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.
Making bone broth in the Instant Pot is an excellent hack for saving time and money in a real food kitchen. There are two different Instant Pot methods that work with chicken, beef, or pork bones. The result is a healthy, nutrient-dense stock that you can drink on its own or add to recipes to […]
Bone Broth in the Instant Pot – 2 Ways! {Chicken, Beef, & Pork} Read More »
If you’re a beginner in the world of canning, this post is for you. Tomatoes are a wonderful long-term storage food. Learning how to can tomatoes is a great way to store the abundance you may be getting from your garden! Whether you’ve spent the time and effort of growing tomatoes in your backyard or you
How to Can Tomatoes the Easy Way – Perfect for Beginners Read More »
Could you or your child be sensitive to gluten? What are the signs of gluten sensitivity? Read on to see if you have these symptoms of gluten sensitivity. This is a guest post from Michelle Riddle, OT, R.H.N. director of Resilient Health. Picky eating, brain fog, anxiety, and/or irritability. These behaviors can make life difficult
The Food-Mood Connection: 4 Behavioral Signs of a Gluten Sensitivity Read More »
Keto cooking – or keto-fying a favorite food – isn’t always the easiest or tastiest. We’ve made almond flour chocolate chip cookies that were better than the originals, coconut flour muffins that are moist and delicious, and Paleo banana bread that’s to die for (grain-free but not keto)…AND we’ve also had some definite flops in
Italian Inspired Keto Tortillas Recipe {2g Net Carb} Read More »
Even for people who are squeamish about raw chicken, cooking chicken in the Instant Pot is so simple and must become part of your routine. Over at Kids Cook Real Food, we even have a video showing kids how to make shredded barbecue chicken in the Instant Pot as part of our Instant Pot Thematic
Cooking a Whole Chicken in the Instant Pot {Plus Shredded Chicken!} Read More »
Easy-peel hard-boiled eggs have been something I sought after for many years. I tried so many methods, but once I tried hard-boiled eggs in the Instant Pot, I knew there was no going back. Perfect easy-peel eggs every time – no tricks necessary! The Quest for Easy Peel Eggs Easy-peel eggs – at one point
Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs in the Instant Pot {Easy Peel!} Read More »
Cooking squash in the Instant Pot saves time, keeps the kitchen cool during the hot summer months, and is a quick and easy way to meal prep! Plus, it’s one of the best ways to cook squash to prepare for freezing. It’s right about the beginning of summer, where I start to run out of
Cooking Squash in the Instant Pot (Meal Prep Made Easy!) Read More »
Everyone says the Instant Pot can save you time and money. Sometimes it seems like it might get you to the moon, it’s so amazing! One thing I know I love about it is that it’s not a one-hit-wonder. In other words, it’s not one of those items that take up a lot of space
The Instant Pot Accessories You Actually Need – And a Few You Don’t! Read More »
Every June it sneaks up on me – strawberry season. I’ve spent the last few months working through our freezer stash and home-canned goods. The weather is getting warmer, and we all want to live outside and forget about complicated meals. Then it hits me – it’s time to start preserving again! The first item
What to Do With Fresh Strawberries and How to Freeze Strawberries Read More »
A couple of months ago I was lathering on the sunscreen for our updated testing and testing it in the Hawai’i sunshine…. I was also stocking up on road trip snacks and planning trips for spring break… We all know how spring break turned out this year. Funny how everything has changed, especially when it
Paleovalley Meat Stick Review – the Perfect, Shelf-Stable, Kid-Friendly, Paleo Snack! Read More »
When you buy a half a pig, your dreams are filled with bacon. Lots and lots of bacon. My kids are head over heels in love with bacon and would eat two pounds a day if I’d let them. So buying half a pig seemed like a great way to have a family supply of
What are you cooking during quarantine? I’ve been more consistent now about meal planning than I’ve been in a few years! I’m really motivated not to go to the store (it just made me uncomfortable, not germs, but bare shelves and people in masks), so I’m determined to use what I have wisely, keep up
Back when my husband and I went from being “Double Income No Kids” DINKs to suddenly single income, one kid, practically in-the-red, desperate young people, I used to stretch our meat to save on the budget. As we transitioned into eating more sustainably grown, traditional foods, the price of meat doubled because organic, grass-fed beef
How to Stretch Your Meat and Keep That Protein Source Going Read More »
I know this is truly an awful situation for so many… My heart is breaking for those who have lost loved ones or jobs as well as our medical workers and so many average Americans who have lost their paychecks for the next several weeks. However, I now find myself in the position of being
Guide to COVID-19 Healthy Home Cooking & Natural Home Remedies Read More »
I’ve already written on Healthy Food Stockpile Options -The Best Produce to Stockpile, but how do you keep vegetables fresh? What are the best veggies for long-term storage? We wake up in a whole new world every day lately, it seems. There’s always something changing, and that uncertainty is hard on the psyche. But I
How to Keep Vegetables Fresh: Best Veggies for Long-Term Storage Read More »
Turmeric Lentil Soup is one of the most popular soups in our home. If it’s winter or rainy outside and I want a budget-friendly, real food winner, this is it. The best part is that it doesn’t take any special ingredients. We almost always have them on hand, even if it’s the end of the
When we talk about seafood, we usually mean fish and shellfish. But they aren’t the only food in the sea! Many species of seaweed have a lot to offer in both flavor and nutrition, with very low calories. I’ve always lived hundreds of miles from the ocean, but my mother’s fondness for Asian-style cooking brought
Why You Should Eat Seaweed Plus Some Tips to Get Started Read More »
Irregular cycles? Real heavy periods? You’re not alone—continuous sticky yellow cervical mucus, heavy periods, and irregular length cycles all make NFP charting very tricky AND there are root causes in your health that should be addressed. From estrogen dominance to heavy metals, let’s dig into how to regulate your cycle naturally and figure out how
Look at most elimination diets and you’ll find many call for grain free recipes. From keto to Paleo to a Whole 30 meal plan, grains are on the no-no list. Thank goodness I’ve found out it’s not hard to come up with grain free elimination diet recipes! First off though, how in the world do
Elimination Diet Grain-Free Recipes & Resources (Keto/Paleo/GAPS/AIP friendly) Read More »
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
All This White Sugar is Harming Our Kids: Here’s What We Can Do About It! Read More »
