Creative Tutors of Wake County, North Carolina

Cooking with Essential Fatty Acids

1. Extra virgin olive oil (cold-pressed) is best to use as your cooking oil because it withstands high heat well.
2. Using flaxseed or extra virgin olive oil on salads in the place of other oils is a healthier choice.
3. High heat, light and oxygen will destroy Essential Fatty Acids.  When eating food for their EFA content, avoid cooking or heating these EFAs foods.

4. Replace margarine, butter and common cooking oils with healthy EFA fats when possible.  Replacement options include flaxseed or extra virgin olive oil with a little added salt.

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5. Grind flaxseed and sprinkle the flaxseed meal on vegetables and salads.  This will add a slightly nutty flavor.  Do not use flaxseed meal in large amounts as the meal contains phytoestrogens.  The flaxseed oil is much lower in phystoestrogens.
6. Add 1 teaspoon of ground flaxseed in 1/4 cup of warm water and allow it to sit for several minutes.  This can be used as an egg substitute when baking.
7. In recipes calling for vegetable shortening, you can replace the shortening with half as much extra virgin olive oil and a small pinch of salt.
8. Replace snack like potato chips and corn chips with nuts and seeds.
9. Decrease or eliminate the amount of processed sugar your child consumes.

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Meet Kim Ashby | Owner

Kim Ashby earned a BS in Nursing from The Catholic University of America and, when she worked outside the home, was a Certified Emergency Nurse with a special interest in trauma nursing. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and three sons. The Ashbys have home schooled their children since 1999. They graduated their oldest son in May 2007. He is attending UNC Wilmington. Kim continues to home school her younger boys. Her oldest son was diagnosed with ADHD when he was in the public school system in the second grade. Her second son has cerebral palsy which has resulted in multiple/global developmental delays. Her youngest son has undiagnosed, mild auditory processing issues.

Kim has co-instructed graduate level courses at UNC Chapel Hill for ST/OT students and Early Intervention students. She is the founder and President of the Board of Directors of GIFTSNC, Inc., a home schooling special needs support group. Kim has presented workshops at a variety of state home school conferences as well as local support group parent meetings and is often a guest speaker at homeschool conferences and is found on many guest speaker lists including Balancing the Sword. She is a Steering Committee member and former Treasurer for Dayspring Home Educators in Cary, NC. She served on the Board of Directors for the Family Support Network of Wake County. She holds a North Carolina Wildlife Permit for Small Mammal Rehabilitation and enjoys working with orphaned and injured wildlife.

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