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10/22/2015

I love this idea. I have made crackers (I think they’d last forever as well) but they contained a lot of seeds and I suspect that would lessen the “shelf life”. If I may, I would suggest flax seeds and h**p hearts, perhaps some coconut oil for more nutritional value. Coconut oil doesn’t lose any nut…

10/19/2015

Beans in your daily diet just makes sense. Nutritionally and financially, beans have a lot to offer your family. Master the art of soaking beans

10/19/2015

10/18/2015

The stories became far too frequent to ignore. Emails from folks with allergic or digestive issues to wheat in the United States experienced no symptoms whatsoever when they tried eating pasta on vacation in Italy. Confused parents wondering why wheat consumption sometimes triggered autoimmune react…

10/14/2015

By now both folk and modern medicine know about curcumin, a component of turmeric that been shown to have anti- inflammatory benefits, and has been associated with the inhibition of colon, gastric, and breast and skin cancers. 1 , 2, 3 There’s just one problem, turmeric is not really very easy for y…

10/12/2015

In this video, I show you a traditional Middle Eastern method of preserving yogurt cheese that requires no refrigeration. My grandmother and namesake, Tata Wardee, who has passed away, always had jars full of yogurt cheese balls available to add to our plates at breakfast, lunch and dinner!

Learn more -- > http://traditionalcookingschool.com/2011/03/21/free-video-kefiryogurt-cheese-balls/ #

Pin it -- > http://www.pinterest.com/pin/245094404695227442/

10/12/2015

10/12/2015

Electrolytes are important because they are what your cells, especially nerve, heart, muscle, use to maintain voltages across their cell membranes and to carry electrical impulses, nerve impulses, and muscle contractions, across themselves and to other cells. Your kidneys work to keep the electrolyt…

10/12/2015

Electrolytes are basically salts. Salts keep your body’s electrically conductive to maintain cell voltage for receiving or passing along information. Regular table salt works fine as long as it contains sodium chloride, which almost all salts are made of. Some also have potassium iodide, which is al…

09/22/2015

Another easy way to eat healthier is to ditch the store-bought bread!

Common Sense Homesteading has put together a great list of bread recipes -- there are recipes for both the grain eaters and the non-grain eaters. A little something for everyone!

Find the recipes: http://commonsensehome.com/bread-recipes/

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09/22/2015

12 Homemade Wood Burning Stoves & Heater Tutorials

http://knowledgeweighsnothing.com/12-homemade-wood-burning-stoves-heater-tutorials/

We really want to get a wood burning stove to supplement our heating (to be honest we want one for the atmosphere created by a wood burning stove just as much!) Nothing beats the smell and warmth of a wood burning stove...

The problem is - if you want to purchase a ready made wood burning...