How Do I Decide What Reusable Bag to Buy?
It’s finally happened! In the decade plus since I’ve been raising children with a green and crunchy mindset, thinking almost as much about the environment
Reducing Waste
Life Without Plastic Review | Stainless Steel Lunch Containers
Since 2009 at Kitchen Stewardship®, I’ve reviewed hundreds of different products, sometimes as free samples, sometimes on my own dime, always thoroughly. It’s almost comical…
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Eco-Friendly Detergent: Tru Earth Laundry Strips Review
Laundry detergent might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about your environmental impact. It’s obvious that washing our clothes to wear again is less wasteful than throwing them away after one wearing! And in order to get clothes clean and fresh, we need to make the water all soapy,
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3 Markers You Must Have in Your Fridge and Why They’ll Save Your Leftovers
Labeling food containers is such an important habit in keeping our kitchens organized and preventing food waste. Sometimes food storage labels work but I have an easier solution for kitchen labeling – for everything from labeling jars to plastics. Every single human wrestles with certain deep, existential questions in life. You know, the “who am
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Cloth Masks vs. Disposable Masks: Our Planet and Your Budget
Any big change in our lives brings something new that we could buy. Sometimes it’s just a frivolous marketing ploy from a company hoping to cash in on our anxieties. Other times, we truly need a thing that we didn’t need before–but some of the options on the market are unnecessarily wasteful. Over the course
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Do Disposable Back to School Lunches Keep Kids Safe?
Going back to school in 2020 raises a whole lot of questions! Will our kids be going into the actual school building at all? Will they have to stay in the same room all day? How will teachers get through the daily routine without anybody breathing on anybody? It’s all very complicated! Katie heard a
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How to Use Microfiber Cloths for Cleaning
Learn how to clean microfiber cloths so they last and so you release less microplastics into the environment. Clean with microfiber cloths responsibly! I’ve used microfiber cloths for cleaning even before they were cool, but I’m starting to struggle with them and can’t really recommend them anymore because microfibers are made of plastic and will
5 Tips to Make Your Soap Last Longer
I’ve been looking for ways to be more frugal for years! Luckily some of my frugal tips for stretching soap also come in handy to make your soap last longer when store shelves are bare. This is one of our many real food, natural living, budget-friendly resources to help you through COVID-19 here at Kitchen
Reusable Alternatives to Toilet Paper and Paper Towels
So you’re worried you’ll run out of toilet paper and not quite ready to install a bidet? I’m with you, my friend, I’m with you. I’ve seen other recommendations for what to do when you run out of toilet paper, including just “take a shower.” What?? I’m imagining some extremely dried-out skin, eczema going nuts,
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Reducing Single-Use Plastic Food Packaging & Alternatives
Learn how to reduce the use of plastic in your home by banning single-use plastics, using single-use plastic alternatives, and repurposing single-use plastic. This post is from KS Contributing Writer ‘Becca Stallings of The Earthling’s Handbook, with photos by her son Nicholas Efran. I have long been baby stepping my way to reduce plastic use
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Greening Your Church: 9 Stewardship Strategies that Won’t Break the Budget
Here at Kitchen Stewardship®, we mostly focus on what we do in our own homes to make wise use of food and other resources. Katie also has great tips for improving what kids eat at school, easy party food and other guest situations, and eating while traveling. But what about in our places of worship?
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20 Easy Ways to Eat, Preserve and Freeze Apples – with No Sugar!
Apple season is here! If you can buy in bulk, you’ll want to make lots of healthy recipes PLUS preserve apples for later – read on for instructions for freezing, canning, and dehydrating apples in multiple ways plus our best real food apple recipes! If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, how many
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Why I STILL Don’t Use Aluminum Foil (even though it probably doesn’t cause Alzheimer’s)
For years I understood that using aluminum in my cooking and personal products was going to increase my risk of Alzheimer’s Disease. I avoided it almost religiously with some exceptions and even made homemade deodorant even though I’m not normally a DIY personal products kind of girl. I have to tell you – I was
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Reusable Shopping Bags for Every Grocery Run
One Christmas when I was in college, my mom gave me a sturdy canvas tote bag with a picture of the Earth and the words “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” Great! I would reduce garbage by reusing this bag whenever I walked from campus to the grocery store! I returned to my dorm in the new year,
Perfect Healthy Camping Meal Plan (& a Heart-Warming Story)
Planning a menu for camping can be tricky – especially if you want healthy camping food. Have no fear! I’m here for you with healthy, easy foods for camping. Now that we’ve gone camping every summer since our second child was 2 months old, we feel like we’re old pros. We have the same whole
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DIY Greens Powder and the Easiest Way to Preserve Your Greens
Want to learn how to make dehydrated greens for smoothies and more? It’s easy to make a dehydrated greens powder when you dehydrate spinach, Swiss chard, beet greens, and kale! “Mom, is this a stick in my soup?” I admit that we eat some weird food around here, but I really wasn’t serving a soup
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Work Composting Into Your Kitchen Routine!
Composting can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. It is an easy way to save money while helping reduce waste in landfills. Recently, I explained how to set up compost bins in your yard to turn your biodegradable garbage into natural fertilizer for your garden. The next step is to get used to
Easy Steps to Composting Affordably
If you’re trying to lead a greener life, you’ve probably heard that you ought to be setting aside your biodegradable garbage and composting it to create natural fertilizer for your garden. If an indoor worm garden isn’t for you, composting outdoors is a great option. Composters are sold at home-improvement stores and in gardening catalogs,
5 Easy Steps for Using a Week’s Share of CSA Vegetables
It’s dinnertime on a Wednesday, and you’ve just been handed 10 pounds of fresh, organic, locally-grown, assorted vegetables! You’re eager to get some of them onto your family’s plates tonight and make sure you use every bit as wisely as you can before next week—when another load of vegetables will arrive—and you never know what
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On the Go Kid Food Made Healthy
The anchors asked us yesterday on live TV, “What is something you like to eat that’s more fun? Do you ever want things in your lunch that you see in other kids’ lunches?” Of course my poor kids weren’t ready for the question, so after some silence I jumped in and mentioned homemade granola bars