I’ve not forgotten to respond to all the questions asked from our series! I have mother’s helpers coming today, so I’ll have a post up shortly!
You’ve made it! Does it feel like you’ve just completed a marathon? I want to commend you for sticking with me to the end. All of this information is not exactly “light.” I hope that you aren’t terribly overwhelmed, but if you are, pick up my ebook, A Primer for Nourishing & Healthy Recipes to Replace Unhealthy Food Products.” Transitioning away from processed food doesn’t have to be terribly overwhelming when you take baby steps! Continue reading
It’s already that time of the week again, where has the time gone??
Do you get stuck in a rut with your menu planning? I do, and I’m so thankful for other women online who post their weekly menus be.cause it serves as fresh inspiration for me I hope this serves as some menu-planning inspiration for you! Continue reading
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Welcome back! Are you ready to endure through the home stretch in our series, 12 Steps to a Nourishing Diet? You’ve persevered to the end and I’m proud of you! Only one more after today. Today, we are going to talk about one of the easiest, cost-effective way to begin incorporating real food into your diet. Continue reading
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If you’ve missed steps 1-9 in our series, you can easily find them here!
Milk is one of the most consumed foods in America. Whole milk, 2%, skim, organic, rBGH-free, ultra-pastuerized…so which is best to drink? Today, we’ll dive into the milk issue and come out with an understanding of why I believe raw milk is the best choice of milk to consume as part of a nourishing diet. Continue reading
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If you’ve missed steps 1-8 in our series, you can easily find them here!
If you’ve stayed with me this far, you are a trooper. I want to commend you for enduring! Your commitment is evidence of a genuine desire for change, and that change is happening! Gaining knowledge is the second step to making change and you are doing great. Step nine is one of the most crucial steps in your goal of consuming real, nourishing foods: prepare your own food. And actually, it involves a bit of review of what we have already covered. Continue reading
I’m sitting in my house needing gloves. It’s October 17. Something doesn’t seem right. Something isn’t right! Our thermostat was ripped out of the wall during our kitchen renovation so, needless to say, our heat is nonexistent. It was really great (written sarcastically) to turn on the space heater at night and see that the temperature in the room is a balmy 47 degrees!
Why am I telling you this when I am supposed to be writing about decorating? Well, the chilliness of the house reminds me of our not-yet complete kitchen renovation. This kitchen, friends, was a long time coming. To sum it up: the oven didn’t work properly and no appliance repairman would fix it because it was literally an antique. And the rest of the kitchen was pretty much the same way. How did we know what we wanted to do when it came time (and by “came time” I mean “found out we were pregnant”) to redo the kitchen?
In my spare time you can find me surrounded by magazines and catalogs with a pile of ripped out photos of anything that inspires me. I have a few binders that I have organized over the last six or so years with these photos. Some of the photos are as small as an inch by an inch and others are a full magazine spread. There are photos with a tablescape that I’m in love with and photos of a vaulted ceiling that I would love in our master bedroom one day. Photos of Christmas decorations and Christmas wrappings…
Like anything in life, if you put enough thought and preparation into something it’s going to come out a better project and more like what you’d envisioned in your head than plowing through without prior planning. My husband and I flipped a house nearly a year ago and it was fairly easy for me to make decisions on the aesthetics of the house. I just had to flip through my “books” and look at all the photos that I’d ripped out and decide what would work best in that space.
For our kitchen AJ and I knew exactly where we wanted to splurge (which meant we also needed to figure out how to save). He wanted a 5 burner cooktop with a separate oven and I wanted Bianca Cararra marble countertops. My “book” made it very clear what I wanted to splurge on because photo after photo that I ripped out was the look of the Bianca Cararra marble.
I encourage you to start your own “book” and hone your style… the simplest way to do this is to rip up the catalogs you already get in the mail and start filing away those photos that make you excited to live in the scene they created!
The “book” has been great for me because it has shown me what I naturally gravitate towards, and have gravitated towards for years. If you know your style you’ll make smart decisions, which in the long run will turn out to be frugal because you haven’t changed your mind a million times!
So what does this have to do with sitting in my house needing gloves? Well, if you know what you want and can envision the end result, it makes the process of getting there a little easier… even if you have to sleep with an LL Bean 32 degree sleeping bag over your down comforter (while 7 months pregnant)!
If you are interested in keeping up with the Migonis’ (and watching our house progress!): http://ajandjenmigonis.blogspot.com
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If you’ve missed steps 1-7 in our series, you can easily find them here!
To continue the learning process about how to transition to a nourishing foods diet, I would be ashamed if I didn’t warn you about microwave oven dangers. I would be missing a crucial step in the process! Simply put, if you put a nourishing, whole food into the microwave, it will come out rendered nearly nutrition-less. Continue reading
Ladies, if you have not popped over to Raising Homemakers yet, you must! You will be encouraged and inspired beyond belief by these women who write about raising daughters to be homemakers.
Today, one of my favorite bloggers, Laura of 10 Million Miles, contributed a vlog featuring her five year old daughter teaching other daughters how to make tuna salad. If you want fresh inspiration and a few laughs, head over and watch it!
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If you’ve missed steps 1-6 in our series, you can easily find them here!
“I like this, but it has so much fat in it!” Have you said that or heard someone else say it? What about buying low-fat products? Or avoiding eggs, butter, or red meat because they are “fatty”? Fat (that is found in food) as been blamed for many a health issue for several years. Continue reading
