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Hmmm, thanks for the idea. I'll have to try this. My latest thing is eat at home, eat at home, eat at home. Today dd had a dentist appt so I had to pick both kids up from school and right there. I took bottles of water, apples and granola bars to get them through so we could fiish the...

I always eat a bowl of cereal before bed, have to or I'm starving around midnight. Dry cereal is expensive, tried plain oatmeal and it's just too heavy to eat before bed. I started thinking about maybe some healthy muffins. Found a recipe for zuke banana muffins with ground flaxseed. There...

Super tight budget this month. Trying to build the savings back up again after a summer long of new farm expenses. The pantry and freezers are stocked to the gills. Planning ahead and making everything we eat for everywhere we go. DH and DS took a roadtrip today to pick up some baby pigs and...

I am a claims adjuster for an insurance company....wait don't shoot....I come in peace. :lol: OK, so you are all right about why the chickens are a problem, but having 30 and being a higher risk is sort of crazy. But anyway, if you are selling eggs and somebody gets sick from them and sues you...

Lots of eating from the garden. Have dried all my herbs for the year. Tomorrow will try turning some crazy wild tart apple from a wild tree on the back of our property into applesauce. If it comes out too tart I will just use it for baking, I always replace 1/2 the oil or butter in a recipe...

We do own our mineral rights. That doesn't make a bit of difference though, sure they have to pay us for the gas they "say" they have taken but it doesn't keep them from coming on our property. Unfortunately the gas company employees are very arrogant and think they can go anywhere and do...

Oh I just remembered a funny one too. We bought our ten acres from a 100 acre parcel that was subdivided. It just happens that the farm driveway was on our lot so we continued it, put a lot of $$$ into it and it is now our driveway. Well one of the big selling points of these lots was the...

Oh boy we are so so sick of trespassers. We live on 10 acres about 1200 feet off the road. We are in the middle of the Marcellus Shale gas drilling, not a good situation at all, if we had ever known 8 years ago what was coming we would not be here. Anyway they are constantly coming up to...

Hmmmm....I guess I had better do my own research. Popcorn doesn't bother me at all, but this does explain why I feel horrible if I eat pretzels as a snack.

That's interesting.....my doctor recommended popcorn as a snack for me with IBS. I think I'm just going to stick to a strictly twigs and berries diet these days, organic and local of course. :) Tina

Ok guys, what's wrong with popcorn? Real stuff not the micro kind?

Thanks so much, I think I still have a couple of butternuts in the cellar.

Yes, I would agree with this as well, although we do have a very nice local chocolate company nearby....although that can be healthy can't it?

Actually my posts clarify that I am considering how to do several things including encouraging healthy diets and increase some environmental awareness with my kids. I also am considering local because of the increased control over your foods. I have a friend who considers her families diet...

Farm fresh: Thank you for your advice, we have had the blood test for celiacs already, negative. I enjoy hearing your story, see your outcome, that's what I wonder about....we are going to do something radical around here, just working out in my head how radical to go. For example we could...

Can I have the butternut squash recipe please?

We finally had to see a gastroenterologist and after tests she dx DD10 with reflux. DD has always had a sensitive stomach but over the winter it was really really bad. She would vomit in her sleep.....well it turns out I was practically killing her with my healthy diet. :) clementines was what...

This has happened to us recently. I noticed DS12 sneaking candy from the freezer. We do have some treats in there for well, treats. We have always followed a pretty healthy diet. I cook most from scratch, bake bread, can sauce, peaches, jellies, green beans etc. We don't buy much processed...

I guess I have several fears....one being I don't want to push the kids over to "the dark side" :) What I mean is I don't want them to feel so deprived in some way that they are constantly seeking out junk food where ever they go, nor do I want to turn them into adults like that either. My...

I have a 10 year old daughter who is on a really restricted diet for severe reflux. I have always dabbled in this a bit, I grow probably 50% of our fruits and veggies, have chickens for meat and eggs and this year pigs. I loved Barbara Kingsolvers book "Animal Vegetable Miracle" and I am...