Category: Self Sufficiency

Mix Your Own Herbal Cordials

Mix Your Own Herbal Cordials Be green fingered and grow your own herbs (you can use fresh or dry). Recycle your old jars and you can be very frugal! As a treat you could even add it to one of the hampers we saw earlier in my other post…  Please be aware that cordials have …

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Camping Tips and Hacks for Families

Camping Tips and Hacks for Families Camping really is great—don’t get me wrong—but it also requires planning and preparation work roughly the equivalent of building an entire house with your bare hands. If you crave that family time, togetherness, and the peace of nature, but you’re intimidated by the gear, the prep, and the set-up, …

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Top 10 Clean Eating Recipes

Top 10 Clean Eating Recipes Clean eating is a lifestyle. By incorporating whole, fresh foods into your diet, you eliminate preservatives, additives, and toxins and avoid the processed and refined foods that wreak havoc on our health and on our waistlines! Food is the big ticket to good health. If you eat garbage, your body will …

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20 Delicious Fall Slow Cooker Recipes

20 Delicious Fall Slow Cooker Recipes Get your crockpots into gear — Fall is just around the corner, and there’s no better time to reinvent some of your favorite slow-cooker classics for your family. A small investment of time in the morning—peeling onions, chopping carrots, browning beef—pays off in the evening, when you come in from …

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10 Reasons Why You Should Never Throw Away Used Teabags

10 Reasons Why You Should Never Throw Away Used Teabags You’re still throwing out used tea bags? I can assure you that after reading this you will not throw away a single used tea bag again. Most of us know the healing properties of tea, but not many know that previously used tea bags can …

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