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Recipe: Simple Dehydrated Pear Slices
I love dehydrated fruit! It’s so sweet and chewy, and it’s wonderfully portable…great for sack lunches or snacks when you’re hiking. It’s also a great thing to have around for recipes! Snip some dried...
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Fire Cider, a Homemade Cold and Flu Tonic
Fire Cider This is one of my favorite times of year! The seasons are changing as we leave behind summer and head into yet another colorful fall, frosty winter and many warm holidays. For all of the...
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Preserving the Harvest: Freezing and Dehydrating
As the last of the garden ripens, it’s time to take advantage of nature’s bounty and start putting away food for the winter! I admit, I love the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and growing up I used to...
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Why You Should Ditch Microwave Popcorn and What to Eat Instead
In hindsight I probably should have known after years of eating the stuff that microwave popcorn couldn’t be healthy. One dead giveaway was the neon-no-real-food-is-this-color residue lining the...
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Moving Checklist (with a healthy twist!)
Just recently, I moved into my first rental home. We’re still settling in, and every day we see our apartment look more and more like a home. These past couple of months have been a real learning...
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Recipe: Healthy Gluten Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Do you like pumpkin? This time of year, pumpkin seems to be everywhere. In coffee, soup, bread…and cookies! I love a nice, chewy pumpkin chocolate chip cookie. Over the years, I’ve experimented and...
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12 Weeks of Giving: Enter to Win Valor Essential Oil!
You guys, life has been pretty good lately… I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m still sleep-deprived and spend most of my days with kiddie boogers all over my shirt. But still, my family has been richly...
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The Benefits of Vitamin K2 (and how to get it in your diet)
Are you aware of the benefits of vitamin K2? Are you even aware of vitamin K2? I know I wasn’t until a couple years ago. As a kid I remember hearing the importance of vitamins A, B, and C… but I...
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Making Your Own Green Powder
It all started when high speed blenders and green smoothies became popular. The dehydrated green powders started popping up for sale in health food stores, and they are a great idea too. Greens are...
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Recipe: Roasted Beets with Balsamic Glaze
Sometimes it’s nice to have a really pretty side dish…a really pretty side dish that’s delicious and action-packed with nutrients! Beets are one of my favorite root vegetables. They have such an...
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Tried and Tested Tips for Better Sleep
It seems barely a week can pass without some story in the news about the importance of sleep (aka sleep hygiene). Quality sleep is correlated with everything from longevity to maintaining a healthy...
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Taking Care of Yourself While Working a Shift-by-Shift Job
Retail. Food Service. Clerical Work. Most people have had to work in these kind of fields of work before. Many start off in the workforce with these part-time jobs because they’re simple, they have...
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Book Review: “Oh Lardy’s Guide to Fermenting Fruits & Vegetables”
I’m sure by now it’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of fermentation. I started timidly, fermenting some salsa (and I must admit that I was a little afraid to taste it when it was done). Once I had...
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The Dirty Secret About Natural Hair Care
Natural hair care. Sounds so simple, so idealistic, so organically innocent. *sigh* If only it were that easy. I have to admit, I’ve really put off writing this post for a loooong time. After all, I...
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12 Weeks of Giving: Enter to Win Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil!
Week 1 of my 12 weeks of giveaways was a success! Thank you to all who entered. I LOVED reading your comments of gratitude. It confirms that I have the most amazing readers ever. Thank you for sharing...
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Crab Apple Crisp
The other day I caught myself admiring the gorgeous crab apple tree sitting outside the window. The color of the tiny bright red fruits was stunning against the turning of the autumn leaves and blue...
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Recipe: Gluten Free Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars
It’s here…pumpkin season! There are so many delicious recipes that involve pumpkin, it’s hard to know where to start. If you’re ready for a new favorite pumpkin dessert, you’ll want to try these...
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How to Host a Gluten-Free Cocktail Party
If anyone has tried going gluten-free, you know that cocktail parties, where most everything is served on some variation of cracker, baguette, or canapé, can pose one of the bigger challenges. By...
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The Ultimate Guide: Herbal Tea for Health!
Anyone that knows me knows that tea is my solution for anything. Tummy ache? Tea. Tired? Tea. Stressed out? Tea. Relationship problems? Tea. (and maybe some ice cream.) And there is definitely a...
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How to Roast, Puree, and Freeze a Pumpkin
We’re seeing pumpkins everywhere this week! Most of them look more spooky than delicious. But pumpkin is such a wonderful thing to cook with! It’s amazing in baked goods and treats (like these Pumpkin...
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