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 eyed GT’s kombocha, and aside from most options being berry flavors which I avoid (DD still reacts to berries) I also didn’t know know if it is would a be a good thing to start during pregnancy. I have been following a WAP diet with lots of GAPS meals, but ferments are a real struggle for me, especially right now. And sometimes I’m curious to drink something other than water.
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What a clever idea! I should have thought of this as it is how I ate the canned peas and lima beans I was served as a child . . . just swallowed them whole! I am going to have to try this as I detest liver, in any form.
I totally agree with consuming raw liver! I like to put my liver in the food processor and then put it in little containers that I bought at sam’s club. I rotate eating chicken, beef and lamb. My husband has some friends who are going to save me their deer livers this year. But I was wondering if it is ok to eat deer liver as long as I freeze it for fourteen days ?
Nancy,
That is one of the types of liver that I am going to try this year, along with wild hog/pig. We have lots of both on the property we are moving to!
My DIL cooked up a deer liver one year and she pronounced it good 🙂
I would say as long as it is clean and looks like a Healthy liver it should be wonderful for you.
@Chelsea Dig that liver out and try some! Watch out world!
ah, i hate this! now i really have no excuse to keep shoving the package of liver further back in the freezer every time i open the door. Pooh, off to go take a chunck out…
haha sounds like me!
I have frozen liver in the freezer…I am still working up the stomach to do something with it!
what kind of liver is best eaten raw, chicken, pork or liver?
They are all slightly different nutritionally. Try to mix it up if you can. Although I have never had pork liver. Just chicken, duck, goose and beef.
Thanks Sarah! I tried my chicken liver marinated for an hour in a lemoncito juice, a bit of salt and pepper. I turned out great, definitely better than just eating it raw and plain. I will try beef liver next-can’t wait.
I would be leery of pork liver no matter how well fed they are, they are just an all around dirty animal (I still love me some bacon!). I usually get grass-fed beef liver and do the same as Sarah and cup up into little pieces, freeze on a tray and throw into a bag so you can just take out a few of them to thaw for that day.. when they are so little it only takes 5 minutes to thaw at room temp.
Janelle,
Actually pigs are very clean animals if given the opportunity. Unlike many farm animals they will not soil there own bedding if they have room to “go” someplace else. While they will eat just about anything that doesn’t eat them first they have a very hard working digestive system. Let’s hear it for Bacon!
thank you ! great idea. I got tired of trying to mask the liver flavor in a smoothie. Raw cacao, raw milk, raw egg yolks, raw honey, and raw liver, good bye !
If I really, really can’t stand liver that way, will taking dessicated liver tablets from Radiant Life suffice?
I’ve taken the dessicated liver tabs in the past and they do not compare to raw liver IMO.