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
This may be an odd question, but why would raw liver be any better for you than cooked? I’m not fond of it personally (though I’ve never tried it in pate).
OMG! So great to hear you don’t have to drink a ton of Kombucha to get benefits! I personally can barely stomach more than 1/3 of a bottle of GT’s so I had quit trying to drink it thinking it wouldn’t help!
Does anyone know how long frozen grass-fed liver keeps in the freezer? I’ve had some frozen for like 7 months and I just never got around to doing anything with it. Do you think its safe for me to thaw and take raw like you stated? Or should I toss it and get some new liver and freeze it for just 14 days? Thanks!
It should be fine. I would eat it! 🙂
I started drinking GT’s Kombucha, 1/3 a bottle a day, and in a week and a half my sugar cravings completely disappeared. I’ve also been taking nutritional yeast and dessicated liver every day for B vitamins. After a month most of my PMS went away and my cycle was much lighter.
Other than these things my diet isn’t that great. I can’t wait to start eating whole, nourishing food more consistently. If these little changes made me feel so good I can’t imagine what how I will feel when I really start to eat healthy.
As soon as I saw the word “liver” I could think of little else. My mom used to make us eat it as kids and I couldn’t wait to avoid it once I got out on my own, thankfully my husband agreed. I felt justified when I discovered eating liver was discouraged (thanks to the crappy way cattle are being raised). Now I have yet found a good source of grassfed meat and feel over my head when considering how to procure some. Now you have me thinking I really need to put the effort out for good liver. sigh. 🙂
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the raw liver idea! I’ve had it in the back of mind to try the raw liver tonic and another recipe in Sally Fallon Morrell’s NT, but it’s kinda too much work for me right now. I’ve been grating frozen liver and cooking it in soaked brown rice; it’s sooo tasty and the kids don’t even know it’s liver (sneaky, but worth it), but I know I’d benefit from consuming it raw.
I make my own kombucha, it is SO EASY and SO much cheaper! I just grew 2 mothers from two bottles of GT’s and then moved them to a bigger container. My dad LOVES my kombucha! 🙂 I trade him bottles for his raw goat milk 🙂
you grew mothers from GT’s – please tell me how! I’d love to know!
I’ve done that too! You just put about 1/2 cup of the store bought kombucha in a jar and let it sit on the counter for a couple of weeks.
OK, I’ve been giving that very kombucha to my children- is this ok?? Now I’m worried!
My kids drink it. No worries. The FDA is whacked out on this issue – as usual. 🙂
Thanks!! 🙂
Lol I bought some of this years ago but didn’t get carded. I thought it was good but some say its an aquired taste Lol!
Amazing and wonderful
I have loved liver my whole life, but I’ve never eaten it raw. Can you sum up the good things liver does for our bodies in a few sentences? I’d really like to know, since I’ve quit making liver for a long time now, because my teen sons (think that they) don’t like it.
Thanks
Hi Carmen, please click over to the “Sacred Foods” link in the post. I have a video dedicated to the Sacred Foods that covers them in detail.