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First Steps to Real Food–Know Those Ingredients
In the world of food, we have two choices: whole, single ingredient foods (like a bag of oranges or a pound of salmon), and prepared foods that have more than one ingredient (like a box of crackers or...
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First Steps to Real Food–Eat Real Fat
* Once again the disclaimer: I am not a nutrition expert. I realize the great fat debate is a heated one. These are just some of the things that we’ve learned along the way. One of the first things we...
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Saving Money on Real Food
The real truth on real food is that sometimes quality food costs more money. This can be a little discouraging when you’re giving your kitchen a makeover and the budget is about to burst. For some,...
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Homemade Stock–A Frugal Superfood
As we ride out the last of winter (It is March, right? Cause the snow just won’t stop ) I thought I’d share the number one easiest, most frugal food you can make to nourish your family. And there’s...
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Easy Real Food–Homemade Ranch
Second only to ketchup, ranch dressing or dip is probably the most popular condiment in the eyes of children. It has almost magical powers, able to transform an otherwise scorned plate of raw veggies...
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First Steps to Real Food–Mind Your Sugar
Sugar. We love it. We hate it. It’s everywhere. It contributes to weight problems, inflammation, suppresses our immune system, and robs our bodies of nutrients. Most of us don’t want to go completely...
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Real Food Time Savers–Make Breakfast After Dinner
We all know that our families need a healthy, balanced breakfast. As a homeschooling mom, I see this all too easily. When my kids get a healthy breakfast with a good balance of carbs, fat and protein,...
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Meal Plan to Nourish
I think everyone would agree that the trusty meal plan is a sanity/money saver. No one likes the feeling of arriving at 4:30 in the afternoon with NO idea what’s for dinner. But for the real food...
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Recipe Makeover–Tomato Soup
I’m sure all of us have some sort of emotional or nostalgic connection to some food that comes out of a box or can. I have quite a few. Chips Ahoy cookies make me think of hanging out with my high...
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A Healthier No-Bake Cookie
I LOVE no bake oatmeal cookies. You know, the ones with the 2 cups of white sugar (gasp!). And I didn’t really like to share. I’d often make them after the kids were in bed. And most of the time I’d...
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Meal planning from the pantry
This is birthday week in our family! We have three in a row to celebrate this week on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. That means I need to divert a little extra cash towards fun things like presents! In...
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Whole Grain Gluten Free Waffles
Confession…I’ve never made very good waffles. Pancakes, no problem. But I was never really satisfied with previous attempts. We’ve done sourdough, whole wheat, and a former GF recipe. They were all,...
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Busy season meal plan
We’re in the middle of what I’ve been referring to around here as the “marathon spring.” Today, despite my looming list of things to do and this week’s science fair breathing down our necks, I hit a...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Ah. It’s finally that time of year. Packets of seeds. Dirt between my toes and under my fingernails. And the first tiny shoots peeking up out of the ground. So when the weather finally broke last week,...
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Apple Berry Breakfast Skillet
This might be my new favorite breakfast. Some mornings, I feed the kids their oatmeal, eggs or whatever and they run off to squeeze in some play time before school. Those few moments are MINE. And...
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Tip Tuesdays…Oops, I Forgot to Thaw the Chicken
This week at Redeeming the Home, I’m beginning a couple of different series that I’m hoping will be helpful to us all. Today starts Tip Tuesdays. As homemakers, we all have those little tricks and...
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Popcorn Chicken (gluten, dairy and egg free)
When one or more members of your family is diagnosed with food allergies, gone are the days of drive thru chicken nuggets or frozen nuggets out of the bag. My new oven actually has a chicken nugget...
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My Dream Herb Garden
Yesterday was a good day on the home front. I picked up my daughter from her art class and we hit the local greenhouse. We picked up a few packs of seeds to start planting over the next few days and...
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This Week’s Meal Plan + Kitchen Boot Camp
I am SO not consistent with sharing our meal plans! Sorry. Cause I know you wait with baited breath, right? Well for this week’s dinner plans, I have some new meat to play with. Antelope. That’s...
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Abby’s Meal…and the family dinner you just gotta laugh at.
Today was Abby’s day to make dinner. Her menu included Vegetable Minestrone and Homemade Focaccia. It was great! I realized as she was chopping all the veggies that it takes some pretty good knife...
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