Garrett was a high maintenance baby. I was never really sure what the problem was. Gas? Or maybe he just wasn’t getting enough sleep. I don’t know, but I couldn’t bring myself to just lay him down and let him cry while I worked. I spent seven long weeks struggling just to get meals on the table. Keep Reading
Or corn critters and Dad jokingly calls them. A few days ago, when I told Gabriel that I was making corn fritters to go with dinner, It took a while to explain exactly what a corn fritter was. Gabriel finally settled on a doughnut with corn in it, but I still maintain that it’s a corn fritter. I Keep Reading
A friend and I were talking about cloth diapering at church a few days ago. She was pretty excited about the Fuzzibunz she’d just purchased from ebay. I use mainly Smari Pants, which are much the same. Both are pocket diapers, both snap down to multiple sizes, both are incredible at wicking Keep Reading
Little things that we don’t even think about add up quickly into a big thing. Most of the things on this little list are cleaning related. That seems to be one of the biggest areas of waste. In our zealousness to get things clean, it’s really easy to use more than we need and be wasteful, so Keep Reading
Okay, this dish may tickle your funny bone a little bit. This past summer, we had a bazillion laying hens, and quite a stash of potatoes that we’d recently harvested, so in an effort to keep our grocery bill down, many of our breakfasts were made of hashbrowns and eggs. Then Gabriel began Keep Reading
Gluten-Free Pizza Crust My family loves pizza. Maybe I should say that my family is addicted to pizza. Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Hunt Brothers, Home made. If it has marinara and cheese on it, we eat it. Imagine my disappointment when Gabriel told me that he didn’t really like pizza. I think he Keep Reading
Gabriel and I are huge believers in consuming ecologically based products. That’s why we raise grass-fed beef. Well, that and Gabriel just has this thing for cows. I could go on all day about the benefits of grass-fed meat, but instead I’ll just refer you to eatwild.com because this article is Keep Reading
I delight in finding recipes that require little to no tweeking to make the change to gluten-free. This recipe is one of those. I had my old (as in, made before I was born old) Better Homes and Gardens cookbook out to use the cornbread recipe, and there across the page was this recipe for Keep Reading
Gluten-free flour mixes are notoriously expensive. Shockingly expensive. Quite frankly, with the grocery budget I have, I simply can’t afford them. Fortunately, making your own inexpensive flour isn’t as hard as it sounds, and with the investment of a Kitchen grain mill Mill , it costs only a Keep Reading
How did I miss the memo? All these years I thought popcorn was a carrier for nothing more than butter and salt. Boring! Of course, there’s the occasional batch of caramel corn, but if your at all concerned about your level of sugar intake (not to mention, if your still trying to lose the Keep Reading
