How to Cook Dry Beans: Simple Steps Even Kids Can Follow!
Dry beans make a frugal, nutritious addition to your weekly menu. Learning how to cook dry beans is a great skill for everyone to master.…
Food for Thought: Nutritional Benefits of Beans and Legumes
For a while when I first started Kitchen Stewardship®, I may have been known as a beany gal. I had lots to say about beans,…
Mary and Martha Moment: Baby Steps
This is the second of a four-part series to build you up in your quest for stewardship of all God’s resources. Part One: Trust in…
Mary and Martha Moment: Trust in the Promise of Your Meal Blessing
This is the first in a series of Mary and Martha Moments to build you up in your quest for stewardship of all God’s resources.…
Food for Thought: Health and Nutrition of Traditional Homemade Chicken Broth/Stock
The more I learn about the many ways a good broth/stock can improve my health, the more excited I am to share this information with…
Don’t Drink BPA: Plastic Safety for People and Earth
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to avoid drinking from plastic as much as possible. One way to be both healthy in body…
A Reduced Produce Primer
Go Green at the Grocery! Does your supermarket have a reduced produce section? …Not that they sell fewer fruits and veggies than they used to,…
The Ultimate Guide to Making Your Freezer Work for You (without a batch cooking day)
I tried a “cook for a month” sort of cooking day once, and it was EXHAUSTING. 3 days’ work. Not my thing – but I…
No Sugar for Lent: a Mary and Martha Moment
Give Up or Do More? The query, “What are you giving up for Lent?” just doesn’t cut it with me. It falls short of recognizing…
Monday Mission: Use Your Dishwasher Wisely
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to focus on being master of your dishwasher: getting it to do its best to serve you…
Tuscan Bean Soup Recipe
This Tuscan Bean Soup recipe is as nourishing as it is frugal. Healthy food doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg, and you…
Food for Thought: The Cost of Using Your Kitchen Appliances
I’ve been thinking about energy usage in the kitchen and how to reduce the cost of using kitchen appliances. This includes oven, range-top, microwave, toaster oven,…
How To Make The Most Out of Stale Bread: Croutons, Bread Crumbs, and Other Delicious Methods to Avoid Food Waste
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to reduce food waste. By completing this mission you’ll not only save money, but you’ll also be doing…
Mary and Martha: Capturing Kitchen Prayer Moments
Silent Prayer I will be the first to tell you that everyone needs time for silent prayer during the day. I will also be the…
Mary and Martha Moment: On Lenten Sacrifices
Mary and Martha Moment My Standard Sacrifice Since I was a child, I remember my father doing the same things for Lent every year. He…
Monday Mission: Increase Hand Washing and Decrease Antibacterial Soap
Monday Mission #1: Increased Handwashing and Decreased Antibacterial Soap Your mission, if you choose to accept, is three-fold (I know, I’m not supposed to overwhelm…
The Dangers of Triclosan…
My Relationship with Soap I’m passionate about soap. Most of my closest friends don’t even know this about me, but it’s been a part of…
Food for Thought: Antibacterial Soap
This is part two of a three-part series on antibacterial soap. Time for your first serving of “Food for Thought”. Put your thinking caps on…
My Relationship with Soap
It’s probably risky making my first research article about soap, but I’m doing it anyway (in three parts) and praying you’ll forgive my long-windedness. You…