Can you believe tomorrow is August 1?
I love July
…actually it is my favorite month of the year 
July is the month when day light and sunshine take over. The water is warm, people are happier (they get more vitamin D), and freckles decide to say hello!
I want to highlight a few fun things that made my July even better.
- Are you deficient in magnesium oil? A very easy and inexpensive solution is to make homemade magnesium oil. If you know how to measure and mix, you are all set!
- Do you LOVE lemon? GAPS lemon bars make the perfect summer treat.
- Need a quick crunch on the GAPs diet. Try this super easy sweet chip.
- When you crave chocolate your body really needs magnesium. Give your body both with these GAPS chocolate drops..who knew that chocolate could be this good for you!
- Banana bread that is grain free/GAPS friendly. It’s just too good to be true
- The ridiculous about of fresh produce from local farms and farmers markets! I just got 15 lb of pickling cucumbers, 12 lb of cabbages, 5 lb of zucchini, 4 lb of cucumbers, and raw goat milk all for $34! I got a lot of work to do…
- Spending endless hours with my sisters swimming and SUP-ing (Stand up paddling) in the lake and laying on the beach. I love you sunshine!
- Citrus and summer are two peas in a pod. I just might have to try these Orangies. Sine we are on GAPS at my house, I will have to just substitute the sprouted flour for almond and/or coconut flour.
- I had to get rid of all my spices because I found out they were cross contaminated in a gluten/corn facility (I’m that sensitive). I found that most taco seasonings put corn flour in their mix. I will never have to buy taco seasoning anymore now that I have this homemade recipe!
- Gotta love summer for its hot temperatures, which make kombucha brewing super speedy! Now I have a new fun mango drink to slurp on in the sun!
- I have to admit, there is one down side to July. The misquotes!! Here in Minnesota they eat you alive, so I really have to make some of this non-toxic spray! Bye bye bug bites!
- This delicious fudge popsicle recipe is one way to get gelatin and bone marrow into your kids! This is definitely a gutsy yummy food!
- I mentioned that I got my first 2 gallons of raw goat milk the other day. I am using it to make this goat cheese recipe….all I hear today is the cheese dripping.. drip..drip..drip..
- Now that I have 12 lb of cabbage, I have got to start making sauerkraut fast!
- I have been working hard testing out new recipes, so August will be full of new surprises! Come follow my Gutsy pinterest board to see what I have already made.
~Stay Gutsy, Caroline
Oh. My. I’m going to love your blog. You’re into so many things I am into! Although, July is my birthday month, I usually find it TOO hot. I like the weather of October or so.. when you can leave your windows open and not run your AC or your heater — still here in MI you don’t get vitamin D past October, so that’s bad…. (my research at the University where I work is about vitamin D, it’s quite close to my heart!)
And you remind me to use my magnesium oil….. it’s sitting on my bathroom sink and I never seem to use it. I need to!
Haha this is great! I don’t find many people where I live that are interested in the same things as I am..im the weird duck as you can probably tell. I love october too, but then i miss being outside so much. So what kind of research do you do on vitamin D? thanks for reading!