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Thanks for visiting! We are so glad you’re here!
This site has been in the works for many months now and is something that our family is truly passionate about. We want to help others learn how to save money on products that are healthy and wholesome, without having to make compromises due to cost or budget constraints.
This helps to explain how Saving Naturally came about and what our vision is for this site:
Living healthy should be affordable.
There’s a common misconception that it costs a fortune to live more naturally, to eat well and to use products that are easy on our bodies and on the earth. Everywhere you look these days, new “green” or “natural” products are springing up, making enticing promises, but usually with a less-than-enticing price tag.
As a stay-at-home mom of a single-income family these past 6 years, many products like these have been beyond our means. Yet, our family was becoming increasingly aware of the negative effects of conventional body and beauty care, cleaning products, and especially of the processed, industrial foods that fill the grocery store shelves.
The more we learned, the higher priority it became for us to only use and consume things that were sustainable, non-toxic, well-raised and grown, less wasteful, chemical free, whole and healthful.
The challenge?
To do it on a tight, single-income budget, with a growing family!
Over the years, I have come to the conclusion that it doesn’t have to cost more to live in a more natural, healthy and wholesome manner.
We eat a whole foods diet, with probably 80% of our food being organic or that we know has been grown/raised in a responsible, chemical-free manner. We are careful to choose only gentle, non-toxic products to use on our bodies. Our home is cleaned with simple solutions, many homemade and some of them purchased.
Best of all, we do it for the same amount of money (and usually less) than the average family.
Our desire with this site is to teach other families how to do the same. My goal is to help you to find better resources, get the best deals, live more frugally, and more carefully steward and make the most of what you have.
We believe that living in a healthy and natural way is really, truly possible– for every family, on every budget. Even yours.
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To help make living naturally more affordable for you, you will find daily posts with deals on bulk groceries and natural living products, coupons relevant to a whole foods diet, frugal living tips, and all other manner of bargains that fit with your healthy and organic lifestyle.
We would love to receive your feedback on ways that we can make this site as useful as possible! Please contact us and let us know what you’d like to see– specific types of deals or particular brand names/companies that you are interested in, potential post topics or make-it-yourself tutorial ideas, or anything else you feel would bring more value to your experience here!
Please take a few moments to explore the site. There are pages at the top of the site with useful links for you. The category links on the sidebar will help you to find posts on topic of interest (but note that since the site has just been launched, not every category has posts in it yet, but that will be quickly remedied!).
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Wow! What a fabulous idea for a website! I subscribe to Keeper Of The Home and am so excited that you’ve expanded. This is exactly the kind of help I need right now, as I’m eating 100% whole foods on a tight budget and am committed to living debt free. I’m always looking for ways to SAVE. Congratulations on your new site. I look forward to learning some great tips.
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Congratulations on your launch. I am very excited not only for the site but it is nice to see Canadian information as well. I have just started following your other blog and find it to be very exciting as well and I am happy to add this to my favs list. Your information is great as I am trying to transition over to more whole foods and healthier personal care and cleaning products. Thanks for all the time and energy you put into both of these great sites.
Stephanie, it’s beautiful! I’m subscribing and looking forward to all the great content coming up.
I am excited about your new blog as this is an area that I have been getting more and more into these last few months. However, I cannot get your feed to work. I use google reader and it can’t find a feed with your main blog address and I get an error when I click on the RSS feed link. Can you help me out? Thanks!!!
We were having issues with the RSS feed this morning, but they are all worked out now. Sorry about that! Please go ahead and try again!
Congratulations on the new website. It looks GREAT. I’m adding it to my feed reader post haste.
Have a lovely week.
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What a helpful resource! I’m excited about your new venture. I imagine it will benefit many of us wanting to save money while continuing to bring good food and safe, healthy products into our home.
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I’m so excited for your new site! What a great project!!
Congratulations! I am looking forward to browsing your new site!
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This is great! I just went to a couponing seminar this past weekend and got some great ideas…only many of the coupons in the Sunday paper, for example, are for foods and cleaning products that I don’t want to use. While I desire to feed my family healthy, nourishing foods and clean my home with products that aren’t toxic, I also have to be realistic about the tight budget I have. I have committed myself to doing the very best I can at purchasing foods and household products that are healthy, and while that may mean sometimes purchasing (or using, if I can get an item for free) products that don’t quite measure up in the ‘healthy’ category, even just cutting back on those types of products is healthier for my family. Looking forward to making this site a regular part of my ‘battle plan’ for finding the best deals on the best and healthiest products for my family and household. Thanks!!
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This is so great! I love that you are working to dispel the myth that organic=expensive. Can’t wait to read more!
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Congratulations on the new blog. These are really the kind of tips I need right now considering I’m just starting to really cook and eat the “Nourishing Traditions” way and really want to keep the grocery budget under control. I’m sure this blog will be an amazing help.
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Congrats on the new blog! I am excited for you and for us. I look forward to hearing your great ideas.
What a wonderful idea! We’ve been frugal natural types for years, but have started falling off the bandwagon. I’m looking forward to lots of helpful encouragement.
Annie Kate
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Wow-I was just lamenting to my husband how I need to use coupons now that we’re one-income, but our commitment to whole, organic foods makes that very hard. I’ve read Keeper of the Home for about a year now and am so excited for your new site!
WONDERFUL! I couldn’t have thought of a better or more relevant idea for a blog! This will be a new daily stop for me for sure!
Great idea!
Barbara
What a great site. Will be visiting often.
this is wonderful!! i’ve been reading keeper of the home for years, i bought your most recent ebook and now this!! this is just what our family needs! thank you!
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Love it. I’m going to go through your archives now.
Ooooh, just found you via moneysavingmom! I have 5 kids, I homeschool, and we are also a 1 income household. Can’t wait to save money on living healthy!
@Suzanne, Awesome, welcome Suzanne!
Go Vegan!