Butternut Squash pancakes are a favorite in this house, and a much-awaited addition to the tremendously healing GAPS Introduction diet. If you’re not on GAPS, squash pancakes are still good. A little more crumbly than wheat pancakes, but they would be a great substitute for babies with few teeth- they nearly dissolve when bit! Because…
Stage 3 GAPS Intro Recipe
GAPS Intro Gut-Healing Anti-Inflammatory Ginger Tea Gummies
These gelatin treats are a beautiful and nourishing addition to a gut-healing diet. To make them, we make a strong ginger tea, and then add gelatin and optional sweetener. The sweetness these sweeteners provide can encourage children to consume needed liquids, and gummies made with these can be useful as rewards and incentives to finish soup…
GAPS Intro Summer Squash (courgette) Stage 3 Pancakes
GAPS Intro Summer Squash Pancakes Summer Squash (zucchini, crookneck) pancakes are a favorite in this house, and a much-awaited addition to the tremendously healing GAPS Introduction diet. If you’re not on GAPS, summer squash pancakes are still good. A little more crumbly than wheat pancakes, but they would be a great substitute for babies with…
How to Cook Spaghetti Squash – Instant Pot, Slow Cooker, and Oven Directions
Spaghetti squash is a delicious substitute for pasta. It’s a fun stringy veggie that children and adults all love! I had to have a friend show me how to make it the first time – it’s not the pulp that becomes the ‘spaghetti’ strands like I originally thought, but actually the flesh breaks into little…
Simple Warming Butternut Squash Soup
Butternut squash soup is rich and creamy, and the bone broth makes it nutrient dense as well. Butternut squash soup is one of my favorite fall meals, it just invites you to light a beeswax candle with dinner, doesn’t it? Garnish with thyme or other fresh herbs and serve with grain free banana-nut muffins. Simple…
How to Bake a Whole Squash – No Peeling, No scraping out seeds
Food for the first year is for fun, exploration, and a little bit of nutrition. For the first year, babies are getting the bulk of their nutrition from breast milk. Some babies may LOVE to be included with real food in the family meals, and some may not care to ingest food at all, favoring…
Soaked and Dehydrated Nuts (traditionally prepared)
The salt and soaking make the almonds not too salty, and easier to digest. We do the same with pecans and it pulls out the slight bitterness that you expect from eating pecans. We buy one or two bags of nuts at Costco once a month and eat them as snacks all month long. I…
