Thyme sausage

Original recipe here, from SCD lifestyle

I took:

1/2-1 kg of beef mince (premium or prime, or both)
1/2-1 kg of pork mince
some teaspoons of water
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
turmeric, paprika powder or cinnamon, or all three, or none of them

Mix well in a huge bowl.


Grease up a bread baking pan (the long ones for banana bread) and fill up with the mince mix, press in evenly.
Cover with some tinfoil, so it won't dry out.
Heat up oven to 300° Fahrenheit or 150° Celsius, and bake for 3 hours.
Take out, let it cool down, put in fridge or freeze away in small batches.
Fry slices in coconut oil or olive oil before eating.

My Bf stole some of it , added some gravy and pasta, and ate everything up even though he had planned to take leftovers with him for the next day.

4 days of pumpkin

Hello all,

As I said before, I had huge troubles. For a year. Big stabbing hot pain, bloating to the point that I looked like 9 months pregnant.
And when I got m diagnose, I went onto the intro diet...but it didnt really work. It improved things, but not...really.

Until I decided: " alright, lets do this the hard way: 4 days of meat and pumpkin. "

Oh my. I was scared. But it worked! No kidding!

So here is what I ate:

Breakfast: thyme sausage, self made, fried in coconut oil or olive oil
Lunch: either sausage, broiled beef patties, chicken or beef soup with 2-3 teaspoons of cooked and pureed buttercup or butternut pumpkin.
Dinner: see lunch.

Boring? Not at all!

I cooked the beef patties, the chicken soup and the pumkin according to the rules of the intro diet.
But the cooked pumpkin is awesome. I spiced it up to whatever I wanted, and I did the same with my beef patties. I had beef patties with cinnamon, beef and pork patties with either paprika or turmeric and black pepper, chicken patties or even lamb.
I also spiced my pumpkin: sweet cinnamon pumpkin for breakfast (leave out salt), spicy curry pumpkin (salt, pepper, turmeric, cumin) or I put it into the soup.
I also had some beef schnitzel and a great steak, just with salt, pepper, and pumkin mash on the side.
I ate LOTS of meat. Meat is less dense in calories, so you need to eat more to have enough energy for the day. I also ate spoonfuls of coconut oil to get more calories in.

And I ate lots of thyme sausage. I like this stuff.

Since I still had no antibiotic, I took a probiotic. It is not SCD legal, but it didnt give me too much trouble. I took Natrens superdophilus, which is lactobazillus acidophilus, and took 1/4 tsp every evening before I went to bed for a week. Then I doubled the dose to 1/2 tsp the next week. I also prepared self made Kefir from lactose free milk and took 1 tsp every evening, too. Kefir is a stronger natural probiotic than yoghurt. I had some bloating, but since I slept, I had no big troubles in the mornings and all day.
additionaly, I took GI proZymes as enzymes, 1 peppermint oil capsule 30 minutes before meals, and one or two capsules of betaine HCL to help with the meat digestion. I didnt like it, and I have no idea if it helps or not, but since you cannot test your HCL levels here in NZ, I didn't care. Once the bottle is empty, I wont buy again.

Try it out, it will improve a lot of your symptoms.

The Big Change

Hello my dear readers.

I finally got diagnosed with baterial overgrowth, and went onto a new diet. I was sceptical at first, and it didn't really seem to work. I learned that I had to tweak it, bend it, until it fit me...and suddenly it started to work out! I finally improved! The last three days were amazing! I feel...awesome!
But that means I have to tweak this page too.

No worries, I will still post recipes that I will find, on the web or elsewhere, as well as information about what I do to heal my poor gut. But I will only do this in english. But, if you want the recipes in german, send me an email and I will do so :).

First a few words about this new diet.

It is called "special carbohydrate diet" and got invented by Elaine Gotschall in the late 1950s.
She wrote an awsome book called "breaking the vicious circle", and I strongly recommend reading it. Don't think: "hey, that isnt for me, that is for Crohns/celiacs/autism" because, actually, it is for much more medical problems. I am not kidding. It can help patients with IBS, Colitis Ulcerosa,Crohns, Celiacs, Malabsorbtions, Fybromyalgia, Diabetics and Obesity. And, according to all the pages I found on the web, even with depression and psychosis.

I had nothing to loose, so I did it. And, it is not a diet for short term, it is a more healthy lifestyle. I rather cook a lot and eat differently for the rest of my life, if I have to or want to, than feeling sick again. Seriously.
Give it a try, for 30 days. Write up your daily food and symptoms, be moderate in your intake.

Here a a few links to the Intro diet:

This is the original page for the SCD intro diet. It is important that you do the intro, because it kills off some bugs and gives you a headstart into this diet. But remember, you might have to tweak it! Some of us cannot have the yoghurt yet (too much casein, too man live probiotics),
some cannot have honey,grapejuice, or eggs, or hate carrots....
I will tell you in the next post how I managed my 3 days of meat and pumkin only.

This is a page of two guys (Jordan and Steve) who have tried the diet and suceeded. They love it, so they do very good podcasts, articles, email, webinars...and they sell their own book.
And they will send you a very neat chapter about the intro diet for free, with pictures and everything.

And this here called Pecan bread is a great page, they even listed the foods into different stages, to help building up your safe food zone. They also have great recipes (which i will probably post here, too, once Ihave tried them out. )

Come on, lets get started!