Motherhood & Family
Reading Time: 4 minutesEducate yourself before you give birth! Here are the best books and documentaries to prepare for a natural pregnancy and birth! Today, I’m so excited to share with you some of my favorite resources for preparing for a natural birth! To be honest, I barely prepared for labor during my first pregnancy. I grew up […]
HomeEveryday Opportunities: Meeting Someone Else’s Need
Reading Time: 3 minutesImage by hoboton Back in December, my netbook died. Right in the middle of trying to write, edit and format Real Food, Real Easy. Right in the middle of a tight blogging schedule (when I was contributing to three sites). Right in the middle of my virtual assistant job and freelance writing for the newspapers. It […]
10 Ingredients to Make from Scratch
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week, I posted on 10 Ingredients to Make from Scratch over at Keeper of the Home. Here’s an excerpt: When I first started cooking from scratch, it didn’t seem too hard. I gathered my ingredients and followed the recipes. But then one day it hit me: I wasn’t buying processed, pre-packaged meals anymore, but I […]
Making Working at Home Work for You–Part 2 of 2
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few weeks ago I decided to step down from contributing to two amazing sites–Homemakers Challenge and Modern Alternative Mama. I still highly recommend these sites, but life was getting busier than it needed to be for a mother of two (almost three!) precious little girls, and I felt the Lord leading me to focus […]
Repurposing Baby Food Jars
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s hard to believe this is the final post in our Starting Solids series! Be sure to go back and check out the complete series (listed below) if you missed a post! In the last post in this series, I wrote about 6 ways to use up baby food purees. Today, we’re looking at repurposing […]
A Recipe for Real Food
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Elsie, Contributing Writer It’s been a year since I got real with food. These past twelve months or so I’ve tackled many new recipes, and, in the process, have learned that the real food journey is, itself, like following a recipe. It’s not a very precise recipe, and there’s no specific […]
