Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to find at least one way to cut down on refined sugar this week. Impact Ratings: ? Level of Commitment: Your choice! My Story: White Sugar Free Last year for Lent, I was just beginning my real food journey, and I decided to give up all white [...]
Entries from April 12th, 2010
Monday Mission: Use Less Refined Sugar
April 12th, 2010 · 22 Comments · Monday Missions
Tags: artificial sweeteners·honey·molasses·Spring Cleaning: Get the Junk Out·sugar·sweeteners
What Was it Like to go Gluten Free for a Week?
April 12th, 2010 · 28 Comments · My Story, Special Situations
Sometimes I make hasty decisions. When I decided to go gluten free for Holy Week, I just did it. It wasn’t until I was writing a post about it that I began to realize it was going to take a lot more effort than I had given it credit for. Gluten is in wheat, rye [...]
Tags: gluten·gluten free·meal planning·sacrifice·soaked grains
Triclosan FDA Update on Antibacterial Products
April 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Call to Action, Cleaning
You knew I couldn’t keep quiet about this. Just three weeks ago, I was telling you to get the triclosan out, and from the moment I started Kitchen Stewardship I’ve been passionate about getting the word out that antibacterial is bad stuff. Now it’s in the news and under fire. In one on my first [...]
Tags: antibacterial·antibacterial soap·Call to Action·FDA·triclosan
Mary and Martha Moment: How to Keep up on Daily Prayer
April 8th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments
Lent is over. The joy of the Resurrection is here! With that joy, for me, came sugar, gluten, unsoaked grains, a bloated feeling and a lack of structure in my prayer life. I work so hard for 40+ days at certain habits, and as soon as Lent is over, sometimes I fall right off the [...]
Tags: daily prayer·Divine Mercy Chaplet·Easter·Lent·novenas·prayer
How to Soak and Dehydrate Oats
April 8th, 2010 · 98 Comments · Recipes
If you want to make granola bars or oatmeal cookies using the soaking process to reduce phytates, you have to soak and dehydrate oats. It feels almost silly to go to such trouble and still end up with oats, an ingredient. You can’t even eat it yet! However – if you believe that soaking makes [...]
What is Truly Natural Parenting?
April 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
You buy organic foods (or wish you could afford them), you clean with non-toxic cleaners to keep your kids safe…but want to know one totally free way to practice organic parenting? My post over at Simple Organic today will tell you my thoughts on being a truly natural parent. Please visit to read what is [...]
Tags: natural family planning·nfp
