We had no idea you could freeze eggs. And freezing ripe avocados seems obvious, but we hadn’t tried it until we read through these tips from registered dietitian, Kajsa Ernestam that coudn’t be more relevant now.
Learn to save those precious perishables both to reduce waste and to reduce those grocery store runs right now. Which one of Kajsa’s hacks have you not tried?
How To Make Your Perishables Last Longer
Milk If your milk’s sell-by date is approaching, leave a little room in the container for expansion and put it in the freezer. The dairy industry says milk can be stored frozen up to 3 months, but it’s best if you use it within the first month of freezing. Half & half can also be stored in the freezer but only for 3 months.
Eggs Eggs can be stored for over a month in the freezer, but you have to remove them from the shells first. You can freeze a mix of the whipped eggs, or the whites and yolks separately.
Greek Yogurt Freezing greek yogurt will extend its shelf life by several months. Even though freezing it does have an effect on the texture, eating thawed greek yogurt is just as good for you as eating it straight away. TCM tip: Texture’s not an issue if you add yogurt to a sauce. Try this one!
Avocado Ripe avocado can be stored frozen for 4 to 6 months. You can either cut an avocado in half and freeze the two halves or peel and mash it up and put a mix in a freezer. Add lemon juice and seal the avocado tightly in plastic to minimize browning.
Onions Onions are best to be frozen chopped or raw as most dishes use onions with little to no thawing. Because chopped onions tend to freeze in clumps, bang the bag against the counter a few times before each use. Use your frozen chopped onions within 3 to 6 months for the best retention of flavor.
Cheese Avoid freezing cheese in large blocks as it will then lose moisture. Shredding or slicing cheese is the best way to preserve it in the freezer. Add a little cornstarch or flour to a bag of shredded cheese and shake it to make sure it doesn’t clump in the freezer.
Bread A fresh loaf of bread can be preserved from molding or drying out in the freezer. Put it in the oven to thaw and serve it hot. TCM tip: You want bread recipes? We got bread recipes Try these.
Potato Chips Freezing potato chips will preserve them from becoming stale. Since most of the moisture is already cooked out of potato chips, you can freeze them to help prolong their shelf life without the risk of them getting soggy. When you’re craving a salty snack, grab a few and go.
Leftovers Warm food should always be cooled down before being put in the fridge or freezer. As a general rule of thumb, uncooked and some cooked food can be put in a freezer at any point and kept there for about 3 months.
Note: It is a myth that foods with a freezer burn are bad for your health. Freezer burn does cause a bad color and flavor, and can affect the texture of the food a lot of the time — but it’s not harmful for the consumption.
Our local forays into nature always put us in a better head space, even when it’s rainy or muddy, even when the kids get pooped, and even when they complain in advance of going. Once we are on the trail a switch is flipped. It is unfiltered adventure, discovery, connection and beauty. We are demonstratively happier.
If you’ve ever asked, Do I really need a multivitamin?
Did you know, the Standard American Diet only provides 17 of the 73-90 nutrients we need on a daily basis. (Don’t think the Aussie diet is way better!)
Whole food, plant-based diet eaters would still need to eat between 15-20 pounds of fruits and vegetables a day to get their daily amount of nutrients.
Even organically grown fruits and vegetables don’t have the nutrient punch they did in the past due to our soil deficiencies.
According to the ABS the Australian population at June 2019 was 25,364,300 people of which those aged 65 or older was 15.9% or 4,032.923 people.
If it costs $100 a day to quarantine those 4 million people for three months until the COVID-19 threat subsided it would cost $9,200 a person or a total of $37 billion. A lot cheaper (a third) than the $120 billion the government have estimated and saves lots of businesses, even more jobs and preserves the tax base with which to pay it back!
Or, more accurately, what in the world are we letting them get away with?
I rarely watch the TV news or read a newspaper in print or online. Haven’t for nearly half a century. I heard then from more than one source that what you saw was overblown, sensationalist hype, rarely truthful and designed to take you down tone. When I looked with that viewpoint I found it to be true, so I quit beating myself with their brand of demotivating harrassment.
As I walked through the lounge last night I made the mistake of pausing to see what was on the TV. The news was on.
What a production! The COVID-19 fear mongering was at a level of 20 out of 10! They were going to town six ways from Sunday to blow the fear porn through the roof! I thought, “No wonder people are accepting the insanity of the government lockdown!”
So I got to thinking further about this. And I’m going to ask you a question. Before you read on, please take a split second to breathe out, relax and answer it as objectively as you can.
If, six months ago, a friend had casually said, “I hear the flu this year will be five times as bad as it normally is.” what would have been your reaction?
I’ll wager the first thing that came to mind was not, “We must trash tens of thousands of small businesses, the major employers of most of the workforce, put hundreads of thousands of people out of work, waste 3 times the money of our total existing national debt (about which we are already being justly criticised), impose draconian restrictions of personal freedoms and threaten to not relax them until we can inflict an untrialled vaccine on the population.”
No, I’ll lay London to a lolly that’s not what you would have said. You’re saner than that.
This deliberately overhyped, overblown reaction to something that is a mild to moderate infection to 80% of the people who get it and, now that the solution is available (link below) to quickly and cheaply treat the other 20%, this fear driven insanity must end. We must minimise the damage to people’s lives, businesses and the economy as a whole and restore personal freedoms by reversing this destructive program. #RestoreFreedom
The infection IS being defeated and there ARE specific steps you can take to
a) minimise your risk of infection
b) boost the ability of your body to survive an infection and
c) defeat the infection if it occurs.
I have documented them here:
https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=26880
(Tom: This is a great article. It aligns with a message from an ER doctor in New York –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJA7JBNKYt8
I am reproducing below the article in its entirety from an archive as the original is no longer there and I don’t know how long the archive might stay available. My takeaway, if I get COVID-19 I need to stay alkaline! With Sodium Bicarbonate. Just like any cold and flu.
A doctor found you could turn on all symptoms of the cold or flu by making the bosy more acidic nad turn off the symptoms by making hte body more alkaline.
The body’s natural pH balance, which is slightly alkaline, must be maintained in order for us to feel our best and most energetic. “An alkaline body can absorb up to 20 times more oxygen than an acidic body.” These are the words of, Dr Otto Warburg, a Nobel Prize Winner for his work on respiratory enzymes and cancer. He also found that diseased bodies are acidic bodies, which repel oxygen and attract the overgrowth of disease-causing micro-organisms.
Our body’s acid-alkaline balance is a key component to overall good health and one of the most crucial ways to affect health status. Raising pH (to an alkaline state) increases the immune system’s ability to kill bacteria, concludes a study conducted at The Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in London.
https://www.naturesfare.com/health/ph-connection-colds-flu/)
Article as written by LibertyMavenstock:
In the last 3–5 days, a mountain of anecdotal evidence has come out of NYC, Italy, Spain, etc. about COVID-19 and characteristics of patients who get seriously ill. It’s not only piling up but now leading to a general field-level consensus backed up by a few previously little-known studies that we’ve had it all wrong the whole time. Well, a few had some things eerily correct (cough Trump cough), especially with Hydroxychloroquine with Azithromicin, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
There is no ‘pneumonia’ nor ARDS. At least not the ARDS with established treatment protocols and procedures we’re familiar with. Ventilators are not only the wrong solution, but high pressure intubation can actually wind up causing more damage than without, not to mention complications from tracheal scarring and ulcers given the duration of intubation often required… They may still have a use in the immediate future for patients too far to bring back with this newfound knowledge, but moving forward a new treatment protocol needs to be established so we stop treating patients for the wrong disease.
The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of ARDS or pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans are from the release of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’ or fatigue.
Here’s the breakdown of the whole process, including some ELI5-level cliff notes. Much has been simplified just to keep it digestible and layman-friendly.
Your red blood cells carry oxygen from your lungs to all your organs and the rest of your body. Red blood cells can do this thanks to hemoglobin, which is a protein consisting of four “hemes”. Hemes have a special kind of iron ion, which is normally quite toxic in its free form, locked away in its center with a porphyrin acting as it’s ‘container’. In this way, the iron ion can be ‘caged’ and carried around safely by the hemoglobin, but used to bind to oxygen when it gets to your lungs.
When the red blood cell gets to the alveoli, or the little sacs in your lungs where all the gas exchange happens, that special little iron ion can flip between FE2+ and FE3+ states with electron exchange and bond to some oxygen, then it goes off on its little merry way to deliver o2 elsewhere.
Here’s where COVID-19 comes in. Its glycoproteins bond to the heme, and in doing so that special and toxic oxidative iron ion is “disassociated” (released). It’s basically let out of the cage and now freely roaming around on its own. This is bad for two reasons:
1) Without the iron ion, hemoglobin can no longer bind to oxygen. Once all the hemoglobin is impaired, the red blood cell is essentially turned into a Freightliner truck cab with no trailer and no ability to store its cargo.. it is useless and just running around with COVID-19 virus attached to its porphyrin. All these useless trucks running around not delivering oxygen is what starts to lead to desaturation, or watching the patient’s spo2 levels drop. It is INCORRECT to assume traditional ARDS and in doing so, you’re treating the WRONG DISEASE. Think of it a lot like carbon monoxide poisoning, in which CO is bound to the hemoglobin, making it unable to carry oxygen. In those cases, ventilators aren’t treating the root cause; the patient’s lungs aren’t ‘tiring out’, they’re pumping just fine. The red blood cells just can’t carry o2, end of story. Only in this case, unlike CO poisoning in which eventually the CO can break off, the affected hemoglobin is permanently stripped of its ability to carry o2 because it has lost its iron ion. The body compensates for this lack of o2 carrying capacity and deliveries by having your kidneys release hormones like erythropoietin, which tell your bone marrow factories to ramp up production on new red blood cells with freshly made and fully functioning hemoglobin. This is the reason you find elevated hemoglobin and decreased blood oxygen saturation as one of the 3 primary indicators of whether the shit is about to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.
2) That little iron ion, along with millions of its friends released from other hemes, are now floating through your blood freely. As I mentioned before, this type of iron ion is highly reactive and causes oxidative damage. It turns out that this happens to a limited extent naturally in our bodies and we have cleanup & defense mechanisms to keep the balance. The lungs, in particular, have 3 primary defenses to maintain “iron homeostasis”, 2 of which are in the alveoli, those little sacs in your lungs we talked about earlier. The first of the two are little macrophages that roam around and scavenge up any free radicals like this oxidative iron. The second is a lining on the walls (called the epithelial surface) which has a thin layer of fluid packed with high levels of antioxidant molecules.. things like abscorbic acid (AKA Vitamin C) among others. Well, this is usually good enough for naturally occurring rogue iron ions but with COVID-19 running rampant your body is now basically like a progressive state letting out all the prisoners out of the prisons… it’s just too much iron and it begins to overwhelm your lungs’ countermeasures, and thus begins the process of pulmonary oxidative stress. This leads to damage and inflammation, which leads to all that nasty stuff and damage you see in CT scans of COVID-19 patient lungs. Ever noticed how it’s always bilateral? (both lungs at the same time) Pneumonia rarely ever does that, but COVID-19 does… EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Once your body is now running out of control, with all your oxygen trucks running around without any freight, and tons of this toxic form of iron floating around in your bloodstream, other defenses kick in. While your lungs are busy with all this oxidative stress they can’t handle, and your organs are being starved of o2 without their constant stream of deliveries from red blood cell’s hemoglobin, and your liver is attempting to do its best to remove the iron and store it in its ‘iron vault’. Only its getting overwhelmed too. It’s starved for oxygen and fighting a losing battle from all your hemoglobin letting its iron free, and starts crying out “help, I’m taking damage!” by releasing an enzyme called alanine aminotransferase (ALT). BOOM, there is your second of 3 primary indicators of whether the shit is about to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.
Eventually, if the patient’s immune system doesn’t fight off the virus in time before their blood oxygen saturation drops too low, ventilator or no ventilator, organs start shutting down. No fuel, no work. The only way to even try to keep them going is max oxygen, even a hyperbaric chamber if one is available on 100% oxygen at multiple atmospheres of pressure, just to give what’s left of their functioning hemoglobin a chance to carry enough o2 to the organs and keep them alive. Yeah we don’t have nearly enough of those chambers, so some fresh red blood cells with normal hemoglobin in the form of a transfusion will have to do.
The core point being, treating patients with the iron ions stripped from their hemoglobin (rendering it abnormally nonfunctional) with ventilator intubation is futile, unless you’re just hoping the patient’s immune system will work its magic in time. The root of the illness needs to be addressed.
Best case scenario? Treatment regimen early, before symptoms progress too far. Hydroxychloroquine (more on that in a minute, I promise) with Azithromicin has shown fantastic, albeit critics keep mentioning ‘anecdotal’ to describe the mountain, promise and I’ll explain why it does so well next. But forget straight-up plasma with antibodies, that might work early but if the patient is too far gone they’ll need more. They’ll need all the blood: antibodies and red blood cells. No help in sending over a detachment of ammunition to a soldier already unconscious and bleeding out on the battlefield, you need to send that ammo along with some hemoglobin-stimulant-magic so that he can wake up and fire those shots at the enemy.
The story with Hydroxychloroquine
All that hilariously misguided and counterproductive criticism the media piled on chloroquine (purely for political reasons) as a viable treatment will now go down as the biggest Fake News blunder to rule them all. The media actively engaged their activism to fight ‘bad orange man’ at the cost of thousands of lives. Shame on them.
How does chloroquine work? Same way as it does for malaria. You see, malaria is this little parasite that enters the red blood cells and starts eating hemoglobin as its food source. The reason chloroquine works for malaria is the same reason it works for COVID-19 — while not fully understood, it is suspected to bind to DNA and interfere with the ability to work magic on hemoglobin. The same mechanism that stops malaria from getting its hands on hemoglobin and gobbling it up seems to do the same to COVID-19 (essentially little snippets of DNA in an envelope) from binding to it. On top of that, Hydroxychloroquine (an advanced descendant of regular old chloroquine) lowers the pH which can interfere with the replication of the virus. Again, while the full details are not known, the entire premise of this potentially ‘game changing’ treatment is to prevent hemoglobin from being interfered with, whether due to malaria or COVID-19.
No longer can the media and armchair pseudo-physicians sit in their little ivory towers, proclaiming “DUR so stoopid, malaria is bacteria, COVID-19 is virus, anti-bacteria drug no work on virus!”. They never got the memo that a drug doesn’t need to directly act on the pathogen to be effective. Sometimes it’s enough just to stop it from doing what it does to hemoglobin, regardless of the means it uses to do so.
Anyway, enough of the rant. What’s the end result here? First, the ventilator emergency needs to be re-examined. If you’re putting a patient on a ventilator because they’re going into a coma and need mechanical breathing to stay alive, okay we get it. Give ’em time for their immune systems to pull through. But if they’re conscious, alert, compliant — keep them on O2. Max it if you have to. If you HAVE to inevitably ventilate, do it at low pressure but max O2. Don’t tear up their lungs with max PEEP, you’re doing more harm to the patient because you’re treating the wrong disease.
Ideally, some form of treatment needs to happen to:
Inhibit viral growth and replication. Here plays CHQ+ZPAK+ZINC or other retroviral therapies being studies. Less virus, less hemoglobin losing its iron, less severity and damage.
Therapies used for anyone with abnormal hemoglobin or malfunctioning red blood cells. Blood transfusions. Whatever, I don’t know the full breadth and scope because I’m not a physician. But think along those lines, and treat the real disease. If you’re thinking about giving them plasma with antibodies, maybe if they’re already in bad shape think again and give them BLOOD with antibodies, or at least blood followed by plasma with antibodies.
Now that we know more about how this virus works and affects our bodies, a whole range of options should open up.
Don’t trust China. China is ASSHOE. (disclaimer: not talking about the people, just talking about the regime). They covered this up and have caused all kinds of death and carnage, both literal and economic. The ripples of this pandemic will be felt for decades.
Fini.
Just a reminder from Tom: The infection IS being defeated and there ARE specific steps you can take to
a) minimise your risk of infection
b) boost the ability of your body to survive an infection and
c) defeat the infection if it occurs.
Advertising your product is SO old hat. Most people believe their friends much more than they do ads.
So, how do you create a market for your product?
You take a slightly more virulent virus outbreak scenario.
You create a conference (http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/) teaching health officials and governments how to over react, to deny civil liberties and trash jobs and businesses.
When a virus outbreak occurs, you get a dodgy academic to create death rate projections that are off the charts.
Your cabal use your bought and paid for press to orchestrate a mass over-reaction to that virus which creates widespread fear in the population and demands for government to act promptly “to save lives”.
The government implement draconian restrictions that force many to accept government handouts so enslaves them, forces small business to close, many permanently (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/43-of-small-businesses-say-theyll-be-forced-to-close-permanently-if-they-dont-get-help-soon-survey-says-2020-04-03)
You get your team hard at work to create a vaccine that will not have to go through safety tests and trials because the need is so urgent.
You then get gorenment officials and opinion leaders to promote the line that all will return to normal once a vaccine is available.
