Oh, the saga! My husband’s going to toss me out. (Actually, he’s threatened to just go to the store – the man who never shops! – and buy Cascade, but the first sentence sounded more catchy!) Out of necessity and curiosity, a deadly combination, I tried yet another homemade, “natural” dishwasher detergent this week. I [...]
Entries from September 18th, 2009
Homemade Dishwasher Detergent Experiments, Back Again!
September 18th, 2009 · 27 Comments · Cleaning, Do It Yourself
Tags: dishwasher·dishwasher detergent·green cleaners·homemade
The Joy of Baby Signs, Part Two
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Laura has the second installment of my guest post on Baby Signs up at Heavenly Homemakers today. Do check it out! You’ll find How-to teach Baby Signs, some resources, and everybody’s favorite cute baby modeling her favorite signs for you. Thanks for visiting! Be sure to sign up for what I think is a very [...]
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Giveaway: Cultures for Health Starter Cultures
September 16th, 2009 · 65 Comments · Uncategorized
I’m thrilled to offer one of my readers a chance to experiment in the kitchen! Now you, too, can have random things fermenting and perking along in various places in your kitchen, too. Want to try water kefir? Are you pining for the easiest way to make homemade yogurt ever? Do you have your [...]
Tags: Cultures for Health·giveaway
Got Fruit Flies?
September 15th, 2009 · 20 Comments · Cleaning, Do It Yourself
They’re invading my house, but at least I got a post out of the whole ordeal. I realized today that I forgot one of the ways in which I use my bottle of hydrogen peroxide sanitizing spray. We have fruit flies. Bad. Real bad. I’ve never seen so many in one poor little kitchen. Luckily [...]
Review: Cultures for Health Room Temp Yogurt
September 15th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Do It Yourself, What to Buy
We go through yogurt like most families go through bread. I make almost a gallon every week, and we just love it. (See What Homemade Yogurt has Done for My Family.) It’s so packed with goodness in many ways, both gustatorially and nutritionally. (I might have made up a word there; please forgive me! I [...]
Tags: Cultures for Health·yogurt
Natural Kitchen Cleaners: What’s Under my Sink?
September 15th, 2009 · 61 Comments · Cleaning, Do It Yourself, Frugality
What’s under your kitchen sink? When you have children and you start putting the Poison Center’s “Mr. Yuk” stickers all over your bottles, you really start to realize that there are far too many things under there that you wouldn’t want in your baby’s mouth…so then why are they in your kitchen? If you had [...]
Is Water Kefir as Good as Soda Pop?
September 15th, 2009 · 71 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition
Huh? What’s kefir? And how do you pronounce it? If that’s you, I was right there with you a few months ago. I thought it was “keh-fur”, but you actually pronounce it “kuh-FEAR”, with the accent on the “fear”. No really – go back and say that in your head, don’t just skip the pronunciation [...]
