I’ve made yogurt in my instant pot and then decided against it….But raw milk yogurt is a whole different ball game. Making yogurt with raw milk without inconsistencies can be tricky! Here is how I make yogurt from raw milk that is thick and delicious! Raw milk yogurt has been an elusive target for me […]
Zero dishes, no special equipment! Making homemade yogurt is a simple 4-step process. Photos show every step for how to make yogurt successfully! This is how we weaned off sweeteners, from white sugar to sucanat! Making homemade yogurt is like tying your shoes. If someone tried to explain the shoe-tying process in spoken word only,
Many of you have been curious to get the full story about how we naturally lowered my husband’s triglyceride numbers with diet alone since I began hinting at his weight loss and lipids numbers. It’s been a long time since I shared DH’s numbers online, probably because they haven’t been very pleasant. The last time
Protein shakes, energy bars, and supplements marketed to athletes sometimes feel like the worst offenders in the processed foods world. Between the odd chemicals claiming to boost muscle mass, increase energy, and extend endurance (creatine, anyone?) and the fact that most energy bars use soy protein, ignoring the fact that animal foods are the best
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Quinoa is not a grain. Technically, it’s a chenopod, related to beets, spinach, and the ever-delicious tumbleweed. As seeds go, it’s not incredibly high in protein but runs right around average for common nuts and seeds, but if you consider it a grain – and many do, since it behaves a wee bit like one
My husband doesn’t eat quinoa, no matter how I serve it, but when he tried this gluten-free quinoa oat protein bar recipe, his feedback was something like this: “Yeah, these are pretty good – and if you consider they’re supposed to be healthy, they’re really good!” So if you, too, are not a fan of
We joke sometimes that we’ll launch a “Kitchen Stewardship® Diet Plan” with weird taglines like “Eat nuts, all the time!” or “Eggs, and more eggs!” or “Make everything yourself so you’re too tired to eat!” But truly, real food weight loss shouldn’t be a diet plan. It should be a lifestyle, a change (series of
Prepare yourselves for some brutal honesty here: I don’t like cloth diapering. (waits for sky to fall on head) … … Since I’m still here, I guess I get to tell you more. For me, cloth diapering has been “one more thing” to add to a very busy household and scattered, out of balance schedule.
Cloth Diaper Wrap-up: What do I really recommend? Read More »
This is the post I was hoping someone would send me back in July before John was born, or December when I was about to jump into cloth diapers and was scared out of my mind. I couldn’t quite visualize what cloth diapering would be like, and that was a major psychological roadblock for me.
A Cloth Diapering Rookie’s First Steps: the Routine, the Laundry, the Vocabulary Read More »
Paper or plastic? No, I’m not putting plastic on my baby’s bottom, but the question for grocery shoppers might as well be the question for young moms: Cloth or disposables? Just as we used to be asked again and again at the grocery store, “Paper or plastic?” we now encounter the “disposable or reusable” question
What 3-year-old wouldn’t love sitting on top of the kitchen table pouring water all over things? Mine had a blast. Dear Leah helped me pour a Tablespoon of water on two dozen different cloth diapers, all reviewed individually for performance in the cloth diaper review. I taped the results close up for you to view.
We made a grand old mess! To satiate my curiosity about how much these cloth diapers really do hold, I laid out all 25 of those cloth diapers from the cloth diaper review, and I did two tests (on different days): Leah helped me do some closeup videos of how quickly each diaper and/or insert
Cloth Diaper Absorbency Tests: How Much Will It Hold? Read More »
There are a lot of bells and whistles nowadays in the cloth diapering world. No longer do you choose between signing up for a diaper service or washing your own, and then your decision-making is over. You have to juggle cloth diaper styles and brands, insert materials, washing styles and detergents, line dry or machine,
Needs & Wants of Cloth Diapering: Yes, I Need Wet Bags Read More »
There’s not really a baby step process to having a baby – it’s an all or nothing deal to be sure. You just have to jump in with both feet and get all wet, sometimes quite literally. I still remember my husband and I, in the very first few days of parenting, trying to figure
Cloth Diaper Reviews: What’s the Best Cloth Diaper For You? Read More »
I spent $469/month on food last year. Yes, I do keep track that closely. If you had asked me a few years back whether that was a decent figure, I would have caught my breath a bit. I used to try to stay under $300 a month on food…those days are no longer, for many
Eat Well, Spend Less: Has Our Real Food Budget Grown? Read More »
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to find a naturally minded doctor, or at least start thinking about it, especially if you have a health issue that warrants care. I’m actually in the midst of this process and fumbling my way through, so today I’ll share the methods I used to search, the
Monday Mission: Do You Have a Naturally Minded Doctor? Read More »
“I don’t even want to go to a barbecue at my boss’s house this summer, because it might not be any fun with all our food restrictions,” my husband admitted to me last week. “What if they offer the kids a juice pouch, or the dreaded freezer pops with artificial colors? And then there’s the
Does Being Too Strict on Food Take the Joy out of Family Life? Read More »
What smell will fill your house on Easter morning? Between hunting for eggs (we hide…ahem, I mean, the Easter Bunny hides…the real hard-boiled eggs), getting dressed up pretty, and going to Mass and making sure we get there an hour early to get a seat, breakfast needs to be simple. Healthy Breakfast Idea: Apple Baked
Healthy Breakfast Idea: Apple Baked Oatmeal Recipe Read More »
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to give a gift of whole foods to a food pantry or collection the next opportunity you get. There are people in need everywhere, and food pantries don’t always have healthy food! This mission was inspired by a conversation on Facebook a few weeks back when I
I have a renewed, deep distaste for the food processing industry. I’ve been getting many, many comments from readers on previous posts about food dyes, and the more I learn, the more I get sick about what our country, big business, and the assenting families who purchase junk and don’t know any better are allowing
