Nourishing Broth to Nourish your Body & Soul


Homemade Bone Broth

Let’s talk about Bone Broth! 

– The secret benefits behind this amazing food – 

Shalalala it’s Fall! What better way to start the season, than with bone broth. Yum! Wait, don’t run away just yet, let me explain WHY bone broth needs to be included in your diet. Before you know it, you’ll be running out of the house, grabbing a chicken and sprinting back.

I’ve read about the health benefits of bone broth briefly before. But recently I purchased a book strictly on the health benefits behind homemade broth. And let me tell you, there is an abundant amount of nutrition packed inside. It’s basically like a super food for our body.I’ve become more into eating foods that are “weird” or “interesting” because they are so beneficial for our health. Honestly if I didn’t care about my health I would only eat oatmeal cookies, cereal, chips, and lots and lots of bread with butter. But who likes feeling terrible and unhealthy? Not me! PLUS once you start eating healthy, you honestly don’t crave/want those “unhealthy” foods. Okay maybe sometimes. I should probably mention I’m sitting here with a jar of half eaten peanut butter and a spoon. Scooping out the smooth creamy peanut butter, drizzling it with raw honey and licking it all off the spoon. It’s just one of those days. Sometimes you have to eat a jar of half eaten peanut butter with honey, right?? Come on, I know you’ve done it before. Or am I the only one here? Well, moving on… Now I’m embarrassed. I’ll go hide and enjoy the rest of the peanut butter where no one can see me…Back to this bone broth. We are here to talk about health! Now lets see if I can summarize this without writing a novel. I want to tell you EVERY SINGLE health benefit, but I’ll just pinpoint the most important. If you want to know EVEN more then I 100% suggest you purchase the book “Nourishing Broth” by Sally Fallon Morell. She also has a book called “Nourishing Traditions” which I highly recommend. As well as “The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care”. I have all three and have learned so much about health through reading her books.Here is a quick break down of some of the health benefits in bone broth:
  1. Helps heal and seal your gut, and promotes healthy digestion. Due to the gelatin found in bones. it attracts and holds liquids, including digestive juices, thereby supporting proper digestion.
  2. Reduces joint pain and inflammation. By boiling down the cartilage it releases glucosamine and other compounds that help fight inflammation in the body.
  3. Promotes strong healthy bones. Bone broth contains high amounts of calcium, magnesium, and other nutrients that play an important role in healthy bone formation.
  4. Fights infections such as cold and flu
  5. Promotes healthy hair and nail growth, thanks to all that gelatin in the broth.
Drinking bone broth helps the body produce and maintain it’s collagen. Collagen is needed just about everywhere in the body and constitutes between 25 and 35 percent of the body’s total protein.
  • There are so many uses for collagen that as many as twenty-nine distinct types exist in animal tissues.
  • Collagenous proteins are gigantic molecules that each contain more than one thousand of the protein-building blocks known as amino acids. Crucial for ageing, hair, skin, teeth, nails, bones, digestion.
Here are the 5 types of collagen in the body found in the book “Nutritious Broth”.
  1. Type 1 is found abundantly in the skin, tendons, ligaments, internal organs, bones and vascular system. It constitutes 90 percent of the body’s collagen and is found just about everywhere except in cartilage.
  2. Type 2 is the cartilage builder, and occurs in the cornea and vitreous humour of the eye.
  3. Type 3 collagen teams up with type 1 to keep the walls of our arteries and other hollow organ strong and supple.
  4. Type 4 ensures the health of cell basement membranes and the filtration system of capillaries.
  5. Type 5 is needed for the surfaces of cells, healthy hair, and the placenta during pregnancy.
When you cook cartilages, tendons, and ligaments, it breaks down collagenous protein into gelatin. We then consume that gelatin in the broth, supplying our body with all types of collagen.Collagen strengthens the tendons that connect muscle to the bone and the ligaments that connect bones together. Collagen supports the skin and internal organs, helps skin retain its youthful firmness, suppleness, elasticity and builds a barrier that prevents the absorption and spread of pathogenic substances, environmental toxins, and cancerous cells.Those are only SOME of the benefits to eating bone broth. If I kept going I’d be writing a novel for you. As you can see, bone broth is filled with nutrition for our body. You can’t get this sort of nutrition from supplements. It doesn’t work the same in your body. Most supplements are “chemically” made. Our bodies are not made to absorb “lab made” supplements. If you need to take vitamins then look for food based vitamins, organic. That way our body can readily absorb those vitamins in more of the natural way it knows.But just downing bone broth weekly/daily will add on so many health benefits. A year ago, I damaged my digestive system. The one thing I did to heal it was by drinking bone broth, daily. In a few weeks I felt better than I ever have. Now it’s time to get back into it!Can I just buy my own broth at the store? Unfortunately it will not be the same. When buying store bought broth, there are lots of additives that don’t benefit your body in anyway. Even the organic brands have added sugar. Not what you want to be putting in your body. You’re better off making a big home made batch and storing it in the freezer.So, how do you make bone broth? It’s actually easier than you think!

Here’s what you’ll need: 

  • organic free range whole chicken (giblets included) I sometimes will buy an extra liver or chicken feet to add.  VERY important to buy organic free range.
  • 1 whole large organic yellow onion
  • 1 bunch organic carrots (I had about 8 medium carrots in a bunch)
  • 1 stalk of organic celery
  • Spices! The spices I used were;  allspice, nutmeg, coriander, pepper and himalayan sea salt.
  • Filtered Cold Water
DIRECTIONS: 
  1. In a large pot, place your whole chicken, giblets and any extra legs inside.
  2. Pour enough filtered cold water to just barely cover the chicken, but leave enough room for the veggies. Let the chicken sit in the cold water in the pot for about 20 minutes.
  3. Chop the carrots, celery and onion in large chunks. Add those to the pot.
  4. Bring to a slow boil. Cover and let it simmer for about 6 hours.
  5. Carefully remove chicken from the pot. I used 2 spatulas. Scoop out any bones and parts that fell off.
  6. Now add the seasoning to the pot.
  7. Once the chicken has cooled, peel off all the meat from the bones and add to the broth.
  8. You can eat it now or pour into jars filling half full to freeze. I put half in the freezer and have been consuming the other half these past few days.
How long will the broth last?
  • The bone broth will last up to 5 days in the refrigerator and up to several months in the freezer.
Some TIPS to make your experience pleasurable: 
  1. Be EXTRA careful when removing chicken after the broth has cooked. The chicken will completely fall apart. Move your pot over close to the sink, have a large bowl ready for you to plop your chicken in. I made the mistake of taking it out right on the stove (trying to be a hot shot). One slip and the chicken decided to throw itself all over the stove and run it’s delicious juices down the cabinet. Lets just say I filled the sink with HOT, soapy water and cleaned like a maniac. Plus I became frustrated by the little mishap.
  2. Be aware when you are pulling the chicken off the bones. I ended up playing with the neck of the chicken for awhile until I realized it wasn’t meat.
  3. The heart may “dissolve” in your broth. Just don’t think about it and think about how healthy you are.
  4. You can even make beef bone broth. It isn’t just chicken broth! Any broth made with beef, chicken, pig bones provide all the same nutritious benefits.
  5. When freezing broth, only fill a jar HALF full. The last time I made a big batch of broth, I froze it in my favorite large mason jar (super excited) and didn’t leave enough room for it to expand. Opened the freezer the next day to find a shattered jar and wasted bone broth. I cried…
  6. Always fill your sink with hot, soapy water after cooking. Wipe down everything in your kitchen.
And there ya have it! Run to the store and start making your own bone broth!
A girl whose passion over heath grows immensely every day,
Emma

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