It’s just simple but I like it so much!
Seeded toast with butter and organic pumpkin seeds.
Crunchy and filling!
I recently watched a landline doc on tv about pumpkin seed oil.
I ordered some along with pumpkin seeds.
Amazing stuff and pumpkin seed oil good health wise!
I’ve felt a bit of mood elevation in last few days and hopefully will keep BP in check.
Read all the benefits …

https://www.healthline.com/health/pumpkin-seed-oil

tallowood wrote on Jul 28^th, 2026 at 4:18pm:


Oh yeah, sunflower seeds, now I recall how much my daughter loved them when she was little.
She was always odd (but good) like that 

Now as an adult very vegetarian and gluten free (gf intolerant)
The son is lactose intolerant. What the heck did I do to get this  I’m none of above mentioned.
I like and tolerate almost everything.
So…..my cooking style has changed tremendously as a result.
GF bread crumbs, GF flour, dairy substitutes.
It’s a good thing the food markets have broadened the supplies of all these specialties now.
Many years ago it was an effort to hunt alternatives. Farmers markets are now awesome too!
Even online shopping is a thrill finding so many marvels! Like those organic local Oz grown pumpkin seeds.
I make a conscious effort to buy as much local produce to support businesses.
I recall how small businesses decades ago had some amazing healthy products, but sadly closed down due to lack of interest.
People were just not ready for change.
Now it’s definitely desired!
It’s good to see many young ones keeping fit and enjoying better foods availed to us all.

I now make some amazing cakes without flours or dairy!
I used to like the convenience of buying cakes but my adult kids kept telling me to stop buying that rubbish. They are right, but gee, now IGA has this fresh cake display and the cannoli are hard to resist!

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Food additives at a time we had no way to check as internet didn’t exist and I recall buying little books that deciphered those added numbers in food. For a start red food dye was a huge no-no.

When my kids had school friends over for birthday party I would make all food with no hypo stuff.
Results ~ calmness. No kids crawling up walls 
Since pregnancy I avoided any aerosols, smokers, I never put on any nail polish, hair colour, or perfume etc
And when my bubs were born I used the only liquid organic cleaning wash…LOC which was an Amway thing, and this I bathed kids in, I avoided Johnson’s & Johnson’s and it was years later it was revealed their products had harmful chemicals in them.

Apart from being a cook from scratch mum, it was maccas consumption for the kids that could’ve been their down fall.
I avoided caged eggs, margarine and I used to read choice magazines where a basket of vegetables and fruits would be tested for how much chemical sprays they had, and celery would always come out the worst. It was harder to get away from or know which foods were safest, and hard effort in past to know that much.

Now it’s so different, it’s pleasing to see how many little businesses are offering wonderful organics without travelling hours to places where they had organic grown stuff.

Yet all my efforts felt they were in vain. Now they both have gut problems.
And it dawned on me the biggest factor causing this! The way doctors prescribed antibiotics willy nilly.
Too much! And I feel that was the main culprit, as during the 80s onwards, there was no mention of pro-biotics for after being on antibiotics.