I remember back when I cooked a decent amount from scratch but didn’t know “real food” from “boxed and canned food,” I used to think of stuffed pasta shells as a “fancy meal” because of all the steps – boiling the noodles, making the sauce, mixing up the filling and taking the time to fill […]
I had an absolute ball Monday night interviewing two ladies with incredible stories of health transformations via diet. Amanda Torres from The Curious Coconut and Orleatha Smith from Level Health & Nutrition and Batch Cookery joined me on the KS Connect *Plus* Google Hangout and shared about their healing with the Paleo diet, which literally
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to try a natural remedy with ginger. Since you already have fresh ginger on hand for The Ginger Challenge Series (and now always will forevermore because of the super ginger storage tip!), you might as well have some natural remedy recipes to boost immunities, soothe sore throats
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I am not really a tea person and never have been. But because of this ginger challenge and learning how super easy it is to store ginger, I decided I’d better try it. This ginger tea, which I’m guessing shouldn’t even be called “tea” since it’s not made from leaves (?), is something special: It turns
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This is a guest post from the fabulously talented Shaina Olmanson of Food for my Family. Do you love pop but want a better alternative? This healthy ginger ale recipe with honey satisfies a crowd! All natural ginger ale is simple to make without the unhealthy additives. Papers are sprawled across the dining room table as
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to try a homemade drink with fresh ginger. It’s part of the Ginger Challenge Series for February, and I think it’s the one I personally had the most fun with. Last week we talked about using fresh ginger in recipes, like my slow cooker ginger beef, and
Sadly, I grew up with the habit of having a little something sweet after I eat a meal. It just doesn’t feel complete unless I grab something to override the aftertaste of dinner, no matter how delicious it was. Could I train my palate and exercise great self-discipline to make that habit disappear? Yes. Is
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I hate it in the morning, but man, I love it in the evening! Slow cooker recipes are becoming more and more a part of our weekly routine here at the Kimball house. I’m making it a priority to find and try many slow cooker meals, and I have not been disappointed. It is absolutely
Almost 40,000 people thought the “Organic, Schmorganic” article last week at Slate.com was worth sharing with their friends, including a sharp KS reader who was disturbed by the claims made, namely that buying organic produce, even for kids, is a total waste of money and not one iota safer than conventional produce. Articles like this
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The simple secret for avoiding a stringy mess when grating fresh ginger and how to always have it on hand without it going bad! Throwing away food really does feel like throwing away money to me – I can’t stand it, and it just tears my heart out to pitch food that’s gone bad (especially
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Time to make a healthy, heart-shaped breakfast for your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day! For more V-day ideas for kids, check out our Valentine’s Day healthy party plan for the classroom. That’s right folks…Katie’s getting crafty. I don’t really do glue guns and glitter…definitely not fabric or felt…and isn’t decoupage a fancy French appetizer? I can
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You know how some kids put ketchup on everything? In our house, it’s all about mustard. We go through mustard like nobody’s business, seriously. I should buy stock in the stuff. Which means, of course, that I should also buy stock in laundry stain treaters and ultimately, clothing since mustard is a bear to get
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to increase your kitchen efficiency…and tell others your magic tricks too! This is the last of the “top 3 tips” for the four pillars of Kitchen Stewardship®: You can’t deny that cooking real food takes longer than convenience food – it’s called “convenience” for good reason! But
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“Don’t marry someone unless they have all their teeth.” That old-fashioned, farm country wedding advice may make you laugh a little or reflect on simpler times gone by, but the reality is that the health of one’s teeth is a pretty darn good indicator of their overall physical health. I’m proud that my family all
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I’ve been blessed the past 4 months or so to have stumbled into a blogging group of quite amazing people. They’re talented, smart, motivated, fun, kind, giving…and make incredible recipes with mouth-watering photos. The “social” part of being in the social media world ebbs and flows for me – I get holed up in my
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to reflect on what you do to save the earth – and pinpoint the top 3 eco-friendly habits you have. Two weeks ago, we shared our top 3 frugal tips to help save others’ pocketbooks, and this week, we’re going to help save the earth. Just like
Cabbage has the unfortunate notoriety of looking an awful lot like iceberg lettuce. Plus, it’s in coleslaw, which no one is really swinging around as a health food. And its random presence in bagged lettuce just screams, “I’m SO not important. I’m just a token.” Like the parsley garnishing your dinner plate, you probably don’t
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Today’s Monday Mission is a bit of a flip on its head – rather than giving you a new task to complete or attempt in the kitchen, I’m asking you to branch out to help your own friends/community. I’m kind of excited about this mission, so bear with me as I explain what I’m thinking.
Monday Mission: YOUR Top 3 Frugal Tips For Healthy Living Read More »
Where’s the free toy that used to come in breakfast cereal? It’s not the only thing missing from the box these days. We’ve been duped to think that breakfast variety equates to many different colors of cereal boxes festooned with various cartoon characters or health claims. In reality, all those hundreds of different boxes contain
Can you imagine a group of 8-year-old girls spending ten minutes talking about chicken skin? True story. When I taught third grade, one of my favorite parts of the year was when I introduced Literature Circles, a time when kids were put in groups of four or five and all read the same book together
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