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How To Incorporate Chia Seeds into Your Daily Diet

Have you been seeing and hearing about chia seeds, wondering what’s so great about them and how to eat them?  Me too! So here’s some of the benefits and how to incorporate chia seeds into your daily diet. We are finally beginning to rediscover what ancient Aztecs and Mayans...

How to Eat for Stress Relief

Often when we are stressed we experience food cravings… and we don’t always want healthy foods. In fact, common stress-induced cravings such as sugar can create energy highs and lows that just leave you more stressed. But what if you could nourish your stressed-out body with certain foods? It may be...

Homemade Natural Cosmetics and Skin Care

When we learn about all the chemicals and toxins that are present in the products we use in our cleaning supplies, it can be quite a shock.  What’s even more shocking is discovering that there are all kinds of toxic chemicals used in products we put on our bodies –...

How To Green Up Your Easter This Year

Before we know it the Easter bunny will be hopping down the bunny trail leaving a swath of plastic Easter grass and dozens of plastic eggs in his wake. Does it make the environmentalist in you cringe? Don’t be hopping mad, here are some ways to make Easter green without...

How to Make a Strawberry Spinach Salad Your Family Will Love

Every spring I get a craving for this Strawberry Spinach Salad with Strawberry Vinaigrette. The vinaigrette is delicious on a variety of mixed green salad but I love it on a big bowl of fresh spinach. With a tasty strawberry dressing and summer strawberries, you can make a strawberry...

How to Polish Silver Naturally

Silver cutlery, jewelry, serving and decorative pieces are beautiful and durable. However, taking care of them isn’t always easy. Silver polish is messy, requires elbow grease and may contain toxic ingredients. Here’s how you can polish silver naturally and more easily. First, determine how much silver you’re going to...

How to Teach Your Kids Where Food Comes From

If you ask a group of children where their food such as apples come from, chances are several of them are going to tell you that apples come from “the store.” And they do, but only after being grown on an apple tree, harvested and shipped.  It’s important for...

Top 10 Cookie Baking Tips and Tricks

Top 10 Cookie Baking Tips and Tricks

I love baking and have experienced both fantastic and terrible results over the years. Experience might be the best teacher but if you’re like me you hate to waste food. In order to increase your chances of baking success, here are the top ten cookie baking tips, tricks, and...

How To Clean a Cut or Scrape

Ouch, we all get a cut or scrape from time to time. When it happens don’t ignore it, here’s how to clean a cut or scrape! Most cuts and scrapes are minor. Physical activities, work, sports and playtime often come with bumps, bruises and scrapes. Children tend to get...

How To Make Cranberry Sauce

Cranberry sauce is a must with turkey dinner! Have you been wondering how to make cranberry sauce from scratch? You won’t believe how easy it is! Homemade, fresh cranberry sauce contains three simple ingredients so you know exactly what’s in it.  Here’s a recipe card and a few variations...