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COOLTRIKERCHICK

Is there a pill/ food that I can take that cures all,
Stress, depression, lack of energy, being over weight, loss of sense of humour. Sense of style and one that will cure the lack of confidence to go shopping for clothes :D

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I had an e mail from grassroots this morning about their work with ms, I found the link on their site. Vit D3 and ms is still a work in progress but these are the results to date. It is important to take the correct D3 ie cholicalciferol
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs187/1102722411090/archive/1123955965818.html

Am making cauliless soup right now, same ingredients as yesterday apart from the caulie. Stomach feels fine at the mo so am a good guinea pig for myself

grandma247

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Is there a pill/ food that I can take that cures all,
Stress, depression, lack of energy, being over weight, loss of sense of humour. Sense of style and one that will cure the lack of confidence to go shopping for clothes :D

Oh dear you have just described how I have been for the last 12 months.

moneyistooshorttomention

Re other uses for turmeric.

I'd spotted places locally starting to stock turmeric root. So I had a go at "Golden Milk" recently and was surprised it was actually quite nice.

2 cups milk
1 teaspoon turmeric (or 0.5 inch bit of root)
1 tsp ginger (or 0.5 inch bit of root)
sprinkle of black pepper
honey to taste

- Heat milk on medium.
- Add turmeric, ginger and pepper and stir.
- Let it begin to simmer (ie little bubbles)
- Heat 1-2 minutes more stirring/
- Take off heat. Cover. Leave 10 minutes to infuse/
- Strain (if you've used fresh spices).

Nargleblast

I make turmeric paste, very easy.

A heaped tablespoonful ground turmeric in a saucepan. Add roughly twice the volume in water and bring to boil. Simmer, stirring frequently to prevent it catching, for five minutes. It becomes a thick paste. Take off the heat, add several twists of freshly ground black pepper and a dollop of coconut oil. Put in a clean jar and leave to cool. The coconut oil sets on the top. Store in the fridge. Best used up within a couple of weeks.

Uses - add a half teaspoonful to soups, stews, curries. Add a little (around a quarter teaspoonful) to porridge. Use in golden milk as in recipe given by MTSTM. You only need a quarter of a teaspoonful a day to begin with, to get the full benefits.

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goodbye cauliflowers, I am glad I didn`t plant any. I just threw 1/2 a good caulie out. It was a good test, stomach feels very comfortable. Cabbage, except savoy, was always a trigger but will still grow cabbage, red drumhead and purely for sauerkraut, which does not affect me and keeps all through winter and beyond. Well I never knew and would not have guessed.

Just saying thank goodness because I had chocolate after lunch as usual. Not being able to have chocolate after lunch would have destroyed me

Softstuff

juliettet wrote: »

How do you take the Tumeric Softstuff apart from juice?

so far I've put a half teaspoon in banana smoothie, a spoon in soup, half a spoon in fresh juices, and half a spoon in warm milk. Not on the same day, I've been at it over a week now. I read you're supposed to have fat and black pepper with it to help absorption, so I've made sure whatever it's in has that too. How much of this is hokum I don't know, but I had a large bag of turmeric in the house anyway and I find the flavour somehow comforting. Frankly I'd chuck it in almost anything, rice, porridge, scrambled eggs....

Most food related stuff requires such a financial investment that even if it was harmless I wouldn't bother trying it without seeing some decent scientific backing first. This will cost me $2 for about 3 months, and add a bit of flavour, so I'll run to that!

GreyQueen

:T Well done for the research, kittie, and I am glad it wasn't the chocolate causing the problem.

Softstuff

Finally some good news for me. Just back from the physio, there's no signs of issues with my spine on xray. My shoulder/neck/back issues all stem from the dislocation, but it's all very fixable. After 1 session it's more mobile and less sore (though during she's very sadistic! ). So very grateful for her, she's a miracle worker, she plans to straighten me up entirely and I'm sure she will.

It's a heck of a relief, I was expecting to have the same sort of degeneration my mum and nan did by my age and was freaking out about that. :j

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nargleblast, thanks for the turmeric paste recipe, it is going into my special hand written recipe book. DD takes a turmeric/coconut oil paste every day and has been very well ever since, she is in a patient face to face job so is at risk of catching all sorts. She caught a red hot pan the other week, on its way to the floor and burnt herself quite nastily, put paste on and two days later her hand was healed

Today I am trying the lentil/basmati breakfast in my rice cooker, I can smell it cooking now. I hope it works because I can set the timer and have it ready for when I want.

I have a bag of costco granola in my cupboard and I love the crunch, on berries, with almond milk or yog or soya yog but I need to get myself off it, too much of nothing that I want to eat. Today I am looking at paleo granola recipes, I probably have all the ingredients so it is a case of get them together, mix and then use the dehydrator and oven. I`ll start with this one and want to soak the nuts and most seeds overnight first, then dehydrate before I start
http://eatdrinkpaleo.com.au/our-favourite-paleo-muesli-granola-recipe/