Stay Out of the Grocery Store
by Aimee Perrin Several years ago, I decided to eat only organic food, and I felt great about the decision our family had made. It seemed a little obsessive way back somewhere between 1996 and 2003. I guess it was a gradual development. Denny and I had been shopping individually, before we were married, from [...]
Why Bother With Butter (And how to make it!)
by Aimee Perrin Here’s a blog about butter and how to make it. And why bother? First of all, I ran out of the beautiful raw grassfed butter that I was getting from a local farmess. Farmess, meaning a woman farmer, just to give her credit. She makes the best butter, it’s always dark yellow [...]
Yay! We Harvested Our Kimchee Today!
by Aimee Perrin The Kimchee I started last week was harvested today and it came out delicious. So, I decided to write a blog about how I made it. First step, I bought the ingredients at a local market, Rosemont Market in Portland, Maine. We shop at this market in between Farmers Markets, because [...]
Why Lard? by Aimee Perrin
Why Lard? I’ve been posting some pictures of my meals of paleo style, local farm food. One of my favorite, nutrient-rich lunch side dish is Dulse seaweed fried in lard—yes, lard. Am I crazy? No! I got several comments and questions like “Looks Great, but why lard?” or, “I thought lard was bad for [...]
Yummy Coconut Cookies/Butter Transports
76.82 grams carbohydrate in total recipe 36 cookies in each recipe 2.14 grams carbs in 1 cookie I invented these delicious cookies/crackers, gluten and grain free, with ingredients that were in my kitchen. They are so yummy. Here’s the recipe: 4 cups of shredded coconut 3 egg whites 1 whole egg 1/3 cup melted coconut [...]
Alzheimer’s Coconut Oil Miracle
In our local Sunday newspaper there was an article, http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20130120-LIFE-301200309, about a 62 year old man, David McCullen with early onset Alzheimer’s, and how he and his wife were seeking medical treatment now that he had been diagnosed. This story was in the new “Medical Section” that is filled with articles about people going to [...]
The Year 2013 in Healing by Aimee Perrin
As 2012 ends I am renewing my hopes for healing Type 1 diabetes and Dupuytren Contracture. Both of these conditions are, when researched, considered by most doctors—even alternative doctors—to be incurable. I have spoken to and heard many alternative health practitioners, doctors, etc., who say “There are no incurable diseases.” But when asked directly about [...]
When Did Diabetes Become an Industry? by Aimee Perrin
When Did Diabetes Become an Industry? Dedicated to our nephew, Jude Mapes, who died 4 years ago today as a result of the failure of the Diabetes Industry. Jude was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in his 30th year of life to die a week later as a type 1 diabetic on November 14, 2008, [...]
