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I’m kicking off my week of asparagus recipes with soup 🙂Soup?! Didn’t we just decide that winter is over and warmer weather is in the air?? Yep! And I’m ALL about that! But this soup is SO good, and asparagus comes but once a year where I live. So we do it up in as…
Portable bowl of oatmeal?! Grab and go out the door before school, off to the park, or off to work! Sound good? Good! Let’s do this! You’ll Need: 2 cups oats (Not quick oats. If you are gluten free be sure they say gluten free oats – like THESE) ¼ blended oats (This is just…
After school snack attack?! Chocolate pudding with a nourishing kick to the rescue! I do love to make regular milk/egg based puddings too, but I didn’t want to leave out the kiddos with the milk or egg allergies, and I’m giving my youngest an egg break for a little bit right now. This has the…
Cleaner free cleaning?! Is that really possible? I mean come on – if it doesn’t smell like a cleaner it isn’t clean…right?! Not a CHANCE. In fact those chemicals you are breathing in are more toxic to your environment and your family than the dirt you are cleaning up! I have been there and done…
Simplifying. It’s one of the things I LOVE about the concept of celebrating Earth Day. A couple years ago I started learning about many of the toxic ingredients that most skin and hair care products had in them. Even the pricey or so called “healthy” brands had one or more environmental and body toxic ingredients…
Alright. So if there is anything that has gotten me more “hippie” comments from my family and friends it’s this topic 🙂 But in all seriousness this is a pretty important subject. Up until 2 years ago, my daily regimen included swiping on whatever deodorant happened to be on sale that month. I had no…
Chinese night anyone?! Back in the day when my husband and I first started dating, one of our favorite date nights was going out for Chinese. This was before being educated on the dangers of MSG and other crazy ingredients that some Chinese restaurants in the US use in their cooking. I still crave that…
We have had approximately 2 good park days this spring so far – not even close to cool. But the 2 times we did get to go, I was able to make a morning of it and pack up a snack or pack up lunch and stay for most of the morning. I quickly realized…
I’m not naive enough to think it wasn’t going to happen at some point. Last week on our way home from preschool, my 3 ½ year old exclaims “Mama! Our teacher let us play in the kitchen today, and I made chicken stock for Max because he had a drippy nose, and he made me…
Roasting or crockpotting a whole chicken every week has been a part of my routine for a few years now. It is a fantastic, frugal way to nourish your family with pastured instead of hormone infested meat every week. My typical process is having roasted chicken dinner on Monday nights, and then using the leftover…
As much as I really do love being in the kitchen and creating new meals (YES I really do love labor intensive meals – they are so rewarding!), sometimes I do need quick dinner options for crazy weeks – it happens to everyone!I plan pretty well, and even on busy weeks can make time consuming…
I make a MESS in my kitchen daily. Like we are talking disaster usually every day. I need cleaners for my kitchen that are going to cut grease and loosen dried on gunk. About 2 years ago however, I learned about the toxins and chemicals in most household cleaners – things like phthalates, triclosan, phosphates,…