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Did you eat your seeds?

Green your Halloween and roast your pumpkin seeds! The pulp of your pumpkins can be used to make awesome pumpkin muffins, pumpkin waffles, or pumpkin pie, but surely you know about that.
In case you’ve never done, pumpkin seeds are a wholesome salty snack. Ditch the potato chips and pop some pumkin seeds!
Rinse the pulp off [...]

How do you feed your family?

In a culture of instant gratification, what’s your idea of a good family dinner? Sure, it’s different from family to family and there’s no ‘one size fits all’ when it comes to food. But what is it to you? Do you eat as a family? At the table? Is there a TV droning in the [...]

Sinfully Cinnamon!

Well, even though cinnamon is key in decadent goodies like warm, gooey cinnamon buns and apple pies, it’s actually a very healthy ingredient. We posted a while back about the benefits of cinnamon in fighting fungus and microbes, but as it turns out, there’s more to it than that.
A teaspoon of cinnamon a day can [...]

Sugar nation

Did you know that the average American consumes 34 teaspoons of sugar per day? Yikes! Sugar content is high in things you’d probably anticipate – sodas, sugary cereals – but it’s also high in items you wouldn’t normally considered high in sugar, like ketchup, yogurt, cranberry juice, toothpaste, bread, sports drinks, peanut butter, barbeque sauce [...]

Check out this giveaway!

Nature Moms is giving away 2 reusable bottles – one for adults and one for kids. She’s got a great review up, and you can check it out here. Go visit her – it’s an awesome blog. But please don’t enter to win – you’ll weaken my chances of winning!

Best way to clean cutting boards

There’s nothing better than creating a home cooked meal from scratch, using the season’s finest and freshest to bring the most flavor to the table. But unless you’re a vegetarian you probably also have raw meat you’ll be chopping now and then, and potentially leaving dangerous germs on your chopping block. Here’s what we suggest:

Use [...]

Don’t cry over spilled milk – even on your new Berber carpet

Anytime you spill a large amount of liquid on your carpet or rug, the immediate instinct is to run for the paper towels or kitchen towels. We’re going to challenge that notion. If you keep cornmeal in your pantry (and who wouldn’t?), pour a healthy amount of corn meal directly onto the spilled liquid. After [...]

Club soda for cleaning

Is it just an old wives’ tale or is there really something about club soda that cleans well? As it turns out, grandma knew something. Club soda is great on acidic spots – coffee, wine, juice, bodily fluids, things of that nature. From carpet to laundry, countertops to stainless steel. Club soda really does offer [...]

Cleaning caddy – do you have one?

If not, you’ve gotta get one. Wait, scratch that. You’ve got to get one for each floor of your home. Downstairs, upstairs, loft, basement. Stock it well and it’ll be your best speed cleaning friend.

Sanitizing produce at home

There are all sorts of industrial methods to disinfect produce for food service programs, prepackaged produce, and the like. But what can we, as consumers, do to insure that the food we feed our families at home is free of contaminants and food-borne pathogens? We’ve found a number of studies that offer solutions to the [...]