Well, for the first time in I don't know how many years, I finally stayed up to watch the ball drop! We were watching a movie, paused the movie, turned on the tv to watch it drop, then back to the movie...wild and crazy New Years Eve at our house, once again! We did do our traditional Brie and Champagne fondue dinner that we've done every year for the past 6 years or so. We always have an appetizer dinner and stay home...easy tradition.
I really love sauerkraut, of course not the pork, but I haven't had it on New Years day in years. I was rereading my Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook, by Cathe Olsen and it was singing the praises of fermented food, like sauerkraut. So I looked it up online and found that sauerkraut does, indeed have some beneficial health properties. When eaten raw it has Vitamin C and lactobacilli (a probiotic) and has some cancer-fighting compounds. So, while you're enjoying that leftover New Year's food, you can rest assured you're doing something healthy for your body (this really only goes for the sauerkraut, not all the Christmas cookies that you still have or the leftover bottle of champagne!)
This blog is a journal of how I'm working to make my home greener and healthier for my family. From cloth diapering, to organic shopping to discussing vegetarianism with a 6-year-old, I'm hoping to continue to motivate myself to push ahead in my journey to be as green and healthy as the 6 of us can be.
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