Kaake Family Blog

With all the whooping cough info in the media, I thought I'd do some research and figure out what would be best should my children or someone we know and love were to get whooping cough.  Hey, this is for you too even if we don't know you :) I thought about what I know about which herbs/foods are best for lung and mucus issues.  I then combined that info with researching I did online from other people who have made lovely recoveries with these items.  The below information is what I found and will be using if we contract it.  Now it is a bacterial infection so if this were to come up for our family, we would be getting the antibiotic.  We don't use them often (only for strep so far) but this is one instance we would receive the antibiotic.  We would support our body with probitiocs and probiotic food during this time to make sure we restore our gut health. So without further ado, here are some things others have found to be very helpful. Foods t...

I thought I'd post this for anyone interested.  We try to purchase as much local/organic as possible.  Most of our meats are free range meats.  I don't want to have to label everything "organic", "free range", etc...  We don't have an actual pantry but we do have some cupboards.  The picture above is of a dream pantry.  The picture was borrowed from here .  Oh and hubby makes most of our condiments which is cool! Hubby does love to bake and has his own baking supplies that I don't use.  Things like flour, sugars, etc...  Here's what I personally keep on hand.  Happy cooking! Canned food: diced tomatoes diced tomatoes and chilis tomato sauce tomato paste salsa beans - mostly black beans but sometimes pinto and great northern veggies - green beans, peas, corn nut butters - Usually peanut butter or sunbutter.  Occasionally almond butter pasta sauce tuna fish Dry goods: basmati rice beans - pinto, black, great no...