Green living and environmental stewardship in a fallen world – how can Christians be good stewards of this great gift from God, the earth? From natural, safe cleaning and personal products to ideas on how to reduce waste and your impact on the environment, Kitchen Stewardship has it all.
I used to daydream about being famous and decided that if I was ever a movie star, I would be that person whom no one had ever seen without her perfect makeup. It would add to my mystique, and when I got married, my husband would know he was special because I’d allow him to […]
As I was working on the Monday Mission about safer toothpaste, I realized that telling you about the various natural toothpaste options I’ve tried needed to be a post in itself. That post may have made you depressed about all the junk in toothpaste and in our city water, but today you can be glad
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
Does your melon ever taste like onions? Your pineapple, like jalapeno peppers? Using my one large wooden cutting board for everything has its drawbacks. Although I do love working on wood, the one thing I haven’t figured out is how to get the onion smell out, completely, without working too hard. I tried to keep
Apparently, I’m a cast iron dunce. I’ve received more helpful “teachable moment” comments and emails (no phone calls yet, thank goodness) about this cast iron and egg cooking debacle than anything else I’ve written about! I mentioned cast iron and cooking eggs (and the messes I make) when I talked about safe cookware, Teflon-Free Tuesday,
Something old, something new – scrambled eggs make Katie blue. We’re not getting married, just on the hunt for the pan to kick out the Teflon once and for all. We eat a lot of eggs here at the Kimball house, particularly since we’ve gone grain-free and gluten-free on elimination diets. I’d say 2-5 breakfasts
{REVIEW} Is Xtrema Ceramic Cookware Safe (& more importantly, can it handle EGGS?) Read More »
We live in a world, unfortunately, where we’re exposed to all sorts of materials that can cause our body harm, from BPA in plastic food storage containers to pharmaceuticals in our water. This means that while we’re already worrying about getting the right food into our mouth, we also have to make sure we’re cooking
The KS readers are just fantastic! This post is packed with reader recommendations for DIY and homemade insect and mosquito repellents – they are by and large natural, safe, and at least one person out there says they work! Why didn’t I test them all, you ask? Not enough bugs, for two summers in a
Prepare yourselves for some brutal honesty here: I don’t like cloth diapering. (waits for sky to fall on head) … … Since I’m still here, I guess I get to tell you more. For me, cloth diapering has been “one more thing” to add to a very busy household and scattered, out of balance schedule.
Cloth Diaper Wrap-up: What do I really recommend? Read More »
This is the post I was hoping someone would send me back in July before John was born, or December when I was about to jump into cloth diapers and was scared out of my mind. I couldn’t quite visualize what cloth diapering would be like, and that was a major psychological roadblock for me.
A Cloth Diapering Rookie’s First Steps: the Routine, the Laundry, the Vocabulary Read More »
Paper or plastic? No, I’m not putting plastic on my baby’s bottom, but the question for grocery shoppers might as well be the question for young moms: Cloth or disposables? Just as we used to be asked again and again at the grocery store, “Paper or plastic?” we now encounter the “disposable or reusable” question
We made a grand old mess! To satiate my curiosity about how much these cloth diapers really do hold, I laid out all 25 of those cloth diapers from the cloth diaper review, and I did two tests (on different days): Leah helped me do some closeup videos of how quickly each diaper and/or insert
Cloth Diaper Absorbency Tests: How Much Will It Hold? Read More »
There’s not really a baby step process to having a baby – it’s an all or nothing deal to be sure. You just have to jump in with both feet and get all wet, sometimes quite literally. I still remember my husband and I, in the very first few days of parenting, trying to figure
Cloth Diaper Reviews: What’s the Best Cloth Diaper For You? Read More »
If you use natural soap nuts for washing your laundry, you’ll quickly find that there’s a bit of a learning curve. Compared to pouring in a measured amount of liquid, dried fruit in a bag is a different system entirely! Already lost? Check out my soap nut reviews to learn more about my experiences with
How to Tell if Laundry Soap Nuts Still Have Cleaning Power Read More »
What’s the best natural carpet cleaner? Learn from my mistakes with homemade carpet cleaner when you clean your carpets naturally. I have a few things to say about this photo of dirty water from cleaning my carpet: First of all, isn’t it lovely? The image of a job well done. Second, my apologies. Normal food
Homemade Natural Carpet Cleaner for Steam Vacuums Read More »
Wondering how well a Berkey water filter works? Our family reviewed a new Berkey filter starting in 2011, and we still love it in ! We can tell when we’re drinking unfiltered water by taste and smell, and it’s easy to test. There is some work involved refilling it, so we may add an under-counter
Hand sanitizer is becoming more prevalent in our society. I’ve shared the best natural hand sanitizers. Now, let’s explore the safety and effectiveness of hand sanitizers. For kids and adults alike, waterless hand sanitizers have become a simple and often daily alternative to hand washing in our society. It’s so easy, you know? Squirt, rub,
When your little clowns, pirates, witches and kitty cats are tuckered out and ready to hit the sack next Monday, how will you get their face paint off? For young children especially, a tear-free method, without stingy soaps or sandpaper-esque scrubbing, is a necessity. The first year my little guy wore Halloween makeup, I wasn’t
How to Naturally Get that Halloween Face Paint Off – with No Tears! Read More »
This is a guest post about how to make your own soap for baby by Erin Odom of The Humbled Homemaker. How to make simple, frugal and natural homemade baby wash in a foaming dispenser. It’s easy and safe for your little ones. But adults can use it too! The perfect cleanser for the whole
How to Make Your Own Natural Homemade Baby Wash {GUEST POST} Read More »
Will I be called a hypocrite for teaching you how to make disposable baby wipes using bleached paper towel? Last week a reader used the term because I freely admitted to using disposable diapers in the same post as I said, “It’s important to know what’s going on baby’s skin.” The mission of Kitchen Stewardship®
