7 Things You Can Make (Better) Yourself (S4, E9)
In this podcast episode, I’m explaining how to make 7 convenience foods that are BETTER if you make them yourself.
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In the Kitchen
Healthy Hot Chocolate Mix
When I got this urge for a homemade, nutritious hot chocolate powder, well, it became an obsession until I figured out how to make it genuinely nutritious and until I nailed something tasty. And now, because it’s so good and so good for me, it’s still an obsession. But a very good one. I mean
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Motivating Family to Help in the Kitchen, part 2 (S4, E 8)
Today we’re diving deep into encouragement for moms on ways they can motivate a love of helping in the kitchen, and a love of real food over processed food in their family, specifically with older kids and dad. (See last episode for encouragement with young children.)
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Cookies Made with Bacon
The idea of adding bacon and maple syrup to chocolate chip cookies? I feel like it may be one of my most brilliant ideas ever… I was rendering lard and had more cracklins than usual. The same day I had quite a craving for chocolate chip cookies. Naturally, I started fantasizing about adding some cracklins
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Homemade Instant Oatmeal
Can you make homemade “instant” oatmeal from scratch? I was determined to figure it out. After all, I’m a firm believer that real food CAN be convenient. In fact, that’s the topic of the current season on the podcast… Follow the Simple Doesn’t Mean Easy podcast wherever you listen to your favorites (or hop over
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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (with no refined sugar)
Mint chocolate chip ice cream. It’s one of my biggest temptations. When I decided to stop buying ice cream at the store, I started using my ice cream maker (I love this machine) to whip up all kinds of frozen, creamy alternatives to Breyers, with zero refined sugar or any additives or preservative chemicals. I
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How to Make a Meat Rub
I have always used a meat rub, on all cuts of meat, for grilling or baking, but I decided it was time to learn how to make a meat rub. Because I have learned over the years that homemade is always better. Mainly because I can tweak it until it’s exactly the way everyone loves
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DIY Coke… yes, you can make delicious homemade soda
Homemade soda… DIY coke… Whatever you want to call it; I didn’t think homemade soda could possibly be any good. So I stuck with homemade gatorade and DIY kombucha, but I never even tried to make homemade soda. I’m about to show you something that will change the way you look at soda forever.
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Maple Chocolate Iced “Coffee”
This amazing way to sip away a hot summer afternoon all starts with my favorite tea on the planet… this herbal tea that tastes like coffee that I make from 3 simple ingredients. Or if you’d rather not make it yourself, grab some of the organic Not Coffee tea right here and support a wonderful,
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Strawberry Dandelion Kombucha
Strawberry Dandelion Kombucha is the epitome of seasonal deliciousness. “Real food is seasonal, yet our society insists on having all flavors available at all times. But it’s the out-of-season time that makes ripe, off-the-vine taste more appealing. It’s the eleven months of unavailability that makes just-picked food so delicious. Sadly, we’re out of sync with
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