Blended Green Soup Recipe (for the kids!)
This recipe combines the best of all strategies to help kids eat healthy foods – even straws! You can make the soup with truly any…
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How to Evaluate New Nutritional Philosophies Through a Critical Thinking, Traditional Foods Lens
Walking into the “diet/nutrition” section of a bookstore is overwhelming, the sheer quantity and variety of books absolutely staggering. I wandered into that section in…
Real Food Road Trip {Eat Well, Spend Less}
No, I’m not hiring Guy Fieri to take us on a tour of restaurants that serve real food across the nation…although maybe that should go…
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That Whole Grains Question: Is It Time for “To Soak or Not to Soak?”
If I make my mom’s biscuit recipe with unbleached, unbromated wheat flour, home-rendered pastured lard, Real Salt, and organic, grassfed milk, but the flour happens…
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Easy Fried Rice Recipe to Use up Leftovers
Need an easy dinner idea for those days when you just can’t?! This Veggie Fried Rice dish will help you waste less food and spend…
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Strawberry Controversy: Organic, Local, or Just Don’t Eat?
Does “real food” have to mean “organic?” Can conventionally grown produce still be healthy for you? Is buying organic worth foreclosure on your home? I’m…
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How to Replenish Your Energy After a Workout {Recipe: Kimball’s Coffee Protein Blast}
My husband is a frequent part of Kitchen Stewardship®, popping in and out of posts from time to time. He’s usually the observer or commentator…
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Recipe Connection: Sugar Free Frosting Recipe (Date Sweetened!)
It’s a “you’ll never guess what’s in it” sort of recipe today. Like those black bean brownies from The Everything Beans Book, it’s almost unfathomable…
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How to Feed 25 People Real Food & Not Lose Your Mind {Eat Well, Spend Less}
My husband really wanted us to go with pizzas for my son’s First Communion party, especially once we branched out from immediate family and invited…
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What Does a Real Foodie Buy at…Country Life Natural Foods?
I really wonder what my neighbors think when a humongous trailer truck backs into my driveway and slides out the ramp from the back. Are…
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What Does a Real Foodie Buy at…Costco?
It’s inevitable. Any time I mention shopping for food at a store, someone asks, “So…what do you buy there?” I’ve had conversations on Facebook recently…
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Monday Mission: Make a Grocery Price Book
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make a price book to keep track of the best deals on real food in your…
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Crispy Oven-Baked Apple Chips Recipe
Can you make apple chips in the oven if you don’t have a dehydrator? You bet you can! They’re crispy, lightly sweet naturally with no…
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We’re Not Just Bodies Walking Around
It seems like we live in a world where everyone thinks they have a right to an opinion about everyone else’s family size (and parenting…
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10 Real Food Brunch Dishes to Pass
What to bring to a potluck brunch? Here are my favorite healthy brunch and breakfast ideas for a potluck. Need ideas for a breakfast potluck? …
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Homemade Hard Lotion: A Tale of a Distracted DIY Mom {GUEST POST}
This is a guest post by my friend-in-real-life, Laurie. She and I met and connected because we both had babes in slings at our sons’…
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Grain Free Pizza Quiche Recipe
Who says pizza for breakfast is only for tired college students waking up around noon and grabbing cold slices from the cardboard box on the…
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How Much Fluoride Do You Drink?
Parenting isn’t easy. If you’re not being awakened at night or having to quell arguments between siblings, you’re researching like mad trying to figure out…
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Oil Pulling Tips and Success Stories ~ Do You Swish?
Oil pulling is a simple technique with lots of big claims and very little risk. Scroll down to learn about the history and purpose of…
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Monday Mission: Learn How to Brush Your Teeth Like an Adult
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to learn how to brush your teeth like an adult. I’m rating this one as “baby steps”…
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