June 23, 2010

Easy Breakfast Ideas: From Scratch, With Real Food

bowl of fruit

Written by Anne Elliott, Contributing Writer As my family increased in size, I started trying to figure out more inexpensive ideas for breakfast. It had nothing to do with health back then. Later I found out that making breakfast at home was also one of the easiest and most influential things we could do to improve our health. But making breakfast from scratch, from non-processed foods, can be really intimidating at first. If a woman is also battling chronic health problems, she might fear that [...]

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April 19, 2010

Real Food Makeover- The Anderson Family, Pt 2

oatmeal with bananas and nuts

This is a continuation of last week's makeover for the Anderson family. This week I want to share a sample menu plan. It won't look quite as specific as the menu plan for the W family, because mom Andi is already a regular menu planner and has certain meals/themes that she uses each week, so instead I'm going to make a lot of overall suggestions. In the first post, I discussed how her biggest priority is to make things that will help her husband with [...]

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March 18, 2010

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

3 brown eggs

Image by carbavor 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 toxin die-off, and our cravings for sweet and carbs has been lessening. The hardest part of any helpful but restrictive special diet like GAPS is knowing what you [...]

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April 27, 2008

Salmon Melts, Broccoli Salad and Cinnamon Scones

I spent most of the day working on my garden (so exciting, I can't wait to show pictures soon!), so I am exhausted and ready for a relaxing evening, but as requested, here are a few of the recipes I used in my Frugal Cooking Carnival menu (you can see pictures for the salmon melts and broccoli salad in my post yesterday): Salmon Melts Simple as can be. Take one can of salmon (I currently use Wild Pacific, though I wish I could afford Wild [...]

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