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Healthy kids

Winner of the Naturally Knocked Up eCourse!

July 7, 2010

Welcome back! Have you visited our new site, Saving Naturally, where we help you live healthy and spend less?
The lucky winner of this fantastic eCourse is:
Hannah O.
Registration for the Naturally Knocked Up eCourse will be continuing only until July 16th, so if you're thinking of signing up, do so quickly!
Did you miss the first [...]

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Naturally Knocked Up Ecourse Giveaway!

June 28, 2010

Are you one of the countless women who has suffered from infertility or miscarriages, and is looking for natural help with conceiving or carrying a baby to term?
Or are you currently pregnant or planning for future children, and wanting to know how to best prepare your body and give your baby the very best chance [...]

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Healthy Snacks to Go Ebook: Review and a Giveaway

May 11, 2010

This giveaway has now ended.
One area that is really tough for a lot of mamas is figuring out what kind of simple, fast and nourishing snacks they can feed their kids.
Committed to whole foods myself, there are the odd days when I long to be able to just grab a few packaged [...]

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Raising Healthy Eaters: Helping Our Kids to Make Great Food Choices

April 29, 2010
girl eating peach

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 [...]

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Feeding Babies: A Relaxed, Common Sense Approach

April 29, 2010
baby eating foot

When I had my first baby, I was strangely eager to feed her "real" food. I couldn't wait to break out those baby spoons, to start grinding up food in my blender and moving in to that next stage of babyhood. I began when she was around 5 1/2 months old, a reasonable age I [...]

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Real Food Makeover- The “W” Family, Part 2

April 8, 2010
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Continuing on from the first installment of this week's Real Food Makeover...
What to Buy, Where to Buy It
One fantastic thing that the "W's" mentioned is that there is a an enthusiastic local foods movement in their area, including a co-op, farmer's markets and CSAs. I think that the co-op would be an excellent starting place.
Last [...]

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Real Food Makeover: The “W” Family

April 6, 2010
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Introducing the first of four families to receive a Real Food Makeover! Each week, I will be highlighting a different family and offering suggestions and resources to help them along the road to eating more real, whole, healthy foods.

Meet the W. family: Mom "D" (37), Dad "M" (35), son "I" (3) and twin daughters "G' [...]

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When Good Nutrition Doesn’t Seem to Help

March 24, 2010
cheese and veggies

Image by floodkoff
By Anne Elliot, Contributing Writer
I’ve been trying to feed my family with healthy, nutritious food for about thirteen years now. Before that, I ate just about anything, but one day I began reading books that changed the way I thought. I started to care about nutrition because I cared about my family. Over [...]

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Recipes and Ideas for What to Eat on the GAPS Introduction Diet

March 18, 2010
lots of butternut squash

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We've just begun our 3rd week on the GAPS diet, and all is well.
We are beginning to see some very positive results in our family, including less eczema for the baby and toddler, a decrease in heartburn for my husband, and some behavioral improvements with our toddler as well. We've all experienced some [...]

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An Update on Our GAPS Diet and Related Q&A

March 5, 2010
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Last week I shared why our family is doing the GAPS diet and what it is all about.
We actually began this Monday morning. We haven't seen any amazing results come out of the first 4 days, but we are definitely noticing some die-off symptoms from the toxins being released (so far, only mild, but it's [...]

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