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Real Food Cooking
Healthy, traditional cooking: real food recipes, monthly meal plans, alternative cooking methods, and much more.
Homesteading
All things homesteading: small livestock, homeschooling, gardening, homemaking, and much more.

About Millie
As a blogger for over a decade, focusing on preparedness, homesteading, off-grid living, and traditional foods, Millie has penned three nonfiction traditional food focused books, sharing how—with a little creativity—anyone can transition to a real foods diet without overwhelming their food budget.
She recently started writing fiction, using her lifestyle and personal experiences as a guide. The Havoc in Wyoming series combines a post-apocalyptic world with homesteading, preparedness, family values, and plenty of twist and turns.
Recent Blog Posts
Natural Ways to Treat Dry Winter Skin
Dry winter skin is an unpleasant side effect of the fun of the season. Whether we're doing the homestead chores, in the mountains snowshoeing, on...
30 Healthy Soup Recipes – Made with Real Food Ingredients
With snow falling and our Wyoming temperatures dipping below zero, a hearty bowl of soup helps chase the chill away. We enjoy economical and healthy...
Winter Tailgating with Traditional Foods
Does your love of the outdoors find you making your way to the ski resort at every available opportunity? In this pandemic time, many resort...
How to Make Preparedness Backup Plans – And Why You Need Them
Recently we talked about get-home bags, commonly referred to as GHB. In the past, we've discussed everyday carry bags (EDC) and touched on bug-out...
Get Home Bag: Why You Need One and How to Make It
Do you need a get home bag? If you ever leave your home, chances are good you should add a get home bag to your preparedness plans. This bag...
The Top 5 Things You Can Do Today to Start Prepping
There was a time, not that long ago, when preppers were looked at as tinfoil hat wearers. They were often the punchline of jokes and considered...
Delicious & Healthy Black Bean Recipes
I'm going to let you in on a secret. I'm a huge fan of beans of all sorts. Oh! You already knew that? I guess it's not much of a secret since the...
20+ Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes
I love a beautifully roasted turkey for our Thanksgiving meal, but I equally love the dishes we create in the days following. While my very favorite...
How to Cook Dry Beans – 6 Different Ways
Beans are economical, easy to prepare, and a healthful source of plant-based protein. They come in many varieties, sure to suit almost every palate,...
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The Thrifty Food Plan Experience
Includes 67 pages of thoughts, tips, and ideas plus a two-week menu plan and over 40 recipes.

Wyoming Refuge
Get a free fiction book! This is a prequel to the Havoc in Wyoming post-apocalyptic series.