Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to chew your food. Don’t think I’m going too easy on you for this first Monday Mission of the fall. I realize you chew your food daily, but I’m challenging you to chew it better. Jordan Rubin says in The Maker’s Diet to chew food, especially starchy […]
There are a couple reasons I realized I wasn’t called to homeschool, although I gave it a go for 3-year-old preschool and failed miserably once I started blogging and Paul was four. As a former teacher with a mean streak of perfectionism, I was never satisfied with the curriculum. I knew I would forever be
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My homemade canned salsa recipe has been a huge hit in our house. I figured out how to make my homemade salsa taste like the restaurant. I hope your family also enjoys my recipe for canned salsa. Is it conceited if I say we’re kind of salsa connoisseurs around here? I suppose it’s not even
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A confession: Although “Fire!” was my first thought, “I should take a picture,” was a close second, just slightly preceding, “Put it out!” But don’t let that scare you. There are still a few weeks left of grilling season, in my opinion, and if you’ve never grilled a pizza – let me tell you –
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Need a potluck or party dish to pass for Labor Day weekend? I got you covered. This recipe is so simple, and so in season, you might be growing the ingredients right in your garden, maybe even incorporated into your landscape gardening (link no longer available), like mine. I’m generally a little relaxed on the
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If you don’t own an air fryer, here’s the best Brussel sprout recipe. How do you get nutritious food that tastes amazing? For me, I visit my dearest friend. You see, I can tell you how to make a nutrient-dense meal, and my friend and her roommate are both connoisseurs of great flavors and fine
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I just can’t stop making soup, even when it’s ninety degrees outside. You may think of soup, broth, and hearty beans as purely a winter thing, but with all the fresh produce coming into my house (from the Farmer’s Market…remember, the organic gardening series were all guest posts!) I can’t help but make some of
I’m not usually a fancy cheese girl. It tantalizes me, really, and I’ve always loved raising my status in a group by going bold and ordering a meal with goat cheese in a restaurant. Other than goat cheese and feta, however, my cheese experience pretty much begins with cheddar and ends with mozzarella. When Ile
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Are you tempted by the lovely basket of peppers at the Farmer’s Market but not quite sure how to deal with so many all at once? Since most recipes seem to call for one pepper at a time, you either have to preserve the peppers by freezing or dehydrating, or find a great stuffed pepper
Let’s get the truth out right from the start: those doggone boxed cake mixes are moist and delicious, every time. They’re almost impossible to mess up. They’re also loaded with preservatives, and usually trans fat is only one of its ingredient transgressions. Get this recipe, updated and improved with tons of FAQs, in the eBook
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To sun, or not to sun, that is the question. When I asked companies to partner with me on this sun protection review project (see the best natural sunscreen review as well, where we have over 120 brands reviewed!), they had no idea I was not only reviewing their products, but the idea of sun
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If you’ve always wanted to try camping as a frugal family vacation but are nervous because you have little ones, whether they’re babies, toddlers, or preschoolers, the newly UPDATED second edition of the Family Camping Handbook will show you how to survive and even thrive out in the woods with young children. You can bring
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It’s a nasty disease that got all the organic tomato growers in our area last summer. It gets every last plant. The topic of tomato blight came up in the comments of this post about natural pest control. Rene, the author of that post, had this to say: If it is only one plant that has blight I would pull it
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Joel Salatin’s said it. Michael Pollan has probably said it. Countless bloggers, locavores, and whole foods enthusiasts have said it. Get to know your farmer.…
Wondering how to naturally get rid of ants in your house? A homemade insecticidal natural ant spray for hand-to-hand combat, a homemade ant trap to catch them all, and various “lines ants won’t cross” to keep them out or contained are all found here! No toxic or expensive ingredients! It’s possible to even make your
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to find something to buy local this month. Farmer’s Markets across the country are in full swing, and there’s no better time to find a local source for fruits and vegetables than summer. You might find U-pick berries or just a roadside farm stand with fresh produce
There are many ways to naturally control weeds in a garden. If you have a raised bed garden, you really should have very few weeds, and if you do have any, you should be able to easily pull them up by hand. However, if you have a large garden, you are going to need efficient
This is my opinion, and only my opinion. What works for my family with raw, unpasteurized milk may not be possible for yours, and it may not be what God is calling you to do right now. Through prayer and discernment, I chose raw milk for my family a year and a half ago. It
It’s just as easy to dehydrate vegetables as it is to make steamed vegetables or roast veggies. Read on to find out how I make sure to use all of my dehydrated vegetables. Dehydrating Vegetables This is hardly even worth a blog post. Dehydrating veggies, at least the ones I’ve attempted, is so simple: Wash
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Milk has been through a lot in the past 100 years. First it was subjected to pasteurization, then homogenization, then oxidation. Will the -ations ever end? The question for us milk drinkers is of course: when does a change cause a nutritional problem? Some say that pasteurization already kills too many healthy enzymes; see more
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