Hi Kate! I am wondering if you have any ideas about treating acid reflux with diet. My hubby would like to avoid the medical over the counter options. Thanks!
Caren mccarthy:
May 10th, 2012 at 2:17 AM
Hi. I’m wondering if anyone knows of where to find stats on the number of vaccinated kids that actually contract life-threatening illnesses. Obviously unbiased information would be more useful. I tried to join the Facebook page with no luck several times-could have something to do with doing it from my iPhone.
Hello Katie,
I am a dutch blogger about Real Food (and WAPF chapter leader) and I’d like to inform people about it. In the first place with my blog, but I am also thinking about writing and selling ebooks about it. Since you do both, I wonder how you determine about which recipes you blog and which ones you use for your ebooks? Or in other words: what do you give for free and what information do you sell in the form of an ebook? On what grounds do you decide?
Regards
Iris
Kate Tietje:
October 19th, 2012 at 5:09 PM
Hi Iris,
I usually choose recipes I enjoy but don’t have time/energy to test repeatedly to put up for free. I will occasionally choose something I think will be really popular because that helps to drive traffic to the site. For the cookbooks, I choose recipes I have tested very well and which I think are high-quality, in-demand, and “timeless.” I usually will put modified versions or variations of popular free recipes in the books as well. It’s not even as much “which” I choose, really, but the ones that are paid are tested usually multiple times by me as well as at least 3 independent testers to ensure they work and they are enjoyable. I may have made the ones I post here once myself (sometimes a lot more, but sometimes just once). I don’t test nearly as carefully on the free stuff. It’s important that whatever you choose to sell, you are 100% behind and that you produce it well (use good pictures, triple check the recipe and directions, note if it’s free of allergens, etc.). I don’t take the time to do all of that (just pictures) on free content.
OrganicDominick:
January 25th, 2013 at 9:13 AM
My two boys have been raised on organic brown rice (Earth’s Best) cereal, rice milk, brown rice pasta, rice cakes, over cooked brown rice with berries and honey breakfast, brown rice turmeric and veggie pilaf, and the list goes on. We are on well water as well and have had the boys bathe in it every day for the last four years. If I have ever felt worried that I was a bad mother, it would be now. How does one detox a 4 year old? We know so little about the safe levels of supplements on our own bodies I wouldn’t even begin guessing how much of what he would need to be helpful but not damaging. He’s not tired and doesn’t get sick often, but he does have very dry skin, thin wiry hair, weird pitting of enamel foot fungus, and that list goes on as well. He seams okay, but its not like one can see cancer developing. AHHHH!!! I mean, seriously! I am slowly digressing into ignorance is bliss. Had I not known any better I would have fed my kids cow milk and wheat cereal, gave them a few pills to cover the symptoms of fat, sugar and hormone overdose and been on my merry little way to feeling good about what I’m doing for my kids. The more I know the more I feel trapped and this latest rice arsenic deal is just breaking me. What have I done?
Kate Tietje:
February 4th, 2013 at 9:49 AM
I am not sure about the arsenic issue, and we still eat brown rice. I know it’s been found in the rice but some people say not in a form you can absorb. Probably depends on the person though. If you are worried, try some bentonite clay and bath salts (good ones) in the bath tub, and you might consider a water filter. We all do the best we can and we can’t avoid everything! It just isn’t possible. And it’s okay.
Kate:
February 23rd, 2013 at 3:42 PM
Hey Kate! Just stumbled upon your blog and I would be interested to know where you get your raw milk from. My husband and I are looking to join a herdshare and are in Columbus. Thanks!
Sara:
April 17th, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Can you sub almond oil for avocado oil? And can you do without the Shea butter? (This is what I have on hand plus the magnesium citrate) another question is there is magnesium oil in the recipe for the lotion then why doesn’t it make you itch?-Thankyou so much for posting!-Sara
Kate Tietje:
April 18th, 2013 at 8:16 AM
Hi Sara, you can sub any liquid oil for the avocado oil. If you leave out the shea butter it won’t have the right consistency. The oil doesn’t make you itch because you are moisturizing your skin at the same time.
Megan:
April 10th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
Hi Kate! I am wondering if you have any ideas about treating acid reflux with diet. My hubby would like to avoid the medical over the counter options. Thanks!
Caren mccarthy:
May 10th, 2012 at 2:17 AM
Hi. I’m wondering if anyone knows of where to find stats on the number of vaccinated kids that actually contract life-threatening illnesses. Obviously unbiased information would be more useful. I tried to join the Facebook page with no luck several times-could have something to do with doing it from my iPhone.
Shea:
September 15th, 2012 at 8:03 PM
I would like to subscribe to your blog.
Thank you
Iris:
October 18th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Hello Katie,
I am a dutch blogger about Real Food (and WAPF chapter leader) and I’d like to inform people about it. In the first place with my blog, but I am also thinking about writing and selling ebooks about it. Since you do both, I wonder how you determine about which recipes you blog and which ones you use for your ebooks? Or in other words: what do you give for free and what information do you sell in the form of an ebook? On what grounds do you decide?
Regards
Iris
Kate Tietje:
October 19th, 2012 at 5:09 PM
Hi Iris,
I usually choose recipes I enjoy but don’t have time/energy to test repeatedly to put up for free. I will occasionally choose something I think will be really popular because that helps to drive traffic to the site. For the cookbooks, I choose recipes I have tested very well and which I think are high-quality, in-demand, and “timeless.” I usually will put modified versions or variations of popular free recipes in the books as well. It’s not even as much “which” I choose, really, but the ones that are paid are tested usually multiple times by me as well as at least 3 independent testers to ensure they work and they are enjoyable. I may have made the ones I post here once myself (sometimes a lot more, but sometimes just once). I don’t test nearly as carefully on the free stuff. It’s important that whatever you choose to sell, you are 100% behind and that you produce it well (use good pictures, triple check the recipe and directions, note if it’s free of allergens, etc.). I don’t take the time to do all of that (just pictures) on free content.
OrganicDominick:
January 25th, 2013 at 9:13 AM
My two boys have been raised on organic brown rice (Earth’s Best) cereal, rice milk, brown rice pasta, rice cakes, over cooked brown rice with berries and honey breakfast, brown rice turmeric and veggie pilaf, and the list goes on. We are on well water as well and have had the boys bathe in it every day for the last four years. If I have ever felt worried that I was a bad mother, it would be now. How does one detox a 4 year old? We know so little about the safe levels of supplements on our own bodies I wouldn’t even begin guessing how much of what he would need to be helpful but not damaging. He’s not tired and doesn’t get sick often, but he does have very dry skin, thin wiry hair, weird pitting of enamel foot fungus, and that list goes on as well. He seams okay, but its not like one can see cancer developing. AHHHH!!! I mean, seriously! I am slowly digressing into ignorance is bliss. Had I not known any better I would have fed my kids cow milk and wheat cereal, gave them a few pills to cover the symptoms of fat, sugar and hormone overdose and been on my merry little way to feeling good about what I’m doing for my kids. The more I know the more I feel trapped and this latest rice arsenic deal is just breaking me. What have I done?
Kate Tietje:
February 4th, 2013 at 9:49 AM
I am not sure about the arsenic issue, and we still eat brown rice. I know it’s been found in the rice but some people say not in a form you can absorb. Probably depends on the person though. If you are worried, try some bentonite clay and bath salts (good ones) in the bath tub, and you might consider a water filter. We all do the best we can and we can’t avoid everything! It just isn’t possible. And it’s okay.
Kate:
February 23rd, 2013 at 3:42 PM
Hey Kate! Just stumbled upon your blog and I would be interested to know where you get your raw milk from. My husband and I are looking to join a herdshare and are in Columbus. Thanks!
Sara:
April 17th, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Can you sub almond oil for avocado oil? And can you do without the Shea butter? (This is what I have on hand plus the magnesium citrate) another question is there is magnesium oil in the recipe for the lotion then why doesn’t it make you itch?-Thankyou so much for posting!-Sara
Kate Tietje:
April 18th, 2013 at 8:16 AM
Hi Sara, you can sub any liquid oil for the avocado oil. If you leave out the shea butter it won’t have the right consistency. The oil doesn’t make you itch because you are moisturizing your skin at the same time.