It’s so nice to have you here in my little patch of the blogosphere!  I hope that you find this website’s resources warm, inviting, helpful and based in reality!  In the spirit of full disclosure, I am a busy homeschooling mom who is struggling with time management and blogging doesn’t always make the top ten [...]

Real Food for Mother and Baby: Winner!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this giveaway!  I’m so excited to announce the very deserving winner….
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Announcing the Winner and a Coupon!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Pure Indian Foods Giveaway, and especially to Pure Indian Foodsfor their generosity in sponsoring this giveaway!
Without further delay, the winner is….
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Looks Like We Made It…..

We interrupt our regularly-scheduled Real Food Wednesday for a personal message to the backbone behind Organic and Thrifty…the “wind beneath my wings” as it were….and though this is not my most flattering picture, I post it because it
highlights the extreme handsomeness of my love. And no, I’m not going to sing you a Shaniah Twain [...]

Win a 6-Pack of GrassFed Ghee: a $50 Value!

Ghee.  Ever heard of it?  It’s also known as “clarified  butter”, which means it is butter that has had all of its protein traces removed.  That means it’s an ideal fat for people who have casein sensitivities.  Why else would you want ghee? 
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Finding a Holistic Health Practitioner

In my recent post on Fertility, one of my commenters asked about where to fine find a functional, holistic nutritional practitioner.  I quickly realized that the response would be best put into a blog post, since I know many other readers might value this information.  What follows is by no means a comprehensive list, but [...]

Sustainable Christmas Gifts

It’s hard to believe we are nearly halfway through December with holiday festivities just around the corner.  I have to admit, the rushing, the spending, the advertising, and the big box stores all really drain my energy this time of year.  Christmas is a sacred holiday centered around giving; which is a beautiful thing.  But [...]

Real Food for Fertility

It’s rather obvious to most that pregnant and nursing women have significantly higher nutritional needs than the rest of us. What we don’t often acknowledge, at least in this culture, are the important nutritional needs of women long before they become pregnant. 
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Transitioning a Child to a Gluten Free/Sugar Free Diet

Recently I’ve gotten several questions in this regard, so I thought I should share some of the tips that have worked for us in our transition to a gluten free (grain free, really) and sugar free diet.  For our situation, it was really a medical necessity and I had no real choice but to go [...]

Announcing the Winner for Cultures for Health!

I apologize for the delay in announcing the winner to this contest; I had intended to do so last Wednesday but our modem broke, and we just got it fixed; which left me sans internet for several days.  But, without further delay:
Congratulations to Kelly Busby!  You are the winner of 3 amazing cultures from Cultures [...]

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