Making Stock with Chicken Feet (Aw, do I have to?)
Do you have to use chicken feet to have traditional homemade stock, or at least to have healthy food? Of course not. If you can’t…
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"I Can Barely Can Water" {REVIEW} of Tattler Reusable Canning Lids
I hate canning. I really do, but please don’t pick on me for saying it! I don’t like trying to coordinate the timing on getting…
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Nourishing Soup Series: Garlic Leek Soup with Egg Recipe
Other than over-salted egg drop soup in a Chinese restaurant, I don’t know that I ever had egg in a soup recipe until recently. It…
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Cheeseburger Soup (with bacon and pickles, oh yeah!)
One of our favorite sitcoms poked fun at old folks’ homes last season and showed a main character sipping “lasagna in a glass.” He was…
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Homemade Tortilla Race: (Wo)Man vs. Machine
Homemade tortillas are frugal and delicious. But do you know the quickest and best way to make them? I’m taking on both a tortilla press…
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An Almond Flour vs. Almond Meal Comparison {& Review of Various Brands}
Ever feel like blogs (and maybe the whole Internet) are fueled by sponsorships, advertisements, and paid reviews? [insert image of strategically placed real food product…
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Steak Fajita Soup Recipe and Health Benefits of Onions
Fall is the perfect time to take a normal meal and stir it up in a big pot of soup, capturing the familiar flavors in…
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20 Ways to Use That Random Half Cup of Pumpkin
Whether you’re in the canned or home-pureed pumpkin camp, sometimes you have just a little bit of pumpkin puree left over after a recipe. It’s…
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How Do 3 Different Brands of Coconut Flour Differ? {REVIEW}
Everybody’s got some brand loyalty in their lives, whether it’s driven by slick marketing or pure good taste. For example: My mother was a Jif…
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Recipe Connection: Grain-free Coconut Muffins
I’ve had these grain-free coconut flour muffins in my freezer for the past two years straight. Not the same dried-out 2-year-old muffins, but consecutively. As…
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How to Bake Grain-free with Coconut Flour
Substituting coconut flour in recipes can be tricky! Learn how to bake with coconut flour and make the right coconut flour substitutions so you can…
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Caramelized Banana-Apple Dessert Topping Recipe
I’ve been told, in spite of the fact that I see pumpkin recipes all over right now, that September is for apple recipes and October…
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Best Gluten-free Pumpkin Muffins Recipe (Dairy-free, Egg-free, Corn-free, Soy-free, Nut-free)
The most versatile, brain-dead easy healthy pumpkin muffin recipe ever – gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, allergen-free AND one-bowl simple. Friends will beg you for this simple…
Monday Mission: Take Real Food With You on the Go
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to resist the temptation to compromise on food because you’re rushing around or otherwise away from…
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Healthy School Treat Ideas when You’re Not Allowed to Make “Homemade”
As a former elementary school teacher, anything having to do with kids and healthy food grabs my interest and I get pretty passionate about it.…
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Monday Mission: Teach Kids How to Eat
Knowing what food is healthy is not something kids just know. You have to teach your kids how to eat. Start when they are young…
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Are your Armpits an Exit Ramp?
It’s not often that a negative review inspires someone to run out and buy a product, but I have a story that begins in just…
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Got Kids? Naturally Cleaning Carpets (because you know you need to)
My toddler loves shoes. I think it must be a developmental milestone, because all three of mine have done it. I could write in their…
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Molly’s Suds Natural Laundry Detergent {REVIEW}
I’m probably the worst person in the world to test laundry products, but here I am, trying it again. When I do a load of…
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Do We Really Wonder WHY We’re Obese?
I’m a people watcher, when I get an opportunity. I like to wonder about what other people are doing, their motivations, their “story” that day.…
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