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Lazy Gardening 101: 8 Tips to Grow Your Own Food with The Least Amount of Effort

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Lazy gardening through permaculture is a way to grow your own fresh, organic food without spending so much time in the garden! Nicky Schauder shares 8 practical tips to grow your own food, even in an urban environment (read more on container gardening and really maximizing your space!).  Let’s face it. You have hardly enough […]

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grain free resources

Elimination Diet Grain-Free Recipes & Resources (Keto/Paleo/GAPS/AIP friendly)

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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

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Simple strategies to help with gut healing.

What Is Leaky Gut? Why You Need to Heal Your Gut – 9 Ways to Start Immediately!

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Can you heal the gut? Do gut healing diets actually work? Here’s how gut healing is possible.  It houses 80% of your immune system, the food you eat, and your poop. The gut is the clearinghouse for your body’s health. When things aren’t running smoothly down there the answer is often to heal the leaky

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Monday Mission: Memorize the Dirty Dozen Produce List + How to Clean your Produce

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If you try to buy organic when it counts to be gentle on your budget, you’re probably familiar with the Dirty Dozen produce list published by the EWG (Environmental Working Group), the same organization that puts out the Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database that the natural sunscreen review relies upon heavily. This is a list

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20 Easy Ways to Eat, Preserve and Freeze Apples – with No Sugar!

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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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Xylitol, Erythritol, Sorbitol…What’s That "ol" About?

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Sweeteners that have been around for centuries like sorghum syrup and maple syrup are a delicious way to satisfy your sweet tooth with a few health benefits too. But what about the new sweeteners we keep hearing about?  I probably get more questions about this category of sweeteners than any other sweetener out there and

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Keep your next camping trip fun and nourishing with this doable gluten free meal plan.

A Camping Explosion and a Gluten Free Real Food Menu Plan

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I’ll start with the explosion and make you wait for the gluten free camping food.  Here’s what happened to the Kimballs out in the woods when I tried to make breakfast using this new gluten-free camping meal plan instead of our old standard camping meal plan with lots of whole grains. All while still trying to keep

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Your Freezer Doesn't Need Bar Codes to be Fun for Summer! 50+ Dairy-free Frozen Treats You Should Make and Not Buy

Your Freezer Doesn’t Need Bar Codes to Be Fun for Summer! 50+ Dairy-free Frozen Treats You Should Make and Not Buy

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Hooray, summer! Time to break out the (homemade, dairy-free) ice creams, popsicles, and other frozen treats. *laughs* Who am I kidding? I have been pretending it is popsicle season for a few months, ever since we were able to sit outside in only a light jacket, and barely shiver, while eating them. No matter what the

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Quick and Easy NO SUGAR Halloween Party

Quick and Easy {NO SUGAR} Elementary School Halloween Party!

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Fed up with the school birthday treats? Me too. Here’s everything you’ll need for a quick and easy NO SUGAR kid Halloween party idea. Games, activities, and healthy food plan for school Halloween treats are done for you! Are you in charge of planning a kids’ Halloween party for your child’s elementary school classroom this

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Don’t Hold Back: Feed the Baby Earlier, Current Research Says

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Chill, Mama. That karate chop I busted out on poor Uncle Charlie when he made an attempt to give my first baby a bite of dirt cake at 7 months old? May have been overkill, it turns out. When that little-baby-who-is-now-an-alarmingly-old-kid was born over a decade ago, the recommendation from our pediatrician on introducing first

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