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I love our Berkey water filter! I bought it in Arizona shortly after we moved there from Montana. Before we purchased the filter, I was attempting to haul 1-1/2 gallons of filtered water from the store for daily use. If I did this every few days, that was a LOT of trips from the [...]
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GAPS Intro Chicken stock This is taken from What Can I Eat Now? 30 Days on the GAPS Introduction Diet Handbook. GAPS Intro chicken stock is different than stock later on, as you don’t brown the bones at all so the stock is pale. This is to prevent any harder to digest well cooked pieces [...]
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When Courtney from The Polvika Family visited this past winter she made apple chips. She didn’t cut out the core before setting them to dry, which is genius This saves tons of time, and the seeds just drop out while you’re cutting or as they dry. Now I always make my apple chips like this. We [...]
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We’ve been passing around a spring cold the past few weeks in our house. To boost our immunity we take elderberry syrup, and a couple weeks in I figured out it was easier to sneak the dose into a smoothie or popsicle than it was to spoon it out to everyone day after day. Not [...]
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Grain Free Meatballs These meatballs are packed with veggies for flavor, moisture, and nutrition. These are from the Grain Free Freezer Cooking Guide and the recipe makes enough that you’ll be able to pull out a few meatballs for lunch, or to add to red sauce and spaghetti squash for dinner, or eat as a [...]
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I wasn’t sure how much I would use a dehydrator, so I first borrowed one from a friend. It turns out I had that thing running day in and day out, so I quickly purchased my own. I like the Excalibur because the large square trays are easy to arrange any shaped food on, the [...]
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As my children get older, they’re more involved in sports and play hard on the playground. When they come to me sweating, bright eyed, smiling, and rosy cheeked and thirsty I give them some homemade Gatorade. Water is good, and it’s what we normally drink with meals, but when exercising sometimes you want something more. [...]
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Before I had this blog, I had a little craft blog. I haven’t kept up on that craft blog but I wanted to move some of my favorite posts over here and share some of our new favorites. Healthy living easily extends to the activities we do with our children and what they play with. [...]
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Single parent families all have their own individual struggles, but nearly across the board we’re short on time, attention, energy, money, and yet still are passionate to provide wholesome food for our children! In many families, understandably, the need for wholesome food gets pushed aside for more seemingly urgent tasks. I’ve found through trial and [...]
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Who doesn’t love pesto? I tend to forget to make it, though. I recently had my memory jogged when a friend brought some of her homemade pesto over to spread on grain free crackers that we made together. It’s a creamy flavorful topping that’s fantastic on meats, crackers, or even used as a dip for [...]
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