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Where to buy organic vinegar: in the the provinces of course

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It’s no good going to the regular city stores or supermarkets to buy organic vinegar. You need to go to the organic markets like OPTA or the weekend markets or Tiendesitas to get authentic organic vinegar.

I’ve tried organic vinegar made from NIPA, from TUBA (coconut), and from Sugar Cane.  They all have their taste and character, it depends on what you are dipping into it or if you are using it for cooking.

The best tasting coconut vinegar is Lola Conching’s a branded vinegar that is available at OPTA and from Jackie Dellota, I am sure it is available elsewhere as well, it is made in Sorsogon province. Lola Conching’s vinegar tastes so good I have to hide my bottle in my own hiding place away from the maids as they like that vinegar so much it seems like they are chugging it like beer and it’s gone in a flash.  I tell them I have gallons of the other provincial vinegars there for you, those are yours to consume freely.

When we have oysters we sometimes dip them in vinegar and we use all these different types of vinegars to see which ones taste best with oysters… I believe the tuba coconut vinegar from candelaria, quezon tastes best with oysters… the taste is delicate and not too strong like lola conching’s.

There is a man who owns several stands of this organic tuba vinegar / organic tuba alcoholic drink stands just at the border of Candelaria Quezon.  I took a picture of him and his stand.  He is unmistakable because he has a cyst on his left lower jaw.  He says organic vinegar happens when it fails to become the alcoholic drink it should become.  I asked him for the most powerful vinegar he had… first class… and it does taste first class… although it comes in a recycled plastic bottle.

Organic vinegar works the same as those apple cider vinegars being popularized in the USA.  Organic vinegar is a probiotic.  I remember Dr. Austria prescribing Lola Conching’s vinegar as a probiotic supplement.

So for those of you driving out of Manila and into the provinces, remember to stop by these nice looking stands, they are selling something very hard to find in Manila: organic vinegar.

organic-vinegar-in-candelaria

How to Open Oysters in Pictures and Video

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Labor of love for my 8 year old boy.  He loves oysters and has not had his fill yet.  Maybe he needs all that zinc.  So I bought live oysters from the market and prepared it all for him this lunch time.  At the same time I took pictures and a short video demonstrating how to open live oysters.

Materials for washing oysters: a pail of water and a brush

Materials for washing oysters: a pail of water and a brush

The oysters I buy at the wet market are still full of mud. I have to ask next time why they don’t clean them up before they sell them to us.

A muddy live oyster

A muddy live oyster

So you get your muddy live oyster and brush it well while dipping it in the pail of water. Use a pail so you don’t waste running water via a faucet. Save water!

Use the brush on the oyster

Use the brush on the oyster

The oyster is now clean

The oyster is now clean

The oyster is now clean. Now it is time to open the oyster:

1. Use your knife and chip away at the edge of an oyster exposing its gap, opening.
2. Use your knife and jam it in and twist it to open the oyster.

Clip the oyster edge to be able to expose a gap for the knife to go in

Clip the oyster edge to be able to expose a gap for the knife to go in

See the video for details:

Oyster opened

Oyster opened

Ta dahh… the oyster is now open and ready to eat! Raw of course. You want that zinc to be bio available don’t you? For the germ phobic, just dip your oyster in some organic vinegar or squeeze a lemon on top.

Gross Clothing Habits and Bathing Habits Corrected by maid

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I did a good deal of wet marketing this morning and my in-laws’ long time maid was with me to do her wet marketing as well.  It turned out the turtle hunter texted me to pick up some 6 turtles so we drove far out to the novaliches caloocan border.  This gave us some time to chat.  She reminisced her days with her old lady boss as nannie and clothes washer.

The maid remembered how unhygeinic her old boss was.  Their family habits had them saving and saving water like there’s no tomorrow.

  • They would only take a bath / shower once a week!
  • They would keep on wearing the same clothes for a week!
  • They would wear the same grimy underwear for a week!

That is so gross.  And she described how gross it was washing those undies that at times she just threw them away.

She described how she threatened her old boss that she was not washing grimy underwear anymore, that they should change their undies every day.  That they wore the same clothes all week, that they stinked and needed to bathe more often.

Her old masters did change some ways so the maid stayed on for many years until her old boss became bankrupt due to a family squabble over the business.

More gross recounts… my wife’s family had a foreign exchange student a few years ago, a teenage girl of 16 years old… and that girl changed her grimy underwear only once a week too!!!  It was so gross she and another maid were pointing to each other as to who should wash the foreign exchange students’ undies.

The horror of it all!  Now there’s a clue to why some people are sick.  They have sick habits.

My maternal grandmother taught us to change our undies in the morning and change our undies in the evening.  And to take a shower once or twice a day.  And may I remind you not to use shampoo and only soap the crack of your butt.  Plus your soap must be organic soap.

Bam! It is Durian Season! Smooth tasting, yummy smelling, very much filling Durian

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September is durian season in the Philippines. Oh man, last week and this week me and the kids have been raiding the supermarket durian. We are buying durian every other day. And I am glad it is durian season because this fruit is FATTY.

Now if you look at http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/2088/2 for durian analysis it says there are more carbohydrates than fat in durian, well my tummy says that durian FAT is very very filling. I get this craving to eat lots of durian… but I just cannot… it fills me up… just like that! Funny thing is I see it in the kids too… except for my 6 year old boy… he can gobble up more durian than I can.

*** I must warn you beer drinkers to not mix beer with durian. It is a persistent and true urban legend that mixing beer with durian may be fatal to your health. ***

I have observed that some people are born to love the smell and taste of durian: There’s me, my father in law, and the children… from the very first time we smelled durian it was love at first smell and first bite. We love durian smell as the car air freshener and refrigerator air freshener.

Now some people absolutely hate the smell of durian. These spoil sports are very violent about their repulsion of durian. In durian cities like davao and general santos city I have heard that hotels have a no durian policy. Durian rights! Durian rights! Durian rights!

I heard from my father in law who just flew back from general santos city and they were selling durian there at 28 pesos per kilo! Awesome! My wife’s friend and her mother at one time actually flew in to davao city to purposely go on a durian binge and flew back to manila after they had their fill.

I’m still waiting for the buy one take one offer in Tiendesitas. I hope they push through this month. Last year was bad for durians, this year promises to be better.

packed-durian

We buy packed durian sometimes for convenience and assurance of ripeness

This is what Durian Fruits look like

This is what Durian Fruits look like

My 8 year old Boy does a 1 day Orange Juice Fast with me

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Funny it was my 8 year old boy who requested me that he do a 1 day orange juice fast. Maybe I talk too much about these techniques. It’s a good idea, I teach the kid these tricks while he is young he grows up knowing how to do these himself. So this Saturday was the orange juice fast day… F-A-S-T not FEAST… okay? Just making myself heard clearly.

I learned orange juice fasting from Barefoot Herbalist MH, I had done 3 days fasts and a 14 day orange juice fast. Lately I do not feel the need to do any fasting since I am on a raw paleo diet with raw meat… raw meat is different, it’s clean… unlike cooked meat that makes me want to fast every now and then.

In Barefoot’s orange juice fast he recommended 8 oranges a day and to supplement with soy lecithin for fats. I never liked the soy lecithin I got and tried in the past so for my son I got him fertilized native chicken egg yolks instead. And since he is small, I just gave him 4 oranges. We got allegedly valencia type oranges from the market.

I think the best part he and his siblings liked was juicing the oranges in the juicer. Nannie Jean helped out and the kids had fun taking turns on the orange juicer eventually juicing 12 oranges.

My son’s orange juice fast went really smooth I was pleasantly surprised. 7:30 am was the first glass of orange juice with water he drank. I just had half an orange squeezed plus half a glass of water. We put all the squeezed orange juice in a bottle for easy access. My boy would just fill in his own glass and drink by himself every 2 hours. And he kept playing all day with his x-stick, we went to the mall, and he went to his cousin’s house. The whole day he must have taken 5 small chicken egg yolks… these are native chicken RAW egg yolks… pretty small.

My wife was playing devil’s advocate offering my son food at the dinner table. My son and I finished our last glass of orange juice while my wife and my in laws feasted on grilled in banana leaves tuna jaw, fresh raw tuna from general santos city, salad greens and Japanese goma sauce. I played orange juice fast buddy to my son so he found it very easy to resist any food smell or offerings… and he even witnessed during mid afternoon snack his 2 siblings eat fresh durian!!!

Before bed he pooped. No need for an enema as specified in the orange juice fast manual.

My boy was excited to get a good night’s sleep to wake up to a durian breakfast.

I hope this fast enhances his digestive capabilities.

4 Year Old Girl Gets Lots of Tooth Decay from High Fruit High Rice Diet – Toothbrushing and Flossing ineffective

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My 4 year old girl had been suffering from pain in her two teeth, one in the left and one on the right.  Tooth decay.  I had put clove oil on her painful teeth as first aid relief.  I badgered my wife to bring her to the biological dentist Dr. Gaba to heal her pain.

This 10am our 4 year old girl had her first dental appointment and had a tooth cavity fixed and filled. She was brave.  No fear.  Dentist was pleased.

This example hammered the points of the Cure Tooth Decay book by Rami Nagel about the real cause of tooth decay.  My wife and I had been debating this issue for quite some time.  My wife is an extreme tooth brusher.  She believes in tooth brushing and flossing… very thoroughly… yet this concept is false.  And just as Rami Nagel wrote in his book, it is sugar spikes, too much carbs from excessive fruits and excessive rice that was the culprit to our 4 year old child’s multiple teeth decaying.

This child of ours eats sweet fruits (rambutan) in the morning for breakfast… but mid morning she eats rice with cooked animal food… then at lunch rice again with cooked animal food… by mid afternoon snack she eats sweet fruits again (rambutan lately)… then dinner there are times she eats soup and rice only.  Talk about carbohydrate overdosing.

Don’t look at me, I’m not the one buying those extremely abundant rambutans… I buy the fatty meats these days… not the fruits.

This child is very very good at tooth brushing and flossing… bzzzzzz… wrong answer to tooth decay… I told you so… and this had to happen only to drive the point across that tooth brushing and flossing does not prevent tooth decay.  Tooth brushing and flossing is cosmetic… not functional.

So finally both my wife and I are on the same page, cut out rice.  We made the 2 younger kids choose… give up rice or give up fruits?  Give up rice.

Clamp down on the sweet fruits! Rambutan is too sweet. When you eat a sweet fruit you pair it with fat like avocado or raw egg yolks so it does not cause tooth decay. The only fruits I buy lately are high vitamin c native guavas and durians.

I have no problems with my 8 year old boy I’m handling now, he has been rice less a few weeks now on the Daddy treatment for his malnutrition.

Good that durians are in season now, it is sweet and fat at the same time, no overeating on this fruit, it fills you up real fast because it is FAT.

A clear path towards paleo diet for all children is in clear view. My wife is now on board.

4 Straight Days of Egg Yolk Liver Flushing with my 8 year old Boy

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It was a great experience buddying up with my 8 year old son for his egg yolk liver flushing which went on 4 consecutive days last Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

As some of you who have followed, my son was diagnosed with tuberculosis in his chest X-ray and it is apparent that he looks malnourished and not thriving.

One aspect of the problem is not enough good food.  Another aspect is mal-absorption of food.

So to clear up mal-absorption of food my son is on paleo diet, usually mono meals, we got rid of rice and he is on high fat diet with fruits as his carbs.

Another thing to improve his digestion is to clean or tone his liver.  A few days prior I bought a few cartons of Harvey Crushed apple juice to move the liver. We then proceeded to do a 4 day egg yolk liver flush.  This is great because there are no chemicals involved like those epsom salts in Hulda Clark’s version of the liver flush.  This is very easy a little boy can do it.

Every morning around 6:30am:

I measured around 1/6th cup of raw chicken egg yolks mixed with 1/4th cup of freshly squeezed calamansi juice which my boy drank.  Then followed it up with 2 tablespoons of unsalted Anchor Butter (yellow grass fed butter from New Zealand).

I then asked my boy to lie down for 20 minutes.

I did the same things he did but of course I used more material than him.  I lied down just the same.

It was all very easy.  I got some benefit myself.  Mosquito bites seem to heal quicker.

My boy had a blast… he was relieved to be finished by Thursday.  What was hard for him is eating that much plain butter with no salt added.

He then requested to do a 1 day orange juice fast soon!

Learn to do egg yolk liver flushing yourself with these instructions. Click Here.