Treating Conjunctivitis- Pink Eye Naturally and Cheaply With Olive Leaf Tea
I hate pink eye. It’s gross looking, uncomfortable, and highly contagious. If you’ve never had the “privilege” of having pink eye (officially known as conjunctivitis), it’s when your eyes start oozing yellowish pus and the eye looks blood shot, and usually under the eye is either puffy or discolored or both. (If you want to […]
Getting Kids to Be Happy With Less
The birthday girl! Happy Birthday! Today, as the day after Christmas, as well as my daughter, Anneliese’s second birthday, is the perfect time to blog about how to help your kids be content with less, and not fall into the trap of the “Gimme gimme” mindset that is altogether too common in our and our […]
Gluten Free Mushroom “Barley” Soup Recipe- With Buckwheat. Vegan Option
I grew up on mushroom barley soup. That is one of those foods that I consider to be a comfort food, evoking special warm feelings inside, of satiation, comfort, and love. I know- weird how something like certain foods affect us emotionally, but they do. The thing is- I haven’t been able to have mushroom […]
Apple Raisin Cookies Recipe- Sugar Free, Gluten Free, Vegan
It’s official. White sugar definitely gets me nauseous- I eat just a little square of chocolate, and I’ll feel queasy for hours after, if not the whole day. It’s not worth it for me to cheat even for a little bite, because I end up paying for it and suffering from it for so much […]
Homemade Fruit Juice from Scraps
For a while now, I’ve known about the food waste reduction technique of saving veggie scraps and bones and using them to make broth. Other than homemade vinegar, or compost, I didn’t know what you could do with fruit scraps. Then my friend told me that she saves her fruit scraps and uses them to make […]
This Past Month’s Grocery Expenses and Analysis
Two months ago I began a challenge in which I tracked every single cent my husband and I spent on groceries, broken down into different categories, so we could firstly get a better picture how much our family is actually spending (and not just guesstimates), and then to see in which categories we are spending […]
Why I Am Not Weaning My Two Year Old Child, Plan on Nursing Two Kids
Not me, just an example of a toddler nursing. Image credit: Amanda Westmont. One of the most surprising things that people hear is that I am still nursing my daughter Anneliese at 2 years old, despite the fact that I am more than halfway through my second trimester of pregnancy, and have no intention of […]
Chicken Potato Vegetable Stew Recipe- Gluten Free, Grain Free, Dairy Free
With this cold weather, and not venturing out of the house much, I am doing a lot of cooking, and a lot of trying out new recipes using what we have in the house… and so many of them came out so wonderfully that I wanted to share them with you. And now I have […]
Blackout on a Snow Day
Our snowman. A family effort. Our area generally gets a little bit of snow every year or two. The snow often is at most a few inches, and melts within a day, maximum two. It’s a “big deal” because its a once every year or two event, but in actuality, it’s never really a big […]
Fennel and Lemon Risotto Recipe- Dairy Free, with Vegan Option
It is FREEZING here today. As in “wear a gajjilion layers and don’t even think about leaving the house” kind of day. The kind of day that I didn’t send my kids to school because there’s no way on earth I wanted my kids going outside in such cold and icky weather. And our house […]
