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Do Yellow Pickles Keep You Up at Night?

March 21st, 2012 · 84 Comments · Special Situations

Pin It “Looks like food coloring isn’t the cause of the fits,” I told Jen of The Unprocessed Kitchen just a few days into Lent. “She’s just a 3-year-old girl…I had hoped we’d find a magic solution, but oh, well.” I learned a lot reading Jen’s wonderful guest post about the hazards of artificial food [...]

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Eat Well, Spend Less: Having "Fun" with Natural Food Coloring

February 21st, 2012 · 35 Comments · Kids in the Kitchen, Recipes, Special Situations

Pin ItI’m totally not fun. Typically, I’m literally a fountain of topic ideas, but when I saw that this month’s Eat Well, Spend Less theme was “having fun with food“…well…I kind of freaked out. I believe I wrote on the list: “I’m not fun! I have no idea what to do!” This is a stretch, [...]

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My House is Covered in Frogs!

January 3rd, 2012 · 34 Comments · Special Situations

Pin ItAnd my problem? I can’t decide which one to eat first. The mud room organization? Unpacking the boxes in the corner of the living room? The basic laundry pile? Where to begin? What in the World is Eating Your Frog? When I began the day yesterday by saying to my kids, “Well, I’m off [...]

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6 Steps to a Real Food Diabetes Diet {GUEST POST}

August 24th, 2011 · 59 Comments · Science of Nutrition, Special Situations

Pin ItThere are now 25.8 million people in the United States alone who have diabetes according to the American Diabetes Association. This number does not include the countless people who have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes, or the many who live with the symptoms but have not yet been diagnosed. Diabetes is becoming a [...]

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Eat Well, Spend Less for Summer Travel

June 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Special Situations

Pin It When you’re away from home, eating well (and spending less) generally becomes much more complicated. Over and over again, readers ask me about what foods can be grabbed for quick snacks on the road and how to stick to the "real food" diet when on vacation. Those questions inspired the topic for Healthy [...]

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When do you Find Time for Exercise? Do You Make Time?

June 14th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Special Situations

Pin ItNope. I do a terrible, absolutely terrible, job at this task. Now that it’s finally nice weather around here, we’ve been trying to take family walks either before or after dinner. We’ve got two days in a row under our belts as I’m writing, and last week we walked over a mile each way [...]

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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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