My kids LOVE when I “celebrate” holidays by making festive foods. I don’t always love throwing food color into everything so I’m trying to do better at using natural foods to liven things up. I was going to make some patriotic blender wheat pancakes for dinner but the kids insisted on waffles instead so I […]
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New Food Storage Calculator
You are in for a special treat today! We created a brand new food storage calculator that expands on the more traditional calculators by adding in fruits, vegetables, meats, and other often-omitted foods to give more variety and flavor to the meals you will actually be preparing. We published this over on our Thrive blog […]
How to Make Ezekiel Bread
Several years ago Julie posted about an Ezekiel Bread Recipe that one of our readers shared on Facebook and asked someone to try for her since she didn’t have a wheat grinder. I recently started a new eating plan and one of the recommended foods for my carbohydrates is Ezekiel Bread. I knew I needed […]
Food Storage Carrot Cake
My best friend LOVES carrot cake, so of course I had to make her a homemade carrot cake to celebrate her birthday! I went to my go-to source for delicious recipes and Our Best Bites did not fail me. Their Carrot Cake Supreme Recipe looked simply A-MAZING so I knew that was what I should […]
5 Ways to Use Essential Oils for Emergency Preparedness
I have been slow to embrace essential oils because I always felt like they were a little bit voodoo-ish. Don’t laugh, they just don’t seem to be the “cure-all” that lots of people like to tout them to be. However, I recently have been going through some massage therapy for various injuries and my therapist […]
Making Potato Salad in a Sun Oven
Last week we hosted a Sun Oven Cooking Essentials Webinar Paul Munsen, president of Sun Ovens International always shares so many great tips on actually USING your Sun Oven to save time and money in the kitchen and I learn something new every time I listen to him speak. This class was no different. I […]