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Free Lifeway Kefir!
Lifeway Kefir is offering a coupon for a FREE Lifeway product if you fill out their quick survey! I love free food that’s great for me!! Fill out their survey and they will mail you a coupon for a FREE 32oz Kefir BioKefir 4-Pk 1-Pint Frozen Kefir ProBugs Kefir 4-Pk Thanks, Thrifty Mama!
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Preventing Illness – The Mighty Sambucus
Hold on to your hats. Are you ready for this? I want to introduce you to Sambucus. This little berry packs a mighty punch. A complete cure for the H1N1 flu strain was found within 2-3 days for 90% of the group given Sambucus. The Journal of International Medical Research reported that 93% of the patients given Sambucus for influenza strains A & B were symptom-free within 2 days. How does this baby work? It actually stops virus replication in its tracks. Sambucus has also been shown to have an immunoprotective effect when given to cancer or AIDS patients. Rather than wait for the flu or some other nasty…
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Frugal Fridays – Eating Organic & Saving Money by Keeping it Simple!
Can I tell you a secret? Our grocery bill has actually gone down by around $400 since we stopped eating processed foods. We even added a family member during that time. I know it can be really difficult to make ends meet sometimes so I want to encourage you that you don’t have to give up (or stay away from!) natural and even organic foods because of the price tag. What’s the key? Simplicity For us, it’s been simplicity. I no longer load up my grocery cart with packaged chips, cookies, poptarts, and pre-prepared dinners that don’t really nourish us anyway. I instead buy food as fresh as possible…
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Daily Deal – Gourmet Olive Oil & Balsamic Vinegar from The Artisanal Kitchen
The Artisanal Kitchen has a delicious-sounding deal today – $19 for Three Olives Olive Oil and Aceto Balsamico Di Modena ($41.98 value), hand-picked by a judge for the International Fancy Food Show. Shipping is included in this deal.
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Healing Cavities Naturally – Really?
** Update. I no longer recommend consuming Fermented Cod Liver Oil after this whistleblower report. RIP Ramiel Nagel, who died of cancer at only 38. This post is about teeth. We all have them (hopefully) and we generally spend as little time as possible thinking about them. I’ve been thinking about mine more lately because they’ve been hurting. Correction – they were hurting. For several months. I was dreading a return trip to the dentist because he didn’t really fix anything that was hurting last time. I just ended up with two mercury fillings. 🙁 (Me, sleep-deprived b/c of a newborn, and a dentist trip didn’t mix real…
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The Wonders of Soap Nuts
Can you believe that this berry cleaned my clothes AND my dishes??!! I am so excited to tell you about soap nuts!! I was sick of all the chemicals in even the ‘green’ laundry detergents and both intimidated and not sure of the ingredients in the typical homemade recipes. THEN I heard about soap nuts. And my laundry world has been forever changed. (Guess I’m feeling dramatic tonight.) Soap nuts are actually soap berries. They grow on trees in India, Nepal, and China. (I’ve heard you can grow them here but haven’t gotten that far into it yet). The harvesters pick them and husk them. According to Wikipedia, they have…
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Forming Values
We are constantly bombarded by media and culture. The average American woman is exposed to around 350 ads per day. I know I’ve seen quite a few just today through facebook, email, driving down the road, and on a few blogs! All of these ads are strategically designed to influence us – whether we like it or not. The influence continues through movies & tv shows, all of them telling us how to dress, what we should look like, who to be with, etc, etc. Values will be formed in our kids – Are they going to be our values or the culture’s? I recently…
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The Kombucha Experiment
One of Chris’ hobbies is trying out new beverages. So, I wasn’t a bit surprised when he picked out something called Kombucha from the drink case at Central Market. He has become a fan, and at $3+ a bottle, I wanted to see if I could make it at home. Sure enough! Cultures for Health offered a nice how-to-make-kombucha video and our experiment has been in process. I saved the last bottle he drank with a few ounces left on the bottom, and stuck it on top of our fridge for a few weeks to grow a culture. Today, the experiment continues. I’ve added sugar, and am currently steeping…
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The Town of Allopath
Fantastic video – well worth a few minutes.
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Digging Deeper
Changing our thought patterns can be one of the most challenging things we do. I’m always encouraged when I notice myself “Thinking Differently”, thank you Bob Hamp. This time, it was about my body. When something internally is a bit ‘off’, I wonder about the cause and what might need to be adjusted in my diet/lifestyle – rather than immediately looking for a ‘treatment’ to fix it. What an idea! Treat the source of the problem, not just the symptom. I’ll leave you with that deep thought to ponder. 🙂 What symptoms are you treating instead addressing the source?
