Eco-Friendly Cleaning Tips from Experienced Women

Check out these ways to clean in a more eco-friendly, natural way, using stuff you probably already have in your home, courtesy of the Scotch-Brite Greener Clean Booth at Blogher ‘10.

How to Pack a Healthy Eco-Friendly School Lunch for Your Child

With back to school time fast approaching, parents’ thoughts have turned to how to pack a healthy school lunch (at least mine has).  My kids don’t take hot lunch.  Not only does it completely lack any nutritional value, it really doesn’t taste very good.

That leaves me with needing to come up with tasty, healthy alternatives [...]

Make Your Own Natural Bath Products

As an overworked mom, the one thing I really look forward to at the end of the day is a little me time to relax and unwind. Often one of the ways I relax and unwind at the end of the day is by taking a long, hot bath and soaking until I feel like [...]

How to Start Your Own Compost

Last year about this time, I convinced my husband to start a compost. He gave me that look, but did it anyway. Until then we had always recycled what was obvious, but I wanted to do more. So I researched a little bit and found a way we could start our own compost without much [...]

Guest Post: Natural Family Planning

It is funny; I’ve surfed around a lot of mommy blogs, blogs on living green, living naturally, living frugally and yet there is one topic I rarely see addressed–a natural, green, frugal method of planning your family–a method that is good for your body, good for your marriage, and might I even say, good for [...]

Maximum Nutrition | Guest Post

5 Tips to Cook for Maximum Nutrition
How can we get the most nutrition from our food?  There are any number of ways, and many of them can get much more specific, but these five guidelines will help you get off to a strong start.

1. Focus on whole foods.
You want all of the (edible) portions [...]

Smoothies versus Juicing | Week 5 of 52 Weeks to the All-Natural Lifestyle

The joy and ease real-life difficulty of detoxing
The first week of my detox didn’t go so well. I am ashamed of myself to admit that, but it’s truth.

Sunday, the first day, was great. I sailed through the day.

I sailed through Monday too. Until about 3:00 p.m. And then, I was hit with a ferocious [...]

Juicing | Week 4 of 52 Weeks to the All Natural Lifestyle

Have you ever seen what they recommend for a daily intake of fruits and vegetables?It’s pretty darn overwhelming, and that’s with the normal food pyramid. Forget it if you’re trying to eat 80% fruits and veggies in your daily diet!

That’s where juicing comes in.

Now, I want to say right off the bat, juicing isn’t everything. [...]

Guest Post with Granolamom4God

Baby Steps Into A Granola Life – By Jodi @ Granola Mom 4 God

People get excited as the New Year rolls around.  Or maybe convicted is the better word.  They fill that first month with thoughts and even actions to fulfill their New Year’s resolution, with promises that this year will be better.  This year [...]

Week 3, Part B: 52 Weeks to the All Natural Lifestyle

Menu Plan for Yeast/Sugar Detox
Beginning Date: January 31
End Date: February 28

Candida/Sugar Detox Breakfasts:
12 oz of water with grapefruit seed extract
As much green smoothie as desired (includes yogurt, kefir, spinach, blueberries, bananas, flax seed, and protein powder mix)
Grain cereal, soaked overnight, such as oats or barley and sweetened with soaked/pureed prunes (sounds gross and I [...]

Week 3: 52 Weeks to the All Natural Lifestyle

Snack Ideas for the Candida/Sugar Detox
Week 1, Part A

Week 1, Part B

Week 2, Part A

Week 2, Part B

It’s been a bit nuts around here given the my daughter almost being hospitalized with the flu, and then my husband and I getting hit with it (me harder than him. I quit counting after the 10th vomiting [...]

Week 2, Part B: 52 Weeks to the all Natural Lifestyle

What kind of foods can I eat on a yeast detox diet?

I answer this, having never done a strict detox. . . so I haven’t come up with meal plans that reflect that (although I am seriously considering doing on starting in February) But even with the detox I have attempted to do, I learned [...]

Week 2: 52 Weeks to the All Natural Lifestyle

52 Weeks to the All Natural Lifestyle

Week 1, Part A

Week 1, Part B

How is the sugar/caffeine detox going?  I’m down from four cups of full strength coffee throughout my day, to only 1, maybe 2. I’m getting there!

With company over the weekend, I had brownie sundaes, but once Monday hit, I did fine cutting back [...]

Week 1, Part B: 52 Weeks to the All Natural Lifestyle

Week 1, Part A

So, what did you come up with on Tuesday when you listed everything, that to you, would make up the ideal lifestyle?

Now that you’ve decided all that, I may shake you up when I say make eating healthy at the top of your plan! Seems a bit late in the year to [...]

Week 1: 52 Weeks to the All Natural Lifestyle

I know! It’s the second week of January and I’m only doing this now! I am so sorry people!  Life got away from me . . . but I am now in my preschool routine with the kids and think I can come back to this blogging thing finally.

So although we’re two weeks into the [...]

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