The Weston A. Price 2011 Conference was enjoyable for so many reasons–seeing friends, meeting new ones, learning about health and nutrition–but, since attending my first conference, one of the most fun reasons to attend is to eat the delicious and oh so healthy food at every meal.

Every morning we started the day with a breakfast fundraiser for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. [If you’re not a member, go here and join!  Help raw milk dairy farmers and other family farms survive the FDA.]  Basically everyday  there was soaked organic oatmeal and organic grass-fed Greek yogurt.  There were lots of fixins–fresh blueberries, raisons, crispy oatmeal, butter, milk & cream, maple syrup and raw honey.  Of course, I had to try both–oatmeal Friday and Saturday, yogurt Sunday morning–and cleaned my bowl every morning.  My favorite fixin was the blueberries, but when I had oatmeal I also added a big chunk of butter and lots of half and half. Also in the photo is the hearty and flavorful [yes, he let me taste it] organ meat ragout my husband had with a sprouted flour  biscuit loaded with butter.  The cup is my ooom good chicken bone broth. There were many other choices as well, including sprouted flour cinnamon rolls, fresh fruit, drinkable yogurt, warm boiled pastured eggs, beef bone broth along with the chicken, and a selection of fresh fruit. 

Friday’s lunch buffet had Texas style chili with shredded cheddar cheese, diced onions, and tortilla stips fried in lard.  The main dish was coconut wraps to fill with pulled chicken, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, and salsa.  The Friday dinner had beef and pork sausages, marinated slow cooked pulled pork, baked beans, and potato chips fried in lard.

The Saturday awards banquet (which was not a buffet) began with smoked sablefish with capers and dilled sour cream. [The sour cream was delicious but it seemed difficult to get the wait staff to serve more than a tablespoonful for our whole table.]

The delicious appetizer was followed by pot roast, roasted root vegetables and winter squash. 

To help our digestion, each meal included some fermented vegetables or fruits, such as garlic sauerkraut, apple butter, honey mustard, and fermented salsa.

Sunday brunch featured a beautiful array of cheeses, ham, breakfast sausage, egg casserole, and sourdough French toast with butter, maple syrup, and fermented apple butter.   The glass is full of kombucha.

Desserts were also delicious, mostly fruit such as baked apples and pears, but, at several meals, we had the traditional WAPF conference cheesecake with date and nut crust–yummy! 

We all really missed one food–raw milk.  Raw milk couldn’t be served at the Dallas conference because the Texas raw milk delivery bill was defeated last summer by the Texas Medical Association, Big Dairy, and the Harris  County Health Department. [See my previous post, on Who Controls the Harris County Health Department.] 

Here are more photos of the wonderful food: