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Essential Oils for Beginners (What we use and why)

Share I don't know very much about essential oils, but I've used a few basic ones around my house for the past few years. We're ...

Share I really do better when I menu plan . So here goes next week: Sunday Eggs, homemade sausage patties , cooked apples Meatballs in cro...

We've been loving soups this winter. I honestly hadn't made real soup starting with real stock until I started GAPS this past fal...

The Nourishing Traditions recipe for ketchup has intimidated me, so I was glad to find one without the addition of homemade fish sauce in ...

Coffee with Tropical Traditions Coconut Cream Concentrate . Seriously, eating whole food rocks. I had been putting coconut oil in my coff...

A friend made this for me when I realized that even Dr. Bronner's soap was giving my little one a rash. Soap is tricky, since good nat...

Share Avocado and homemade all natural beef sausage We eat breakfast-for-dinner pretty often. I finally tried making beef sausage because i...

Kimi at Nourishing Gourmet is doing a carnival on health goals for the new year, so I'm sharing mine, and putting them up for Food Rene...

Share We don't have TV, but we do play Netflix movies over the winter on the computer. We took down the desktop and whole TV/sound syste...

Burgers on portobello mushrooms with homemade ketchup, mayonnaise, sauteed onions, tomato. Squash fries cooked in coconut oil with mayonnai...

Share We use a thrift store wool sweater for a waterproof layer in the kids' cribs over their natural mattresses. This one was 1.99 at o...

Here's a week of dinners without grains or starches (potatoes). We started getting in a food rut again, so I did a menu plan for this w...

Share Organic apples, butternut squash, cheese, butter, pecans, coffee, organic beef, honey, bananas, eggs, avocados are all allowed on GAPS...