Find real food, tips for how to prepare it, store it and enjoy it – including sample menus, personal stories of transitions to real food, and information on special healing diets you may encounter.
Finding healthy party food to please a crowd is hard! Not to worry! I have some easy ideas for healthy food for parties and potlucks. Eating with others – the normal people – is always difficult when you’re committed to staying away from the “Standard American Diet” and consuming traditional foods. There’s often a lot […]
Can You Take Your Weird Real Food to a Party with Normal People? Read More »
When it comes to preparedness and having enough clean water in a crisis, I’ve never been more grateful for my Berkey filter. You don’t NEED a fancy filter to store water safely, but here’s our Berkey review if it helps. “Can water go bad?” I always thought that was the sort of question destined for
The Water Dilemma: How to Store Enough for a Disaster…Without Chemicals Read More »
We all get worn out sometimes, and after a busy day or week (or month!) there are occasions when I’m just. too. tired. to cook. Whether your fatigue comes from parenting, pregnancy, or a busy work or school schedule, we all need some quick meals in our repertoire that don’t take much effort to get
The first trimester of a pregnancy, for many women, is like no other time in their lives (except maybe having the flu). I have been meaning to write a list of “changes I experienced during the first trimester” since December, but…I didn’t get around to it. Fatigue sometimes makes the list, as many of you
Natural Remedies for Morning Sickness and Prenatal Vitamins Read More »
Look out, folks, it’s been a year since I got in front of the video camera for Kitchen Stewardship®, and for good reason! Get ready to laugh at my amateur videotaping and lack of editing skills (i.e. I don’t edit at all, deal with it.) My friend Shannon and I got together for some fun
Nutrimill vs. Wondermill Grain Mill: the Head-to-Head Challenge (VLOG) Read More »
If you’re not ready to look at raw liver, you might want to find something else to read today. Strap on your big girl pants today, folks, it’s time to get that package out of the freezer and feed it to your families! We’re going to talk about how to prepare and eat beef liver
“Recipes” for Liver: How to Eat Beef Liver (Without Tasting It) Read More »
I come from a long history of amazing bread bakers, believe it or not. My Busia (Polish grandmother, 100%!) raised nine children and made all of her own bread, well over 5 loaves a week. Maybe 9? She kneaded it in a huge bread pan at her feet while she sat on a stool. I
Katie’s Basic Bread Baking Techniques (or lack thereof) Read More »
I’ve hesitated to jump into the fray lately, partly because I was attempting to avoid “one more thing” to research, and partly because I don’t feel very politically minded sometimes. It makes me tired to try to figure out who’s telling the truth and what the lawyer-speak in bills really means. The real food blogosphere
Real Food and Politics: S510 Food Safety Modernization Act and Raw Cheese Seizures Read More »
Over the last month or so as the adults in the family went grain-free to combat some symptoms of Crohn’s Disease (Inflammatory Bowel Disease or IBD) in my husband, I’ve mentioned in passing a couple gut-healing diets. Although we didn’t actually go on any of them officially, I gleaned information from each to try to
I’ve been teasing you for a few weeks about the opportunity I had to see Jordan Rubin, author of The Maker’s Diet and survivor of near-fatal Crohn’s Disease, speak in the Grand Rapids area. Today I’m going to attempt to share my notes from the talk without making this post seem like my notebook vomited
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
Preserve the Harvest: How to Dehydrate Vegetables Read More »
Sick of paying a fortune for a small bag of dried fruit? Curious how to dehydrate fruit at home? It’s easier than you think! Dehydrating fruit is such a great option for long-term storage without filling your freezer. Most make great snack foods and can stay in your diaper bag or desk drawer for a
Want to learn how to sprout wheat and then make sprouted flour for bread? Sprouting grains for flour is doable with these tips on how to sprout grains! Kimarie of Cardamom’s Pod, mom of nine saves time and money sprouting own flour and baking bread, joins us today with an amazing sprouted flour tutorial. My
How to Sprout Whole Grains and Make Sprouted Flour in Bulk Read More »
I’ll take bugs, please. What’s on your produce? When a friend of a friend moved to Colorado, my friend was telling me about the organic food situation there. People talk to me about food a lot. Go figure. 🙂 It seems that the gal could only find organic produce in the stores; that was the
Please welcome Kelly the Kitchen Kop today, whose peppy self I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in real life. She dishes out on the truth of nourishing foods and busts “politically correct” nutrition, and today she’s our feature in the Spring Cleaning: Get the Junk Out! Carnival. See all the topics here. The reasoning behind
Sometimes I make hasty decisions. When I decided to go gluten free for Holy Week, I just did it. It wasn’t until I was writing a post about it that I began to realize it was going to take a lot more effort than I had given it credit for. Gluten is in wheat, rye
I continue to run into people, both online and in real life, who have celiac disease or cannot handle gluten, including an elderly neighbor who was just diagnosed for the first time. This Monday Mission topic was confirmed when I heard Elisabeth Hasselbeck, host of The View and former Survivor contestant, describe how she was
Monday Mission: Learn About Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance Read More »
Every year, as spring inches closer, folks begin getting into their gardening groove. I totally understand. When it comes to getting the most bang for your nutritional buck, certainly not much beats growing, harvesting, and preserving your own food. But what are those of us with a brown thumb to do? We love our Farmer’s
Kitchen Hack for Getting Free Nutrition in Only 2 Minutes a Day! Read More »
I don’t usually click on videos, either, so I won’t have hurt feelings if you don’t watch this! However, if you want to see liquid oil emulsify into a semi-solid mayonnaise, it’s pretty fun to watch.If you can’t see the video, click How to Make Homemade Mayo to view on You Tube. The point of
