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She came up to help out with the kids after I had shoulder surgery in September and was supposed to stay 4 days. I asked her ahead of time what I should buy for her food-wise and she thought she could tough it out but she barely made it 36 hours before catching a bus back home (it's a 4hr bus...

Big Pharma, but you know that. My insurance will pay for an Rx for D2 and I only have to ante up a $3 co-pay. I have to pay $30 for 100 capsules of 50,000 IUs of De for myself and $10 for a bottle of liquid D3 for the kids and Big Pharma doesn't make a dime. They've convinced the docs that they...

Thanks for the welcome, framing fowl. I think it depends on your set up. We met a woman in the city who has a double lot and has at least 40 chickens and a barn toward the rear of her property which you can't see from the road. I'm not sure if her neighbors know exactly what she has back there...

Mmmm... yogurt... We go through lots of it here. Since my kids like their yogurt milder and I like mine more tart but we all like it thick, I finally solved the problem by using actual yogurt cultures so I can choose what type of yogurt I end up with at the end. I was reluctant to do so at first...

Wisconsin. Trust me, I'm more surprised than anyone! I thought my 7yo was nuts when she asked to dig everything up and put it in window boxes to bring inside when it started to get cold. I figured the herbs would survive for a while, but I figured the veggies would go kaput fairly quickly. My dd...

It's been a year and a half -- my vitamin D deficiency was discovered in May 2008 -- and I'm still struggling with it. My parathyroid hormone levels are slowly approaching normal, but aren't quite there yet, but I also have some autoimmune issues. I think it's important to keep in mind that...

I just wanted to add a few things from my own experience as someone who has had a severe vitamin D deficiency. It's important to have the correct vitamin D test which is the 25-OH vitamin D test and it takes a lab about a week to process the results. Vitamin D is actually a hormone, not a...

I have a friend with a cow, several friends with goats, and a friend with a water buffalo, so we end up with quite a bit of milk in various stages (cream skimmed, etc.) for just me and my two kids. There are quite a few things to be done with milk in addition to butter and yogurt (which we have...

Out of curiosity, what type of goat is your milk from? Our goat's milk is from a Saanen and my kids say that it's rather sweet and will have it with a bit of homemade vanilla extract and freshly grated nutmeg, but won't drink it with raw cocoa powder and raw honey which is what I add to coconut...

Hallo everyone! Well, it started with the idea of getting the 4 chickens that the city allows and my kids -- ages 7 and 3 -- got hooked. Of course, it doesn't help that we have several friends with farms. So now we're looking for a wee bit of space in the country to have a couple of goats (the...

Hi me&thegals! Yep, we're in The Dairy State with all the snow! Thanks for the welcome! We especially love the sales at Savers. My 7yo dd used to get all upset because her friends' parents were spending $4k (literally!) on their name brand clothes and they were wearing all of these fancy things...

I think that good quality food is my biggest indulgence. My kids won't eat "store eggs" or "store meat" or "store dairy" and we're fortunate to have "connections" such that we haven't had to resort to getting those things from the store for quite some time and have been able to get 100% grassfed...

Allergies/Asthma/Eczema is the trio that docs say go hand-in-hand-in-hand so you'll often see some connection there. In addition to wheat and dairy, eggs are also a common trigger in some people as are berries and nuts. Synthetic or irritating fabrics can also be a trigger so breathable fabrics...