Today we are revealing the 10 th piece of our Seven Day Challenge puzzle: AWARDS AND PRIZES! We’re so excited and grateful to all the generous sponsors who have donated prizes to help make the challenge even more fun and rewarding. We hope you will show your support and gratitude to them, [...]

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Today we are revealing the 9th piece of our Seven Day Challenge puzzle: FACEBOOK FUN AND SUPPORT!
Can you believe it’s almost September??? We have been working hard lining up some amazing sponsors for the challenge (check back Monday for the full list). Remember this is a learning experience for us all so we [...]

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Since Jodi confessed on Monday about her “gardening failures” I figured I would make my confession about what bits and pieces of my food storage and emergency preparedness plans were lacking.
With the Seven Day Challenge approaching on a surprise day in September, I wanted to make sure to really be on top of things (especially [...]

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Today I want to share with you a story (or confession) about my garden this year. As you may recall from my “It’s Garden Time” post and my “Jiffy Pots” post, I had high hopes for my garden this year. Well watch the video below to find out what REALLY happened!

So you can [...]

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HALLELUJAH! We are officially done the summer crash course! CONFESSION: We KNOW it got kind of boring and are so excited to be back to normal, posting about our food storage successes and failures and getting officially ready for the Seven Day Challenge starting on a SURPRISE day in September. ARE YOU READY?
As you guys [...]

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For our Summer Crash Course we have been revamping all of the BabyStep pages and last week we updated the Step 10: Non-Food Items. On that page we give a great list of ideas for non-food items to have, but we wanted to give you this bonus handout. You can store this [...]

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For our Summer Crash Course we have been revamping all of the BabyStep pages and last week we updated the Step 9: Comfort Foods page. On that page we give a great list of ideas for comfort foods but we wanted to give you this bonus handout of fun recipes you can make [...]

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We’re excited to announce the winner of the Seven Day Challenge sign up giveaway. The winner is getting this great WonderMill Hand Grinder!

So, here we go…. drumroll – and the winner is: LINDA AMORI! We’ll be emailing you later today to get your information and your Wonder Junior Deluxe sent off!
Just as a reminder [...]

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Sprouting can fall under several of our BabySteps since you can sprout many grains, legumes, and other foods. However, the biggest benefit of sprouts is that they can act as a fresh “vegetable” in your diet so we are covering it under the Fruits and Vegetables step. If this feels overwhelming to you, [...]

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