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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.
Preparedness
Preparing for an unknown future: food storage, emergency supplies, prepping resources, 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 seven nonfiction traditional food focused books, sharing how—with a little creativity—anyone can transition to a real foods diet without overwhelming their food budget.
Millie uses her homesteading, preparedness, and off-grid living experience as a guide to writing her bestselling Christian Post-Apocalyptic series, Havoc in Wyoming and Montana Mayhem.
Recent Blog Posts
Millie’s Menu January 22, 2018
I've dubbed this my traveling menu. 🙂 Last night, I arrived in Oregon for work. I'm here until I fly home Thursday afternoon. I'm staying at my...
Setting Up House – Where to Put Guests
My first house, we hardly ever had people over because we lived so far away from family and outside of the city, so not much of a friend's...
Millie’s Menu January 15, 2018
I'm very much enjoying having a menu plan. I'd forgot just how much help spending a little time planning early saves me in the end. Joe has...
Creating a Shadow Box for Loss
Grief is a funny thing. It hits each person differently. We may have shared experiences, but that doesn't mean we all process it in the same way. My...
Millie’s Menu January 8, 2018
The second week of January and my second menu plan for 2018. I'm on a roll! I loved having a well-thought out plan last week for our food. It really...
Setting up a Bar Cart
Remember Gilmore Girls? Any time Lorelai and Rory would visit Richard and Emily, the first thing they would do is walk over to the bar cart in the...
Millie’s Menu January 1, 2018
For the first several years of my blogging journey I shared our menu plan almost every week. Those weekly menu plans were a very important part of...
Off Grid Living 2017 Quarter 4
October, November and December have been all about food and water. Food With our kitchen *almost* finished, at least finished up to the point we ...
Meeting People in a New Town
Having just moved 3 states to a new town, I'm fully aware of how difficult it can be to build new friendships. Meeting interesting people who share...