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Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD): Recipes

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Eating well on the SCD or GAPS is easy and doesn’t need to take a lot of time. Here is some buttered scrambled eggs, topped with homemade winter salsa. What looks like bacon is salted pork belly. The side is a seasonal winter salad with homemade mustard seed dressing.

“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are healed by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.”
Wendell Berry

Over the years I have been asked to compile a recipe cookbook for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. This post is an index of all the recipes on eatkamloops.org. Some of the posts have many recipes not described in the title. I hope to better organize the recipes at a later date. Nevertheless, these recipes will be good for anyone on the SCD, GAPS or the modified paleo diet.

There will be a few recipes that are not safe for someone on the SCD or GAPS. I have put most of these recipes in an area called Transition, but use your good sense. Remember what my great grandfather used to say: “If the food doesn’t agree with you, leave it alone.”

When people come off the SCD or GAPS, the types of foods they can tolerate is very individual. It is important to slowly introduce a new food and watch carefully for negative symptoms. Sometimes it takes awhile for the old problems to come back. If old symptoms come back, simply remove the irritating food again.

The best advice is to go slowly with one new food and watch carefully for old symptoms. Compulsive eating can be another dangerous sign to remove the food. Here are two posts with more details on how to home test for food tolerance:
Coffee Substitute Taste Test
Food Intolerance Test: What NOT to Do

Some of us can never go back to the old foods. We have to move on from where we are. I would like to give just a few personal examples. Raw dairy was the first food I was able to reintroduce. It was a great surprise to me that I could consume raw dairy, since dairy is considered very hard to digest. I still cannot consume pasteurized and homogenized dairy. Everyone in the family can consume raw dairy products without problems.

Over a number of years, I have been trying to find safe sources of starches to increase my family’s carbohydrate intake. Partly, this is because half of my family needs more carbohydrates in their diet for optimum health. I tried potatoes, which appeared to be okay for me, but after about a month I would wake in the morning with totally numb hands. Everyone else in the family was okay on potatoes. I have found sweet potatoes agree with me and everyone in the family.

Many times I have tried to reintroduce grains without any success. Even using nourishing traditional preparation methods, grains are poison for me and I get immediate feedback that this food is not for me. After numerous trials, I am at the point of being off grains for life. My daughter can tolerate some grains but she can get into trouble if the amount of grains goes above some unknown tolerance point. Everyone’s reactions will be different so transition is a very personal journey.

Please remember that during transition the foods that will agree with me may not agree with you. If your child is on the SCD or GAPS, they will have an individual response to food too. So your child may be tolerant of a food that you cannot tolerate. In general, children heal better than adults. Always keep this in mind during transition. Go slowly and be careful. If you get into trouble, go back to safe foods and try again in four to six months.

Basics
Beautiful Bone Broth
The Grease Bucket: Something from Nothing
WAPF Shopping Guide: How To Assess Food Quality
Cooking with Grass-Fed Meats and Fowls
Making Raw Sweet Butter or Raw Cultured Butter
I Got Culture!
Learning Home Cooking
My Mother’s Dutch Oven
Eating Nourishing Traditional Foods While Traveling
Wise Tradition Beginner Video Series
Fresh Homemade Sausage
Harvest Bounty Canning: White Peaches
Harvest Bounty and Pickling: Crock Pickles
Harvest Bounty and Pickling: Crock Hot Peppers
Harvest Bounty and Dehydrating: Photo Essay
Harvest Bounty Canning: Banana Peppers
Pantry Foods: Charcuterie
Seasonal Foods: New Zealand Spinach
Making Charcuterie: Photo Essay
Easy Worcestershire Sauce
Fruity HP Sauce
Spicy Ketchup
Pantry Foods: Sprouts
Seasonal Foods: Mung Bean Sprouting
Seasonal Foods: Microgreens and Indoor Gardening
Onion Gravy
Homemade Vanilla Extract
Homemade Stevia Extract
Mary’s Oil
Indoor Growing Unit: Photo Essay
Plumy Cranberry Sauce
Homemade Sambal Oelek
Seasonal Food: Frozen Apple Pie Mix
Seasonal Food: Apple Chutney

Fermented Foods
Wild Fermentation
Lacto-Fermented Horseradish Dill Pickles
Lacto-Fermented Horseradish Condiment
Making Homemade Lacto-Fermented Whole Seed Mustard and Yoghurt Cream Cheese
Winter Storage: Kimchi and Lacto-Fermented Green Tomatoes
Apricot Chutney
Traditional Sodas and Water Kefir
Harvest Bounty and Traditional Fermentation: Photo Essay
How to Make Homemade Kombucha
Making Homemade Kefir: Photo Essay
Traditional Ginger Beer

Main Dishes
Traditional Sour Cabbage Rolls
Morels and Mushroom Season
Roasted Lamb Chops with Savory Stuffing
Just One Sit-Down Family Meal
Christmas Forest Stuffing
Holiday Dinner Menu
Upsidedown Pizza
Liver and Onions
Orange Ginger Dressing
Marrow Bones and Parsley Salad
Salted Pork Belly
Caveman Pancake and Very Berry Sauce
Beef Omelette Pizza
Making Sour Cabbage Rolls: Photo Essay
Seasonal Foods: Gazpacho Soup
Seasonal Food: Paleo Pie
Pass on Supplements and Eat Real Food
Seasonal Foods: Frozen Wild Mushrooms
Seasonal Foods: White Bean Salad
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Spicy Winter Soup and Creamy Squash Side Dish
Seasonal Foods: Roasted Beets and Walnut Salad
Seasonal Foods: Cellar Beet Borscht
Cauliflower Side Dish
Paleo Paella
Nutty Meatloaf
Easy Garam Masala and Paleo Kofta Curry

Travel Foods, Snacks and Appetizers
Recipes of Nourishing Traditional Traveling Foods
Perfect Pate
Crunchy Kale Chips
Pantry Foods: Fast Cured Green Olives
Seasonal Foods: Delicious Dandelion Control
Seasonal Food: Walnut or Beef Dolma and Kefir Cucumber Sauce
Spicy Jerky
Jarring Crock Pickles and Making Sweet Pickles: Photo Essay
Coconut Coffee Creamer
Seasonal Foods: Beet Chips
Flax Crackers
Sesame Seed Dip or Dressing
Seasonal Foods: Zucchini Chips
Seasonal Foods: Smoked Sockeye Salmon
Seasonal Foods: English Pickled Eggs
Seasonal Foods: Beet Pickled Eggs
Seasonal Foods: Sweet Pickled Eggs with Turmeric
Homemade Broth Powder
Sesame Flax Crackers
Spicy Bean Chips
Cauliflower Summer Salad with Crispy Walnuts
Ghee Coconut Creamer for Camping
Dutch Oven Pizza
Car Camping, Special Diets and Nourishing Traditional Foods
Head Cheese: Photo Essay

Desserts
Swine Flu: Delicious Cure
Christmas Butter Tart Squares
Chocolate Brownie with Cream Cheese Icing
Lemon Coconut Cookies
Birthday Cheesecake
Chocolate Mousse Pie
Creamy Coconut Candy
Raw Fig Bars
Brazil Coconut Candy
Christmas Fruitcake, Raw Cashew Marzipan with Orange Peel Glaze
Pantry Foods: Christmas Critters
Pantry Foods: Mock White Chocolate
Pantry Foods: Bitter Chocolate Walnuts for My Sweet Valentine
Seasonal Foods: Rhubarb Crumble
Fireweed Birthday: Independence Day!
Coconut Ice Cream
Birthday Trifle
Seasonal Food: Paleo Pumpkin Pie
Sesame Seed Halva
Seasonal Foods: Rhubarb and Sour Cherry Crumble
Seasonal Foods: Rhubarb and Raspberry Compote
Homemade Fennel and Ginger Candy
Crunchy Cacoa Candy
Quick Birthday Cheesecake
Vanilla Coconut Pudding
Ketogenic Chocolate Fudge
Beanie Ginger Snaps
Fragrant Ginger Snaps
Dandelion Chai Tea
Walnut Choco Bar
Walnut Chocolate Toffee
Paleo-Plum Cake Cockaigne
Chocolate Truffles
Macadamia Candy
Sunflower Cups: Photo Essay
Chocolate Avocado Pie
Gelatine Jelly Dessert
Homemade Seasonal Fruit Gummies

Transition
Cream, Cream and More Ice Cream
Birthday Chocolate Ice Cream
Creamy Spring Custard
Sweet Potato Custard
Vanilla Colostrum Shake
Walnut Maple Ice
Summer Salads for Hot Days
Sweet Potato Pancake
Sprouted Buckwheat Granola
For the LOVE of Quark
Coco-Chia Pudding
Homemade Furikake
Seaweed Salad
Sweet Potato Custard

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Even if you’re on a special diet like SCD or GAPS, all good diets begin and end with nourishing traditional foods from a quality source.

Walnut Maple Ice

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This is homemade raw ice cream topped with organic walnuts and maple syrup.

Our cow, Olivia, has not been producing a lot of cream this year. A low cream Jersey cow is an oxymoron. We are wondering if Olivia is having metabolic trouble adjusting to the low nutrient quality of our pasture compared to the scientifically designed feed of a confinement dairy. We will watch over the next year to see if Olivia’s cream production increases as her gut flora adjusts to the new environment. We are guessing she will.

This recipe was inspired by this lack of cream and has turned out to be a new favorite summer dessert in our household.

4 cups raw whole milk
4 raw pastured egg yolks
1/4c raw local honey
2T organic vanilla extract
2T soaked and dried organic walnuts, chopped (optional)
1T organic maple syrup (optional)

Using a raw local honey is a great way to help your immune system if you have seasonal allergies. But the honey must be local and raw to be helpful. Blend the honey, egg yolks and vanilla together and then add the raw milk. Pour the ingredients into an ice cream maker or use a shallow container in the freezer. For information about ice cream makers and more cool summer recipes please see Cream, Cream and More Ice Cream Recipes. The egg yolks gives this ice cream a rich yellow color. When ready to serve, top with chopped walnuts and a drizzle of maple syrup. This dessert has a wonderful light favor, which is wonderful on a hot evening.

eatkamloops.org is Now Carrying Gort’s Raw Gouda

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If you have been having trouble finding a good raw cheese in Kamloops, eatkamloops.org is now carrying Gort’s Raw Gouda. If you have never heard of Gort’s Gouda Cheese Farm, they are an organic, pasture based dairy in Salmon Arm, BC. They use only natural ingredients with no added preservatives. They produce a whole range of cheeses including many types of Gouda, Maasdammer, and Feta. They also have a range of fresh products including: organic, non-homogenized milk, Bulgarian yogurt, cream, and Quark. I think Gort’s makes a world class raw Gouda.

Maybe you are wondering what is so great about raw cheese. The first reason is the taste and texture of raw cheese. It’s an easy, nourishing snack food. But it doesn’t end there. Raw cheese is much better for you and easier to digest even for people who have trouble with fresh whole milk. The natural process of fermentation increases the vitamin B and C content in the raw cheese. The natural process of fermentation provides beneficial bacteria, lactase, enzymes, and lactic acid which aids in digestion of dairy products. These same beneficial bacteria also protect us from pathogens that could make us sick. If you are thinking: “What, there aren’t any healthy bacteria! We need to sterilize our food for it to be safe.” Please read What is a Healthy Gut? We may have made a Faustian bargain when we chose “sterilization” over promoting “healthy bacteria” in our foods. These healthy bacteria help support a healthy immune system. Sure, the sterilized foods last longer but these devitalized foods may be slowly killing us. In our attempt to control pathological bacteria in our food, we have replaced these difficult and sometimes deadly organisms with an evil brew of sterilizing chemicals. Along with killing the pathological bacteria, we kill the helpful bacteria that might protect and improve our health. We do not know the long term consequences to our health, our children’s health, or to the greater environment from this toxic brew of chemicals.

We are now selling bulk blocks of raw Gouda. The blocks are approximately one kilogram. We are selling the cheese for $25.00 per kilogram. Cash only. The raw cheese will age naturally in your fridge, so don’t worry about having too much cheese. It’s impossible! Just email us at info(a)eatkamloops.org to ensure we have raw cheese in stock. We can give you a sample of raw cheese to make sure you like it before you purchase.

Birthday Chocolate Ice Cream

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There is nothing like fresh raspberries on homemade raw ice cream.

2-3 raw pastured eggs
1/4c raw local honey
1/4c organic cocoa powder
4c raw cream
1T organic vanilla extract
small amount of liqueur, if desired

In Dietary Dangers the Weston A Price Foundation consider chocolate a food to avoid. Cocoa and very dark chocolate may have some health benefits in small qualities but most commercial chocolate is full of chemical additives. If you consume chocolate on special occasions the best options are using organic cocoa powder or organic cocoa nibs. If you must purchase chocolate choose a very dark chocolate from a high quality Chocolatier.

This ice cream is a holiday favorite in our household. If you cannot find raw cream, use a quality organic whipping cream without additives. Using a raw local honey is a great way to help your immune system if you have seasonal allergies, but the honey must be local and raw to be helpful. Blend the honey, egg yolks, cocoa powder and vanilla together and then add the cream. Pour the ingredients into an ice cream maker or use a shallow container in the freezer. For more information about making ice cream without a machine please read Cream, Cream and More Ice Cream.

When ready to serve, put ice cream in chilled bowls. Add a small amount of a liqueur that goes well with chocolate, if desired. Here is a list of liqueurs.