Comments on: Atheist Oatmeal

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:34:57 +0000

I LOVE this article and have printed it out to refer to more easily. Coincidentally I have 5 jars of tumeric capsules on their way to me right now because I know it to be a miracle spice. I also just discovered an awesome naturopath/chiropractor and she and I are working on a better cleaner diet & life. She is a closet sun worshipper and says that lack of vitamin D causes way more cancer than causes skin cancer. Interesting. In any case, both my herbalist friend and new naturopath recommend 10,000 IUs of vitamin D/day. Wow! We still need to get together and I am around this Friday but flying off to sunny Sedona to turn 40. If I don’t see you before old age sets in I will see you when I get back (I’ll be the one with the tan). LOTS of love, Leah

By: Annie Skoglund

Annie Skoglund — Sun, 02 May 2010 00:47:05 +0000

Nicholas – love that kid! Too funny! Bob has been residing in my cupboard for almost a year now. Erika encouraged us to try his healthy, steel-cut oatmeal and I went right out and bought me some…have yet to consume it though! You’ve inspired me and I will attempt your recipee tomorrow morning.

My girlfriend, Tracy, once entered a body building competition and to be a good friend I decided to support her by doing her “diet” for two weeks. Thought I would perish but I made it. Along those lines, I will eat dark chocolate several times a week for you!!!~annie

By: Cherri Langley

Cherri Langley — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:09:40 +0000

great blog Kerri….
atheist oatmeal…so funny!
we took a tour at Bob’s Red Mill, met Bob himself, and bought one of each grain on the shelves! Vince likes to mix the grains with the oats he cooks every morning….needless to say, breakfast is an adventure….always a new mix!
Cherri

By: Nancy Olson

Nancy Olson — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:37:26 +0000

Yo Mama here,too. Your blog is super great. I really like reading the comments. Thanks for doing it. As per, you probably think my ideas are a bit radical re: nutrition. I am so happy to see your wise recommendations for good food for support of you and your family’s health. I also recommend the recipes in the Nourishing Traditions cookbook, by Sally Fallon that I gave you and the accompanying book, The Fourfold Path to Healing by Thomas S. Cowan, MD. It addresses the nutrition issues for healing and prevention of Cancer. In addition to what you have found it emphasizes: lacto-fermented foods, soup broths, flax seeds and flax seed oil, beets and lacto-fermented beet juice(to support the liver), coconut oil and fat from grass-fed animals.
I will do what I can to bring down some of that wonderful Chinook Salmon from Alaska.
The book also addresses meditation suggestions. They suggest :
* contemplation of great music(especially Baroque) and works of art(especially
Impressionist).
* Contemplation of the “Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and Beautiful Lily ” by Goethe.
Carry On, Ms. Kerri. You’re beautiful. Mix in enough rest with your daily walks. Love You, Mom

By: robert

robert — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:09:30 +0000

I want to be the first person to use HTML in a post.

By: robert

robert — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:07:36 +0000

Brueberries! That’s what they’re called in our house. Not because Isaac has started talking yet but because we often speak in cloying baby-speak. We are doing our best to finish off last year’s crop of frozen blueberries. I went a bit crazy and froze about 5olbs and I’m not allowed to buy any new berries until we finish last year’s. It’s a bit of a crusade now. Blueberries on oatmeal, blueberries to Isaac one-by-one, blueberry crumble for lunch today after the salmon-belly bbq.

I know what you mean about the dangers of Google. When Isaac was diagnosed with Down Syndrome last year, we both spent wayyyy too long surfing and worrying ourselves silly. It’s a great resource but also dangerous for a hypochondriac like me. With Isaac, we basically ignore the bad prognoses and decide what WE want to happen and focus on making that the reality. We’re writing our own history.

So, the lesson is: WRITE HISTORY!

By: julie hamlin

julie hamlin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:10:35 +0000

Hi Kerri! I’m a friend of Kelli’s from old Central Asian days – thus, the connection to your blog. How I wish we could’ve met under different circumstance. But while I’m here reading your blog, I wanted to let you know that I think you totally ROCK and I am sending all the hope, positive mantras and determination straight to you from Tajikistan!

I, too, am a food lover!! I start most of my days with steel cut oats. My fave as of late is to add a teaspoon of peanut butter, a finely diced apple and tons of cinnamon. Cinnamon is also an anti-inflammatory — and an antioxident — and controls blood sugar.

Keep the humor and great attitude coming!

Julie

By: Anna Cornell

Anna Cornell — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:36:21 +0000

The photos of the strawberries and the blueberries make me drool.

By: Kevin Burke

Kevin Burke — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:31:27 +0000

Another awesome blog, Kerri. I particularly love that the Quaker Oats guy is now an atheist. Should someone call Pepsi (who owns Quaker I believe) and let them know that they might have a teensy problem with how Quaker Man is being perceived by the younger generations?

Then again, when you figure that Quaker Man is shoveling coal for Pepsi, wouldn’t he have to be an atheist? Or at least agnostic.

I love your food suggestions. Right up my alley! Blueberries and poached eggs are #1.

And thanks for reminding me that Bob of Bob’s Red Mill is a righteous dude. You have to trust the products from a guy who would give his company away to his employees on his 81st birthday.

Can’t wait for the next post.

By: erika

erika — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:39:21 +0000

Posing as your old sis, this is your old pop with a bit of 3am advice.
As for music. I am a Luddite and figure the radio suits just fine if you know where to go. My dial is welded to KPLU in Tacoma for jazz, blues and NPR. Saturday and Sunday nights is blues from 6 to midnite. Upbeat and my personal fav. You can get it any time on the net , either live feed or selected poison. Try it. A little Big Momma Thornton will do you good.
As for your nephew of Athiest Oatmeal fame, what can be said? The boy is a genius.
The opening photo of you on this posting is way cool and familiar. I have had that look directed at me many times over the years. Please update your photos so we all can keep up with what I expect will be a plethora of groovy hats and scarves.
As for me and 3am. A perfect storm of spring sinus, nearly successful smoking cessation, over enthusiastic bladder, and other failing body parts woke me from a troubled sleep at the scariest time of night. 3 am has always and forever bothered me. I was born now (well, now in terms of the clock, certainly not the calendar). My later years find me semi conscious at this hour, on my way to the john, and troubled by the knowledge that this is the hour when souls travel. Never know who you’ll run into in the hallway. Ask me about Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, and The MellowTones sometime.
I love you girl. Remember you don’t have to kiss any old drunk that asks you (editor’s note: this is a long ago story from Seattle childhood!). It is always your choice.