When a toddler or preschooler gets a concussion, it feels really serious! Our 3-year-old fell off ONE step this summer and hit the side of his head on cement, and even though it didn’t seem like a big deal at first, it turned out to be enough to cause a concussion. I was madly Googling […]
A cast iron skillet might make a great gift for someone on your list! Cast iron is one of the healthy alternatives to non-stick cookware, but it’s a little tricky to use if you’re not used to it. Pair that pan with a list of tried-and-true recipes, and you’ll increase its odds of becoming a
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When my three-year-old fell off the bottom step from a deck and bumped his head on the cement slab below, he cried, Grandma snuggled him, and she assured me it was no big deal when I arrived back from the grocery store. My “mother’s intuition” is usually pretty quiet except in labor, but it was
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I just love Real Salt. I love the rustic multicolored granules. I love the story on the bottles of how it was discovered. I love that it comes without contamination from modern pollution. I love the 60 trace minerals. I love sprinkling it on my eggs with abandon not worrying about the perils of refined
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The other day I was walking through the yogurt section at the local grocery store checking nutrition labels for sugar amounts. I was SHOCKED! And not in a good way. I did some really quick math in my head and realized that the average child probably consumes WAY more than the recommended daily amounts of
When you start a new restrictive diet like Keto, or in our case the Autoimmune Paleo/Protocol diet (AIP), it can be hard on both the brain and the schedule. You are suddenly making all sorts of food you are not used to, typically a wider variety and quantity of vegetables than ever before, which means
Stop Paying Whole Foods to Prep For You: 10 Time Saving Tips for Eating Keto or AIP Read More »
Often one of the first suggestions when you’re trying to get healthy is to read labels. It’s something I suggest myself, especially when it comes to finding sugar and understanding just how much you are eating. But sometimes, it feels like you need a degree in nutrition fact label reading just to understand it all!
People say when you’re depressed, you feel flat. You don’t find enjoyment in what you used to, and you feel like nothing matters. Something that should get you excited might just raise an eyebrow, and you can’t dredge up the energy to care about much of anything. A while back, I questioned my mental health
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I was the cool mom last year for Halloween. Not only did I let my kids have more than one piece of candy in a day, but I also made a really cool dinner, appropriate to the season: Sometimes, even stuffy, boring adults like me have to let loose and do something fun (like make
Here at Kitchen Stewardship®, we mostly focus on what we do in our own homes to make wise use of food and other resources. Katie also has great tips for improving what kids eat at school, easy party food and other guest situations, and eating while traveling. But what about in our places of worship?
Greening Your Church: 9 Stewardship Strategies that Won’t Break the Budget Read More »
October is always a touchy time for those women in the Natural Health world. We, of course, want women to be as healthy as possible,…
I hate when plans fail but sometimes even my best intentions to meal plan fail me. When dinner time is fast approaching and I have NOTHING to make I know I can use my Instant Pot to cook frozen hamburger and make this easy dinner possible! Over the years of our healthy living journey, my
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If you can’t view the video above, click Teaching Kids to Cook May Help Prevent Anxiety and Depression to see it directly on YouTube. Here’s the thing about food and mood – a lot of people don’t believe that what we eat can be the root cause of how we feel, especially when it comes
I’m not sure if it’s my over-tired postpartum brain, or simply the fact that as I get older I’ve stopped caring what people think – but after last month’s post about living the way God intended I’m back with another blunt post about how the way we feed our kids needs to change. Today I
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Looking for natural treatments for growing pains like essential oils and other home remedies? Here’s how to get rid of growing pains. How is it that my naturally raised kids who are always the shortest in their class wake up in the middle of the night with growing pains all the time? I’m ever grateful
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This is a guest post from Steph Jenkins, author of Dinner for a Dollar. “I would love to eat healthier, but it’s just so expensive.” How many times have you thought that? This is a problem every health-conscious human who lives on a budget has to face. You are not alone. When my husband and
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Inspiring kids to eat healthy and learn to cook is my passion. I hope with my online cooking classes for kids I’m helping parents do just that every day! But we can always use a few new ideas, too! (Like Raddish Kids) When Becca told me her daughter’s love of this salad, I knew she had to
Easy Tips to Get Kids to Eat Veggies and Want to Cook Read More »
Apple season is here! If you can buy in bulk, you’ll want to make lots of healthy recipes PLUS preserve apples for later – read on for instructions for freezing, canning, and dehydrating apples in multiple ways plus our best real food apple recipes! If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, how many
20 Easy Ways to Eat, Preserve and Freeze Apples – with No Sugar! Read More »
Figuring out fast, healthy breakfast ideas for kids and families is hard enough – but do working moms have even less time to cook than stay-at-home moms? I’m going to leave that up for debate – but the fact of the matter is, whether you’re rushing to get kids off to school or rushing to
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We’ve talked about easy healthy meal prep, but today we are zooming in on how to meal plan with a CSA! Two years ago, I wrote up a handy 5-step plan for using all the vegetables you receive in a weekly crate from a Community-Sponsored Agriculture farm. That article tells you all about how a
