I am 45. I have lots of grey hair and I’m willing to live with that. But I’d rather not live with stressed-out skin. In fact, I’ll occasionally check a book out of the library to find quick, simple, healthy beauty tips that don’t cost an arm and a leg. Yesterday one of these beauty […]
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Review: Real Food on a Real Budget
Feeding our families costs money—lots of it—no matter what we eat. Serving only excellent, nutritious, quality food can cost even more, but it needn’t. Stephanie Langford has written an inspiring and practical guide, Real Food On a Real Budget: How to Eat Healthy for Less, that contains over 200 pages of organized, encouraging, balanced […]
Homeschool Crew Review: Introduction to Whole Grain Baking
I am thankful that we were able to review An Introduction to Whole Grain Baking…with Blender Batter Baking and the Two-Stage Process, one of the Sue Gregg Cookbook Series. Although this book is not specifically gluten-free, it taught us a lot about grains and gave us a few delicious gluten-free recipes. The focus […]
Battling Burn-Out: Simple but Not Easy
One big homeschooling problem revolves around the questions: How can you avoid burn out? What can you do if you burn out? Before we can tackle these questions, we need to know what burn out is. Burn out: to fail, wear out, or become exhausted by reason of excessive demands on energy, strength or resources (Webster’s Unabridged […]
Homeschool Crew Review: Nutrition 101: Choose Life!
So often I hear about how North Americans harm themselves by their food choices. Although our family has always eaten quite nutritiously, there are many ways in which I could improve our family’s nutrition. Some of them I’m not prepared to get involved with. Yet. Some I even scoff at. For now. I think all thoughtful food […]