Our Thanksgiving cooking tool guide is full of ideas to help you stay organized and stress-free in the kitchen and beyond. These cooking tools are total must-haves. Yay! Gobble-Gobble.
Frugal Real Food Thanksgiving Menu + Stress-free Cooking Timeline
Guest post by Tiffany Terczak I’ll be the first to admit — this is the time of year when we typically throw caution out the window. We toss aside “healthy” recipes and reach for the shortening and corn syrup and pre-packaged short-cuts that we’ve always used, all for the sake of tradition. I’m including myself …
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21 Ideas for Celebrating a Simple, Natural Thanksgiving: Eats, Decor, Gratitude
Thanksgiving is truly my favorite holiday. In fact, it is the one holiday my husband and I ask the entire family to come over and celebrate what we are most grateful for while eating delicious food surrounded by gorgeous and natural Fall decor. Can we say YUM and how THANKFUL we are for good food, good friends, and a beautiful family? Amen and Gobble-Gobble.
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Weekend Links: Thanksgiving Planning, Pumpkin Recipes, & Finding Joy
Our weekend links this week includes yummy pumpkin recipes for your Thanksgiving meal planning, stress-free family time and parenting, how to frugally update your home, and so much more, yay!
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A Few of My Favorite Thanksgiving Things
I was inspired this year to collect my favorite Thanksgiving things into one place. Here they are…and I’d love to hear what yours are too!
Planning and Preparing a Real Food Thanksgiving Dinner
By Hilary Bernstein, Contributing Writer Growing up, Thanksgiving dinner was a wonderful time with family and plenty of food. Yet many of the dishes served were made with processed food: Green bean casserole made with cream of mushroom soup and French fried onions, Pre-made rolls, Gravy from a jar, Canned sweet potatoes topped with brown …
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Thanksgiving Meal Planning Made Easy
By Kresha, Contributing Writer I love big feasting holidays. I love the excuse to gather with people I love to give thanks for the blessings in our lives, I love the little traditions that spring up over the years, and I LOVE the food. But when it’s a large meal with more food than can …
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Weekend Links: Sweet Potato Pie, DIY Fall Crafts, & Holiday Hacks
Our weekend links this week includes a delicious sweet potato pie recipe, how to style your Thanksgiving table, helping your kids find themselves, and so much more, yay!
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Weekend Links: Embrace the Mess, Turkey Day, & Hosting Hacks
Our weekend links this week includes delicious and simple Thanksgiving recipes, how to navigate through the busy life as a parent, how to understand healthy food labels at the grocery store, and so much more, yay!
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How to Make Slow Cooker Pumpkin Butter
By Kelly Smith, Contributing Writer If you’re a pumpkin pie aficionado, you’re going to fall in love with this delightful pumpkin-spice spread that captures the delicious flavors of fall with every smooth and creamy bite! This spread also makes a thoughtful gift! Simply spoon it into adorable little mason jars and add some pretty ribbons or twine …
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Welcome to Keeper of the Home! We’re so glad you’re here! If you are a woman like me, you want the people you care about to live happy, healthy lives. But let’s face it—living a naturally healthy life is not easy these days. Does This Sound Familiar? I know it can be tough to get reliable …
How to Preserve {Pretty Much} Anything: Part 2
By Kresha Faber, Contributing Writer Did you miss Part 1 of How to Preserve {Pretty Much} Anything? Go right on over HERE to read it. It will give you some fantastic information about: Why we preserve food The 7 types of food preservation A note about safety How to choose which method of preparation to …
Real Deals: This Week’s Sales and Discounts on Natural Products
This week’s top deals: Just a reminder that this Blendtec holiday promo expires December 1, 2014 and is only available while supplies last. Lowest Prices Ever! Certified Refurbished Blendtec Blenders an additional $30 Off + FREE Shipping. They have also just introduced a new FourSide refurbished blender package at the low price of $229.95 (regularly $259.95) …
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Weekend Links
Links for this week: Thanksgiving Meal Plans for 5 Special Diets @ Traditional Cooking School by GNOWFGLINS Take time for non-work things @ Life Your Way The BEST Grain Free Apple Pie! @ Life Made Full On Practicing True Hospitality @ (in)courage Grace for Your Disappointing Birthing Experience @ Red and Honey Two Potato Scallop @ …
My Handpicked Tools for Busy Moms & Healthy Families
This year’s Ultimate Healthy Living Bundle 2014 is now OVER. We hope that you all enjoy your bundles and watch for the next sale to come around again next year. We usually also do a homemaking sale every spring. If you’d like to hear about it, make sure you sign up for our emails …
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Flash Weekend Giveaway! (#1: Online Yoga + Essential Oils)
Thanksgiving may be over for this year, but the gratitude just keeps on coming! We are so grateful for you, the awesome Keeper of the Home readers who make this all possible. We wanted to throw a party to say thanks for being here, so we put together seven amazing giveaways just for you, all …
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Simple Strategies for Saving Time in the Kitchen!
By Kelly of The Nourishing Home, Contributing Writer The holiday season is just around the corner and with it comes some wonderful opportunities to fellowship with family and friends, as well as some challenges in the form of even busier schedules. Throughout the year (and especially when our schedules get over busy), one of my …
5 Ways Green Living and Real Food are Connected
By Emily McClements, Contributing Writer Are you working to ditch processed foods and put more real food on the table? We’re running a series called Real Food Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to Eating Better. Our goal is to answer the questions you might have and make the transition a whole lot easier! We all …
What Is Real Food?
Are you working to ditch processed foods and put more real food on the table? This month we’re running a series called Real Food Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to Eating Better. Our goal is to answer the questions you might have and make the transition a whole lot easier! Written by Courtney Dunkin, Contributing …
50 Christmas Morning Breakfast and Brunch Recipes
By Diana, Contributing Writer Christmas is my favorite day the year. I’m a stickler for tradition on Christmas Day. Each year, my boys and I wake up in the darkness of the early morning. I put on a pot of coffee while the boys take turns jumping on dad, screaming that it’s time to wake …
8 Ways to Enjoy Holiday Meals Without the Junk
By Kate, Contributing Writer Thanksgiving’s coming–really, really soon! And after Thanksgiving we have an onslaught of holiday festivities that will last until we begin 2013. What we find at these festivities, in whatever form they take is…food. Lots and lots of food. I imagine the average person who eats a Standard American Diet can expect …
Classic Pumpkin Pie {Made with Fresh Pumpkin}
By Mindy, Contributing Writer I never was a big fan of pumpkin pie during my childhood years. Every year at Thanksgiving, I would choose cherry or apple pie over the classic pumpkin pie. I never understood why it was such a big deal around the holidays! Until… I had my first pumpkin pie made out …