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Getting organized

A Tour of our Family Closet (Video Blog)

August 20, 2010

Welcome back! Have you visited our new site, Saving Naturally, where we help you live healthy and spend less? When I knew that we were moving to a new house with a much larger master bedroom closet, I made the happy decision to create a "family closet" rather than continue to keep everyone's clothing in [...]

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Learning to Live With Less

April 20, 2010

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 [...]

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

April 8, 2010

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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Creating Routine with Little Ones

April 7, 2010

Photo by David Clow
By Emily McClements, Contributing Writer
If you’re anything like me, you may have read in books, watched on a Nanny show, or read posts on blogs about creating a routine for your children. It all sounds so wonderful to have perfectly planned out days where you are super productive, spend lots of quality [...]

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Real Food Makeover: The “W” Family

April 6, 2010

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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Overcoming Scheduling Challenges: Bringing More Peace to my Day

March 19, 2010

Image by Andreanna Moya
Flexibility. It is one of the great skills that I have come to realize are a necessity for mothering.
Learning to go with the flow and figure out what to do as each new season of life arrives, full of unique challenges and opportunities, is essential.
I've talked recently about my desire to cut [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Making Room for Bulk Storage

March 8, 2010

When you think of storing bulk food, what comes to mind? Do you wonder where you will ever keep it? Do you dismiss the idea because your kitchen storage is already on the small side? Do you envision hefty, 25 lbs bags of grains sitting in your dining room, with no where else to go?
Most [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Knowing and Using What’s in Your Freezer

February 25, 2010

Today's post is written by my friend Nola, who happens to currently have a more organized freezer than I do! I asked for tips for freezer organization a while back and Nola had sent me enough good stuff to make an entire post of it. I've added a few little notes of my own as [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Planning to Make Food Preparation Happen

February 19, 2010

$tex-mex-dinner$

**Have you been enjoying this series on Organization in the Real Food Kitchen? Catch up on any posts that you may have missed in my Getting Organized category.**
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In the days before I began cooking real, traditional, whole foods, it wasn't such a big deal if I forgot to think about dinner ahead of [...]

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Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: Ferments Everywhere

February 16, 2010

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"Hi, my name is Stephanie and I have a problem. I'm addicted to fermenting, culturing and soaking foods and they're taking over my kitchen! Help!"
Having a lot of cultured, soaked, sprouted and lacto-fermented foods around is a wonderful problem to have since these are incredibly nutritious and beneficial to consume. Sometimes, though, it can get [...]

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