Saturday, May 27, 2006

Supplements and food purchases (Maker's Diet "style")

After reading Magnolia Brook's Natural Health Detective article and
speaking w/ her on the phone, which was very helpful, I bought these products from livesuperfoods.com - Richard - 800-481-5074:





The first 3 items are similar to what wd be in the supplements from Garden of Life (i.e., The Maker's Diet). The kefir is a good source of fermented probiotics.

Then today I went to Sprout's and got some other items:


  • Food for Life - Ezekiel 4:9 (original) cereal

  • Kashi - Good Friends (High Fiber) cereal

  • Simply Fiber - All Natural Crunchy O's Cereal

  • Back to Nature - Classic granola

  • Rice Dream - Original Classic (rice milk)

  • North Dallas Pure Honey

  • Desert Essence - Organics Hair Care - Italian Red Grape Shampoo

  • Desert Essence - Organics Hair Care - Italian Red Grape Conditioner



I didn't bother taking the time to find links to the above. I'm sure they are easy enough to Google.

I'm mostly doing this to document when, where and what I got to keep an account of how things go.

Generally I prefer to make our own granola for cereal, but I wanted to try these and also have backups for when we don't have our own.

7 comments:

BMan said...

I finished the Kashi - Good Friends (High Fiber) cereal. It was good. Nothing particularly remarkable though.

I started my own kefir. My first try was w/ rice milk which didn't work. And then lowfat goat's milk which also didn't work. I think it might have been either the fat content or that I heated the milk in the microwave first???

My third try was w/ skim (cow) milk. It wasn't looking good so I poured in some leftover Lifeway kefir and it seemed to do well.

It smelled weird to me, but my wife said it smelled like buttermilk to her.

I had some this morning on granola w/ fresh blueberries, raisins, Goji berries and some local honey. Dang - good stuff.

I started eating the Ezekiel 4:9 cereal too. So far so good.

We've been taking the other supplements w/ fair consistency though I can't say I've seen/felt any changes.

I started a new kefir batch yesterday w/ some leftover from my current batch, some whole milk and some skim milk. It was looking good this morning.

BMan said...

Also, my wife likes the shampoo, but not the conditioner - I'm using that.

And I got a shower filter from New Wave - I got it at the Cupboard here in town.

BMan said...

I've been making the kefir and it's been really good. I finished the Ezekiel cereal and it was fine. Nothing great. I'm noticing these cereals don't have much in the way of vitamins.

BMan said...

New purchaes:

For Mo:
Gaia - Siberian Rhodiola Rosea (herb for stress/mindset)
NewChapter - turmeric force (herb for inflamation/liver function)
Gaia - Ashwagandha Root (for sleep)
Desert Essense - Italian Red Grape shampoo
Nature's Gate - Victorian Emerald Cypress - organic conditioner

For Both:
Genesis Today - 4 Total Nutrition - multi-vitamin (liquid)

For me (new supply):
Pure Planet - Just Barley
Pure Planet - Spiralina

For me at work (new supply):
Oregon Chai - green tea
Solaray - no flush niacin
NewChapter - cinnamon force

BMan said...

I think the liquid vitamin kicked my butt into detox which surprised me:

Genesis Today - 4 Total Nutrition - multi-vitamin (liquid)

Info on it

Get the nutritional info on it here

BMan said...

I've mostly been sticking w/ the same things:

b'fast: granola (organic or homemade) w/ local honey, raisins, banana, blueberries, walnuts and (homemade) kefir or (homemade) yogurt.

My 'cocktail' is usually kefir or grape juice w/ super greens, Genesis today 4Total Nutrition liquid vitamins, humic acid (sometimes), EM concentrate (sometimes) and I just got Genesis Today 4Fiber to try.

For other meals, I mostly just try to eat healthy/organic.

BMan said...

Trying this for my super greens: Michael's Super Defense Food