Real Food Recipe Roundup: March

beef pot roast with winter root vegetables

I love passing on real food recipes, whether they're tried and true, or newly acquired favorites. Lately, though, I just haven't been cooking up anything all that interesting! With my trip to the Blissdom conference earlier this month, just a busy month in general for our family, and cleaning out my fridge in preparation for going on the GAPS diet, I just don't have anything all the exciting to share with you this month. Enter my amazing real food blogging friends! The more I get [...]

Homemade One-Size Cloth Diaper Pattern and Wipes Recipe

Homamade Cloth Diaper with DIY Cloth Wipes at KeeperoftheHome.org

Angela Beery, has created her own pattern for making a homemade, one-size cloth diaper and it looks excellent! Making your own diapers is a wonderful way to use up extra material, and to make diapers that are extremely frugal as well. Here's a look at the diaper: Want to try making this diaper yourself? Here's what you'll need: Diaper Pattern - This is the printable pattern, with tracers for your fabric pieces. Tiny Tooshie - These are the written instructions for putting together your own [...]

Real Food Recipe Roundup: January

addictive sweet potato burritos

It's time to share a few favorite recipes and recent finds with you once again! Here are some that we are either really enjoying these days, or that I'm dying to have again once we're finished with our grain/sugar/starch free diet (the Maker's Diet): Addictive Sweet Potato Burritos With the odd combination of sweet potato and black beans, I would have not guessed just how good these would be, but they really are amazing and addictive! We like to eat them with sour cream/creme fraiche [...]

Your Turn to Get Organized with a Meal ePlanner!

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As requested, here are the closeups of some of the pages from my homemaking binder. Believe me, if you're looking for someone's routines and schedules to emulate, mine probably aren't the right ones! Organizing is something I strive for, but not necessarily something I always achieve. And please always remember that when I share things like this, this is just me. Just my family, our season of life, our preferences, etc. It shouldn't tell you the "right" way to organize your own home or time, [...]

Organization in the Real Food Kitchen: My Recipe Binder

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We've talked about some ways to streamline our meal planning, as well as how to use lists of your favorite recipes for ease of planning and quick reference. Here is the last step of the recent meal planning/recipe overhaul that my own kitchen has been receiving lately: My beloved recipe binder! It doesn't get much simpler and cheaper than this, and yet this system is a really efficient way to manage all of my favorite recipes. Since I began using the internet in a more [...]

Real Food Recipe Roundup: December

crock pot ribs

Welcome to my newest monthly feature, the Real Food Recipe Roundup! Back when I did my readers survey, I learned that finding nourishing, whole food recipes is right up there among your favorite topics on this blog. I thought that it might serve you all if I shared some great recipes from around the web and blogosphere each month. I'm making a point of sharing recipes that are family friendly and simple, as well as nourishing, because I like to keep it simple in my [...]

Healthy Holiday Eats and Sweets Carnival

It's time to share all of our favorite, tried-and-true recipes! You know, the ones that you can't really imagine not having at your holiday table and that just taste like Christmas to you. Traditions are such an important part of how we celebrate holidays, and traditions involve all of the senses- including our smell and taste. Establishing food traditions, alongside our other relationally and spiritually significant traditions, helps to ingrain both the special times spent with loved ones as well as the rich meaning of [...]

Winner of the Moukisac Reusable Bag System

And the winner of the fantastic Moukisac Reusable Bag system is: Julie (9julesa5@) Congrats! For all those still wanting one either for yourself or to give as a Christmas gift, you can purchase them directly from the Moukisac site. Also, don't forget that the Healthy Holiday Eats and Sweets Carnival is approaching quickly! It is this upcoming Tuesday, Dec. 8th (though I will do my best to have the carnival post up by the Monday evening for the early birds). We're looking for healthy, whole [...]