Stocking A Real Food Kitchen

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Keeping a well-stocked kitchen is essential for sticking to a real food lifestyle. If you’ve got healthy foods at your finger tips all the time and no processed foods to fall back on, you won’t be tempted to reach for the cereal on a busy morning. For me, keeping a kitchen well stocked and meal [...]

How to Make Water Kefir Soda

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Its a probiotic… its a carbonated drink… its Water Kefir! I started making this as part of my mission to get more probiotics in our diet and it has worked like a charm! The kids love it and ask for it each morning. It’s also been fun to experiment with the different flavors and variations [...]

Seven Ways to Simplify A Healthy Life

how to simplify a healthy life

The adjustment to a healthier lifestyle can be overwhelming!  To help hopefully simplify, I’ve made a list of the advice I wish I’d gotten: -1- Meal Plan and Budget This list of my ten top tips for eating healthy on a budget is a compilation of all the tricks and tips I’ve learned along the [...]

How to Eat Healthy On A Budget – 10 Money Saving Tips

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A question I’ve gotten a lot lately is how to eat a real food diet on a tight budget. I can certainly sympathize, since this was one of my biggest struggles when we started eating this way. Along the way, I’ve discovered a few resources and tricks for stretching a budget while eating healthy foods, [...]

Homemade Natural Laundry Soap Tutorial (Video)

Homemade Natural Effective Laundry Soap Recipe

Making your own laundry soap is so easy and inexpensive that I encourage everyone to try it! Even if you aren’t concerned about the health benefits of switching to a more natural detergent, this recipe will save money and time! Once you have the ingredients, it takes about 20 minutes total to make five gallons [...]

Bacon Wrapped Salmon Cakes

Salmon Cakes Wrapped In Bacon

Let’s face it: everything tastes better wrapped in bacon! These salmon cakes are a fast recipe and an easy way to make canned salmon gourmet. The kids even liked these and they are good cold for lunch the next day. You Need: 2 pounds of wild caught fresh, frozen or 2 cans wild caught salmon [...]

Homemade Mint Chocolate Massage Butter (Great Valentine’s Day Idea!)

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We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day. I should re-word that to clarify that we have no vendetta against the occasion, we just try to avoid any “Hallmark Holidays” as my husband calls them. (We avoid Mother’s, Father’s and Grandparents Day as well as Halloween for similar reasons). I should also note that while this holiday is [...]