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Sometimes I don’t even read the ingredients. That’s right, you heard me. I love ice cream soooo much, that it’s one of the few things I don’t even care about when it comes to eating real food. That’s not to say that I don’t appreciate ice cream with proper ingredients more than junky stuff, but
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My maiden name has 7 consonants in a row. And then one vowel at the end. That’s it. When telemarketers used to call, always during dinner (remember that?), they’d say, “May I speak to—” and then a massive pause. Most of them didn’t even attempt it, but they all were cursing the fact that they
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I’m feeling it already. You know how you hate heading to the kitchen by 4:00 on gorgeous summer days? It’s tempting to spend all my time outside or doing spring cleaning and decluttering and throw cereal, PBJs on store bread and frozen pizzas at the family for a week straight. But this summer I’m planning
I told you in my last post about my attempts to heal my cavities that you’d love hearing from Dr. Judene Benoit, second generation dentist and author of How to Stop Cavities: A Natural Approach to Prevention and Remineralization. I characterized her as a cheerleader and queen of analogies, and you’ll see in the full-length
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I was going to eat chocolate last Wednesday, either way. If I successfully healed my cavities, I’d enjoy some in celebration (and in moderation). If I failed at curing tooth decay, I was going to have a good old-fashioned American pity party – drowning my sorrows in food. As it turns out, I’ve been eating
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You’re a terrible parent. You’ve made some awful choices, and your kids are probably not going to turn out well now. You know who you should act like when you parent, and when you make every decision that will affect your family? Things like whether or not to work, if you breastfeed or use a
I’m not a bandwagon kind of girl. Just because everyone loves freezer cooking doesn’t mean it’s for me – the one time I did the “once a month cooking” thing with a friend, we spent about 3 days planning and shopping, 8+ hours cooking, and had 12 meals out of it. I remember being very,
Quitters. I hear it all the time, from real-life friends and readers at Kitchen Stewardship®: “I tried that babywearing stuff, but my baby just didn’t like it. It wasn’t worth the fussing, so I just gave up.” Breaks my heart. Those same mamas will often admit their struggles with getting things done around the house,
I hate being wrong. Such a shame it happens SO often. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, but it still stings! When I posted a video recently on Facebook of how I used a ring sling at church to make life easier, I wasn’t really trying to teach anything, but I was
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I’ve felt sorry for the young girls caught up in the Salem Witch Hunt since I was about their age. Sometime in middle school when I myself was a pre-adolescent (back before the word “tween” was coined), I had to write a report of some sort on the Salem Witch Trials. I don’t remember all
It’s the real food equivalent of high cholesterol and an early death, I’m telling you. They’re everywhere. I’m talking about a common hazard of the real food lifestyle – grease stains. Sometimes I think there might be an alien in my dryer. A greasy one who is sabotaging all of our solid colored shirts. Either
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Ask not what you can take out of your food, but what your food can put into you. Eating “Healthy” The way I see it, there are basically two philosophies on how to eat “healthy”. The first involves eating less: low-cal, low-fat, low-carb, low cholesterol, low salt…the list goes on and on. The second is
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to take one small step toward being prepared for an emergency – having water on hand. This tip is so quick, you won’t believe it’s even Kitchen Stewardship®. Although maybe I’ll think of some things to ramble on about that will make the post longer and longer…
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This one is for the dudes. And the women who love their dudes, but are tired of getting scratched by their beards. And even the mothers who love their grown-up dude sons but sigh when they see how wild and hairy they’ve become. See this? Same dude. Same beard. Same day. No hairs harmed in
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In our quest for healthy sleep for the whole family, I told you that finding safe materials for containing the messes was an important piece of the puzzle. Non-toxic waterproof mattress protectors and waterproof mattress pads for changing diapers are an essential in a house with kids – seriously, I don’t know how families managed
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I didn’t even know what to look for when I first had kids. I remember religiously using only the “baby” lotion that we had gotten at our shower on my own hands when I had a newborn because I figured I would be touching his body and didn’t want to “contaminate” him with harmful chemicals
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get better, more healthful, more restorative sleep. I re-learned a hard lesson last week, and it was terribly, painfully ironic because I was writing about sleep. I have this great new schedule where I have more daytime work hours. My husband quit his job to work
“Back to Sleep,” we were told when our oldest was born in 2005. The pamphlets and posters were everywhere, instructing bleary-eyed parents to place their infants *only* on their backs for sleep, because research had shown that the position decreased Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Your baby, dying in their sleep? What could be more terrifying?
In addition to wearing non-toxic pajamas, it’s important to rest on a non-toxic mattress! Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get a non-toxic night’s sleep. Think you already are? If you haven’t made it a specific goal, you probably are sleeping in a cloud of off-gassing VOCs and flame-retardant-laden dust from inside
