Save the Earth

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.

Finally Back! Christmas Prayers, GREENery, Gifts to Keep and Return!

Thanks for hanging in there waiting for me to come back! I wasn’t planning on being away from Kitchen Stewardship® for an entire week (yikes!), but we stayed an extra day with my husband’s family over the weekend, had time to literally unpack and re-pack, then went to my family’s a day earlier than planned. […]

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Monday Mission: Repurpose Kitchen Containers as Unusual (Frugal) Storage Methods

While others are meticulously organizing their cupboards and pantries or posting beautiful pictures of their type A storage systems, I’m taking the alternative route and showing you some ways I use what I have and watch for strange and unusual storage solutions. Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to throw away and recycle

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The Final Answer: How Does Biokleen Dishwasher Detergent Work? (And Their Other Stuff Too?)

Hah-lelujah! It was a Sunday morning when I opened the dishwasher. Appropriately, I woke husband up singing the Hallelujah chorus when I saw the job Biokleen dishwasher detergent did. Clear glasses? Check. Cut the grease? Check. Zero food residue? Check. 100% success, zero rejections? Check. It even cleaned my yogurt jar, which I’ve found, since

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Bath and Body Works/Triclosan Update: KS Responds to their Reply

Triclosan Update! If you live in the Washington, D.C. area, please participate, and for everyone, please forward this info on to anyone you know in D.C.: On September 12th Washington D.C. residents can wash their hands of Triclosan by dropping off any products they find in their homes that contain this ingredient at the Whole

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5 Easy Tips to Help you Pack Super Successful Real Food Lunches this School Year. 5 tips to avoid processed lunches from a former teacher and mom of 4 - you can pack a healthy lunch to go every day and not stress about it!

Unpack the Lunch: The Child’s Responsibility

I just can’t stop talking about school lunches! Please check out my exhaustive list of healthy options for packing a lunch, easy lunch ideas for virtual school, distance learning or homeschooling, and if you’re concerned about your environment, find some options for reducing lunchtime waste. Finally, today I’ve got a fabulous after-school organizational system for kids

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How to make crunchy, crispy lacto-fermented pickles for probiotic health (or canned). Learn from my failures and ferment crisp pickles with this recipe for success!

Finally…Crunchy Pickles! (Lacto-Fermented and Canned)

Phew! I don’t like having mishaps and failures in the kitchen. So much time, so much capital and raw material invested in any new venture. I was pretty excited and nervous to try my hand at canning(link no longer available), and I was (mildly) devastated when the result was soft pickles. Lacto-fermentation had similar results,

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