Subject: How to stock up the pantry and freezer?

[Guest guest]

Great thread!

Our freezer is packed with SCD food. We're considering getting another

freezer.

When veggies/fruit are in season we buy them from farmers in bulk when

they're at their cheapest and keep them either in large canning jars or

plastic baggies in the freezer. (I prefer using glass though.)

We have mostly cauliflower in there as I find it useful for so many

things... like a potato replacer. (I actually finally figured out that

potato contributes to headaches for me but love mashe potatoes with

gravy esp. in the cold winter months with a nice roast chicken or

roast.) As you can see, we are not strictly SCD anymore but I stay here

because we are still mostly SCD just because we feel better. One of the

things I found out was that I actually prefer using cauliflower like

potatoes and don't care for potatoes so much anymore (part of the reason

may be that we don't use butter because my daughter doesn't do well with

cow dairy and goat butter is too expensive). I also use the cauliflower

to thicken sauces, gravies and stews which we have often in winter...

and so it means we need to keep a fair stock of it.

Lots of tomatoes too for juice (we juice a lot) and soup and salsa dip.

I would store salsa dip but it doesn't seem to matter how much we make,

everyone eats it until it is done! This is a wonderful event in our

house because my son (who is the biggest eater of salsa) could not

(previous to our SCD year) handle digesting any nightshades, so I'm not

complaining at all.

We keep some broccoli too... maybe 12 large bags to get us through

winter as we don't consume as much of it.

We buy frozen peas and carrots on sale and my favourite french cut green

beans.

Cabbage keeps rather well if just kept cold but after all the wonderful

fermenting threads... I think I'll keep some of it on hand that way

too. I like to always make sure that there's some fresh cabbage in the

house to juice a bit of it as it's healing properties are really

phenomenal... whether it's juice or part of the soup broth that is kept

on the stovetop all winter long... There are many articles out there on

the benefits/healing qualities of cabbage for anyone interested in

reading more on this... we have found that it really does apply to our

family quite well for all different symptoms... whether it be headaches

or diahrrea... it seems to really help get the gut cleaned out in our case.

Lots of meat of course... spaghetti sauce in jars... hamburgers (half

meat/half ground veggie pulp left over from juicing)... roasts and

ground beef/pork that was on sale.

That's it for us for now. I look forward to reading other people's

input.

KimS - celiac family - scd 2003-2004