Ways to Preserve Food Without Canning
When we think of food preservation, a lot of times the first thing that comes to mind is pantry shelves filled with home-canned foods in …
Real Food
Information and tips about real food, traditional foods, natural whole foods, cooking from scratch, etc.
How to Use Less Flour for Feeding Your Sourdough Starter
Even though using a sourdough starter for homemade yeast means that you don't have to buy yeast packets from the store to bake bread, a …
How Often Should You Feed a Sourdough Starter?
Making a homemade sourdough starter is a fairly simple process, but it can also bring up some questions, and one of those questions is how …
How to Make Your Own Maple Syrup - Part 2: Boiling Down the Sap
If you have a few backyard maple trees and you live in a climate where it's below freezing at night and above freezing during the …
How to Make Homemade Maple Syrup: Tapping Your Maple Trees
There are some aspects of homesteading that are definitely more challenging for those of us who live in suburban areas with small yards, but if …
How to Store Apples to Last for the Winter
One of the many reasons why apples were such a popular fruit in previous centuries is the fact that they are one of the few …
How to Cook from Scratch (Without Spending all Day in the Kitchen!)
Switching over to a healthier, real food lifestyle can seem a little bit daunting at first, especially if you're used to grabbing fast food …
How to Store Vegetables for Winter
Whether you want to store your own garden-grown produce or whether you want to take advantage of a bulk discount for fresh vegetables from a …
Tips for Saving Money on Real Food
A lot of times, money can be a big issue for people wanting to switch to a healthier diet of organic, traditional, real food. …
4 Ways Modern Bread is Different From Traditional Bread
Bread can be somewhat of a controversial topic today with some people believing that grains and gluten are harmful and should be avoided at all …
10 "Newfangled" Foods Our Ancestors Never Ate
Of all of the things that have changed a lot in the past few years, our food supply is definitely one of them! And …
5 Reasons Why I Still Eat Refined Flour
My first thought in writing this post was that it would probably be my most controversial post yet. And then I almost started laughing because …
Why Thanksgiving Is the Healthiest Holiday of All
Thanksgiving? Healthy? It might seem like a bit of an oxymoron, considering Thanksgiving's typical reputation as the holiday of gluttonous overeating, but, in my opinion, …
Is It Really Healthier to Grind Your Own Grain?
It took a long while before I finally decided to get my own grain grinder. For several months, I had debated whether it would …
Are You Stuck in a Veggie Rut? How Eating with the Seasons Can Break You Out of It
Maybe it's just me, but I find that's it's pretty easy to get stuck in a veggie rut and end up eating the same few …
The History of Margarine (And Why Butter Is Better)
Did you know that the sale of margarine was illegal in seven states in the 19th century and that three states required that it be …
How to Make Homemade Yeast
For a long time, I had been confused about the subject of yeast, and especially about homemade yeast. The only yeast I knew about was …
Counting Nutrients, Not Calories: Why Calorie Counting Doesn't Work
There's been quite a craze the past few decades of calorie-counting. Calorie counts are listed on just about everything now - cereal boxes, restaurant menus, even online …
7 Reasons Why You Should Grow Your Own Food
There was a time when almost every home had some type of vegetable garden on the property. Those who were wealthy could afford to have large, …