If you’ve been around for a while, you’ll know for the past year I’ve been dealing with Andrew’s horrendous reactions to mosquito bites. It’s been miserable having to see Andrew go through how his body reacts to getting a mosquito bite. It’s not fun for anyone. I found out that by treating the mosquito bites…
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Call me crazy, but I actually enjoy being outside, working in my chicken coop. Yup, even the whole raking-the-chicken-poop part. Let’s face it — being a blogger is great because it gives me the freedom to stay at home with my son, share my experiences and my new recipes with you. I get to meet…
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Scott and I browsed through hundreds of chicken coop photos to look for the one we were going to build. Hundreds. Unfortunately, many of them we looked at didn’t come with plans or were not to our liking. I hate to admit it, but I was pretty picky with what I wanted. The only problem…
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Crunchy is my middle name. Well, not really, but not only do I consider myself somewhat crunchy in terms of the way I view food, parenting, living, etc but I also really, really love crunchy foods. Hence my love for potato chips. I literally have no will when it comes to having potato chips in…
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Patience? To a 3 year old? Before you scoff at me and think that is completely impossible and click the [x], bare with me and let me explain. I was a little skeptical like you are, trust me. I feel like I’ve got the world’s most impatient toddler but the reality is I’m not the…
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Sometimes I get a little too ahead of myself. Does this happen to you at all? I think I can do a million things in a day and sometimes it just doesn’t work. Actually, most of the time it doesn’t work; between time with Andrew, cooking for us, cleaning, blog work, etc, etc I usually…
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Rewind 5 years ago, I never dreamed of owning chickens — ever. Since the start of my real food journey 3 years ago, I have grown an appreciation for raising animals to eat, along with the farmers who work extremely hard to raise their animals in the right way. With that appreciation came the longing…
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I just spent an amazing week up in Buffalo, NY with my little sister and her new baby, Willow. Prior to this, I haven’t seen my sister in over 2 years so as you can imagine it was a much, much needed trip. It was so crazy for me to see my little sister as…
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One of the most important things I want to instill in Andrew is the joy for cooking. Obviously I’m not going to force it on him but I try and encourage him to be in the kitchen as often as I am. And I’m in the kitchen, a lot. I remember being a child and…
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Have you heard yet? We’re on a new food journey that requires no refined sugar, no dairy, no grains (except Einkorn), and a handful of other things. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. “So Loriel, what exactly can you eat and what are you going to do about the sweets?” Ah, yes, the sweets. Surely…
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