Heavenly Homemakers

I’ve told you how much I love Rapadura to bake with.  (If you’ve never eaten a brownie made with rapadura…you haven’t had a brownie…well in my chocolate loving opinion…which is just an…opinion.) (Oh dear, now I’m hungry for brownies.)
Rapadura is unbleached, unrefined dehydrated cane sugar juice.  It bakes just like sugar (you substitute it one for one)…has a wonderful molasses-y [...]

I thought at this point in the Getting Real with Food series, you might enjoy hearing from someone else on the matter.  My friend Lindsey recently began making some changes for her family (which includes her husband Eric and two of the cutest little girls).  She and I have been visiting and emailing back and [...]

I have two friends.
Okay, I have way more than two friends…but right now I’m going to be talking about two friends.
These two friends are named Ima and Erma.  (While these may sound like ficticious friends…they aren’t…the friends are real…I just changed their names so as not to embarrass them on my blog).
Ima’s husband has had [...]

If you’ve missed the other posts in this Getting Real with Food series, be sure to go read them!
All this information about healthy eating can be SO OVERWHELMING…huh?  Especially if you’re used to buying and eating mostly pre-made convenience foods.  Now you’ve learned that you need to “find good healthy sources of milk and meat from [...]

I’ve had tons of emails lately asking if I soak my grains and how I do it and why I do it! 
Most of the recipes on my site have not shown that I soak my grains.  Mostly I did that because I know that many of my readers are just beginning to look into making changes toward healthy [...]

After all this talk about how you should eat real food and stay away from not-real food…many of you are asking WHERE I get all of my real food and how I find it to be affordable.  I decided my Frugal Friday post for this week would offer some suggestions about great real food sources!
Now [...]

Many, many, many of you have emailed or left comments asking what on earth I feed my family for snacks since we try to avoid packaged crackers and other “stuff”.  (See my list of the ingredients we try to avoid eating.)
Snacks are one of the most difficult foods to come up with, in my opinion.  [...]

Gretchen emailed me with this question:
I just read some of your series on “Getting Real with Food“.  I am in the midst of being a “coupon queen” but trying to quit.  I am doing some organic foods and trying to cook so much more homemade food.  My question to you is, how do I make [...]

Last time I posted in this series, I talked about some of the no-no ingredients you should try to avoid.   And I promised to explain a bit more about why you should avoid them. 
Then I started writing this very difficult post and found that it was a very difficult post to write. 
Most of the [...]

Catch up on the rest of this series here!
In my latest post of this series, I talked about some simple ways for you to make some changes in your diet in order to begin eating healthier.
I also recommended that you start taking a good look at the labels on the food you buy. 
Today I’d like to [...]