When you’re a real food family, it becomes clear that other households’ pantries, fridges, and freezers look very different from what your kids are used to. All sorts of processed foods exist out there that I simply never buy. Don’t get me wrong – we eat potato chips and looooove ice cream for dessert, so […]
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“I just don’t like cooking,” is often an excuse when people want to avoid cooking real food and stick with processed foods and quick meals. That phrase turns my head quickly, and my shock factor kicks in. “You don’t like cooking?” the voice in my head cries. But…when I analyze my own time in the kitchen,
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Parents, especially moms, have a way of getting right to the heart of the issue. I still remember back in seventh grade when my father told me he was embarrassed that I would consider getting up to sing karaoke with his colleagues’ wives at a restaurant. I was crushed. But I took it upon myself
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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
Changing vocabulary you’ve used your entire adult life isn’t easy. Suddenly an “insurance claim” becomes a “sharing need” and a “deductible” becomes the “initial unshareable amount”—and instead of hassling with insurance codes and red tape, I get to follow some simple steps and deal with real people on the phone (who are helpful – oh
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Growing up I did not have any chores. It’s kind of sad since I was the kind of kid that loved to help. Even though my parents never assigned me any tasks I often vacuumed, took out the trash, made snacks for my siblings, and dusted. My parents missed a huge opportunity to teach me
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
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This is a guest post by Heidi C., a dorm mate from college, who writes at This Circus Life. I’m so honored to reveal to you this tiny piece of her family’s story, which I asked her to share with us after her touching Facebook posts for Down Syndrome Awareness Month in March. Even though this topic
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I explore with a gluten-free baking expert the elusive perfect homemade gluten-free loaf – it’s really possible! It’s weird being friends with me. I tend to give a lot of food advice, and when my dear friend’s daughter suffered from headaches every day, I kept gently mentioning that I thought an elimination diet meal plan
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I grew up in the suburbs. Neighbors twenty feet away on all sides. Eating the typical standard American diet. It was all I knew. Then I got married. My husband grew up on a farm and couldn’t even fathom the idea of a vegetable out of a can. So once we bought a house we
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As parents, we decide what foods our babies try first. We control the menu and set the standards of “what we eat.” But at some point, those kids encounter the outside world and the insane cramming-junk-down-our-throats consumer culture. How can you keep your kids healthy when there’s so much pressure to eat junk? It’s tough
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This is good advice about husbands and real food, I promise. And no, I’m not upset with my husband and taking it out on men everywhere. It was my husband’s idea, in fact. Ever since I pulled things like serving beef tongue and not telling him (and then successfully doing the same with beef heart),
I remember when cooking was something I dreaded, something I grudgingly forced myself to do everyday. It seemed like all I did all day long was prepare food, cook food, serve food, clean up food, wash dishes used for preparing food…over and over and OVER. Oh man…I KNOW some of you out there feel the same
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When diagnosed with Celiac disease, people often have a crisis, wondering how do I even begin a gluten-free diet and not go crazy? It’s so important for their health, and the eating part is figure-out-able, but then there are more questions about cross-contamination, like “Can you kill gluten? Does a dishwasher get rid of gluten?”
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I’ve talked about the importance of baby steps for years: Taking small steps, making small individual improvements, to get your family ever closer to real food and natural living goals. But what if it were possible to baby step your way right off a cliff? Can even baby steps be taken too far? When I
Yesterday I joked about how the D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs program was kind of like my hubby and I peer pressuring our friends to do a Whole30 – a diet that cuts out all grains, dairy, legumes, sweeteners, and alcohol. Did you know that some would say gluten and sugar are as addictive
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Since the beginning of Kitchen Stewardship®, I’ve always been all about the journey, and how we can support each other taking baby steps in the right direction. A journey about a journey, perhaps? Only if fueled by corn – the sense-of-humor kind, not the kind mired in GMO debates that fuels vehicles nowadays! 😉 My
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I sure made you wait a long time for part 2! I would say it’s appropriate because I had to wait to meet this baby, but he was only (barely) a day overdue, so that would be quite the exaggeration. Life (and editorial calendars) march on…but now I’m back! Be sure to start with part
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Ah…baby number four. Poor child has almost no chance of having a baby book – maybe a baby folder with a few things tossed haphazardly in it? – but at least, because his mom’s a writer online, he’ll have a very complete record of his own birth story. ‘Cause that’s super important when you’re a
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Crohn’s Disease, high triglycerides, heart attack risk…all healed with a real food diet and grain-free elimination meal planner. But it seems like a page out of someone else’s life when I think about my husband’s diagnosis. He was just 19 years old, a college kid experiencing worse-than-average intestinal distress after every cafeteria meal. I was
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