This Week’s Meal Plan

This week’s meal plans. Email me for recipes! Monday: Chicken Soup with vegetables, eggs, and my seasoning blend Tuesday: Roasted Pork Loin with Apple Glaze, Steamed Broccoli, Salad Wednesday: Chicken Salad with Walnuts, Grapes and Celery over a salad Thursday: Gumbo with Nitrate Free sausage, leftover chicken, red peppers, okra, onions, spinach, spices and topped [...]

Herb Profile-Alfalfa

Each week on Wednesday I will be posting an herb profile on one of my family’s commonly used herbs until I have herb profiles for all our favorite herbs. This week: Alfalfa! To some of you, this may bring thoughts of a type of hay or a character from the Little Rascals, but Alfalfa is [...]

My Birth Saga- Part 5

This time, I knew I wanted a different birth experience, and did a lot of research on my birthing options. I finally settled on a group of nurse midwives who practiced under a doctor and could deliver babies in the hospital. Since I didn’t know I could get pregnant yet, I had no idea when [...]

Meal Plan for the Week

After finding out I was gluten sensitive last year, I have been slowly adapting to the gluten free lifestyle. Overall, it has been a great shift for our family, though a difficult one to get used to. The part I had the most trouble with at first was finding recipes to plan meals that didn’t [...]

Cheap Organic Homemade Applesauce

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We try to reserve Saturdays and Sundays for family time, and this week, visited the Farmer’s market to let the kids see all the sights and sounds and to try to find some decently priced apples for applesauce. I started making applesauce last year when we got an entire bushel through our CSA (Community Supported [...]

Parasites

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It is estimated that approximately 95% of the American Population is infected with a parasite of some kind. There are hundreds of different parasites, from tapeworms, to pinworms to many others. Parasites can be amoeba, bacteria, fungi, molds, worms, spores, or ticks. In most cases, people do not even know they have parasites, and after [...]

Dear Baby Breech, Please Turn. Love, Mom

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My husband, who I will call Italian Stallion, and I are expecting our third bambino (baby) in December. At my 32 week appointment today, we found out that this little one is still breech and has been for about two weeks now. Since we are planning a natural homebirth, it becomes a high priority to [...]