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HEALTHY Food Stockpile Options: The Best Produce to Stockpile

November 13, 2020 (UPDATED: November 29, 2020) by Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® 33 Comments

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Having a healthy food stockpile list is essential to any household - but what's a real foodie to do? What are the best fruits and vegetables to stockpile when you don't want preservatives or processed foods? Here is the best food to store up from the produce section:  The best food to stockpile is what your family already eats!  The best food to stockpile is primarily getting ahead on what your family regularly consumes. In addition to fruits and vegetables, this works really … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Preservation, Real Food Preparedness, Real Food Roadmap, Save Money Tagged With: dehydrator, food storage, fruit, preserving vegetables, vegetables

Easy Instant Pot Bean Soup Recipe

November 9, 2020 (UPDATED: November 12, 2020) by Steph Jenkins Leave a Comment

Instant Pot bean soup

Let’s make an easy, comforting, healthy dinner that is about as budget-friendly as you can get! In Fall and Winter, we crave soup. It’s one of my favorite meals to make for several reasons: Simple Clean ingredients Leftovers! - Just reheat and serve with bread or crackers and a side salad Allergy-friendly - it’s so easy to make soup that is free of the top 5 allergens or fits your friend’s new vegan/paleo/keto lifestyle Budget-friendly - broth, vegetables, maybe some rice … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Real Food Recipes Tagged With: beans, black beans, contributing writer, garbanzo beans, garlic, in-season recipes, real food, real food diet, Real Food Recipes, salt, soup, white beans

Could Masks be Helpful AND Harmful to our Kids?

November 7, 2020 (UPDATED: February 4, 2021) by Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® 49 Comments

kids wearing masks

I'm still sad every single time I see a child wearing a mask. My kids are wearing masks daily for school in person, but this is not the way we were created to be. I tell my kids often: This is temporary.  It will end. We're only doing this for a little while to respect others. I don't want masking to be normalized. I don't want people to get used to it, to be boiled like a frog by those in power who miiiiiiight just be trying to figure out exactly how much control they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Natural Health Tagged With: cold and flu prevention, colds and flu, face mask, infections, kids, sickness

Storing Protein, Meats, Beans, Nuts & Oils Long Term

November 6, 2020 (UPDATED: December 6, 2020) by Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® 62 Comments

long term storage beans

What is the best long term storage food? Storing protein in case of emergency is an important part of your preparedness plan. We'll cover meat storage, how to store meat in the freezer, and best beans for long-term storage. Plus, we'll touch on storing oils and fats.  Many of the preparedness food storage solutions for meat are a far cry from a hamburger or a whole chicken simmering gently on the stovetop. They're more likely to have no meat involved or be packed with additives … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Real Food Preparedness, Real Food Roadmap, Save Money Tagged With: beans, fats, food storage, meat, protein

Christmas Gifts for the Natural Foodie & Family

November 3, 2020 by Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® 30 Comments

What are the best kitchen gifts for Christmas? I've tested all of these foodie gifts for Christmas that will please any cook you love.  I hate shopping. If I need new jeans, I'll put it off for as long as I can. Even a shopping trip without children, which should be pure, untouchable bliss, quickly turns sour after a few rejected piles in the fitting room. Now tell me I have a half hour to kill wandering around a health food store, and I'll gladly read ingredients and ogle … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gift Guides Tagged With: Christmas

Should You Be Cooking With Olive Oil?

October 30, 2020 (UPDATED: February 21, 2021) by Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® 6 Comments

Bottle pouring olive oil into a bowl with olives

Is cooking with olive oil harmful to your health? I used to think so but updated research has shed new light on the topic. Keep reading to see what changed my mind.  Olive oil -- the food that brings us all together. Whether you're keto, paleo, vegan, vegetarian, eat a low-fat/high carb diet, or low carb/high-fat diet, it seems everyone agrees that olive oil has impressive health-promoting properties and should be consumed regularly, especially in cold applications like salad … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Research, Understanding Your Food Tagged With: evergreen, extra virgin olive oil, fats, fats and oils, healthy food, olive oil, real food, traditional foods

How to Save Money on Grass-fed Meat Shipped to Your Door {Butcher Box REVIEW 2021 & More}

October 26, 2020 (UPDATED: January 1, 2021) by Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® Leave a Comment

butcher box review

Remember back in March when you could find ZERO ground beef in any stores? It was pretty clear that people were stocking up for the taco/spaghetti diet! :) And...I was uncharacteristically completely out of grass-fed ground beef! I had a touch of food insecurity.  I felt so much more relieved (and taco-secure) once I made my Butcher Box order, which I usually do every 3 months to supplement what I can't find at our favorite local farm. Grass-Fed, Pastured, Sustainable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Finding Real Food, The Reviews Tagged With: bacon, beef, chicken, grassfed beef, grassfed meat, meat, pork, product review

Organize Your Kitchen Efficiently: Kitchen Organization Hacks You’ll Want to Start Today!

October 23, 2020 (UPDATED: November 29, 2020) by Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® 29 Comments

Kitchen zones

These are the best organization tips for the kitchen I've collected over the years to reorganize a kitchen efficiently. Streamline it with kitchen zones, counter organization, and moving unneeded items out so you can have an efficient kitchen.  Today we're going to take a critical look at your kitchen and reorganize for efficiency. Trust me, you will feel so much better. Reorganize Kitchen Efficiently When we moved over a decade ago, I took the most time planning and unpacking the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Organization Tagged With: efficiency, food storage, organization, Organizing in October, tips

Five Minute Dairy-Free Caramel Sauce – Perfect for Dipping Apples!

October 19, 2020 (UPDATED: December 17, 2020) by Mary Voogt, NTP (Contributing Writer) 4 Comments

dairy-free caramel sauce

Living on an 80-tree apple orchard, we eat a lot of apples! Thankfully my kids are on board with my love of keeping Real Food as simple as possible. They are content to eat the apples right off the tree. It really doesn't get any easier! But a couple of years ago I thought it would be fun to make homemade caramel sauce for dipping our apples. I found a relatively simple recipe, and it turned out so well! The kids loved it. There was just one problem...my oldest son is dairy-free. So, while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Real Food Recipes Tagged With: dairy-free, desserts, eating real food, healthy eating, healthy food, honey, kid-friendly, maple syrup, real food diet, Real Food Recipes, vanilla

Make-Ahead Breakfast: Cherry-Almond Soaked Baked Oatmeal Recipe

October 14, 2020 (UPDATED: October 16, 2020) by Katie Kimball @ Kitchen Stewardship® Leave a Comment

soaked baked oatmeal

I've noticed it takes approximately once for kids to assume something is a tradition. Do anything once, especially near a holiday, and suddenly that is "the way we do it." The kids will expect it every time. Thank goodness, I've been using a simple, make-ahead breakfast for every Christmas and Easter for years. So when my kids think of a holiday with fun gifts showing up in the morning and a really special mass, they will also think of baked oatmeal in many flavors. It's absolutely our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Real Food Recipes Tagged With: breakfast, cherries, coconut oil, dairy-free, egg, gluten free, healthy breakfast, kid-friendly, oatmeal, oats, real food, real food diet, Real Food Recipes, rolled oats, soaked grains, vanilla extract

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