You’ll need:
1 litre of Kefirred Real Raw Milk (pasteurised milk can be used also, in fact Kefir will return some of the enzymes lost and predigest the lactose and casein)
1 or 2 ripe bananas (you can freeze in advance)
a few strawberries or other berries (make sure they’re organic - pesticides used on berries are scary)
1 free range, pasture fed egg yolk (use two if you don’t mind the taste of egg yolk but do not use the whites)
1/2 cup coconut cream
1 tablespoon raw honey
Other optional ingredients: coconut oil, raw cream, butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract, cocoa instead of berries, other fruit like paw paw (papaya), mango, peach, passionfruit, kiwfruit.
Directions:
To make great Kefir. Place the grains in a glass jar. Add raw milk which is at room temperature (cold is alright but will take longer to ferment). Sit in a warm place out of the sun. Agitate the jar occasionally over the next 24 hours by shaking gently. Keeping it above the fridge but out of the sun ensures it gets warmth and agitation. Come time to use the Kefir, strain through a sieve, stirring gently until there are only grains left in the sieve. Place the grains back in the same jar and fill with raw milk.
Whizz it all up in your blender and drink very slowly. Smoothies are a great drink to down your raw liver pills and your cod liver oil. I find the best to only add a few ingredients. Too many types of foods seem to diminish the Kefir’s ability to be digested quickly and I feel blurky for a while after.
You can get Kefir from Dom’s Kefir Insite.
Keep praying for raw milk to be made available locally to you. It will happen!
About the Author...
Joanne Hay, Editor of Nourished Magazine, Chief Nourisher and Mother of three is very grateful to live in Byron Bay and be able to share all she has learned about Nourishment. She has trained as an Acupuncturist (unfinished), Kinesiologist (finished) and parent (never finished). She serves the Weston A Price Foundation as a chapter leader. She loves sauerkraut, kangaroo tail stew, home made ice cream, her husband Wes and her kids Isaiah, Brynn and Ronin (in no particular order…well maybe ice cream first).
Oct 25th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Dear Joanne, why do you not use the whites of the egg in the smoothie?
Oct 25th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I don’t like the taste. Also albumin is difficult to digest. I either throw the whites out or use them to make merangue in the dehydrator.
Oct 26th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
It is unhealthy for dogs as well to eat LOTS of raw egg whites…
my dog sometimes steals an egg and you can be certain that she preferes the yolk.
The only time I eat raw whites is when I make mayonaise…
Just prefers the recipee that use a whole egg to the one that only contain yolkes.
Oct 31st, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Joanne, is this the exact smoothie you use in the milk diet?
Nov 1st, 2007 at 8:48 am
Phil, I didn’t often use eggs and coconut during the middle of the real raw milk diet. I wanted to keep the ingredients to a minimum to give my digestion a break. The point of the exercise. I started adding honey, eggs and coconut as I came out of the ‘fast’.
Jun 18th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
I’ve got spare Kefir grains at the moment. gamgo(at)optusnet(dot)com(dot)au