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Two weeks ago, I drove 15 minutes to a nearby CVS to get my COVID booster and my flu vaccine. This is only the third time that I’ve gotten a flu shot. The first time was in 2005. That was the year I gave birth to Emma Anne. Because
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Since the temperature decided to graciously drop below 100 degrees this month and we started school again, it feels a little bit like fall. Not completely, but a little. Since many of the trees weren't able to survive the heat and drought with green leaves, it looks a
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We are eating rice and beans this month in support of Lahash International. Rice and Beans month is a way for us to stand in solidarity with the poor by simplifying our diet and financially giving to those who are hungry in East Africa. As we make meals based around
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We've added the first non-feline animals to our little homestead. These two little half sisters are Nigerian Dwarf goats. We've had them for over two weeks now, but they just now are officially named. Naming in our house usually goes like this. For days or weeks
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I know I haven't posted anything about our June food challenge lately. We are still "technically" doing the challenge. I say "technically" because we've made plenty of exceptions over the month. But I just had to come to the realization that this
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I have finally found a process for making yogurt that takes very little time and turns out great tasting yogurt. I bought an actual yogurt culture, rather than using store-bought yogurt, so that I'd have a little more control on the results. The website I ended up using
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Lately when I tell John we are having something homemade or made from scratch, he invariably finds an ingredient I didn't make. For example, the other day we had homemade chicken noodle soup. "Did you make the noodles?" he asked. And of course, I hadn'
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Today our our order came in from Nuts Online. I found the website while doing a search for unsweetened dried fruit. We ordered cranberries that are just dried cranberries, nothing added, bananas that are just dried bananas, nothing added, unsweetened coconut (that unfortunately does have a preservative added), and raw
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So far the only dairy related homemade product I've shared about has been butter. That's because the butter is the only thing that worked well. We made yogurt from goat milk, which did work, it just was very thin and didn't taste all that
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Well, it is now June. I spent yesterday shopping for some more needed items for this month's menus. I had put in my first order to Azure Standard, which is a bulk organic food website. Yesterday was the pick up day in Fayettville. So, in the morning, we
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I've been doing more internet "research" over the last few days on ingredients that I was unsure if we would use or not. I hate to call it research because I am just barely scraping the surface of knowledge that is out there, and I realize
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Sunday, we decided to try our hands at making butter. I've decided that as I experiment with making things, it is important to include the kids in the process. This doesn't come very naturally to me. I love cooking . . . by myself. Cooking with three extra pairs