by Millie Copper | Mar 12, 2012 | food thoughts, kitchen experiments, Meals, Someone Else's Shoes, Starting Out, USDA Thrifty Plan
$172 per week, two weeks, family of 5, real food. That is the current experience. We’re starting completely from scratch following the monetary guidelines put out by the USDA for the Cost of Food at Home Thrifty Food Plan. The USDA attaches a weekly dollar...
by Millie Copper | Feb 11, 2012 | Feeding Children, food thoughts, Starting Out, Traditional Foods
I think it is important to realize that when beginning a real/whole/traditional food journey it does not necessarily have to be all or nothing. Even eliminating the processed junk a little at a time will help your health tremendously. Not to mention will help you...
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...
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...
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...
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...