I got carded today.
At the healthfood store.
For buying a bottle of kombucha.
My friend Cindy Y. was there so you can ask her if you think I’m kidding.
I know that getting carded for buying a bottle of kombucha is kinda weird, but the FDA has done much stranger things over the years, wouldn’t you agree?
What’s even weirder is that the sign at the register said “We Card Everyone Under 27”.
Now, I’m not under any grand delusions that I somehow look 27 when I am a full 2 decades older.  Cashiers simply know how to make a busy Mom’s day (or year) by asking for her driver’s license to see if she’s legal.
While this experience was rather amusing to me, it did get me thinking about how I feel today versus how I felt 20 years ago.
In short, I feel like a totally different person.
I have more energy, stamina, strength, and am much more fun to be around (and live with) now than I was back then and Real Food is the reason why.
Not all Real Food though.
While the entire international smorgasbord of Real Food is important in it’s own way, what I’m talking about here are the Sacred Foods.
Sacred Foods are those foods that Traditional Cultures revered as they bestowed extraordinary health and resistance to disease and infection to those that consumed them.
What are the Sacred Foods?
Organ meats, raw butter, fish eggs, egg yolks, cod liver oil.
Pretty much all the foods that most people avoid like the plague.
The Sacred Food I think is primarily responsible for me feeling better in my 40’s than in my 20’s is liver.
Cod liver oil and grassfed liver have made all the difference to my health over the years.
You’re not going to want to hear this, but I actually eat my liver raw on occasion.
Raw liver??
Before you frantically surf to another page, let me explain.
I really don’t enjoy liver that much.
While I totally adore chicken or duck liver pate on toast, eating liver by itself totally gags me (good news: you can stop the gag reflex though if it’s a bit of a nuisance!)
So I completely relate to that grossed out feeling you got when you read the line about raw liver.
How did I get over the gag worthiness of liver to actually incorporate eating it raw with regularity in my diet?
Easy.
I chop it up into very small pieces and swallow them whole without chewing.
That way, I don’t have to taste it, I don’t have to experience the texture or anything.
It just goes straight down the hatch to do its amazing and nutritionally transformational work.
Worried about eating meat raw? Don’t be. If you freeze it for 14 days or longer, then thaw and eat, any risk of parasites is slim to none. USDA research is actually helpful on occasion.
Do you hate liver too?
Don’t miss out on the life changing effects of this incredible Sacred Food just because your taste buds have let you down.
Get a decent piece of liver from your grassbased farmer, freeze it for 14 days, thaw it, chop it up into little pieces and put in a jar, and start swallowing a few tiny bites each day.
I guarantee you will feel better.
Amazing.
Ok, flat out fantastic.
You can thank me later.
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist.com
I’ve got my husband hooked on drinking raw kombucha! We pick it up a few times a week when we are out and about. My 5 year old loves it too 😉 I love the fact that I am putting “good” bacteria into my gut since I am prone to stomach flu’s and food poisoning :/
Oh, but Sarah, I really want some yummy liver pate! I’ve eaten the way that you eat when I was on GAPS diet.
This is what I do too. I freeze the liver and take maybe an ounce worth in frozen pill size pieces a day with some raw milk. It always gives me a rush of energy soon afterwards… like coffee but without the the wired feeling and more of a “I want to go lift something heavy” energy, and minus the adrenal fatique. My husband, born and raised in the soviet union adores liver so he gets it once a week for dinner with onions cooked in lard. I think when we’re ready to have our second child I’ll make him eat it raw like me for a few months. hahaha
Me too! I feel like I could pick up a skyscraper I feel so strong and invigorated!
That’s why they stopped selling Kombucha at our health food store..they didn’t feel like trying to get a liquor license in a “dry” county! 🙂
Just one question. How much raw ugh liver must one eat daily to really, really notice a difference?
Well, maybe two quetions. Any good recipes for pate’?
Not much at all. Maybe a half an ounce (4-5 small pieces).
Click on the link above for a pate recipe.
I’m breastfeeding so my dose is probably twice as much as you would need but I eat about an ounce of frozen liver a day cut up in to little pill size pieces. Before I got the idea to do that from Sally Fallon I used to eat 3-4 ounces twice a week. Since I already take stinky cod liver oil and such first thing in the morning anyway, the frozen liver is the least of my issues. I can almost stomach fried chicken liver but raw liver really contributes to my energy levels in a much more significant way.
Yes, I agree. Raw liver has an energy and stamina producing effect that eating cooked liver does not. At least for me which is why I do eat it periodically raw.
you talked about storing the thawed meat in a jar. how long will raw grassfed liver keep? also maybe this is a dumb question, but why is the liver to good for you? thanks!
Just thaw enough that you will eat in three or four days.
I will only eat a half an ounce or so – an ounce at most per day until it’s used up.
Read through the rest of the post. I hate liver too (except for pate) … I give you a tip for how to eat it with no problem at all.
I would love to make or buy some yummy liver pate from grass-fed cows. I’ve tried several times to make it and it’s digusting every. single. time. But liver is healthy but it is gross, too.
I thought I heard it was human growth hormone that’s illegal.
LOVE the new one’s with the chia seeds in them !!