Fermented Cod Liver Oil Gummies

One of the supplements we use religiously around here is fermented cod liver oil. You can read an excellent post by Cheeseslave on why using fermented cod liver oil is better than other cod liver oils HERE.

The trick was in finding a way to get my kids to take it willingly, as I'm not big on forcing things down them. Last summer Mommypotamus had posted a recipe for Sour Gummy Stars, so I decided to change her recipe and see if I could add in the FCLO and get my kids to take it that way. Took a little tweaking, but it worked! My kids actually ask for them. :)

Here's what I do:

• 1 cup of juice
• 6 tablespoons of gelatin
• 6 tablespoons of honey
• 5 tablespoons of emulsified FCLO (or 3 tablespoons of regular FCLO, but they taste MUCH better with the emulsified)

Whisk together over low heat until everything is smooth and melted. It only takes a few minutes at most. Pour into molds, and put in the fridge for a few minutes. After they come out of the molds, put them in a container and keep them in the fridge.

Using ~2 tsp of mixture for each gummy should come out to ~40 gummies. That would make 2 gummies = 3/4 tsp of FCLO, which is a serving size of the emulsified.

If you use regular FCLO, each gummy has just over 1ml of FCLO. Since 2ml of the regular FCLO is a serving, 2 gummies would still be a serving.

The licorice works really well with grape juice, and cherry juice. I'm going to try some of the butter/fclo blends with this recipe as well. :)

Screw DiGiorno. . .be lazy and order out

Ok, so it wasn't DiGiorno. It was Red Baron.

Not just Red Baron. . .Baron's Best.

I know. . .what is non-organic freezer pizza doing in this house, right? Sometimes, we get lazy. . .and it was free.

So Patrick was cooking pizza. Not that difficult. For most people.

After taking it out of the oven, he somehow knocked my fairly new and mostly full bottle of olive oil (organic, extra virgin. . .in case you wondered) off of the counter next to the stove. (That's where it lives.) He starts flipping out, and when I asked what happened, he just said "I knocked one of your bottles of oil into the floor." To which I replied "Which one?!?!"

See, there are two bottles of fermented cod liver oil that live on the counter next to the olive oil.

Anyway, he just said "The green one." That doesn't help me much. There's a green bottle, and a bottle with a green label. So I'm still panicking and asked again "Which one?!?!" So he took a closer look. . .

That would be the olive oil. Then I laughed. This isn't such a big deal for several reasons. 

1. Doesn't cost nearly as much as the fermented cod liver oil.
2. The aroma doesn't permeate the house and make you want to puke. :)

I mean, seriously. . .think about cleaning up a broken bottle of fermented cod liver oil. That stuff is pungent. LOL

Cleanup was gonna be difficult either way. It apparently required the use of all of the towels in the kitchen.

 

Also, scrubbing glass into the tile while trying to clean up oil will scratch the tile. I know, because I watched it happen. I wasn't allowed to help clean up in case I slipped and cracked my head a third time for the week. . .different story. It also might have been because I wouldn't stop laughing.

So now that my tile (and my towels) have been nicely oiled, we're going to eat this free pizza (at 11pm) that has now cost us more money than it would have to just order a pizza and have it delivered.

For the record, I have just as much trouble keeping a straight face with Patrick as I do with Kadence. How am I supposed to take this seriously? Dinner and a show. :)