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The roasted chicken from yesterday became a lovely bone broth for soup bases and stews. Homemade bone broth is rich in collagen, calcium, and other nutrients garnered from the bones, marrow, skin, and connective tissues of the chicken carcass. Consuming these tissues and nutrients helps you retain healthy joints, skin, and hair! Making bone broth …
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Did you know most commercial “soap” bars sitting on the shelves of your grocery or big box store are not really soap? There is a reason the packaging never says soap bar and instead says “cleansing bar” or “beauty bar”. These are actually detergent bars full of a variety of mystery ingredients you slather all …
Skip the rotisserie counter at your grocery store and roast your own chicken! Roasting your own whole bird allows you to have total control over the ingredients and can offer major savings, especially if you prefer organic. I start with a five pound roaster hen from my preferred source. My father-in-law brought us this chicken …
As I stand here at my home “work station”, un-bathed with snarly hair, whiny children, and far too much work from my “real” job piling up, I have once again been annoyed by the illusion of mommy perfect. Can we all lay off with criticizing the “frumpy” moms please? Having one baby is so …
Perfect Motherhood: Animal House & Non-Perfect Mothers Read More »
Better late than never! We went through enough basic pocket diapers this year to make them into their own update category. This is the last batch in the 2012 cloth Diapers Updates posts. Below is a list of all the new pocket diapers we tried out on the kids, minus the most recent ones. …
Cloth Diaper Updates 2012: Simple Pocket Diapers Read More »
The last two parts of the Cloth Diaper Updates of 2012 are a little late this week. Kids, holidays, you know how it goes! Anyway, this group is an all-in-two diaper set called Snap In Twos! A Snap-In-Two is an all in two diaper system where the inserts are safe to lay against the skin …