Country Kitchen Pantry | Herbs, Vegetarian Recipes, Essential Oils

Agrimony, Medicinal Uses

Linda — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Agrimony: … also called Sticklewort, Cockleburr (because of the burrs,) Garclive (Anglo Saxon,) and Tall Hairy Agrimony. Scientific name: Agrimonia Eupatoria, from the Rosaceae (Rose) family of plants. Where found: In the woods and way-places such as roadsides and the edges of meadows and fields. Originally from Europe. Now common in the USA and parts [...]

Diet Ideas, Flax Seeds

Linda — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:36:16 +0000

This young woman knows her stuff! She gave three great suggestions for health and energy (and weight loss) in the first video, which was uploaded to YouTube in 2010. Then she came back in 2012 with a new hairstyle, great videography, and three more fantastic food suggestions for people needing to lose weight, have more [...]

How to Break a Long Cleansing Fast

Linda — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:00:00 +0000

I’ve done a bit of fasting, and now I’ve got three friends in this town fasting, and one more reading my book about the lemonade diet. I should say, it is not a book I wrote, but a book that I own, by Stanley Burroughs. The yellow book! Anyhow, with all this interest in the [...]

Lemonade Diet – The Lemony Goodness of the Master Cleanse

Linda — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:00:00 +0000

I’m on the master cleanse lemonade diet again! Day 12! Having fun! Or… as much fun as one can have on a fast. The lemonade diet is a cleansing fast that lasts 10 to 40 days. Originally written about in Stanley Burrough’s book, Master Cleanser, it’s an opportunity to clear the body of toxins and [...]

How to Survive the Yellowstone Caldera Eruption

Linda — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:31:26 +0000

Does anyone think about the Yellowstone Caldera and how it would devastate the mid-section of our country if it erupted? I recently read about it in A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson. A friend in the Netherlands told me about it as she’d read the book and was actually concerned, thinking it [...]

Cast Iron Skillets – Essential Country-Style Cookware

Linda — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:24:08 +0000

I’ve had my cast iron skillet for years – in fact, I’ve got two of them, one for me and one for Bob. If I didn’t have a cast iron skillet, I’d buy a new one right away because these are, in my opinion, the best cooking device ever. Yes, I’m a little old-fashioned, but [...]

Food Safety, and Too Many Unwanted Laws

Linda — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:33:10 +0000

With the passage of the USA Food Safety Modernization Act will you quit gardening? I don’t really believe that my possession of two tomato plants and a few other assorted vegetable producing plants will cause my yard to be called a “food production facility”. I’ve tried not to worry about this act, though I do [...]

Future Food Supply – How To Feed Your Family After the Economic Collapse

Linda — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:58:45 +0000

The man in this video, Scott McGuire of Oregon, speaks great wisdom about how to maintain a food supply after the system fails. What system? I’m talking about the trucking system that supplies our local grocery stores with food supplies of questionable quality. If you don’t think the trucks will ever stop running, quit fooling [...]

Methanol in Diet Sodas

Linda — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:06:53 +0000

Do you drink diet sodas? I confess, I used to drink them frequently, but no more. As I stated in my last article, Why I No Longer Consume the Standard American Diet, I’ve finally become conscious to the dangers of impure manufactured substances intended for human consumption. (Can anyone honestly call diet soda a ‘food’?) [...]

Why I No Longer Consume the Standard American Diet

Linda — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:49:07 +0000

The Standard American Diet is absolutely bizarre. When the term is abbreviated, SAD, that says what everyone needs to know about typical American eating habits. I opted out forty years ago when I decided to become a vegetarian. I was seventeen at the time, and could not understand why animals had to give their lives [...]

Dangerous Mountain Roads: Highway 96 and Ishi Pishi Road, Somes Bar, California

Linda — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:05:51 +0000

When we left our home that morning we didn’t expect bad weather. We’d been enjoying an early spring for a few weeks, with intermittent rainstorms. So we took off for a drive to Arcata, on the coast, not thinking all that much about precipitation. Our route is the Klamath River Highway – also known as [...]

Protein is Over-Rated

Linda — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:38:31 +0000

A few days ago I wrote, “I … have realized that the myth that we need high protein levels to thrive is just plain wrong. That could be propaganda from the meat industry!” It is great to feel vindicated when you hold a unpopular viewpoint. It happened to me yesterday when I found these articles: [...]

Dinner for Breakfast

Linda — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:48:04 +0000

Since I started my $5 per week food budget, I’ve developed an odd habit: dinner for breakfast. Yes, I’m eating my dinner foods first thing in the morning, odd as that may seem. Before I started conserving on my food budget I started each day with a tall mug of sweetened tea and a Clif [...]

Food Withdrawals, the $5 Food Budget’s Scourge

Linda — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:44:26 +0000

This month I’ve cut my food budget to five dollars a week. This is totally going to change the way I eat. Already I’m running out of things I’m used to eating. The Clif Bars, at $1.50/day, went first. Also the hard candies I was buying to entertain myself with – they’re gone, which is [...]

Eating on Only Five Dollars a Week

Linda — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:09:23 +0000

My goal, between now and the end of the year, is to spend only $5 per week on food. Can I do it? We will soon find out. Why the strict budget? Well, my income went down and now I’m finding out I can still pay all my bills (that’s good) but I will have [...]