Starting Out Archives - Homespun Oasis

Gluten and Dairy-Free eCourse Review and Giveaway

by Millie Copper | May 8, 2012 | food thoughts, Starting Out, Traditional Foods

We started our real food journey in January of 2009 after reading Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig. I’ve have mentioned several times (so much that I probably sound like a broken record) that we made changes very slowly in order to...

5 Cheap and Easy Ways to Improve Nutrition

by Millie Copper | Nov 23, 2009 | food thoughts, frugal options, Starting Out, Traditional Foods

Are you at a point where you know you need to make some improvements to your diet to include more nutrient dense items, higher nutrition and less processed foods? These easy and inexpensive suggestions will help! Stop Buying Cold Cereal Cold cereal is a huge waste of...

How We Got Here- Part 1

by Millie Copper | Sep 4, 2013 | Around the Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Starting Out

When I first started blogging, at a simple family style blog, we were living in a 23 foot camp trailer in Northern California. The summer before that we had purchased two acres of bare land in Wyoming. Thinking it would take some time for our Oregon coast home to sell...

Begin Where You Are

by Millie Copper | May 3, 2013 | food thoughts, Health, Meals, Starting Out, Traditional Foods

I’ve noticed a trend lately. There seems to be an overwhelming amount of people with opinions that their way of eating is the only ‘right’ way of eating and everything must be an ‘all or nothing’ approach. While some people might surely...

Menu Week of March 24

by Millie Copper | Mar 25, 2013 | food thoughts, Meal Plans, planned overs, Starting Out

Now that spring is supposed to be here we seem to be having winter. We have snow on the ground and it is pretty chilly at night time. Some of the days warm up and the snow melts off and we have a lovely muddy mess. We are hopeful that the weather will cooperate so...

Budgets, Rules and Going Forward

by Millie Copper | Jan 2, 2013 | Budgeting, food thoughts, Starting Out, Traditional Foods

Happy 2013! With the new year here I thought it would be a great time to give an overview of our food philosophy and this blog. When I started this blog late in 2009 I struggled with a name for it. I had been writing about food on a family blog that I...