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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
Menu Week of February 2
February! Our welcome to February here in Wyoming includes a day this week with a forecast high of -3. I'm not going to lie. Negative 3 is...
Simple Lives Thursday #182
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! We encountered technical difficulties last week and didn't get our post up. Sorry about that! Diana and I are...
Working From Home: How to Make it Work
This is the third installment in my series on working from home. You can read post 1 here and post 2 here. When people find out that I work from...
Menu Week of January 26
Already the last week of January! It's cold and snowy here. Not as cold as it was last month but still chilly. Have you heard about the propane...
How We Got Here- Part 2
Be sure to read How We Got Here- Part 1 The summer of 2010 was a pivotal year for us. That year we embarked on raising our own chickens for meat....
Simple Lives Thursday #181
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Menu Week of January 12
Wednesday morning bright and early I'm leaving town. I'm going to Tampa, FL for Freedom 2014 Conference for my skinny wrap business. Joe will be...
Simple Lives Thursday #180
Welcome back to Simple Lives Thursday! Each week I enjoy reading through all of the wonderful tips, ideas and recipes for simple living. If you are...
Menu Week of January 5
This is a sad time. My daughter's boyfriend lost his mom Saturday night. She was only 43. Her death comes just a few days after he lost his uncle...