Thank you for this excellent information! Truly an excellent addition to this thread which I hold in high importance. The first thing that people must consider is that which we put into our bodies. It is literally the foundation of everything else.
And yes! The GMO machine and the processed everything needs to be exed out. Good for you on the bread. Do you grow your own grains then or have a trusted source?
Also a quick note on the coffee. According to Shelton caffine should be avoided and hence the coffee and tea. It is strict but it helps the body get back to its original state.
Quoting: Undestroyer You've done a good thing starting this thread in the first place. Perhaps we can help save some people some money too. There are some very nice 'superfoods' out there for sale and many of them are full of nutrition but alas, most of them are expensive too so there are going to be some of us worrying that we'll have to go without something we feel we need. That's where understanding how generous nature has actually been to us, regardless of where we live, can help us a lot. All the expensive minerals you can buy in a bottle can also be found in the weeds growing around where you live. Again, I want to say, God bless the youtube uploaders for the hundreds of videos I've found there about foraging for all areas of this country and many others.
As to the grains I used for bread, well, I couldn't always be picky but I did often buy them at the feed store and grind them myself as needed. That's because for most of my married years, right until my husband passed away, we lived several miles from a paved road, no modern 'conveniences' and had no refrigeration, except in winter when we got plenty naturally:) Even when we set up solar, it wasn't enough to keep a fridge running. The trouble with whole grain flours is they go rancid long before the refined white flour and most people don't have a sharp enough sense of smell to know they're in trouble if they eat them. Left in their 'seed' state, I had a lot more leeway, so long as I kept the stuff in the dark and dry - dry was no problem in the desert.
I'm going to fail Shelton's test about caffeine. If I don't use it all the time, it's only because the price has gone up and I didn't buy enough to be greedy till next month. I do consider it a medicinal with a specific purpose and am left in no doubt by a stomach sensitized by raw food if I've done too much of it. But I have to 'give up' too damn much already:) and until it bothers me, I'm going to keep my little 'kick' for when I need one.
As a widow watching my pennies, I spend most of my food budget already buying the best meats and produce I can afford for my dogs and cats, first, and I live on what's left. Coffee and tea - the latter, I usually order online to get a better quality and price - are just as much a part of my background as baking and I probably run on the stuff when I have no food for myself left in the house. I have to drive so far to shop, I don't do it that often. It's winter where I live, at close to 8,000 ft altitude so my foraging opportunities are limited. I do notice, however, that I don't seem to crave it much in summer.
But, by no means should anyone drink bad coffee and tea or any that's been sitting around too long. There's a lot of rancid coffee in stores too and any coffee-lover of experience should be able to smell it immediately. Coffee beans have gone up in price lately too but that's one thing I'll still pay for without complaint. San Francisco Herb Co. online has a decent price on that 'white tea,' a very smooth green tea that I think is just delightful. Still, I owe it to this thread to mention another couple of teas I also use every day in winter because I either have them right outside or I buy so much of it, I never run out:
Pine needles and peppermint. They didn't call it peppermint for nothing. Drink peppermint tea very strong when you're chilled to the bone and your insides will flush that chill in seconds after it hits your stomach. I have it on cold mornings first thing. It will literally save your life if you have a thermos of it in your vehicle when you get stuck in a blizzard. Pine needles are an excellent source of vitamin C and MSM and the hard-to-get-in-foods silica. They are blood purifiers and tonics. And they too, will warm and invigorate you in winter.
To the poster with the chocolate milk: the main problem with milk these days is it's pasteurized, making it indigestible and mucus-inducing and then add in a lot of drugs and growth hormones that are bound to promote some really perverted cell mutations. I'm fine with chocolate if you have a good one. It's full of nerve-stabilizing magnesium and its general availability is probably one of the reasons more women haven't murdered their husbands during cases of 'the vapors.' If you're craving chocolate a lot, get some more seaweed in your diet, dark green vegetables, some good fats and keep some blackstrap molasses around for quick relief. You need minerals and chocolate is giving you some of them.