My kids loved the fruit plate so I decided to see if they were as enthusiastic about a vegetable plate. I sliced carrots on a diagonal, cut some cucumber, steamed some broccoli, took the ends off the snow peas and arrange them on the plate. Then I placed the fruit plate in the middle of […]

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  • Lynna Kay - I’ve been trying to inspire myself to eat more vegetables and ate some raw snowpeas today but thought they were bitter. Is that how they are supposed to taste? :) I cannot get away from my brain wanting to dip everything I eat in something – like hummus or ketchup or blue cheese dressing. Do you know of any good gfcf dips that I wouldn’t feel terrible about myself afterwards having eaten?ReplyCancel

  • Anonymous - Great idea. I have offered my 2 1/2 year old little plates of vegetables since he was about 1. He is in love with yellow peppers and likes most vegetables. I sometimes treat him by putting a small egg cup of ketchup in the middle as well.
    My friend taught me to carry round corn cobs, sliced peppers, sliced cucumbers, sliced carrots, bowls of peas and cooked vegetables as snacks instead of the usual stuff and he is really used to it. Also baby corn.
    I’m going to try it in sandwiches as well.
    By the way I love cucumber sandwiches with cream cheese.ReplyCancel

  • Territory Mom - I’ll try this today. Great idea. I’m going to have my library get Evidence of Harm for me. It sounds great. We have to get gfcf, not sure where to start. Great blog.ReplyCancel

Alex has had a high fever on and off for the last week–last night it was 103.5. We went to the doctor’s office first thing this morning and he had an ear infection. Not a surprise, since he was screaming about his ear hurting five days ago. Although studies show that many ear infections go […]

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  • Betsy - I enjoyed your post about trying natural methods. So sorry about the antibiotic thing; I absolutely hate giving it to my children too. Why is it pink!

    We lived in a small German village for a few years where my children saw a German pedi. She tried her best to convince us to wait on vaccinations (how I wish we had listened to her!) – but that is a whole different post. Anyway, before giving antibiotics she would do a quick prick blood test to measure the level of bacteria in the blood. One time I had her nurse show me the machine; it is made in New Jersey. I wonder why they are not used in the US.ReplyCancel

  • Anonymous - The best thing for Ear infection is the eardoc. it is non invasive and it treats the problem rather than the symptoms. check it out.
    http://www.eardoc.infoReplyCancel

  • Ali (Whole Life Nutrition) - You know what we do if our kids ever have an earache is to treat the ear with garlic/mullein olive oil ear drops. It has worked every time.

    Also, have you had your child’s vit D level checked? I did mine through http://www.grassrootshealth.org and found out that I was at 43, much lower than I expected since I take 5000+ IU’s per day. Best to have levels above 45.

    Thanks! -Ali :)ReplyCancel

  • Charlotte Archer and Timothy Grant - I have loved your blog!! Lots of great info and recipes-thank-you, thank-you. I also tried the roasted onion for ears and it worked for pain, but he still got the infection just like your little one :(

    Also, as a follow-up toyour question on the slideshow, I am trying to remember. Okay-so do you use Picasa?? I don’t think you have to, but it sure makes all kinds of photo editing/blogging much easier. Picasa is a free photo editing program from Google and way easier than something like photoshop.

    In Picasa, I select the photos I want in the slide show and click on “upload”. This uploads my photos to Picasa Web Albums. Once the photos are done uploading a pop-up directs you to the album.

    On the album page, there is a link on the righthand side that says “Embed”. Click on it, and choose “slideshow”. It gives you the link to copy and paste into your new post.

    Let me know if I left out any steps. I also have a question for you. How did you get the banner on your blog? Is it as simple as inserting a picture into your header? I have not tried it yet.
    I am also thinking about adding some gfcf recipes and wondering how you have other pages on your blog-does that make sense? so how do I have a page of recipes?

    Pretty clueless here too, just slowly figuring it all out.ReplyCancel

  • Lauren - It is still nice to now the natural remedies. Even if you have to resort to antibiotics at least you tried, and the onion helped get him through the night.

    BTW I love the post on natural cleaning products. Someone once told me you can clean your entire kitchen with vinegar, water and baking soda.ReplyCancel

  • Alicia - I’m Kassie’s sister. Our little 4-yr-old has had one ear infection and I can tell you what worked for us…an adjustment from my hubby (chiropractor) and warm garlic oil. Worked like magic!ReplyCancel

  • Anonymous - Both of my sons had ear infections simultaneously. For each of them I used a product called Ear Clear, which has Mullein, Coptis Root, garlic and Arnica Oil. I added 3 drops of oregano oil to this mixture which has strong antibacterial/antiviral properties. It’s also supposed to help with pain. I warmed the oil and put 2 drops in each ear (even if only one ear hurt) and put in a small cotton ball. You can also put the oregano oil around the ear and inside outer ear. It’s not recommended to put directly in the ear without diluting because it can burn. I did this 2 times a day. In addition, I put 2 drops hydrogen peroxide in each ear in the morning and at night. This seemed to work very well when combined with vitamin c and zinc supplements. Raising their heads when sleeping also helps with drainage.ReplyCancel

  • Neicole Teare - The best thing for ear infections is Tea teee oil also known as Maleleuca in oluve oil. It will sting for just a minute, then follow uo with a couple drops colloidal silver (which is antbacterial and antiviral….think back to royal people eating off silver and being resistant to plague. My company SABA, which manufactures ACE energy supplement, carries colloidal silver. Contact me via my facebook http://www.facebook.com/ACErepforlifeReplyCancel

“This fruit plate tastes so good!”“Taste the blueberries…they are SO sweet.”“So good.”“Taste another one.”“You’ve got to try this…it’s so sweet.” When I worked in pastry at Le Bernardin, a lot of my job was plating–arranging food on a plate perfectly. One thing I learned from the pastry chef was how to make a fruit plate. […]

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  • Kim - I love this and your snack tray idea — I am going to have to try this with Henry. He is great about veg. but awful about fruit… he doesn’t like sweet things as a general rule. Ideas for not so sweet fruit? (the only fruit he will choke down is a banana and he doesn’t like it)ReplyCancel

  • gfcfmom - If he loves vegetables forget fruits–do a vegetable plate! I think you are so lucky that he likes vegetables. I found some yummy organic snap peas at Fairway…it’s not a fruit, but they were so yummy I thought Henry might like them. And they are sort of sweet. I just feed my kids fruit because they won’t eat vegetables. But the snack tray idea is great for introducing new things. You could do five muffin trays of veggies and have the sixth be mangos and see what happens. My kids usually devour the stuff they love and somehow the momentum of eating they keep eating the unfamiliar stuff. The negative voices are somehow silenced by the novelty of such a fun snack presentation.ReplyCancel

  • Our Family Is His - My son will eat fruit and veggies by the truck load. I have to force protein into his little system. But, my husband would appreciate the effort. He really would. I will have to start making his plates a little more interesting when I serve him fruit or veggie plates. I guess I just dump and drop. Heheh.ReplyCancel

My son had an earache after a week of being sick with a cough. I decided to try a homemade remedy recommended for an ear infection since it was late at night, and I really didn’t feel like going down the whole antibiotic route the next morning. There were three popular at home ear infections […]

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  • Cannon and Kassie - I swear by garlic/muelin drops! Good to know about the onion.ReplyCancel

  • mmcnealy - How did you cook the onion?ReplyCancel

  • gfcfmom - I cut the onion in half and put the flat side down on a cookie sheet in a 400 degree oven for 15 minutes. The onion was soft when I got it out of the oven and the flat side was brown. Then I wrapped it in two layers of cheese cloth.ReplyCancel
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