Chicken Recipe - How to stretch 1 chicken into 8 meals in 7 easy steps

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Yesterday I lucked up on an unbelievable sale! An 8 lb Perdue Whole Roaster Chicken was on sale for $1.08 a pound! This is a vegetarian fed, cage free, antibiotic and hormone free bird. So of course I grabbed one. Instead of oven roasting it, eating what we could hold and freeze the rest, I decided to do this:

Kale and Tomato Pasta - A Simple 5 Ingredient Recipe

Cooking the pasta and kale in the tomatoes with some added water saves time and is a clever short cut with this recipe. We like this dish as a light lunch or side item. With only 5 ingredients it is full of vitamins and it's cheap! This recipe should feed 4. 

How To Make Peppermint Bath Salts

Soaking in a tub with bath salts are a soothing way to ease aching muscles, inflammation  and stress. Making your own is a frugal and fun. Here is my recipe for Peppermint Bath Salts

Oil Pulling and For the Love of Coconut Oil

   One of the latest things people are buzzing about is coconut oil. Check out what I found on this blog. Wait! What does number 10 say? What is Oil Pulling? I had never heard of this before. After much research I thought I would give it a try. With me having RA, I am always looking for ways to help my immune system.

What Is Kefir Anyway?

Milk Kefir

   Milk kefir has been around for a long time. Yet until a few weeks ago, was very new to me. I found the information from some of my favorite blogs here and here. So being adventurous and loving to try new foods, I purchased some from the local grocery store. What you purchase in store is much like a slightly fizzy drinkable yogurt. They have different flavors or plain, just like yogurts. But these are very expensive! So I set out to make my own... 

How To Make Homemade Cleaners

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A great way to save money is by making your own cleaning and beauty products. Household commercial cleaners contain many toxins. I have strong allergies to almost all fragrances, natural or otherwise. I do everything from sneeze to get migraine headaches. By making my own products I control the fragrances (if any) and they are safer for the environment. Something as simple as vinegar and water in a spray bottle can be an effective cleaner for your kitchen counter. Cleaning products are super simple to make and super cheap! My favorites are:

My journey with fermented foods...

I'm an all or nothing kinda gal. I didn't start with one fermented food, oh no. I had to try everything at once. When I started researching all the foods I could ferment, I was super excited. And so began my 'Ferment Experiment'. Milk Kefir, Kombucha, Yogurt, Sauerkraut and Sourdough Bread to name a few. There are endless possibilities to what you can ferment.