This is a guest post from Jess Sherman, RHN of Raising Resilience. I hear a lot of worry and confusion from parents about sugar, like: Sugar has become a surprisingly contentious issue, particularly when it comes to children — The headlines about sugar are confusing, people love giving it to our kids (and our kids generally […]
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It’s easy to get overwhelmed by natural green cleaners. You see a tip about using vinegar to clean – where do I use it? you wonder. Your grandma emails you 50 ways to use baking soda in the home – how do I remember these when I need them? And Pinterest serves up “50 green cleaners” or
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
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to STOP buying boneless skinless chicken breast and buy a whole chicken instead. Welcome to a four-part series giving Help Handling the Whole Chicken! We’re starting off with a Monday Mission. Now if you’ve been around Kitchen Stewardship® for very long, you may be scratching your head
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to brainstorm some ways that you can bless others with food without compromising (too much) on your real food philosophy. We’ve talked about donating food before and how tricky it is to find non-perishable real food that folks would actually know what to do with. You can
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make a price book to keep track of the best deals on real food in your area. Whether you shop at Farmer’s Markets, online in bulk, or at a variety of grocery and health food stores, chances are there are ‘best deals’ out there on most
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to examine and potentially replace your toothpaste. I come from the town that actually has the distinction of being the first in America to add fluoride to the city water supply. And I’m about to tell you I think that’s a dangerous and irresponsible practice. This post
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to examine the safety of your current cutting board and replace it with something safer if necessary. I don’t know about you, but I spend a LOT of time at my cutting board. You can tell this by the amount of schmutz on the floor where I
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make an upgrade in where you get your animal products: beef, pork, chicken, fish, cheese, milk, butter. Personally, I’ve purchased quality meat, milk and eggs for some time now, but cheese has been hit and miss and butter never ideal, often pitiable. Recently I’ve made some
Food Coloring is added to our food and beverages to give it a more vibrant color and make it more visually appealing. In the U.S. nine artificial colors in food are generally permitted with a few others being approved for limited use. Stricter guidelines exist in some European countries and Canada, which begs the question
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to start a new fermented food this week. Fermented foods add probiotics to your diet, assist digestion of the other foods you’re eating, and usually unlock vitamins or nutrients within the fermented foods that would be otherwise unavailable to you. Many say we should start each meal with
News flash! Kids’ cereal has lots of sugar in it, and – are you ready for this? It may not be good for you. The Environmental Working Group released a study detailing the amounts of sugar in popular children’s cereals, noting that many of them have more sugar than a Twinkie. A Twinkie! Could they
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get the chlorine out of your bath and shower. If you have city water, it’s almost certainly treated with either chlorine (aka bleach) or chloramine for sanitizing purposes. Since I don’t like using bleach as a cleaner in my home, consuming it in drinking water isn’t
Back when we talked emergency preparedness, we worked through many different steps to getting your home and family ready for the “in-house” sort of emergencies, such as power outages, snowstorms, or other problems that might cause your family to be stuck in the house without access to the outside world for a while. It seems
What are the benefits if you shred cheese yourself? Shredding cheese can help you avoid some nasty stuff and save money along the way. Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to bypass the handy bags of shredded cheese in the supermarket case and shred your own. Shredded Cheese This mission is a little
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to go one day without eating any refined sugar or artificial sweeteners. You’ll have to be a voracious label reader, as almost anything that comes in a box or bottle includes sugar, sometimes found as high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, maltose, and more. You probably won’t
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to…*cringe*…I know, I know…try organ meats! It’s pretty mean, I know, to go right from the Back to Basics series into organ meats. It took me quite some time to try organs for the first time, and I’m still working on incorporating them regularly into our diet.
I often find it overwhelming to “go green” in so many areas of life, especially personal care products. If you’re a green rookie, you may feel like there are so many changes you want to make and simply don’t know where to start. This comprehensive list of green and natural body care products that I’ve
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to find a new way to keep the sick bugs away, naturally. I have to admit, this is as much my personal mission as it is yours, and I plan to learn along with you all this week as we explore foods and herbal remedies to build
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to examine, and hopefully improve, the milk your family drinks. From store brand skim to fresh milk from a local farm and everything in between, the vast array of milk choices is dizzying. There are those who will tell you adult human beings should not be drinking
