SUMMARY: Bone Broth is a traditional food that has been on dinner tables for ages, and yet it has nearly disappeared from the American table. I spent years researching what’s in Bone Broth, and why I should make it for my family. After all, it seemed to be loaded with hidden dangers like the potential for lead leaching into the Bone Broth from the slow cooker vessel and the animal bones themselves, histamine reactions due to its long cook, and even contrary to what other bloggers write, the TRUTH is that the evidence finds there’s NOT a huge mineral load in Bone Broth. After reading loads of studies, I decided to post this BRIEF FREE summary of what I found because the evidence proved to me that there are many components in Bone Broth that makes it worthwhile to make. I now do so as do leading functional medicine doctors like Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials, Dr. Mark Hyman, and Dr. Kara Fitzgerald. You can also read here how bone broth is being used during fast just prior to cancer immunotherapy to improve outcomes for insulin resistant related type cancers (breast, colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma multiforme).
Summary:  Most everyone wonders what are the ingredients that make up healing diet holiday recipesand that create nutrient dense, anti-inflammatory, low toxin great tasting traditional food that even folks not on any dietary restrictions will enjoy.  Seems impossible, but it is absolutely possible.  I do it all of the time; guests are amazed and hosts welcome such! For predinner delights, check out these appetizers! Otherwise, lets dive into our soup, tenderloin and sauce recipes, as well as many AIP blogger all time holiday favorites! Happy Holidays!
I’m sharing four of my family’s and guests favorite holiday recipes (and my Pinterest Holiday board shares more) for ourButternut Squash Soup opener and incredible Whole Beef Tenderloinrecipe which literally melts in your mouth and is great topped with  Alton Brown’s Horseradish Cream Sauce or our fav Mushroom Sauce. The Horseradish Cream Sauce uses SCD 24 hour dripped yogurt (or Greek yogurt), and it is also a great salad dressing!  We’ve tested lots of recipes but these stand the test of time and remain our holiday tradition first course and main entree.  It is interesting that long before I even knew what a healing diet truly was, the soup, tenderoin, and mushroom sauce recipes are coincidentally also autoimmune-protocol (AIP) compliant as well as PALEO, SCD, AND GAPS compliant.  The Horseradish Cream Sauce is PALEO, SCD, AND GAPS compliant, but not AIP compliant due to the dairy.  AIP is explained further below, but suffice it to say AIP is perhaps the most challenging of the healing diets due to the vast amount of foods eliminated, albeit this is temporary.  I bet some of your own family favorites are AIP compliant!
I’m also sharing an incredible roundup of AIP blogger all time favorite and most popular holiday recipes.  Check out the AIP ingredients listed  below for several of those recipes for clues as to what are less gut irritating recipe ingredients and to learn more about this healing diet.Â
My Butternut Squash Soup Recipe has evolved over the years and is a combination of the best of many recipes including Epicurous. Usually for the holidays we serve this plain; you can add ingredients (lentils or berries) for a complete meal after the holiday blitz. For easy “How-to” instructions for making calcium rich nutrient dense bone broth for use in recipes see therecipe in this post.  Another insider tip:  This soup stays frozen for all day travel replacing ice packs nicely and moving through TSA without incident!
Whole Beef Tenderloin (AIP, PALEO, SCD, GAPS) — at every Christmas meal for as long as I can recall:
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MANY MORE AIP Healing diet holiday recipes
Actually, there are a wealth of AIP compliant recipes online from amazing bloggers.  This download, “Holidays on the Autoimmune Protocol, a recipe guide by the AIP blogging community” gathers together over 80 AIP compliant holiday recipes by the top AIP bloggers. The free pdf link is here.  The document is interactive meaning you’ll need to click on the links to go to the recipe page on the original author’s website.
AIP is arguably one of the strictest of the healing diet protocols. AIP is used to induce remission in autoimmune diseases eliminating most all gut irritants.  An AIP compliant recipe eliminates grains, beans, dairy, eggs, nuts, seeds (this includes spices such as nutmeg, fennel, coriander, cumin, dill, and poppy and sesame seed — cautious use is recommended for pepper, vanilla bean, cardamom, juniper, and allspice), and nightshades (these are potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and spices such as cayenne, chili powder, chili pepper flakes, curry, paprika and red pepper)!  Don’t panic here… AIP is successfully used by many and although it is not a forever diet, you are never meant to return to the Standard American Diet.  Following gut healing AIP, you reintroduce foods; most can successfully reintroduce  nuts, seeds, dairy, eggs, rice, buckwheat, and quinoa (properly prepared in most cases).
SUMMARY: Check out this healing, anti-inflammatory, nutrient dense fridge, and learn what is in a practical whole foods PALEO, SCD, GAPS Mediterranean diet type fridge, that also happens to be sustainable and family and friends friendly! Also learn practical tips for transitioning (with recipe links) & quality food sourcing links.  Each of our microbiomes differ by over 99% and that means, there is no one right diet for all due to each of our unique physiologic and genetic (human and microbial) variability. This includes the trendy diets, like Ketogenic, PALEO, Atkins, Zone, as well as the popular, government-sponsored diets such as DASH (revised 2015) and TLC (2005, still needs updated). The Mediterranean Diet continues to have evidence based benefit. In fact, a diet calledMIND, which combines Mediterranean, DASH, and aging brain literature, showed for strict follow, that brains functioned as if 7 years younger AND there was a 53% reduction of Alzheimer’s risk.  Moderate follow reduced Alzheimer’s risk by 35%! MIND is currently recruiting 600 with a family history of dementia or Alzheimer’s, and a BMI 25 or over, for clinical trial at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and RUSH University Medical Center!  The top diets in each category share similar attributes includingbalance, higher vegetable and some fruit (especially low sugar like berries, avocados), wild caught fish, fermented food (see the 2017 D. D. Rosa et al for the benefits of kefir which are also listed below), awareness of EWG toxin recommendations, along with self awareness, finding a like minded tribe of experienced healing diet eaters able to support your learning thereby establishing Blue Zones within families, to friends, to communities (Dr. David Katz, Episode 11 of Awakening From Alzheimer’s, and monitoring of what you eat through journaling.  An emphasis on frequent, structured exercise and physical activity are also common themes.  With awareness of the many tenets of healing type diets and lifestyle impact on the microbiome, small diet and lifestyle changes result in big health improvement without the perceived rigidity of following a traditional diet plan, and these changes motivate you to your NEXT.  Eating microbiome gut supporting foods works. Just check out my Testimonial page!Â
