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Soaked Wheat Nourishing Traditions Style Challah

I adapted Monica's challah recipe to be more 'Nourishing Traditions style' and have the whole grain flours soaked in an acid med...

It makes me feel like a complete consumerist but I love buying my children little things, and do so often enough that we have a spot in our...

How does it work to confine meal preparation and cleanup to outside of working hours ? The rest of the posts in this series: Traditional F...

Part of the Working Around the Work Schedule Series Past Posts in this series : Menu Planning for the Work Schedule Weekend Food Prep Mond...

*This is a part of our Working Around the Work Schedule series* Tuesday : Breakfast: Smoothie! Quick and easy, easy cleanup. 5 minutes to...

This is still part of our Traditional Foods in Real Lives: Working Around the Work Schedule series Breakfast- sliced apples and eggs cooke...

Have you been wanting to get into traditional foods, but feel like you need a mentor to show you the way? Do you want the whole family to kn...

A couple hours on Sunday prepping food for the next week can make the week go so much easier! *This is a part of my Traditional Food in Rea...

When talking about traditional slow real food, an issue that comes up often is, ' How does this work with working families?' . I kn...

I thought I had a fried chicken post! I've been working on homemade fried chicken since we first were married- I think I've got it d...

I bet most moms are like me- after seeing the little sweeper contraptions zoom around restaurants and quietly and nearly effortlessly pick u...

This is a guest post by Monica of Rose of Sharon Acres , who makes amazing soaps including the tooth 'chips' that I love and gentle...

Some research we did in regard to fluoride, which we choose not to use with our family either topically (in tooth paste) or systemically (in...