Welcome to the second post in our Help Handling the Whole Chicken series! In case you missed the first post on debunking 6 objections to buying a whole bird (including the myth that it’s more expensive than buying cheap boneless skinless chicken breast from the store), you can find it HERE. The goal of today’s […]
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to STOP buying boneless skinless chicken breast and buy a whole chicken instead. Welcome to a four-part series giving Help Handling the Whole Chicken! We’re starting off with a Monday Mission. Now if you’ve been around Kitchen Stewardship® for very long, you may be scratching your head
Monday Mission: Buy A Whole Chicken {Debunking 6 Objections to Buying A Whole Bird} Read More »
It’s the Most Snackiest Time of the Year! This time of year always stretches my creativity when it comes to surviving the marathon of holiday events, family gatherings, Christmas potlucks, and crazy schedules. When it comes to navigating the holiday busyness with our little ones, I find that snacks can be the make-or-break difference –
Time & Budget Busters: 6 Snack Foods You Should Make At Home (And 6 You Should Buy) Read More »
Haley’s story of discovering a gluten allergy in her child will help anyone exploring a gluten sensitivity or just hoping to gracefully host a friend who is gluten-free. With gluten sensitivity and Celiac both on the rise, figuring out how to go gluten-free, especially for families, is really important! When my oldest child was diagnosed
Do you or your kids know how to properly use a knife? Sharpen your knife skills with these free videos. Then let your kids help prepare some of these easy party foods the next time you’re hosting guests. Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to spend less time at the cutting board and
Whenever you’re looking for healthy breakfast ideas for your meal planning, focus on vegetables – they’re the hardest to incorporate at the first meal of the day, but so important! Here are some creative ways to get veggies in right away, at breakfast. I learned a long time ago that I felt much better when I
I’ve always thought that even though the blessing of meals after childbirth is such a wonderful gift, women really need them more during first trimester. Unfortunately those first twelve weeks are typically when not enough people even realize the poor tired mama needs help. Many women experience food aversions or nausea during the first trimester
The simple secret for avoiding a stringy mess when grating fresh ginger and how to always have it on hand without it going bad! Throwing away food really does feel like throwing away money to me – I can’t stand it, and it just tears my heart out to pitch food that’s gone bad (especially
How to Store Fresh Ginger {The Ginger Challenge Series} Read More »
Time to make a healthy, heart-shaped breakfast for your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day! For more V-day ideas for kids, check out our Valentine’s Day healthy party plan for the classroom. That’s right folks…Katie’s getting crafty. I don’t really do glue guns and glitter…definitely not fabric or felt…and isn’t decoupage a fancy French appetizer? I can
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Cabbage has the unfortunate notoriety of looking an awful lot like iceberg lettuce. Plus, it’s in coleslaw, which no one is really swinging around as a health food. And its random presence in bagged lettuce just screams, “I’m SO not important. I’m just a token.” Like the parsley garnishing your dinner plate, you probably don’t
Why Cabbage is One of the Best Buys of the Produce Section Read More »
Can you imagine a group of 8-year-old girls spending ten minutes talking about chicken skin? True story. When I taught third grade, one of my favorite parts of the year was when I introduced Literature Circles, a time when kids were put in groups of four or five and all read the same book together
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Do you have to use chicken feet to have traditional homemade stock, or at least to have healthy food? Of course not. If you can’t source chicken feet or can’t stomach the idea, don’t worry about it. You can make awesome, nutritious stock from any old chicken bones you can find, even a family pack
Making Stock with Chicken Feet (Aw, do I have to?) Read More »
Homemade tortillas are frugal and delicious. But do you know the quickest and best way to make them? I’m taking on both a tortilla press and machine with my trusty rolling pin. Can you guess which will win? No matter the winner you’ll want to also make my salsa recipe for canning to top the
Whether you’re in the canned or home-pureed pumpkin camp, sometimes you have just a little bit of pumpkin puree left over after a recipe. It’s…
Substituting coconut flour in recipes can be tricky! Learn how to bake with coconut flour and make the right coconut flour substitutions so you can make awesome coconut flour breads, coconut flour pancakes, and more! This one is really a “how NOT to” post, which is of utmost importance when it comes to baking with
As a former elementary school teacher, anything having to do with kids and healthy food grabs my interest and I get pretty passionate about it. Over the past few years, more and more schools are moving to a “no homemade” rule for community snacks, birthday treats, and parties. The reason isn’t to support the food
Healthy School Treat Ideas when You’re Not Allowed to Make “Homemade” Read More »
Whether you’re cutting down on bread, cutting it out completely, get sick of sandwiches, or you’ve simply run out of bread and (a) can’t get to the store before morning or (b) homemade bread takes too long, here are some sandwich alternatives to get your creative juices flowing for a healthy packed lunch. My mom
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No, I’m not hiring Guy Fieri to take us on a tour of restaurants that serve real food across the nation…although maybe that should go on my bucket list! We traveled for a long drive over Memorial Day weekend this year, and packed our own food road trip food (and have even made dinner in
I really wonder what my neighbors think when a humongous trailer truck backs into my driveway and slides out the ramp from the back. Are they moving? Did they buy a new couch? What are those boxes? (takes a minute to read the side of the truck: Country Life Natural Foods) Is that really all
What Does a Real Foodie Buy at…Country Life Natural Foods? Read More »
It’s inevitable. Any time I mention shopping for food at a store, someone asks, “So…what do you buy there?” I’ve had conversations on Facebook recently about the quality of produce at Costco in various parts of the country, for example. It’s the same thing I do myself: Ask people how they do things in order
