Healthy Living

Juicing – Drink Your Veggies

If you follow me on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram you already know that I got a juicer for Christmas.  I have one kinda like this one. It was the gift that DH and I got for each other.  We got a Mac-Daddy Masticating version for maximum benefits. I thought I’d…

Forks over Knives – My Perspective

I have been on a movie watching spree over the past 2 weeks and managed to work in the documentary Forks Over Knives.  Buy or rent it here. Documentaries, especially documentaries about food interest me.  Food is one of my favorite subjects.  It is also one of my favorite hobbies….

3 Ways to Eat Healthier this week

Wanna know how to make your entire family sick? Tell the whole world how healthy you are. “Pride comes before a fall.” – Proverbs 16:18 I eat my words more often than I care to mention, and this is another one of those awesome times when I am humbled and…

Taking Control of Your Food

I had a friend tell me a couple of weeks ago that she didn’t think it was possible to not eat ANY processed foods. Well,  I am proof that, that is not true.  Yes, you can remove all processed foods from your diet.  It’s definitely a challenge & takes commitment, but…

How To Live on Real Food – Survival Tips

How to Live on Real Food Living on “real food” shouldn’t be a challenge at all.  This is the food we were designed to eat.  This is how food exists in it’s natural state.  When did eating “real food” become so dang hard? We should desire it. We should feel…

How to Grind Flour on the Cheap

I have decided that the whole world needs to start grinding their own flour.  For some obscure reason I have determined to convert all of you into wheat berry pulverizing advocates. WHY WHY WHY? If you have not yet heard all the glorious benefits of fresh milled flour go here…

Join Me! Eat Real!

Join me!  Eat Real! I am sending out a plea and invitation for you guys to join me in a 50 day challenge.  It is the beginning of January, after all, and it’s the time of year we are all thinking about restarting, resetting and recharging. I can’t think of…

2 New Thoughts on Butchering

I’ve had 2 New Thoughts on Butchering Recently. Thanks to the Homesteaders Food Challenge and my general obsession with raising all my own food, I have spent the past 4-6 months, give or take, killing things and eating them. Well, I’ve been killing things much longer than that; however, it has…

Welcome 2017!

Happy New Year Guys! Today starts a new adventure for our house & family…… Well, not really as “new” as much as it is “a return.” We are heading into a second round of the “homesteaders food challenge.” Just to recap, I inflicted a personal challenge on myself (and my…

Brine Recipe & Why I Brine My Turkey

Why I brine my Turkey I cook my turkeys one way.  The old fashioned way.  Mamaw taught me how.  It is a guaranteed, fabulous bird every time.  Additionally, there’s the broth.  The amount of pure, unadulterated, genuine turkey broth you are left with during this cooking event is half the…