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Kitchen Stewardship | A Baby Steps Approach to Balanced Nutrition
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Balancing God's Gifts...One Baby Step at a Time
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How to Make Perfect Thick, Creamy Raw Milk Yogurt (Plus How to Fail Miserably and Laugh at Yourself)

Raw milk yogurt has been an elusive target for me for the last few years. The very best, creamy, thick batch of raw yogurt I ever made was impossible to replicate – I incubated it on the back porch i...

1 day ago

Making Homemade Yogurt: Easy Picture Tutorial

Making homemade yogurt is like tying your shoes. If someone tried to explain the shoe-tying process in spoken word only, you’d have an awfully hard time figuring it out. But as long as a kind p...

2 days ago

Memorial Day Monday Mission

I do hope you’re all enjoying the long weekend (in America, at least). It’s the perfect time for a little review, either a Monday Mission you’ve missed, or just checking out the Rea...

3 days ago

Real Food Weight Loss and Exercise: The End (But is there an end?)

All good things come to an end. Except real food. Real Food Weight Loss and Exercise, as I hope we’ve proven here at KS over the last two weeks, is not a diet. It’s not a system that you ...

5 days ago

What Does it Take to Cut Triglycerides by 75%?

Many of you have been curious to get the full story about how we naturally lowered my husband’s triglyceride numbers with diet alone since I began hinting at his weight loss and lipids numbers ...

6 days ago

Eat Well, Spend Less: Summertime Popsicles with Zero Sugar (Kids Help in the Kitchen)

Things that come out when the weather gets warm include: flip flops mosquitoes gardening gloves sandbox toys popsicles shared around the neighborhood It’s that last one that concerns me, and I&...

24 may 12

Whole Food Protein Sources: After a Workout, During Pregnancy, & Brain Boosters

Protein shakes, energy bars, and supplements marketed to athletes sometimes feel like the worst offenders in the processed foods world. Between the odd chemicals claiming to boost muscle mass, increa...

23 may 12

Recipe Connection: Grain-free Quinoa Bars

Quinoa is not a grain. Technically, it’s a chenopod, related to beets, spinach, and the ever-delicious tumbleweed. As seeds go, it’s not incredibly high in protein but runs right around a...

22 may 12

Recipe Connection: Quinoa Oat Protein Bars

My husband doesn’t eat quinoa, no matter how I serve it, but when he tried this gluten-free quinoa oat snack bar recipe, his feedback was something like this: “Yeah, these are pretty good...

22 may 12

Monday Mission: Have Fun Exercising

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make sure you’re moving your body throughout the day, and have fun with it! Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps While a regimented exerc...

21 may 12

Healthy Snacks: Come into my Kitchen, I’ll Show You

Real food can get hairy when the family gets busy. Baseball games, art shows, piano recitals, graduation parties and more are filling up calendars across the nation this time of year, and it isn̵...

21 may 12

What do You See When You Look in the Mirror? (Weightless Book Review)

I nearly went to the bus stop with dried clay on my face this week. I truly look in the mirror so infrequently that I forgot I had Redmond Clay on some zits overnight, and I was halfway to the bus st...

18 may 12

Long Weekend Sale to Launch into Summer: Family Camping Handbook 42% off!

It’s time for a summer season sale, just before the official start of summer, Memorial Day Weekend. The sale on the Family Camping Handbook, 2nd Edition, is off and running for a long weekend b...

18 may 12

Can Being Nice Make You Fat and Sick?

What would you do if you received this: That was full of this: (Note especially that “hyd-” word…) And then you noticed this: And it was from your lovely, well-meaning, doting, octogenari...

17 may 12

Five Keys to Weight Loss with Real Food

We joke sometimes that we’ll launch a “Kitchen Stewardship Diet Plan” with weird taglines like “Eat nuts, all the time!” or “Eggs, eggs, and more eggs!” or &...

16 may 12

Monday Mission: Can Real Food Help You Lose Weight?

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to determine whether you’re at your ideal/healthy weight…or not. If the answer is “not” then you get a “part B” mission, OK? Th...

15 may 12

Cloth Diaper Wrap-up: What do I really recommend?

Prepare yourselves for some brutal honesty here: I don’t like cloth diapering. (waits for sky to fall on head) … … Since I’m still here, I guess I get to tell you more. For me, cloth diap...

14 may 12

Can the Government Help us Avoid Toxins?

I’m over at Green Your Way this week with Will the Safe Chemicals Act be Enough? I don’t usually get political, but more and more, there are issues worth exploring (at least) and writing ...

12 may 12

A Cloth Diapering Rookie’s First Steps: the Routine, the Laundry, the Vocabulary

This is the post I was hoping someone would send me back in July before John was born, or December when I was about to jump into cloth diapers and was scared out of my mind. I couldn’t quite vi...

11 may 12

Cloth Wipes: DIY, Free, or Fancy?

Paper or plastic? No, I’m not putting plastic on my baby’s bottom, but the question for grocery shoppers might as well be the question for young moms: Cloth or disposables? Just as we use...

10 may 12

How Fast Do Cloth Diapers Absorb?

What 3-year-old wouldn’t love sitting on top of the kitchen table pouring water all over things? Mine had a blast. Dear Leah helped me pour a Tablespoon of water on two dozen different cloth di...

10 may 12

Want a Pocket Diaper? Read These First…

Eight of the ten pocket cloth diaper reviews are now available over at the massive cloth diaper review post…you’ll find 4 diapers you do NOT want to buy plus a few of my favorites, with two mor...

08 may 12

Cloth Diaper Absorbency Tests: How Much Will It Hold?

We made a grand old mess! To satiate my curiosity about how much these cloth diapers really do hold, I laid out all 25 of those cloth diapers from the cloth diaper review, and I did two tests (on dif...

07 may 12

Needs & Wants of Cloth Diapering: Yes, I Need Wet Bags

There are a lot of bells and whistles nowadays in the cloth diapering world. No longer do you choose between signing up for a diaper service or washing your own, and then your decision-making is over...

04 may 12

Want Bulletproof? Try Fitted Cloth Diapers

Sorry I lied. I told you the other day that Motherease was the only diaper that never leaked, but guess what? Somehow I missed one – I did have 25 different diapers to juggle, so maybe that’s m...

03 may 12

Want to Cloth Diaper? KS Can Help With This $380 Prize Package! {GIVEAWAY-NOW CLOSED}

I know, I know…literally my first piece of cloth diapering advice as I embarked on this cloth diaper review/rookie/how-to series was “don’t get 25 different kinds of cloth diapers; itR...

03 may 12

Do You Dislike Touching Poo?

One of my ultimate favorite cloth diaper categories, for a whole bunch of reasons, is one for which I don’t even know the official name. I put the diapers that have a separate cover and insert ...

02 may 12

The All-in-Two Cloth Diaper Reviews are Up…

Snaps, snaps, and more snaps! Find out which diaper my cloth diapering friend would "throw on the floor" for its many snaps and which snaps simplify my life and make me {heart} some of thes...

01 may 12

Kitchen Stewardship is Malware Free (Phew!)

I’ve decided all those dumb, mean people in the world – like computer hackers – probably weren’t fed very well as children, and I’d like to give their mothers a stern but loving tal...

01 may 12

Cloth Diaper Review Update: All-in-One Individual Reviews

I’ve been waylaid a bit this week…if you use Firefox, you’ve been getting a nasty red and black "ATTACK PAGE" warning when trying to visit certain parts of KS. I was hacked, and...

26 apr 12

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