**This is a sponsored post for Farm Rich #SmokehouseBBQ but all opinions are 100% mine as always** I have some friends who are game night fiends. They take board games very seriously. Okay, so we do as well, and that’s why we enjoy hanging out with each other! Our favorites are Catan, Sorry, and Monopoly.… [read more]
Wise Choice Market
**This is a sponsored post** As a busy mom, sometimes it’s hard to always get “real food” on the table. When you are toting kids back and forth to school, play dates, sports as well as trying to keep up with groceries, laundry and housekeeping, it can be quite the challenge. But we know that… [read more]
How To Make Lacto Fermented Ketchup
Ketchup is almost a food group in our home. My kids and husband could practically drink it and they put it on everything. There are weeks when we can go through 2-3 pints of homemade ketchup. Seriously. It’s like an addiction here. One that I can’t seem to fight against. Why lacto fermented ketchup? The… [read more]
How to Make Sugar Free Jelly
With Thanksgiving coming up, we all know that sugar is everywhere. Pumpkin pies, jellies, sauces, etc. I want to cut some of the sugar this year, so I decided to do a Zevia swap out. I think that homemade jelly is just this side of perfection, but the sugar in there is to much! So,… [read more]
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Homemade Ranch Dressing
I love ranch dressing…as a kid, I practically drank the stuff. It’s perfect on salads, over veggies, on chicken, in hamburgers, as a dip, with chips or crackers, on mashed or baked potatoes…there’s not much that it’s NOT good on. Commercial ingredients in ranch dressingare not good for you. The *nameless company* mix is powdered,… [read more]
3 things about The Homesteading Hippy
I am writing an epic post. My daughter tells me that “epic” doesn’t mean a long poem or story, like I learned in school, it means “cool, wild, totally the bomb”. Ok, grammar lesson aside now. I decided that I would tell you all a little bit more about ME. In groups of 3. Why… [read more]
Homemade Soy Sauce
Before I knew that soy wasn’t good for our family, I loved soy sauce! It’s really awesome for marinating chickens or turkey in to create moist and flavorful meat. I also love it on rice, and when we make homemade Chinese food. It’s perfect in nearly any meat or roast recipe as well. I have… [read more]