so much damage done already that a gluten-free trial will not resolve their symptoms quickly enough for them to realize that was the source of their problems. They may also have other issues such as lactose intolerance which were caused by their celiac that just cutting out gluten doesn’t give them their answers. These people (and people who are actually “gluten-light”) often don’t feel better and end up going back to eating gluten.
Celiac disease requires follow up monitoring to screen for comorbid conditions and to make sure that antibodies go down. Without baseline testing, follow up tests are more difficult to interpret.
Legal Protection: If you have chosen to be gluten-free for your health, without a diagnosis it can be hard to get accommodations. To get a 504 plan for schools and for college to make allowances like actual handwashing, a gluten-free eating space, no gluten crafts in the class-room, and being able to cook for yourself rather than have a college meal plan, you need an official diagnosis. Boys have to register for military service, and as a person with celiac the positions that can be safely held are very limited. Employers must provide reasonable accommodation for employees with celiac under the ADA.
It is very common to have non-celiac gluten intolerance or wheat allergies and to do better off gluten. I absolutely encourage people to try a gluten-free diet (and especially GAPS) whether they have official celiac disease or not! But if you can get screened for celiac, there are good reasons to do so.
Valid celiac testing requires eating about 20 grams of gluten per day for 3 months. I am now in the position of doing a gluten-challenge so that I can get tested, after a year gluten-free and 10 months on GAPS. It is not fun at all, but I feel I need the answers. Last year I had absolutely no idea I’d want this now, but I do. I just want to spare others the same trouble!
Joy
Wow – a lot to think about. I’ve forwarded this on to my practitioner to see what she thinks. I really don’t think that I would want to go through with eating gluten (or having my family do so) in order to get these benefits. I am not sure. Have you seen the research results in the autistic field that after going about 3 years GF that there is a chemical found in the urine of GF people that is found only on the backs of non captive poison dart frogs? It is fascinating. I have not been completely strict GF (but pretty close) and I wouldn’t want to start all over again. How have you been feeling since eating the gluten?
I hadn’t see that about the dart from chemicals. Nature is so weird and amazing! Do you have a link to the study?
As for how I feel on gluten – well, it’s not pretty, but not nearly as bad as what some other people go through. Here are all the gory details:
http://theliberatedkitchenpdx.com/physical-health/joys-gluten-challenge/
I just started reading your blog so forgive me for not knowing all the backstory… Anyway, I don’t think it’s necessarily important for everyone who is *already* totally gluten free to do a gluten challenge. For some people it’s just too darn dangerous or miserable.
But if you think there is a decent chance you have celiac and you are not committed to being 100% gluten free my opinion is it makes sense to get tested. I certainly think that before doing a gluten-free trial it’s important to get tested.
Here is how we went 100% gluten-free:
http://theliberatedkitchenpdx.com/basics/going-gluten-free/
Here is some information on how to get good test results:
http://theliberatedkitchenpdx.com/physical-health/celiac-testing-myth4-doctor-knows-best/
So anyway, sorry about all the links but it would be too much to try and summarize!
I don’t know about a link to the study, but here is a link to one place where it is mentioned. It is on the Gut and Psychology Syndrome site. I read about it in a book on healing autism and I was skeptical so I checked on the internet and indeed it is true.
Hmmmm….I’ll see what my practitioner says. We are not committed to 100%. But I would say that myself and my son are about as close to 100% as you can get. I am a bit overwhelmed right now but I’ll have to check out more things on your site. Thanks. Joy, and let’s stay in touch.