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Health, Home, and Happiness, written by Cara, is a blog about incorporating traditional food, natural remedies, and healthy habits into real life.
Cara lives in California with her two young children. They enjoy the sunshine, swimming, fun day trips (with food packed to bring along!) and hanging out with family.
She uses background in the medical industry (working as a nurse’s aide, medical transcriptionist, and getting an associate’s of science degree with a focus on nursing) to decipher what is nutritional propaganda and what are ‘statistically significant’ studies. She believes that natural, sustainably produced and traditionally prepared food is designed by God to be best for the earth and people alike and enjoys learning more about this all the time.
The goal of Health, Home, and Happiness is to encourage the average family that eating real wholesome foods is something that is a priority in our lives and can realistically be done in any family.
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Cara
You’re a breath of fresh air. Thanks for the influence you project.
If you have time, could you comment on the site I have started on traditional nutrition:
http://wordofwisdomliving.com/
Thanks, Skip
Hello fellow Montanan! I just found your website through Food Renegade. I am looking forward to looking through your pages here. I too am interested in healthy living through healing foods and culturing, ferments and dehydrating, reducing gluten.
Glad I found this information and hope to learn lots about local available food sources.
Much Metta,
Karin
I too just found your website and am excited to look through what you have.
Awesome to find recipes that are almond and coconut flour based! Both of my daughters and myself are gluten free and have to watch our blood sugar so we will be trying them out!
Wow, nice to see someone from MT on here as that is where I grew up!!
Excited to check out your blog!!
Thanks again!
Cara, I heard you on Smart Passive Income this morning on my way to work. Wonderful what you are coins and I came away encouraged and refreshed by your testimony. I could not wait to get home and check out your site. I had never heard of s grain free diet for people which is funny as I share with dog owners about grain free food for Pet’s, to funny. I will be sure to check this out often.
Harry
Thanks for stopping by! I’m a big fan of raw food for pets- yes, grain free! :)
Hi Cara….I have recently begun the trek of moving my family into eating whole foods. I love your website! We also live in Arizona!
Trying the honey/cinnamon remedy today. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers – Joolz
Wow! I just found your website while doing an internet search for grain-free recipes and you popped up! Your recipes sound fantastic and I can’t wait to try them.
Thank you,
Jessica
Your website looks like a great resource. I look forward to learning a lot from you.
We have been investigating the GAPS and grain free diet by eating whole foods. Looking forward to learning more about eating this way from your website.
Thanks!
I’m attempting to start the GAPS diet but find I react negatively, it seems, to the broth. By that I mean that 15 – 20 minutes following a cup of meat broth, I feel discomfort. My first attempt at the GAPS diet was to experiment with chicken broth that I simmered for 10 – 12 hours. At first it was just fine, great even, but after a couple of weeks, I started to react to it, my lower stomach became swollen/distended for a few days Then I read that GAPS actually begins with meat broth in the first phase, and that bone broth comes later. I also heard that the longer you cook the bones, you pull glutamates from the bones which some people can’t handle in phase one, thus the reason for the shorter cooking time for meat broth. So I made meat broth with pastured beef bones, only cooking them three hours, removed bones immediately, and I’m getting a bloated feeling with it. I can’t find any reference to others experiencing this. Perhaps you have heard of this? Any help greatly appreciated!