Getting Started with Herbal Medicine

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Welcome back! Make sure you don’t miss a single post or deal by joining 3,000 others and subscribing for free by RSS feed or by email!Share One thing I quickly realized when we had children was that we could either educate ourselves and attempt to prevent and treat whatever ails us or we could live [...]

Homemade Face Mask Recipes

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ShareLast night, I did something shameful. Desperate for a face mask, I took the car out at 8 pm (late for me), drove to CVS, and forked over $4 (in ECBs, at least) for a Freeman’s face mask. I say shameful simply because I can’t stand impulse purchases, and the idea that I managed to [...]

The Organic Egg Taste Test (A Video)

ShareNow, before I get you all excited to watch this video (below), let me preface this: I look terrible! I’m in my running clothes, my hair is a mess, and it’s just a bad, bad, day all around. That said, though, I did a quick (fun) video doing a blind taste test between organic eggs [...]

Reducing Your Waste — How Much Garbage Does Your Home Produce?

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ShareA few years ago I read a book I loved, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, that really opened my eyes. For the first time it honestly made me realize that the fact that I throw out vast quantities of stuff is not actually a good thing. Yes, it’s good to want to [...]

How to Cut Sugar Cravings

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ShareI’m a big fan of the Weston A. Price Foundation and enjoyed this article I found, Zapping Sugar Cravings. The most interesting fact? Our ancestors likely ingested about 60 calories a day of sugar. These days? We ingest an average of 764 calories (!!) of sugar! Remember that sugar is hidden everywhere, and trying to [...]