GAPS Recipes Archives - Health, Home, & Happiness

Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) recipes are free of sugar, grains, starches, and food additives. These foods are all part of a healing protocol outlined by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride in her book Gut and Psychology Syndrome.

At the risk of sounding like a cookbook from the 80s, this soup can be made completely from scratch, or you can open a can of pumpkin, can of coconut milk, box of stock and you’re almost all the way there! Pumpkin is higher in carbs than many other vegetables, but evidence suggests that low …

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Soothing Homemade Cinnamon and Honey Cough Drops

Watching liquid honey and powdery cinnamon transform into delicious and soothing hard cough drops is an exercise in science, cooking, and healing for both the home cook and the involved children. This recipe uses the healing properties of honey and cinnamon in an easy-to-consume little homemade cough drop. To keep the drops from sticking to …

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Pumpkin Custard with Ginger and Coconut Milk: Slow Cooker or Instant Pot Recipe

This creamy rich custard uses all the flavors of fall. Simpler to put together than a pumpkin pie, this pumpkin custard is sure to be a family favorite! I especially love that you can put it in the crock pot and then go out and come home to a house that smells like fall and …

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How to Cook Beef Heart in the Slow Cooker

I purchased a beef heart last spring during a local grassfed beef sale and had been intimidated by it ever since. Since it has the potential to be tough, I wanted to use long slow heat to cook it. It turned out great! It turns out that beef heart is delicious! What a pleasant surprise. …

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Yummy Homemade Lemon Ice Cream (Keto, GAPS, Dairy-Free)

We just broke out our ice cream maker and are churning up our first batch of Keto ice cream of the season, right out of my go-to keto sweets cookbook! With kids home and warmer weather, homemade ice cream is actually a nourishing treat that is fun to make together as a family and …

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Hearty Hamburger Mushroom Bake

This hamburger (ground beef) casserole is delicious, hearty, warming, and easy to put together! It is made simply with ground beef, mushrooms, garlic, parsley, sea salt, bacon, cream cheese, cheddar cheese and eggs. The cream cheese/egg combination replace non-keto-friendly canned soup. Eggs hold the casserole together, negating the need for breadcrumbs or a cornstarch-thickened sauce. …

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How to Make the Best Popsicles at Home (without the sugar!)

Have you tried homemade popsicle recipes and found they were too hard to eat, didn’t set up right, the flavor wasn’t good, or the popsicles were overly complicated to make? Do you love giving your kids whole fruit popsicles but hate the $1+ each price tag that they come with from the store? You just …

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SUPERHERO Gummies – Tart Cherry for Sleep, Elderberry Flowers and Berries for Immunity, and Gelatin for skin

Anyone who works with children, or has school-aged children, is on the edge of their seat at this time of year. Colds, the flu, unexplained tummy bugs – they’re all going around where people are gathered indoors and more in contact with each other’s germs. Sleep deprivation from being *so excited* about school the …

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Incredibly Simple Raspberry-Vanilla Frozen Yogurt

Creamy probiotic-rich yogurt is combined with nutrient-dense egg yolks, sweet honey, and pure vanilla for a nourishing treat that everyone can be involved in making. While I don’t recommend most single-use kitchen appliances, an ice cream maker is something I value for all the fun and deliciousness of ice cream without the refined sugar. Making …

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Dill Pickle Gelatin – GAPS, keto

We forget that the healing powers of gelatin don’t have to come with sweet treats! This pickle gelatin is a simple savory gelatin that uses that probiotic-rich pickle juice that is probably sitting in your fridge because you can’t bear to throw out it’s goodness but don’t know what to do with it. I’ve seen …

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Oven-Baked Tritip (just beef and salt)

Tritip is a popular large cut in the western US due to its inexpensive flavorful nature, forgiveness with cooking. This large steak-like roast is also known as ‘the California cut’ or ‘triangle cut’ and is available from ButcherBox as well as local grocery stores. Tritip is SO good! It has the tenderness of steak with …

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Low-Carb Meat and Cheese Platter

You’re sailing along on your keto diet, loving your high fat low carb way of life, when suddenly you’re asked to bring an appetizer to a party! Your previous go-tos were all carb-heavy, and always the hit of the party.. what’s a keto appetizer option that won’t take all day to make, and will be …

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