Eat Well, Spend Less: The Gift of a Meal
The gift of food is often the greatest gift to receive. It doesn’t cause clutter. It saves the recipient time and money, and lends itself…
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Beginner Baby Steps
Monday Mission: Get Natural Outdoors
Let’s talk about natural alternatives to all the chemicals we parents are made to believe are necessary from insect repellent to sunscreen. Your mission, if…
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Eat Well, Spend Less: Make a Frugal Meals List
It can be difficult to stay within a food budget, especially for a one-income family, when you’re trying to eat “real food,” not only whole…
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Monday Mission: Spend Time with Your Family
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to do something special with your family this week. Special family time doesn’t have to be anything…
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Does Healthy Sea Salt Really Exist?
Salt has really gotten a bad reputation over the last few decades. It’s been pegged as a culprit in hypertension (high blood pressure) and many…
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Monday Mission: Mind the Microwave
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to cut down on your microwave use. Our family took on this mission about two years ago,…
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Monday Mission: Refocus on Healthy Fats
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to check your pantry for industrial oils or trans fats and root out any remaining stragglers. Today…
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Monday Mission: Pack Reusable Containers for Restaurant Leftovers
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to pack reusable containers to bring to restaurants or cafeterias instead of bringing home Styrofoam take-out containers…
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Monday Mission: Chew Your Food
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to chew your food. Don’t think I’m going too easy on you for this first Monday Mission…
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Monday Mission: Buy Local Produce
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to find something to buy local this month. Farmer’s Markets across the country are in full swing,…
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Monday Mission: Got Meat? (Where does your meat come from?)
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to learn about where your meat comes from. Perhaps you already know everything about your meat. Perhaps…
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Monday Mission: Find Those MSGs
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to seek and destroy MSG (monosodium glutamate) in all its forms. You’ll have to do some covert…
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Monday Mission: Use Less Refined Sugar
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to find at least one way to cut down on refined sugar this week because of the…
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Monday Mission: Learn About Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance
I continue to run into people, both online and in real life, who have celiac disease or cannot handle gluten, including an elderly neighbor who…
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Kitchen Hack for Getting Free Nutrition in Only 2 Minutes a Day!
Every year, as spring inches closer, folks begin getting into their gardening groove. I totally understand. When it comes to getting the most bang for…
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Monday Mission: Eat Fewer Grains
I just finished a brownie. Unsoaked. White sugar. Whole wheat flour. It was delicious. So let’s get one thing straight. I eat grains. I eat…
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Monday Mission: Clean Up Without Throwing Out
Your mission, if you choose to accept it (on a Friday!), is to decrease what you throw away while attempting to keep a clean house.…
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Monday Mission: Use the Real Thing
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to find one way to reduce plastic usage by using the real thing instead of disposables on…
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Monday Mission: Repurpose Kitchen Containers as Unusual (Frugal) Storage Methods
While others are meticulously organizing their cupboards and pantries or posting beautiful pictures of their type A storage systems, I’m taking the alternative route and…
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Monday Mission: Soak Your Oatmeal
Simple things. What can I do that is simple and will increase my nutrition? I’m often asked that question, and the folks who ask it…
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