One of the themes at Keeper of the Home this month has been making your own beauty supplies. Beth has showed us how to make our own soap, and Angela gave us a plethora of simple options for making beauty supplies like facial moisturizer, body scrub, even hairspray and more! As for me, I’m breaking …
Raising Healthy Eaters: Helping Our Kids to Make Great Food Choices
Today I have the privilege of being featured at Hannah Keeley’s site, with my guest post Raising Healthy Eaters: Helping Our Kids to Make Great Food Choices. You can check out my large mugshot (seriously!) and read what I have to say about how we can encourage our children to grow up to be healthy …
Whole Wheat Bread Recipe
Confession: I am not so skilled in the kitchen. Conflict: I need to write a blog post about a real food kitchen for Keeper of the Home. Solution: Write about hope. Hope for those of us who feel clueless and overwhelmed at the thought of making better choices for our families. Hope that no matter …
Real Food Makeover: The Woody Family
This week’s makeover is for the Woody Family. There is mom Stephanie, dad Josh and children Delaney (5), Dawson (3), & Finn (2). How They Currently Eat: This family particularly touched me with the email they sent me to be chosen as one of the makeover families. Here is an excerpt from it: Our journey …
Cabbage Roll Casserole
Always trying to find new ways to get more nturient-dense foods into my family, I stumbled upon this idea a while back and it has proven to be a winner! The original recipe came from a fundraiser cookbook put together by my Nana’s Sons of Norway group. I’ve taken that recipe and given it a …
Celebrating Earth Day: A Christian Perspective on Stewardship of the Environment
Today I want to celebrate Earth Day by sharing just a bit about why I, as a Christian, care about the environment and choose to put time, money and effort towards practicing mindful stewardship of God’s glorious creation. Here are some of the main reasons that our family has made environmental stewardship a priority as …
Squeaky Clean Fun: A Soap Making Photo Tutorial
By Beth Corcoran, Contributing Writer To start, I just want to say I am so excited that Stephanie is allowing me the opportunity to share with you one of my favorite hobbies–soap making. I have been making bar soap for my family for almost a year now, and I have tried different methods and a variety …
Learning to Live With Less
In a little over two months, our family will be moving to a new abode. This move is exciting for a number of reasons. The new house has more bedrooms and will allow us to have a girls bedroom and a boys bedroom (yes, we only have one boy so far, but we hope to …
Busy, Busy, Busy Around Here- What’s Going On at Keeper of the Home
I wanted to take a moment to let you know about some of the important things that are happening around here right now: 1) If you haven’t done it already, would you please un-subscribe and re-subscribe to my RSS feed? The old one is currently being redirected, which is why you are still getting it, …
Real Food Makeover- The Anderson Family, Pt 2
This is a continuation of last week’s makeover for the Anderson family. This week I want to share a sample menu plan. It won’t look quite as specific as the menu plan for the W family, because mom Andi is already a regular menu planner and has certain meals/themes that she uses each week, so …
Cultivating a Frugal Mentality
Image by Rex Roof Today I roasted a whole chicken. As I was cutting up and freezing bags of cooked chicken, I noticed myself doing something that I do automatically, but had never really thought much about… before sticking the cutting board in my dishwasher, I used my knife to scrape every last bit of …
At Simple Organic: Using Houseplants to Reduce Toxins and Grow Fresh Air
This week you can find me over at Simple Organic, where I serve as a regular contributing writer. I’m talking about how to purify the toxins in the air in our homes, by using regular houseplants! Here’s a snippet from the post: Clean air. Not only vital to our health, but something that we don’t …
Safe & All Natural Beauty Products You Can Make at Home
By Angela Beery, Contributing Writer Have you ever wondered exactly what ingredients your beauty products are made of? Are you sure that the ingredients in your beauty products are safe? Many of us have never stopped to consider the ingredients in our cosmetic products and how they might be affecting our appearance and our overall …
Real Food Makeover: The Anderson Family
I am just loving these makeovers! They are long and take more work than my usual posts, but to me, there is nothing like really digging in and getting practical for particular families. Are you enjoying these posts, too? I pray that they are a blessing, for both the families involved, and those that read …
Homemade Beef Tallow: A Simple and Convenient Way to Store It
Last year, I was delighted to learn how to render my own beef tallow from all the bones/fatty pieces that came with our side of grass-fed beef. Just the other week, I picked up a new side of beef and was more eager than ever to whip up some nourishing bone broth, and in particular, …
Diaper Giveaway Winner and RSS/Email Subscriptions
Two quick, but important things to tell you: 1. Someone has won that fantabulous cloth diaper package from the giveaway last week? Are you eager to know who it is? (I’m sure you are.. one of my real life friends keeps asking me, “So, did you choose a winner yet???”) And the winner of a …
Real Food Makeover- The “W” Family, Part 2
Continuing on from the first installment of this week’s Real Food Makeover… What to Buy, Where to Buy It One fantastic thing that the “W’s” mentioned is that there is a an enthusiastic local foods movement in their area, including a co-op, farmer’s markets and CSAs. I think that the co-op would be an excellent …
Creating Routine with Little Ones
Photo by David Clow By Emily McClements, Contributing Writer If you’re anything like me, you may have read in books, watched on a Nanny show, or read posts on blogs about creating a routine for your children. It all sounds so wonderful to have perfectly planned out days where you are super productive, spend lots …
Real Food Makeover: The “W” Family
Introducing the first of four families to receive a Real Food Makeover! Each week, I will be highlighting a different family and offering suggestions and resources to help them along the road to eating more real, whole, healthy foods. Meet the W. family: Mom “D” (37), Dad “M” (35), son “I” (3) and twin daughters …
Celebrating the Power of the Cross this Easter Weekend
I was recently reminded again of this powerful song, which we sang at our Good Friday service last night. Listen and be reminded of the best news ever… that through the cross, Christ has taken our blame, born the wrath of God, and now we stand forgiven at the cross. Not sure whether you stand …
Forum Highlights: March/April
Slightly off topic, I thought I should take this opportunity to mention that this site is about to get a face-lift. In (hopefully) a few short weeks, Keeper of the Home will be showing off it’s lovely new design, and I can’t wait! It’s long overdue and will hopefully make things more user-friendly, simple and …
A Year of Herbs: Dandelions
**Have you been following A Year of Herbs? Learn more about common herbs and ways that you can use them as simple remedies in your own home.** I joked last year about how my husband was trying to convince me to view the yearly explosion of dandelions in our yard as a “harvest season”. Ahem. …