I like simple salads in the summer, don't you? This is the quickest ever cucumber salad and one of my favorite recipes because the cucumbers, dill, and tomatoes are straight out of my garden. What could be easier than picking, chopping, and tossing? Quickest Ever Cucumber Salad Recipe Type: Main Cuisine: American Author: Sara Tetreault… Continue reading Quickest Ever Cucumber Salad
Tag: healthy living
Real Food Eating While on the Go
Eating real food while on vacation to maintain a healthy lifestyle can be tricky - especially if you're on a road trip. Eating out for every meal can be expensive, too. With a little preparation, eating real food wherever you're traveling can keep health a priority and keep the costs down. Prep these.... core apples… Continue reading Real Food Eating While on the Go
Quinoa Salad
While there's always plenty of food to eat in our home, my kids seem to always be asking what's to eat. What they are really asking is, "What can I eat right now because I'm starving and I just walked in the door and I don't want to cook anything." Yes, I can read minds.… Continue reading Quinoa Salad
How to Cook Padron Peppers
If you've never had a padron pepper, give this tasty little, green pepper a try. They're at lots of farmers' markets, pack tasty flavor, and are easy to cook. If you can cook them outside during the summer, even better. No hot kitchen for you! We love them for an appetizer and if you travel… Continue reading How to Cook Padron Peppers
Use Fewer Chemicals in the Dishwasher
You know when you open your dishwasher after it's run and it’s all steamy and smells like cleaner? What you smell are very strong chemicals. Sure the dishes are clean, but at what cost to our health? That's what we asked ourselves. The changing of all of our cleaning, laundry, and consumer products has opened… Continue reading Use Fewer Chemicals in the Dishwasher
A True Classic Spinach Salad
What's the quickest way to get a family to eat a healthy, real food dinner? What about getting a family of four to eat an entire pound of fresh spinach? Make spinach salad of course! This is a true classic, with boiled eggs, chopped bacon, and freshly made dressing. What's not to love? It is… Continue reading A True Classic Spinach Salad
Clean Eating and Clean Living: a Winning Combination
Have you ever done something because you thought it was good for you and then later realized there was an actual term for it? If you're nodding yes - you know what I'm talking about. For me, it was understanding what the term 'clean eating' meant. When I first heard the phrase, I envisioned a… Continue reading Clean Eating and Clean Living: a Winning Combination
Green Living Tip 30 {Share and Borrow Resources}
Today's green living tip: share and borrow resources. Whether it's utilizing the library, borrowing your neighbor's power tool or passing on your previously read magazines, we should share and borrow resources more often. We all don't need to be buying these things ourselves. Everyone remembers "hand me down" clothing, right? Now the internet has opened… Continue reading Green Living Tip 30 {Share and Borrow Resources}
Green Living Tip 29 {Make Your Own Liquid Hand Soap}
Today's green living tip: make your own liquid hand soap. This is surprisingly easy and it's gentler on the environment - and your skin! Think about how many containers - pumpers, jugs, containers - of liquid hand soap, there are for sale. That's a lot of plastic! This recipe is easy and makes 1-gallon of… Continue reading Green Living Tip 29 {Make Your Own Liquid Hand Soap}
Green Living Tip 27 {Eat Whole and Real Foods}
Today's green living tip: eat whole and real foods - unprocessed - and it will be good for you and good for the environment. Mother Nature's packaging is the best! Most whole foods - vegetables, fruit, fish, etc. - don't come with a bunch of packaging that needs to be disposed of. Fresh fruit and… Continue reading Green Living Tip 27 {Eat Whole and Real Foods}
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