Making homemade bone broth is so easy, and you’ll save money – LOTS of it – and nourish your family well at the same time. What could be more frugal than getting multiple batches of stock out of the same bones over and over again? Follow these instructions for never-ending chicken broth to get delicious and nutritious broth at the ready, whenever you need it. People are often asking where to start: you know, when they're first coming over to a real food lifestyle and feel overwhelmed … [Read more...]
Shaping Your Family Traditions for Holidays in a Unique Year
This is a holiday season like no other in our lifetimes. Maybe you’ve heard government recommendations to avoid holiday gatherings. Maybe the people you'd normally visit have told you they're just not comfortable getting together this year. Maybe you endured loneliness at Easter and summer and Thanksgiving by looking forward to a big Christmas with all your loving family...but now that the coronavirus is even more pervasive than before, you're staying home. This doesn't have to be a big … [Read more...]
The Encyclopedia of Chicken Stock – Everything You Need to Know to do it Right!
Don't be a Chicken... ...in the kitchen. Just USE the chicken. Yes, every part of it. Let's face it. Picking up a box of chicken broth at the store is easy. A no-brainer. Until you start to think about added salt, lack of flavor, and especially the fact that it might not even be made with bones - which have all the good nourishment in them! Making homemade chicken stock is nothing to be afraid of! You'll save money - LOTS of it - and nourish your family. (Here's more reasons why I drink … [Read more...]
Finding Safe, Non-Toxic Children’s Pajamas That Won’t Go up in Smoke
Why is it so hard to buy safe, non-toxic pajamas for our children? In a perfect world, maybe all of our clothing could be organic. But when it comes to pajamas, that's far from the only concern. For over 50 years, various types of children's clothing have been required to be flame resistant. Most of the time, that's done through the use of chemical flame retardants. Those chemicals can off-gas into your children's faces all night, or may even seep through their skin. Either way, it's the … [Read more...]
Baby Steps for HEALTHY Emergency Food Storage
Unless your home is completely fireproof, will never flood, and you can be assured that the economy will be perfectly able to support you every day for the rest of your life, you might want to be ready for something weird to happen. It's a surprise when it does – that's why it's called an emergency. Those of us who know how to make things from scratch, buy in bulk to save money, and have the ability to preserve the harvest might not be thinking about what we do as food for emergency … [Read more...]
HEALTHY Long-Term Food Storage Options
Storing food for emergencies is an important job. What is the best method to preserve food? I've already covered how to store grains, long-term storage of meat, protein, and oils, and the longest-lasting vegetables. Today, we'll cover preserving food naturally. I'm not ready to spend hours per month checking my food stores, rotating supplies, and making sure I'm ready for anything. I just want to feel a little more ready for something. My goal in the preparedness series is to … [Read more...]
Eco-Friendly Detergent: Tru Earth Laundry Strips Review
Laundry detergent might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about your environmental impact. It's obvious that washing our clothes to wear again is less wasteful than throwing them away after one wearing! And in order to get clothes clean and fresh, we need to make the water all soapy, so the water-treatment system just has to deal with that, right? It's only because I happened to see a magazine ad two decades ago, for what was then an obscure little company called … [Read more...]
Storing Grains and Storing Flour Long Term
Storing flour long term is an important part of emergency preparedness. Storage for grains can last for years if you do it correctly. Learn how to store flour and other grains. In The Long Winter, a book in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the family ends up in dire straits, trapped in a tiny new town with very few food stores, and no trains until spring. There's a terrible blizzard about every 2-3 days that lasts 3 days, and no one can go anywhere to get food. They … [Read more...]
Butternut Squash Gluten-Free Biscuit Recipe (Dairy-Free and Vegan Option)
Squash are never a uniform size, are they? Funny looking vegetables already, they can range from 1 to 5 pounds. That means when I cook a squash and puree it, I never know quite how many cups I will get. I'm often making yummy recipes in the fall like these pancakes in a quadruple batch (4 cups pureed squash), these pumpkin muffins in a double batch (up to 3 cups pureed squash), and the butternut spice bars found in the Healthy Lunchbox ebook and our snacks thematic skill lab over at Kids … [Read more...]
Healthy Air Fryer Veggie Fries Recipe
For many people fall includes visiting an orchard to pick or buy apples. Maybe throw in a few donuts while you're there for your once-a-year fresh cinnamon-sugar treat. Then there is my family. Fall means running our small, eighty tree apple orchard. We step outside and pick apples on a daily basis for a month straight. We love chatting with friends, family, and new faces that visit to pick no-spray apples and get a little taste of life in the country. It truly is the highlight of our year, … [Read more...]
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