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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 in Review: Week of January 6
Beginning last week (and continuing for the next couple of weeks) I've posted our menu plan after the fact. I wanted to share how even though I use...
Red Beans: Cooking and Favorite Meals
At my house red beans is an all encompassing term for any red bean (I know, obvious). These could be the large red kidney beans or smaller red...
Menu in Review: Week of December 30 & BBQ Style Beans
Most weeks I make a menu plan. Some weeks I share it with you. I find that a having a pre planned menu to follow works best for me to be able to...
Book Review: Real Food Storage
"Then the phone call came. One cold February afternoon, Jeff called to tell me his company did a 20% pay cut across the board. Two months later,...
Budgets, Rules and Going Forward
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...
Menu Plan Week of December 9
I'm happy to be back home after being out of town for work last week. My husband tells me he is extremely happy I am home! It is nice to be missed....
Menu Plan Week of December 2
This week's menu plan actually features two separate plans. On Saturday (December 1) I left town for my work and my family remained at home to fend...
Menu Plan Week of November 25
On Saturday at 6AM I fly out to go to spend a few days working in Oregon. I'm a bookkeeper/office manage/virtual assistant for a shop on the Oregon...
A New Development
Almost four years ago, I heard about something called traditional foods and a book called Nourishing Traditions. It took several months to locate a...