One of the themes at Keeper of the Home this month has been making your own beauty supplies. Beth has showed us how to make our own soap, and Angela gave us a plethora of simple options for making beauty supplies like facial moisturizer, body scrub, even hairspray and more! As for me, I'm breaking out of my comfortable little mold. I happen to enjoy "hiding" behind my writing and my computer. It's tidy and safe and it has a delete button. :) Behold, I [...]
April 30, 2010
Video Blog: Making My Own Shampoo and Conditioner (Using the No ‘Poo Method)
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April 29, 2010
Raising Healthy Eaters: Helping Our Kids to Make Great Food Choices
Today I have the privilege of being featured at Hannah Keeley's site, with my guest post Raising Healthy Eaters: Helping Our Kids to Make Great Food Choices. You can check out my large mugshot (seriously!) and read what I have to say about how we can encourage our children to grow up to be healthy eaters who know which foods to choose to eat and why. "As moms, we all want the best for our kids. We work hard to make sure that they have [...]
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April 28, 2010
Real Food Encouragement: Whole Wheat Bread
By Sherrie Cook, Contributing Writer Confession: I am not so skilled in the kitchen. Conflict: I need to write a blog post about a real food kitchen for Keeper of the Home. Solution: Write about hope. Hope for those of us who feel clueless and overwhelmed at the thought of making better choices for our families. Hope that no matter how unskilled in the kitchen we are, we can still make a difference simply by trying. Hope that one day, with a little practice and [...]
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April 27, 2010
Real Food Makeover: The Woody Family
This week's makeover is for the Woody Family. There is mom Stephanie, dad Josh and children Delaney (5), Dawson (3), & Finn (2). How They Currently Eat: This family particularly touched me with the email they sent me to be chosen as one of the makeover families. Here is an excerpt from it: Our journey to being a whole food family is much harder than I anticipated. My wife and I are great planners and dreamers, but the process of doing and finishing, or sometimes [...]
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April 23, 2010
Cabbage Roll Casserole: A Tasty Way to Get Your Family to Eat More Cabbage
Always trying to find new ways to get more nturient-dense foods into my family, I stumbled upon this idea a while back and it has proven to be a winner! The original recipe came from a fundraiser cookbook put together by my Nana's Sons of Norway group. I've taken that recipe and given it a few "real food" tweaks and we just love it. Cabbage Roll Casserole Serves 4-6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 1 lb ground beef (and if you like, a bit of [...]
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April 22, 2010
Celebrating Earth Day: A Christian Perspective on Stewardship of the Environment
Today I want to celebrate Earth Day by sharing just a bit about why I, as a Christian, care about the environment and choose to put time, money and effort towards practicing mindful stewardship of God's glorious creation. Here are some of the main reasons that our family has made environmental stewardship a priority as we seek to honor the Lord in all that we do: 1. The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it (Ps 24:1) Although we have graciously been [...]
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April 21, 2010
Squeaky Clean Fun: A Soap Making Photo Tutorial
By Beth Corcoran, Contributing Writer To start, I just want to say I am so excited that Stephanie is allowing me the opportunity to share with you one of my favorite hobbies--soap making. I have been making bar soap for my family for almost a year now, and I have tried different methods and a variety of recipes, and today I’m going to share what I think is one of the easiest methods of soap making—hot process using a crock pot. I really wanted to share [...]
April 20, 2010
Learning to Live With Less
In a little over two months, our family will be moving to a new abode. This move is exciting for a number of reasons. The new house has more bedrooms and will allow us to have a girls bedroom and a boys bedroom (yes, we only have one boy so far, but we hope to have more one day!), in addition to an office and guest room. It will also allow my husband to set up his own studio for his music school- very exciting! [...]
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