Welcome back to the Raising Healthy Families Series!
Written by Andrea from The Greenbacks Gal.
Over the last 50 years, we’ve had a major shift in the American diet. We’re now consuming more of our calories by drinking them. In fact, the average American is now drinking approximately 400 calories per day!
Soda, fruit juice, energy drinks and sports drinks. My kids ask for them, do yours?
Reach for a healthier alternative: tea. Full of potent antioxidants, studies have proven tea is good for your health. Can any soda say that? Plus, with so many flavorful recipes, you’ll have no problem convincing your family to drink more healthy tea.
Andrea Green from The Greenbacks Gal shares her Homemade Tea Recipes that are sure to become family favorites.
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If you’ve been around my blog long, you already know that I’m passionate about finding or making non-toxic, natural products for my family. With all of the toxins than are used in most store-bought personal care products, it has been a priority for me to find the best alternatives possible. One of the things I have discovered is that in place of store-bought lotion, we love using lotion bars!
Lexie, from Lexie: Naturals, makes and sells some fantastic lotion bars that we have been enjoying for the last two months. This winter was especially hard on our skin, since we moved to much drier climate than we were used to. Lexie’s lotion bars made a huge difference for us! My five-year-old and I wash our hands often since we cook and clean so much. Her hands had gotten chapped and sore, mine had started cracking in [...]
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” ~William Morris
My husband and I like to try to make sure our useful objects are also beautiful, whenever possible. Our house is full of little treasures that make us smile when we use them. Three of our newest treasures are these beautiful hand-crafted wooden spoons from Polder’s Old World Market. They are hand-carved from maple.
I am very passionate about supporting Christian family businesses, so when Loran Polder contacted me about doing a review and giveaway, I was thrilled! Let me tell you a bit about these spoons and the family that makes and sells them.
The Polder family lives on a homestead in Tennessee where they hand-craft their products. Along with the wooden cooking utensils, they also [...]
We hope you enjoy all the great posts we get to see here every week and will come back again next week as well! If you join the linky party please be sure to *link back within your post* to the hostess so that others can join the fun!
We’ve just added a new way to help promote all of you lovely ladies who come link up and read with us each weekend! Come follow the Weekend Whatever Favorites Pinterest board. We do a featured post on the blog each week, but this will be a handful of top picks from all four of us.
A place for sharing your best of Healthy Recipes, (no refined white flour/sugar, artificial ingredients – keeping in the spirit of transitioning to REAL, WHOLE FOODS), Marriage, Parenting, Frugality, Homemaking, Homesteading, Crafting, Christianity or where ever else your heart has taken you.
Hosting [...]
Welcome back to the Raising Health Families series, join us each week as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.
Written by Sara from Your Thriving Family
Many of us are trying to eat real food and get back to natural products, for what we believe to be the best for our families. The wall we sometimes hit, unfortunately, can be our well-meaning and loving extended family.
How do you continue along your journey and keep the peace with the extended family? Natural Living in a Regular Family, is about finding the balance and putting relationships first. Click on over for finding the grace in what goes in and on your family.
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*This salve is available for purchase in my on-line store!*
We went on our first hike of the spring this past weekend and I can tell you, this salve works! The day after our hike I had shin splints and very sore shoulders (from carrying our 16-month-old on them for part of the hike), so we decided to test out my new salve recipe. I put the salve on my left shin splint and my left shoulder, then I rubbed my right shin splint and right shoulder for the same amount of time, but without the salve. I didn’t want the short massage to skew the test results.
About 20 minutes after applying the salve, my left shin and shoulder began to feel a bit better. Within an hour, they felt almost completely normal! By the next morning, my entire left side was [...]
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Every couple has their own unique set of difficulties, trials and stresses. Too often we allow those things to come between us, rather than letting God use them to strengthen our marriages.We get impatient with each other, we forget to speak in love, sometimes we even begin to see each other as the problem. The stress builds and our marriages suffer.
Read the rest my post over at A Biblical Marriage!
We hope you enjoy all the great posts we get to see here every week and will come back again next week as well! If you join the linky party please be sure to link back to the hostess in your post
We’ve just added a new way to help promote all of you lovely ladies who come link up and read with us each weekend! Come follow the Weekend Whatever Favorites Pinterest board. We do a featured post on the blog each week, but this will be a handful of top picks from all four of us.
A place for sharing your best of Healthy Recipes, (no refined white flour/sugar, artificial ingredients – keeping in the spirit of transitioning to REAL, WHOLE FOODS), Marriage, Parenting, Frugality, Homemaking, Homesteading, Crafting, Christianity or where ever else your heart has taken you.
Hosting are: Sara at A Joyful Mother Joanie [...]
Welcome back to the Raising Healthy Families series! Join us each week as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.
Written by Krissa Jeldy of More Than Mundane
Summer is right around the corner and now is the perfect time to start planning and preparing your natural first aid kit for summer. Discover safe and effective ways to heal sunburn, relieve bug bites, and care for cuts and scrapes. Head on over to More Than Mundane to learn how to prepare a natural first aid kit for summer.
Like most women, I assumed that I would use birth control pills until we were “ready” to have kids, then immediately become pregnant when I went off the pill. Like many women, I discovered it is seldom that easy. (Read about my journey through infertility over at Modern Alternative Pregnancy!)
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