You will be able to extract significantly more nutrition out of these bones than if you were to use a store
bought organic broth.
Not exact matches
It is actually pretty easy to do with very little busy work but I do take shortcuts and
buy the Costco size packages of
organic chicken
broth.
So I have created a more time friendly recipe using a store -
bought organic, free range chicken
broth.
Place non meaty
organic bones (important to
buy organic when making
broth) in a large saucepan / crockpot and cover with water and apple cider vinegar (the apple cider vinegar helps leech the minerals from the bones and is an important part of the process).
It's grass - fed,
organic, long simmered, and avoids the hidden harmful ingredients in many other store
bought broths
It is an incredibly healthy and very inexpensive addition to any diet and the homemade versions beat store
bought broth in both taste and nutrition (although there is some amazing homemade
organic broth you can
buy pre-made now).
As with most of the animal products you consume, you should make an effort to
buy bone
broth made from animals that were pasture - raised and are certified
organic.
I also
buy a whole chicken directly from a local,
organic farm and use the carcass to make
broth.
Store
bought soups and
broth / stocks — even if
organic — are nutritionless, loaded with MSG (using deceptive and misleading pseudonyms of course) and do not contain any beneficial gelatin.
I know it may seem like an impossible feat to get to the point of making your own
broth, but I have a hard time
buying organic chickens if I'm not going to use the whole darn thing.
I sauteed lots of
organic vegetables in olive oil, added two cartons of
organic store -
bought chicken bone
broth, simmered in more
organic vegetables.
My
organic bones are in the oven right now to get ready for bone
broth, and I just
bought a 3 month supply of probiotic quattro, and lots of
organic veggies,
organic beef and my husband is going to get us some oysters.
I hope you'll find some time to make
broths, prepare fermented foods (you can
buy some good brands at the store if you really don't have time to ferment — Zukay, Bubbies, and Rejuevenate
organic raw foods), and to use trace minerals in the dropper bottle as I've suggested here.
6 cups of bone
broth or
organic store
bought stock + 4 cups water (you want to cover all the veggies, maybe less, maybe more)
Would be interesting to see well - designed studies comparing different «clean» (
organic or the best available, though most people can't afford it and won't
buy it) animal stocks (chicken, beef, lamb, pork, fish) with veggie
broth.