Real Food and My Child’s Autism Diagnosis
Can gluten cause behavioral symptoms? Is there a link between food and autism? When my eleven year old son was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism…
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Personal Stories
What Does It Take to Cut Triglycerides by 75%?
Many of you have been curious to get the full story about how we naturally lowered my husband’s triglyceride numbers with diet alone since I…
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I’m so Mad I’m Turning RED (no. 5)
I have a renewed, deep distaste for the food processing industry. I’ve been getting many, many comments from readers on previous posts about food dyes,…
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Do Yellow Pickles Keep You Up at Night?
“Looks like food coloring isn’t the cause of the fits,” I told Jen of The Unprocessed Kitchen just a few days into our experiment to…
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Juice makes you pee your pants (and other reasons not to drink it)
Juice is fruit, so it’s healthy, right? Not really. First, let me make clear that I’m talking about the juice you find in bottles or…
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Jonathan Michael: The Birth Story
“How many hours were you in labor?” I still can’t figure out what my answer is going to be. A week? A day? 2 hours?…
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Natural Remedies for Morning Sickness and Prenatal Vitamins
The first trimester of a pregnancy, for many women, is like no other time in their lives (except maybe having the flu). I have been…
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Why I Choose Raw Milk
This is my opinion, and only my opinion. What works for my family with raw, unpasteurized milk may not be possible for yours, and it…
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I Just Love Finding Bugs in My Lettuce
I’ll take bugs, please. What’s on your produce? When a friend of a friend moved to Colorado, my friend was telling me about the organic…
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What Was It Like to Go Gluten Free for a Week?
Sometimes I make hasty decisions. When I decided to go gluten free for Holy Week, I just did it. It wasn’t until I was writing…
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My Story: The Origins of a Book (or My Time of Insanity), Part One
It all started with a bad economy. And a new baby. And the first fall I didn’t work. And finally getting around to creating a…
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My Story: Things I Learned Because of Children
I got a bit distracted from sharing the story of my journey to living a Kitchen Stewardship® lifestyle during August, but it’s time to get…
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My Story: What I Learned from My Mother
My parents with Lovey Girl on her birthday We all do a lot of things because it’s the way “Mom” did it. Sometimes that’s good,…
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Kids in the Kitchen: Potato Salad “With Help”
Nothing says summer to me like grilled hamburgers and homemade potato salad. It remains one of my favorite dishes that I could eat for breakfast,…
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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…
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