Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to start a new fermented food this week. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Fermented foods add probiotics to your diet, assist digestion of the other foods you’re eating, and usually unlock vitamins or nutrients within the fermented foods that would be otherwise unavailable to you. Many [...]
Entries Tagged as 'yogurt'
Monday Mission: Back to Basics & Traditional Foods Resolutions
January 2nd, 2012 · 19 Comments · Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to go back to basics and renew your commitment to regularly making traditional foods and including them in your menu plans. (You are menu planning, right?) Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Last January I visited some vital topics in real food cooking and challenged folks [...]
Tags: Monday Missions·stock/broth·yogurt
Real Food Stockpile: Dairy
June 1st, 2011 · 32 Comments · Frugality
Have a cow. Not in the style of Homer Simpson, but more like Old McDonald. Whenever I think about stockpiling an emergency store of dairy, like cheese, yogurt, and milk (which, um, my kids LIVE on!), I look at all the powdered milk options and figure the very best way to have milk on hand [...]
Tags: cheese·dairy·preparedness·yogurt
Monday Mission: You Can Make Homemade Yogurt!
January 10th, 2011 · 67 Comments · Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make homemade yogurt – even if you’ve been afraid to do it in the past! Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Making homemade yogurt has long been a foundational Kitchen Stewardship habit, because it is something you can do that fulfills all four pillars of [...]
Tags: coconut milk·dairy-free yogurt·homemade yogurt·Monday Missions·yogurt
Homemade Yogurt Recipes (So You Can Eat it All the Time)
January 12th, 2010 · 21 Comments · Recipes
Do you know it’s been a month since I’ve posted a new recipe? That is ridiculous. You should all be leaving in droves. A food blog with no new recipes. Harumph. Maybe that’s just because I haven’t been as inspired to cook new things as much lately with the vacation and deciding to sell our [...]
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Kitchen Tip: Eat Plain Yogurt with Little or No Sweetener
January 12th, 2010 · 22 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition
It’s my constant goal to consume as little sweetener as possible, because I think that white sugar is going to wreak havoc on my health, and alternative sweeteners are very expensive and not always that much better for your health. I can’t exactly trick myself, but here are FOUR ways to reduce the sweetener with [...]
Tags: homemade yogurt·kid-friendly meals·sugar·sweeteners·tips·yogurt
Give Me 3 Easy Changes that Won’t Cost Too Much
December 17th, 2009 · 14 Comments · KS lifestyle
“Just give me three things I can do to make myself healthier without breaking the bank,” he said. “If it takes too much time I won’t stick with it.” My bachelor friend Joe visited for dinner a few weeks ago and gave me this challenge, and I’ve been pondering it ever since. It’s easy to [...]
