by Millie Copper | Apr 23, 2012 | Budgeting, Feeding Children, food thoughts, frugal options, Health, kitchen experiments, Meals, Money v. Time, Someone Else's Shoes, Starting Out, Traditional Foods
This month’s experience for Someone Else’s Shoes is two-fold. The two most common conversations that come up when discussing a diet based on real/whole/traditional foods are the money involved and the time involved. I believe that we can eat a real food...
by Millie Copper | Jan 16, 2012 | Eating Real Food and Working, Traditional Foods
This past week I didn’t spend too terribly much time in the kitchen. With tax stuff to be done, regular bookkeeping, my business getting this new website up and running plus getting what seemed to be a cold of some sort, kitchen time was at a premium. I did try...
by Millie Copper | Jan 15, 2010 | Traditional Foods
A few days ago I saw a facebook post by Cheeseslave stating “bone marrow contains 10-20 times more K2 than liver”. Sounds great but it left me with a few questions. Question #1- Why do we need K2? Question #2- How much K2 is in liver? Question #3-...
by Millie Copper | Jan 2, 2010 | food thoughts, frugal options, Shopping Trip, Starting Out, Traditional Foods
>This is the final recap of food purchased (or otherwise acquired) for the month of December. The previous total spent was $460.66 (week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4). We didn’t need very much this week.We are increasing our cow share so we can get 2 gallons a...
by Millie Copper | Dec 13, 2009 | Meal Plans, Traditional Foods
We try to eat Real Food. What does that mean to me? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. I’ll be the first to admit that we still have a long ways to go before we are eating the optimum nutrient dense diet. Most days though, I am pleased...
by Millie Copper | Nov 14, 2009 | Nourishing Traditions, Traditional Foods
I work hard to feed my family whole, unprocessed, nutrient dense foods. We eat things like grass fed beef, pastured chicken and eggs, offal, antelope, elk, venison, and salmon. We drink raw milk, kombucha, kefir ‘soda’, dairy kefir smoothies and plain...