Liver. Heart. Tongue. Marrow bones. Four things that make me
gag and also give me such delight at the same time.
I had 210 pounds of beef delivered to my house today. 210
pounds of steaks, roasts, ribs, ground beef and yes organ meat! As I was
placing the packs of bones in my freezer, I may have squealed out of excitement.
A year ago I was sick. Really sick. As in just went to the
ER. Scheduled a major surgery date. High dosages of medications not working
sick. While in the midst of using powerful
medications and seeing specialist doctors, I couldn’t imagine it getting any
worse. And yet it continued to do so.
I knew there had to be a better way than pumping my body
full of drugs even though we (I) knew they weren’t working. I started to do
some research online and came across a lady who had Ulcerative Colitis and
healed her body using food (www.againstallgrain.com). Now food is something I could get on board with. I
LOVE food! As I read her story and hundreds (literally) of others like it, I was
convinced I needed to do what they were doing.
Food is a powerful. It connects us. When was the last time
you got together with a friend and food wasn’t involved?!
It fills us. It satisfies our immediate need of hunger.
It brings us joy. I don’t know about you, but taking a bite
of a delicious burger makes me smile.
It nourishes us. Almost all the vitamins our bodies need
come from food we eat.
It heals us. When we give our bodies the nutrients our
bodies are lacking, it begins to function properly.
It also has the power to make us sick. So much of what we
eat today is not “food”. It has been manufacture in a plant instead of growing
on a plant. Go open your pantry, take out
what seems like a straight forward item and read the ingredient list. If it has
an ingredient you can’t say with your mouth, it shouldn’t go in your mouth. I
pulled out a jar of roasted sunflower seeds: Sugar. MSG. Gluten. Soy. Um, its
sunflower seeds. Pretty sure if I went and picked a sunflower seed out of
sunflower, then roasted it, non of those ingredients would be there!
When our bodies are sick, it means they don’t have what they
need to fight for us and to function properly. When we stop putting things into
our bodies that hurt us (did you know sugar causes inflammation? Don’t even get
me started on GMOs)and our bodies have what they need, they can begin to heal.
Whether you notice it or not, what you eat is affecting your body for good or
bad.
What does this have to do with 210 pounds of meat you ask?
Well, during the process of healing my body, I felt the need to switch to grass
fed meat. Just as our bodies are affected by what we put in them, so is the meat
we eat. Most cows are fed genetically modified corn and grains. So we found a
farm that raises grass fed and grass finished cows and we bought half a cow.
As I dove more into learning about food as medicine I
learned some of the most nutritious and healing foods we can eat, come from things
our culture throws away and wont touch.
FAT. Pork fat. Beef fat. Duck fat. Throw some of that on
your roasted potatoes next time. Believe it or not, it’s actually healthy for
you! (www.epicbars.com)! Its also very
nourishing for your skin. Go rub some fat on them. (www.primallypure.com)
BONE BROTH. Don’t you dare throw those chicken bones way. Go
make some broth. Not only does it taste a million times better than the canned
crap. The gelatin (among other things) that is
released when the bones break down, can fight inflammation, boost your immune
system and begin to heal our intestinal wall. And its easy to make!
ORGAN MEAT. Until this last year, I never had any sort of
organ meat. These meats are some of the most nutrient dense foods we can eat.
High amounts of Iron, vitamin A, K, B are all found in liver.
Back to the 210 pounds. I am still learning to love organ
meat.
My goal is to Julie and Julia my way through the heart, tongue,
liver, oxtail, and marrow bones.
Here’s to continue healing through food. New adventures in
the kitchen. And maybe a new found love for organ meat!
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