Investment Cooking Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 6

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In This Issue:

In the Kitchen

Deciding What to Feed Your Family

Recipe: Recommended Resources

In the Kitchen:

Welcome to all of our new subscribers! I hope you will find this newsletter to be a blessing to you and your families as you work to feed your family wonderful foods everyday! I have been contemplating why we choose the foods we do to nourish our families. I hope this month’s article helps you to solidify your own reasons for choosing what you do.

Have a great month! Next month I will let you see what a week of investment cooking looks like at my house.

Deciding What to Feed Your Family

How do you decide what you are going to feed your family? Do you have a set of guidelines that you use in making decisions about what is best for your family? If we listen to the media we can never be sure of what is healthy or not. Everything is an advertisement for some product to buy. Even if it is in the news it seems that what is considered a “healthy” food changes from year to year.

I use the Bible as my guideline. I believe that God has given us everything we need to know through His word. We are not legally bound to the dietary laws God gave the Hebrews for our salvation but we can still benefit from following His guidelines for better health.

In Exodus 15:26 the LORD says to the Israelites, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, your healer."

The law God gave them was a way to protect them from the diseases in their time. It is a historical fact the Jews who follow the law have been free from many of the diseases that plague the cultures in which they lived.

It is hard to find recipes for foods that our ancestors ate but I believe that if we eat the foods God has suggested prepared in a way that makes the nutrients available to our bodies we will make major strides in having a healthier life. We are able to determine what God has given us to eat by his specific word of items being given to us as food, what he gave as gifts to his people to eat and examples of what Jesus ate.

Here is a partial list of acceptable foods found in the Scriptures:

Warnings against Some Foods:

1.                   “Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep, or goats” (Lev. 7:23).

2.                  “You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water” (Deut. 12:16).

3.                  “Do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts” (Exod. 22:31).

4.                  You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten” (Lev. 11:47).

5.                  Camels, Pigs, Hares, Badgers, Shellfish, and Birds of Prey are not to be eaten. (See Lev. 11:1-47 for a more complete list of foods to be avoided.)

Expanding the Lists

“Neither the healthful nor the unhealthful foods on the list are all inclusive. Many plants fit into the categories of Genesis 1:29a: wheat, rice, oats, barley, millet, rye, and other grains; legumes of all kinds (e.g. peas, beans); bush and vine-bearing fruits and vegetables (melons, grapes, berries, squash, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, etc.).

In Genesis 1:29b (KJV), God gave us:

Every tree, in which the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for [food].

This includes every conceivable fruit (apples, pears, apricots, plums, mangoes, avocado, etc.), as well as all nuts, both large and small (coconuts, walnuts, almonds, cashews, etc.).”

As our science has expanded we can now see many of the reasons for the laws God gave the Israelites to avoid certain foods.

We can also find out how people used to eat through many scientists that study the eating habits of our ancestors. Dr. Weston A. Price was one of those great men who went throughout the world looking at groups of people who had not adopted our western, processed way of eating. He discovered that people who did not eat the refined foods we do were free from diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart attacks. Nourishing Traditions is a great book that goes into the scientific as well as practical principles of eating the way our ancestors did. The WAPF website is also a wonderful source of information that I greatly encourage you to read.

RECIPE:

Black Beans & Rice

The Beans:

5 cups of black beans

3 quarts Warm filtered water

4 tablespoons of whey (the clear liquid that separates from plain yogurt or raw milk) or lemon juice

Rinse the beans and put them in a bowl. Cover with warm water & add whey or lemon juice. Cover the bowl and leave overnight. Drain and rinse. Place in the crock-pot on low for 8-10 hours or high for 4-5 hours until desired consistency.

Cool and bag for the freezer.

For extra flavor:

Sauté 1 small onion diced and 4 garlic cloves minced in olive oil and then add beans and 1 tablespoon of sea salt for last 30 minutes of cooking. You can also add salsa, tomato paste or honey & vinegar to flavor the beans.

For the rice:

2 cups of long-grain or short-grain brown rice

4 cups of warm filtered water

4 tablespoons of whey

Start the rice, water & whey soaking in the morning. Then turn on the rice cooker about 45 minutes before you want to eat. Season the rice with salt and butter to serve.

We like to eat our beans and rice with cheese, lettuce, salsa & sour cream in a tortilla for a yummy burrito. This recipe is very easy to prepare you just have to remember to start them in time. Once you adjust your thinking to preparation instead of waiting until 5 pm to figure out what is for dinner your meals will come together for you in no time!

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES:

Nourishing Traditions

By Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig, Ph.D.

And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.

--- Deuteronomy 8:10

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