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Simple Pleasures: Handmade Soap

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...

Share My Simple GAPS-friendly, gluten free, dairy free, real whole food, 4-ingredient Macaroon Recipe: 6 egg white (save the yokes to add to...

Organic pink lentils, sprouted, and added to soup. Great minds must think alike; the day after I picked up some of these pink lentils from ...

Benefit to juicing : You can cut apples to show children the star without having to deal with cutting up funky apple slices. Merry Christmas...

Only a like-minded friend would appreciate this gift- a wrapped jar of Tropical Traditions Gold Label coconut oil . How about you? I know ju...

We won't talk about how much nice oil has become nice-oil-with-egg-in-it with my attempts to make mayonnaise. I've attempted it mayb...