Easy Refrigerator Pickles Recipe
Have you ever grown cucumbers? If so, you know that just one plant produces an insane amount of cucumbers. You pretty much need to have…
Food Preservation
HEALTHY Long-Term Food Storage Options
Storing food for emergencies is an important job. What is the best method to preserve food? I’ve already covered how to store grains, long-term storage…
HEALTHY Food Stockpile Options: The Best Produce to Stockpile
Having a healthy food stockpile list is essential to any household – but what’s a real foodie to do? What are the best fruits and…
Instant Pot Applesauce {No Sugar Needed!}
Instant Pot applesauce is so quick and easy to make – you’ll wonder why you ever bothered with store-bought applesauce! You can enjoy this yummy…
6 Ways to Use Zucchini When You Don’t Like the Taste (And How to Save It for Winter)
Zucchini is an amazing vegetable, but you have to know what to do with it. Maybe you’ve tried zoodles and need more zucchini ideas? Should…
How to Can Tomatoes the Easy Way – Perfect for Beginners
Tomatoes are a wonderful long-term storage food. Learning how to can tomatoes is a great way to store the abundance you may be getting from…
What to Do With Fresh Strawberries and How to Freeze Strawberries
Every June it sneaks up on me – strawberry season. I’ve spent the last few months working through our freezer stash and home-canned goods. The…
How to Keep Vegetables Fresh: Best Veggies for Long-Term Storage
I’ve already written on Healthy Food Stockpile Options -The Best Produce to Stockpile, but how do you keep vegetables fresh? What are the best veggies…
20 Easy Ways to Eat, Preserve and Freeze Apples – with No Sugar!
Apple season is here! If you can buy in bulk, you’ll want to make lots of healthy recipes PLUS preserve apples for later – read…
Easy Meal Planning Tips to Use Your CSA Share
We’ve talked about easy healthy meal prep, but today we are zooming in on how to meal plan with a CSA! Two years ago, I…
3 Easy Ways to Preserve Tomatoes (That Don’t Involve Canning!)
Have you ever found yourself surrounded by a sea of tomatoes on your counter and wondered “What in the WORLD will I do with all…
Salt Preserved Fresh Herbs: Simple Ingredients, Endless Possibilities
Summer is here, which means the gardens are coming to life…and it’s time to start harvesting and preserving produce! Yes, I know it seems early, but…
DIY Greens Powder and the Easiest Way to Preserve Your Greens
Want to learn how to make dehydrated greens for smoothies and more? It’s easy to make a dehydrated greens powder when you dehydrate spinach, Swiss…
How to Freeze Guacamole and Save Money
Having avocados on hand is one of my secrets to making impromptu taco nights even better! With all their brain-boosting power, pairing it with some…
Quick and Easy Jalapeño Popper Recipe
This past September, I found myself staring at a half bushel of jalapeño peppers on my kitchen floor. I had to do something with them,…
How to Ferment Anything in Small Batches
We’re all trying to add more vegetables into our diets – from steamed vegetables to dehydrated vegetables to roasted veggies. That’s why I have The…
Easy Naturally Fermented Apple Salsa Recipe
Want to use up all of those apples but sick of making applesauce? Fermenting apples is an easy place to try fermentation for the first…
A Real Food Alternative to Potato Chips: Munchy, Crunchy, Salty, and Nourishing!
Don’t tell anyone, but we had some potato chips around here for Thanksgiving. I wanted to make that French Onion chip dip again that is…
How to Dehydrate Yogurt: A Healthy Snack or Long-Term Storage Option
Even before I went on a quest to find real food high protein workout snacks last month, I’d always wanted to dehydrate yogurt to see…
How to Make Homemade Fruit Rolls {VIDEO}
My 7-year-old helped me demonstrate how to make homemade strawberry fruit rolls (also called fruit leather) in our dehydrator in this simple video: If you…