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• Wilderness Family Naturals
  • Great place to purchase coconut oil, raw nuts, freeze dried fruits and much more. 
  • www.wildernessfamilynaturals.com
• Kombucha Kamp
  • Learn all about making kombucha and purchase anything you need from them.
  • www.kombuchakamp.com
• UNFI (United Natural Foods), Cooperative buying group
  • This is where I get my bulk beans, rice, and random things that I would potentially get at Park + Vine or whole foods when I want them in bulk. It is a food cooperative in which we buy cases of items together to get the discount. So if 3 people want to get a 25# bag of raisins, we can split that between the 3 of us and pay way less, save on packaging and do one stop shopping.  Other splits consist of dates, dried mangos, cans of coconut cream, canned tomatoes in BPA free lined cans, coconut ice cream, etc.  You would find a coop near you to join.
  • www.unfi.com
• Eat Food For Life
  • Farm, farmers market and Herdshare, grass fed, organic raw food items and more.
  • www.eatfoodforlife.com
• Living Food Farm and Raw Vegetable Powder
  • This is a resource for real and amazing probiotics. I personally believe probiotics is a huge part of the cure.  This is expensive and a little out there, but my cousin has actually visited this farm and he said it’s just amazing how organic they keep it. The soil is lush and dark and soft. They spent years just getting it to be good soil first.
  • http://www.livingfoodfarm.com/Raw-Vegetables-Powder.html
• Westin A. Price Foundation
  • An amazing resource to learn beginning concepts in proper preparation of foods and consumption of raw/cultured foods.
  • http://www.westonaprice.org/
• Cultured Food Life
  • A great resource for how and why fermented and cultured foods work for those with dietary issues and great recipes (I love her sprouted graham cracker recipe)
  • http://www.culturedfoodlife.com/wp-signup.php?new=culturedfoodlife.com
• The Healthy Home Economist
  • This women really knows her stuff, lives it, and has lots of blogs and videos here (and on youtube) on how to make things and why it is healthful.  She is on the board with Westin A. Price. She is pretty much the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook come to life.
  • http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/
• Berlin Bakery
  • The best bread to purchase: Whole foods sell their sprouted spelt bread. It only has 3 ingredients. Spelt, water and salt!
• Fabulous Ferments
  • A local couple handmakes and sells sauerkraut, kimchi, beet kvass and kombucha.
  • www.fabferments.com

• Great Plains Allergy Testing
  • A great place to send off for allergy tests
  • http://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/home/eng/food_allergy_igg.asp
• The Champion Juicer
  • I waited many years to buy a juicer because they are expensive and there are so many to choose from, I couldn’t stand to decide and make the wrong decision. But I think this is the one!!!  Similarly priced as all the others, could be run over with a truck or be 20 years old and still keep purring. It can juice fruits, veggies, ginger for kombucha, make nut butters and grind flour! It really is an all in one.
  • http://www.championjuicer.com/
• Pampered Chef
  • Heidi Scherpelz-A friend of mine who is an excellent consultant for Pampered Chef.  It’s easier to cook right when you have high quality cooking utensils.

  • http://new.pamperedchef.com/pws/hscherpelz 

• LaValle Metabolic Institute

  • Quoted goal from their website: “Our goal is to identify the areas of breakdown of the normal metabolic process and restore them to full functioning through supplying the missing nutrient or hormone, or by encouraging the release of personal stress, realigning the body through weight loss, readjusting the immune system, and working to prevent future recurrences of the problem. This process takes time and careful study.”
  • http://www.lmihealth.com/

• The Maker’s Diet
  
  • By: Jordan Rubin
    
• Is This Your Child?
  
  • By: Rapp Doris
    
• The Yeast Syndrome: How to help your doctor identify and treat the real cause of your yeast-related illness
  
  • By: John Park Trowbridge, MD and Morton Walker, DPM
    
• Why Do I Feel This Way? Cutting Through the Health Confusion
  
  • By: Christine Gaber,RHN and Charlene Day, RDC
    

• Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
  • By: Sally Fallon
    • A cookbook with references, resources and recipes on soaking, culturing and preparing foods properly.
• Finally, Food I Can Eat
  • By: Shirley Plant
    • A cookbook with allergies in mind. So there are plenty of recipes that do not have the major allergenic foods and descriptions of how to make adjustments to the recipes in order to meet your needs.

The next three cookbooks go together.  They are formed on a Mennonite foundation.  These don’t have much to do with allergies or intolerances, but ways to use food well.

• More-With-Less Cookbook
  • By: Doris Janzen Longacre
• Simply in Season
  • By: Cathleen Hockman-Wert
• Expanding the Table
  • By: Joetta Handrich Schlabach

**Please note that I am not a nutritionist or dietician-these are just the things that I have discovered over the years with my battle for health and would be up for offering direction and ideas in your efforts, though you should see your physician for treatment.