Storing garlic in olive oil question

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I've been M.I.A. sick as a dog for a while and wanted to pop on with a

question......

Has anyone on here ever stored whole garlic cloves in olive oil? Strange

question to come out of hiding for but...

Last time I posted I'd started juicing a lot. Switched to organic and raw about

90%. Lots of juice.

Possibly too quickly because my gut very quickly swelled up like a beach ball, I

ended up shooting pus out of my butt for 2 weeks in horrible pain, and ended up

with septic arthritis.

Could my health GET any better? Seriously.

The stones, swollen liver, and gastroparesis were all I could take. This has me

at the end of my rope.

I've been in so much pain there were 2 weeks Brock didn't go to school and I

BARELY made it from my bed to the toilet and back again and that was IT.

Since it was the job of a 7 year old to feed me for the past couple weeks most

of the time besides the easy requests like " run and get mom a banana " or apple

or whatever... he's been feeding me what he eats. NOT RAW! And he can't use my

juicer, he's too little. : (

I've been eating what he does: cereal and crackers and CRAP. Oh mom of the year

award coming up for Candace.

Anyways.....

now that all the DRUGS that I had to go on from the Dr to keep from dieing at

the moment started working and I'm back on my feet I have been eating INSANE ---

IIIINSANE amounts of garlic. I wake up at night craving it so bad I'm shaking.

A grocery store next to my house has an olive bar. One big tray they use to set

out every day is olive oil with tons of garlic cloves and hot peppers floating

in it. I go and get a big tupperware of it and just go to town on it. I eat an

entire thing of it a day, sometimes 1.5 containers. I counted the other day when

i had 1/3 a container left and there were over 60 cloves in it. WOW I wasn't

kidding. that's a lot of garlic. And I noticed an improvement as soon as I

started eating it. The cravings aren't going down though, they're getting worse.

Its all I think about. It's freaky. Anyways.....

Well 2 days ago they stopped stocking it! I pouted the first day. Yesterday I

started panicking and today I almost cried (I'll blame the percocet for that

one) because I can feel myself getting worse again. My joints are filling up

with crud, my gut is expanding, and all the nasty nasty horrid stuff that WAS

flying out of my bowels is stopping. Whatever it is about that garlic olive oil

pepper treat of mine that my body was craving WAS doing wonders for me!

I tried googling this topic and keep reading peoples warnings about storing

things in olive oil and botulism - especially " root plants " like garlic. Well I

don't think they cook it... it's CRUNCHY and hot. And I don't think there's

anything in it but garlic peppers and the most delicious olive oil I've ever

tasted......

and if I can't buy it I want to make it! I think it's the only reason I'm

getting better! And now I can't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone ever done this before? Is there a trick to it to keep away botulism

besides the obvious - keeping it refrigerated? Web sites I've looked at say even

that won't stop botulism from forming in garlic and olive oil but then what does

the grocery store do!?!?

~Candace the babbler~