Treisee Hapeta

they are real yum fermented with lacto-ferment drink and then added to yogurt, or you can add the fermented paste into some butter and spread on pancakes, a hit with the kids.
You can mix one part dates with one part butter and cocoa to taste and process in a blender together and you have a yum date fudge, just chill in the fridge to the firmness you like to chew on. This is an even bigger hit with kids. You can roll the date/cocoa mix in coconuts, peanuts or whatever you like, seeds etc and make date truffles.
Adding dates into a curry is nice also, about two or three according to your tastes.
our favorite is a date blended with frozen banana, some fruit for flavor and a little liquid to make a yummy sweet but healthy smoothie.
Enjoy

I tried DE on my cats when we were having a hard job getting rid of fleas. While we were at it, we did a little experiment...

A few hours after we had covered the cats with DE, we used a head lice comb to comb out as many fleas as possible. We were very surprised at how many we got, but what was amazing was that they were still alive, but they seemed to be severely inhibited from jumping and moving as fast as they normally would. We were able to collect quite a few and put them into a glass jar to watch what would happen to them. Just to make it a little more interesting we caught two house flies and put them in the jar also.

So what happened?

- About 11 am we covered the cats in DE
- About 3pm we combed the cats fur and collected the fleas in the jar
- by then fleas didnt jump much but were still moving around
- in the evening there were dead fleas
- by next morning, more dead fleas and the flies were no longer flying. (please note we didn't put any DE on the flies, they were just exposed to whatever was on the bits of fur that ended up in the jar from the cats when we combed them)
- by the evening one of the flies was dead
- next morning all the fleas were dead but also they had left sticky blood like liquids in the bottom of the jar, it looked like as they were dying they leaked their body fluids out. So the idea that the diatoms cut up the bugs exoskeletons and causes them to dry up/leak seems to be bang on.
Check out the results in the pic!



Conclusion...
DE worked for us, and we have no hesitation in using it again, and now we are trying to figure out how we can get it on houseflies to kill them too. Anyone with interesting ideas on how to do that, we would love to hear about it!