Do You Have to Love Cooking to Eat a Real Food Diet?
“I just don’t like cooking,” is often an excuse when people want to avoid cooking real food and stick with processed foods and quick meals. That…
Personal Stories
Yes, Pandemic Stress is Real! How to Know If You Have It
Parents, especially moms, have a way of getting right to the heart of the issue. I still remember back in seventh grade when my father…
Continuous Cervical Mucus Makes NFP Tough!
Irregular cycles? Real heavy periods? You’re not alone — continuous sticky yellow cervical mucus, heavy periods, and irregular length cycles all make NFP charting very…
What it Was Like to Submit a Samaritan Ministries Medical Need
Changing vocabulary you’ve used your entire adult life isn’t easy. Suddenly an “insurance claim” becomes a “sharing need” and a “deductible” becomes the “initial unshareable…
Should You Pay Kids for Chores?
Growing up I did not have any chores. It’s kind of sad since I was the kind of kid that loved to help. Even though…
Stop Paying Whole Foods to Prep For You: 10 Time Saving Tips for Eating Keto or AIP
When you start a new restrictive diet like Keto, or in our case the Autoimmune Paleo/Protocol diet (AIP), it can be hard on both the…
9 Things That Welcoming a Child with Down Syndrome Taught Me
This is a guest post by Heidi C., a dorm mate from college, who writes at This Circus Life. I’m so honored to reveal to you this…
Making Delicious Gluten-Free Bread Possible {Expert Interview}
I explore with a gluten-free baking expert the elusive perfect homemade gluten-free loaf – it’s really possible! It’s weird being friends with me. I tend…
What Everybody Ought to Know About Living on a Farm
I grew up in the suburbs. Neighbors twenty feet away on all sides. Eating the typical standard American diet. It was all I knew. Then…
Teach Kids These 5 Habits for Lifelong Healthy Eating!
As parents, we decide what foods our babies try first. We control the menu and set the standards of “what we eat.” But at some…
How to Successfully Make the Transition to Homeschooling
It still feels strange every time the words “I home school my kids” come out of my mouth. Yet here we are, coming to the…
How to Boil a Husband
This is good advice about husbands and real food, I promise. And no, I’m not upset with my husband and taking it out on men…
The Secret Ingredient – Preparing Food with Love Really Makes a Difference
I remember when cooking was something I dreaded, something I grudgingly forced myself to do everyday. It seemed like all I did all day long…
17 Hidden Sources of Gluten In Your Kitchen (That Aren’t Food)
When diagnosed with Celiac disease, people often have a crisis, wondering how do I even begin a gluten-free diet and not go crazy? It’s so…
When Baby Steps Go Too Far
I’ve talked about the importance of baby steps for years: Taking small steps, making small individual improvements, to get your family ever closer to real…
Why This Popular Real Food Diet Caused Utter Failure (Part 2)
Yesterday I joked about how the D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs program was kind of like my hubby and I peer pressuring our friends…
Why This Popular Real Food Diet Caused Utter Failure (Part 1)
Jumping into the Whole30 without a meal plan? Check out our Whole30 compliant meal plan and a second one with tons of Whole30 vegetables side…
My Journey in 2 Minutes: Who’s Cooking for the Family
Since the beginning of Kitchen Stewardship®, I’ve always been all about the journey, and how we can support each other taking baby steps in the…
Surprises, Being Wrong and Discovering a Name (Birth Story, Part 2)
I sure made you wait a long time for part 2! I would say it’s appropriate because I had to wait to meet this baby,…
Mac and Cheese and Having a Baby (Birth Story, Part One)
Ah…baby number four. Poor child has almost no chance of having a baby book – maybe a baby folder with a few things tossed haphazardly…