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Review: Freshfoods Cook-n-Blend Baby Food Maker
I should have made more! After our trial run with the Freshfoods Cook-n-Blend Baby Food Maker by NUK, we love it! My kids devoured it, almost before I grabbed a picture! I tried to make a lot of S’s baby food from scratch, using organic ingredients, but it was a CHORE using my old blender. It took a lot of steps since I had to cook it all till it was soft enough, fill the blender, empty the blender since I’d filled it too much and it wouldn’t puree, mash all the food down while trying not to spread it all over the kitchen, fill it again, and repeat almost…
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Organic & Natural Printable Coupon Round-Up (3/29/13)
Welcome to the organic & natural printable coupon round-up at Renaissance Mama!! I’ve done my best to make this THE most comprehensive organic & natural printable coupon list on the web. If I’ve missed any that you find, feel free to leave a note and link in the comments! New! Beverages Gevalia – $1/1 Coffee Seattle’s Best – $1.50/1 Coffee 12oz bags So Delicious – 55¢/1 Starbucks – $1/1 Via Ready Brew Frozen Newman’s Own Organics – $1/1 Complete Skillet Meal or $1/1 Frozen Pizza Gluten-Free Life Choice Protein Bars– $1/1 5-count box (gluten-free options) Glutino – $1.10/1 Glutino Product Zatarain’s – 50¢/2 Zatarain’s Breading or Rolls So Delicious – 55¢/1 So Delicious Delallo Coupon – $1/1 Delallo Gluten Free Pasta (Use zip 43035…
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Organic & Natural Printable Coupon Round-Up (3/22/13)
Welcome to the organic & natural printable coupon round-up at Renaissance Mama!! I’ve done my best to make this THE most comprehensive organic & natural printable coupon list on the web. If I’ve missed any that you find, feel free to leave a note and link in the comments! New! Beverages Gevalia – $1/1 Coffee Seattle’s Best – $1.50/1 Coffee 12oz bags Silk – $1/1 (must sign up to print coupon) So Delicious – 55¢/1 Starbucks – $1/1 Via Ready Brew Dairy/Yogurt Heritage Organic (IE) (FF) – $1/1 Heritage Organic Milk Horizon (IE) (FF) – $1/2 Horizon Milk Half Gallons Stonyfield – Possible FREE Stonyfield YoBaby or YoToddler Yogurt 4 pk. (when you enter sweepstakes on Facebook) Yoplait – 30¢/1 Simplait Yoplait (IE)…
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Organic & Natural Printable Coupon Round-Up (3/8/13)
Welcome to the organic & natural printable coupon round-up at Renaissance Mama!! I’ve done my best to make this THE most comprehensive organic & natural printable coupon list on the web. If I’ve missed any that you find, feel free to leave a note and link in the comments! New! Beverages Gevalia – $1/1 Coffee or $1/2 Single Serve Cups Naked Juice Coupon – $1/1 Naked Juice 15.2 oz. Bottle Oregon – $1/1 Chai or Cafe Seattle’s Best – $1.50/1 Coffee 12oz bags Silk – $1 Iced Latte So Delicious – 55¢/1 Starbucks – $1/1 Via Ready Brew Uncle Matt’s – 75¢/1 Organic Juice (59 oz) Breakfast Immaculate Baking – $1/2 Refrigerated Dough Products Coupon Kashi – $1/1 Berry Fruitfuls Cereal Dairy/Yogurt Dannon –…
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Organic & Natural Printable Coupon Round-Up (3/3/13)
Welcome to the organic & natural printable coupon round-up at Renaissance Mama!! I’ve done my best to make this THE most comprehensive organic & natural printable coupon list on the web. If I’ve missed any that you find, feel free to leave a note and link in the comments! New! Beverages Gevalia – $1/1 Coffee or $1/2 Single Serve Cups Oregon – $1/1 Chai or Cafe or Up to $2.50/1 (when you Like them on Facebook and share) Sambazon Coupon – $1.50/1 Sambazon product Seattle’s Best – $1.50/1 Coffee 12oz bags Silk – $1 Iced Latte So Delicious – 55¢/1 Starbucks – $3/2 Packaged Coffee or $1/1 Via Ready Brew Zevia – $2/1 Zevia Coupon…
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Homeschooling Kindergarten: Phonics & Reading
As I shared in an earlier post, we have jumped into Classical Conversations for the general base of our homeschooling curriculum. In the younger years, we also need to teach reading and math. (I love watching kids learn to read – a whole new world opens up to them!) Pre-Reading My favorite, favorite tool for introducing phonics sounds is a dvd called Leapfrog Letter Factory. My kids entertain me because they correct ME when I get the sounds wrong. Can we say mommy is a tad bit tone deaf? My littlest watches the dvd each day (give or take) while my older one works on his reading work. She’s getting…
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Homeschooling: Taking The Plunge With Classical Conversations
Yes, we have joined the growing number of folks who are choosing to homeschool. We chose it for a myriad of reasons, but it started with wanting to protect my tender-hearted redhead. With a little girl down the street coming home from kindergarten with black eyes from the playground, and the administration turning a blind eye to it, I knew my sweet boy would have TARGET written all over him. After researching several different programs (there is a vast number of choices!!), we have landed on several that work well for our family. In this first post, I want to share about Classical Conversations, and how to get started in…
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Organic & Natural Printable Coupon Round-Up (2/15/13)
Welcome to the organic & natural printable coupon round-up at Renaissance Mama!! I’ve done my best to make this THE most comprehensive organic & natural printable coupon list on the web. If I’ve missed any that you find, feel free to leave a note and link in the comments! New! Baking Truvia – 85¢/1 Truvia Natural Sweetener Beverages Oregon – $1/1 Chai or Cafe Silk – $1 Iced Latte So Delicious – 55¢/1 Breakfast Cascadian Farm – 75¢/1 Cereal Dairy/Yogurt Chobani – $1/1 Chobani Bite 4 pk. Silk Coupon (IE) (FF) – Buy 1 Get 1 Free Silk Yogurt Cup Sargento – 55¢/1 or 55¢/2 Cheese Stonyfield – 55¢/s Stonyfield Organic Oikos Greek Yogurt 5.3 oz. cups or one 16 oz. cup…
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The Road Less Traveled During Pregnancy
I had a great ob doctor for my first two deliveries. He wasn’t quick on the interventions, and I liked his balanced approach. Even before all the debate about get-the-flu-vaccine-or-not, he recommended against it, because there wasn’t enough testing down on preggo mamas and babies. Then we moved and I got pregnant with baby #3. Rather than try to find a new ob and have to muddle through all their philosophies, I decided to investigate the midwife route. It helped that Samaritan’s Ministries, our version of health insurance, would waive our out-of-pocket if we used a midwife/birthing center. I started asking around and quickly came across a birthing center…
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Organic & Natural Printable Coupon Round-Up (2/1/13)
Welcome to the organic & natural printable coupon round-up at Renaissance Mama!! I’ve done my best to make this THE most comprehensive organic & natural printable coupon list on the web. If I’ve missed any that you find, feel free to leave a note and link in the comments! New! Baby Happy Baby – $1/2 Pouches Baking Truvia – 85¢/1 Truvia Natural Sweetener Ultragrain – $1/1 Ultragrain All-Purpose or White Whole Wheat Flour Beverages Oregon – $1/1 Chai or Cafe Prairie Farms – 30¢/1 Prairie Farms Orange Juice Half Gallon Silk – $1/1 Silk Quart or larger (login or sign up) Silk – $1 Iced Latte So Delicious – 55¢/1 Wolfgang Puck (IE) (FF) – $1/1 Wolfgang…
