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Monday Mission: Plan Your Breakfasts

August 1st, 2011 · 53 Comments · Do It Yourself, Monday Missions

Pin It Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to plan your breakfasts for (at least) a week. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps A lot of people plan dinners and understand the importance of doing so, but lunches and breakfasts are often spur of the moment or just something simple like toast [...]

Can You Take Your Weird Real Food to a Party with Normal People?

June 15th, 2011 · 54 Comments · Do It Yourself, Frugality, Upgraded Nutrition

Pin It Eating with others – the normal people – is always difficult when you’re committed to staying away from the “Standard American Diet” and consuming traditional foods. There’s often a lot of talk about what to allow your kids to eat, how to explain to people that you don’t each such and such, and [...]

The Real Food Preparedness Resource Extravaganza

June 10th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Do It Yourself, Special Situations

Pin ItMany of you have asked for a one-stop-shop for the real food preparedness series that’s been running the past few weeks. An easily printable eBook would be perfect, right, because let’s face it: when in an emergency, it’s quite possible your trusty laptop may have some issues connecting to the Internet. photo source A [...]

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Real Food Stockpile: Preservation and Storage Techniques

May 18th, 2011 · 30 Comments · Do It Yourself, Frugality

Pin It When we hear reports about the potential for $25 loaves of bread, whether that’s “out there” and a knee-jerk, fearful reaction to some of the economic stress we’ve seen over the past few years, or a completely rational and possible prediction, my husband and I raise our eyebrows at each other. We’re in [...]

Eat Well, Spend Less: Five Frugal Must-Have Real Foods

April 12th, 2011 · 77 Comments · Do It Yourself, Frugality

Pin ItMaking some foods from scratch saves a couple bucks. Making other foods from scratch saves a couple cents. Your job, as a good kitchen steward, is to figure out the difference. Unless you have the luxury, like I do as a Type A stay-at-home-mom, of working your behind off making literally everything from scratch, [...]

Eat Well, Spend Less: Bloggers’ Money-Saving Specialties Shine!

April 6th, 2011 · 12 Comments · Do It Yourself, Frugality

Pin ItGenius. Pure genius. Jessica at Life as MOM, by the way, deserves all the credit for initiating this series, the right topic at the right time. Clearly she also gathered the right people around her – the posts yesterday were just electric! Today I get to just send you away from KS for a [...]

Monday Mission: Build Your Apothecary

April 4th, 2011 · 20 Comments · Do It Yourself, Monday Missions

Pin ItYour mission, if you choose to accept, is to start gathering supplies to make your own pharmacy stuff. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides photo source I’m excited to have the first guest Monday Mission ever, from Renee Harris of MadeOn Skin Care. I’ve always been too Type A in the past to [...]