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Hi Donna, I am wanting a good friend of mine to start on kefir and kombucha and cultured veggies. She has a number of problems with her body, mostly her gut/digestive issues. I am guessing I should ease her into all of these but because I didn’t have any problems, I just went to town on them. 1. Do you have any advice what order to start her on all 3 of these, 2. how much she should eat at first and when/how to increase over time? Also, 3. what should she expect her body to experience (since you and your daughter went through this too)? She has had a little (like 3 sips) of my pomegranite Kombucha and liked it, but her stomach did do some grumbling/discomfort. I have also shared some kefir from cream (very rich and creamy and tasty) and she liked that too, but had a similar result. I did send her home with one of my kefir grain babies
but I’m not sure why she has had discomfort with eating a spoonful of kefir. I just didn’t experience this. Thank you so much. I’d really like to help her with all 3 processes. 
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She will need to be careful and go very slowly because most likely she is going to have a healing crisis. Here are two blogs I would recommend to her to read and I am also adding a class on how to start slowly and fix your digestion in the next month.
The Healing Crisis and Cultured foods. http://www.culturedfoodlife.com/the-healing-crisis-and-cultured-foods/
If You Try It You Will See. http://www.culturedfoodlife.com/if-you-try-it-you-will-see/
Can you add in the contents of probiotic capsules?
Also sometimes my veges get quite fizzy, they taste ok but not really a fan of the fizzyness!
You can add some probiotic capsules but you don’t need too. They’re tons of probioitc in them and to many can compete. The fizziness will die down quickly. Just takes a little while.
I made cultured cherry tomatoes in Nov and Dec, and just went to take them out of the fridge and they have mold on top. Should I throw the whole thing out? Would it help to maybe top the veggies with a big cabbage leaf next time? I thought there were some times that you could throw away the moldy part of cultured foods. Thank you.
You can scrape the mold off and leave the remains and should be fine.
Can Caldwell’s Starter Culture also be used to ferment fruit? I like fermenting grapes and other veggies not listed on Caldwell’s website. BTW, I just fermented pomegranate seeds with lemon juice and it is SO yummy. Thanks Donna, and happy New year!
It can be used to ferment fruit. Have some new recipes in my book coming out soon.
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