Re: marilyn etc

[Guest guest]

I can't afford to buy organic produce, pastured meats, or A2 milk. I also can't

afford to compound my meds, which have things like lactose, starch, and sugar in

them. I doubt I'm alone in this. Regardless, I seem to be progressing okay. I

imagine this is the case for most people, since Elaine didn't make them

requirements for SCD. It would price a lot of people right out of the diet!

However, I sure wish I had money for those things. I recently had a hamburger

made from local pastured meat, and it was truly the best tasting burger I've

ever eaten!

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

>

> i think you mentioned you weren't organic in the beginning - i'm reading

Breakthrough and it mentions us ingesting antibiotics from cows etc that had

them - so it just occured to me i've been stuffing my face with porterhouse

steak every night for 19 months - am i getting a bit of antibiotic every

night???!!!!! is that why i'm SO yeasty? or do others eat regular supermarket

steaks???

> thanks Eileen

>

[Guest guest]

At 11:31 PM 8/13/2009, you wrote:

I can't afford to buy organic

produce, pastured meats, or A2 milk. I also can't afford to compound my

meds, which have things like lactose, starch, and sugar in them. I doubt

I'm alone in this. Regardless, I seem to be progressing okay. I imagine

this is the case for most people, since Elaine didn't make them

requirements for SCD. It would price a lot of people right out of the

diet!

That was exactly Elaine's point! While it may be DESIRABLE to do organic

and pastured and all like that, and may speed your healing, many

thousands have gotten well on ordinary grocery store food, as long as it

wasn't processed.

Organic and pastured is great -- if you can afford it. If it's available

without creating a terrible level of stress over all the hoops you have

to jump through to get it.

I went to pastured because, pre-Katrina, we had a great Farmer's Market,

and a local farmer who raised it, and his prices weren't out of the

world.

I'm now back on some non-pastured because Katrina destroyed the guy's

farm, and the one who took his place at the market charges double or

triple what the person I originally bought from did.

However, I sure wish I had money

for those things. I recently had a hamburger made from local pastured

meat, and it was truly the best tasting burger I've ever

eaten!

Amen to that. You can imagine how I cried after Hurricane Katrina,

throwing out a 22 cu ft freezer full of pastured meats and all my SCD

sauces and fruits and vegetables.

I would look for a local Farmer's Market or a CSA plan to see if you

can't get at least some part of your food which is home-raised. There's

only one CSA " near " me (50 miles away!) and unfortunately, they

specialize in a dozen varieties of potatoes, three kinds of corn, and soy

beans. But many of them have a nicer variety of vegetables

available.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

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