Strut Ur Health

04/17/2026

I decided to attempt making sour kraut. So it says: cut cabbage fine. Scrunch with 2 tbsp salt in bowl, then fill your jar with cabbage packed tight to the top. Fill with water and close tightly. Leaving for 8-10 days. Each day your supposed to release the trapped air. Nobody warned me that days two/ three are like opening a soda you just shook up. So fyi just throw a kitchen towel over it or suffer the smell and spew of kraut juice every where. Wow, I think I made that sound unnecessarily grosser than I needed to. Anyway, will update with the final " is it worth it" in a few more days. Also I was hit with a question that I did not know the answer to. I personally chose to add a little water. The question is when you lose water to an explosion ( lol) do you add back water to bring your water level back up? If you know please feel free to comment. Thanks!

04/05/2026

04/05/2026

I was asked where I get my ideas from.....LOL! Just kidding. Next time though I am gonna do all five stripes of color. 70's Barbie, who new, I was calling it dad's polo.

04/05/2026

Homemade marshmallows turned out to be a great and easy activity to do with kids. This is coming from the pov of a stand mixer owner. Delicious in your favorite hot cocoa and makes a mean rice crispy treat. You can also color and flavor them in any way you so desire. There are quite a few low sugar recipes out there I'm looking forward to trying next.

03/30/2026

03/30/2026

Getting the hang of rebatching. It has been a gorgeous weekend. Hope you had a chance to enjoy it. I got outside myself a bit. Start your Morning with a rested mind and body, also love yourself enough to try again tomorrow if need be. 😀

03/16/2026

Time to jump back into making juice. That's my goal this week. Get back to juicing every few days. I'm starting with just one juice a day. To acclimate my digestion. Always start slow( you are jump starting your digestion). This also tends to be a common mistake, some people jump in and drink a bunch then end up on the toilet, saying juice is not for me. Yeah I'm sure, I would think that too if I did that. Remember it's introducing the perfect prebiotics to you system. It's not like juice from the store that has been pasturised (the juice is now dead). Fresh juice is live nutrients. Which is why it is only good for a few days.

03/03/2026

I know some of you have been asking about when I'm going to open my shop. I do apologize for the delay. I was on a roll but we had a power surge that took out my computer and the printer, so it's going to be delayed a bit while I get those replaced. Then I will be right back on it. While I'm waiting though I have been working on my soaps and such. Here's some pics.

03/03/2026

First flower of the year. Anyone else getting antsy to get their garden started? We have had a few beautiful days that called me outside. I love this time of year. Hope you take the time to get outside when you can, just to take a walk or even sit on the porch. I miss just throwing the ball back and forth. Nobody to do that with anymore. Lol. Good memories though.

01/25/2026

Oooooooh, some Soaps are unmolded. I love the swirls. Hope you are getting ready for a great weekend. Whatever that entails for you. I'm on the hunt for a new yoga video. My favorite died. I'm sad, lol. My daughter was like "there's a million to choose from.* She does not understand that I am not very good at remembering steps so it can be stressful to constantly do different workouts, so when I found one I could do after my car accident, i finally learned the moves enough to know what was coming next and it didn't matter if I could see the screen, I could follow. I no longer felt the stress, it became relaxing. The awesome thing about yoga is you determine the difficulty of the moves so you can increase as you go or if you have hypermobility like me sometimes you have to go lighter than usual it works too.

01/25/2026

I've been playing with soap making around here. Figuring out what I like and what I want to make for sale. I'm liking the more natural scents like basil & sweet orange, rosemary & eucalyptus, coconut & vanilla. Smells incredible in here. My biggest problem is waiting to unmold. Lol. I want to see what they are going to look like. Here's to learning to appreciate the wait. It's funny a good snow day used to send me into the kitchen for a cooking day. Now it's a soaping day.

01/19/2026

Hope you all had a great holiday season. I got to spend some time with family. Now that it's a new year I'm getting back into the swing of things and I have a whole lot of new things I'm going to do this year, so stay tuned. Here's a pic of my son and his fam. from Christmas.