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Healthy, traditional cooking: real food recipes, monthly meal plans, alternative cooking methods, and much more.
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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
Goodbye Microwave, Hello Counter Space!
Over two years ago I put up a post with pictures of my kitchen. In the post I mentioned that we were going to get rid of the microwave but then my...
Foods in Review: Week of 1/1/12
From August of 2009 until February of 2011, Wardeh from GNOWFGLINS hosted a weekly blog carnival known as Tuesday Twister. The purpose of the...
Menu Plan 1/8/2012
Last week was a very tasty food week. I had to do a little bit of rearranging of things but not too bad. For Friday night's potato bar I had planned...
Juggling and Meals
Angela mentioned in a comment on this post that "The trick is figuring out how to do all this without food consuming every waking hour of my life...
Whoo-Hoo! January is National Oatmeal Month
Okay, so maybe it is not a big event but I do find it quite fun that someone designated January as National Oatmeal Month. I love oatmeal so in...
Menu Plan 1/1/2012
A second long weekend in a row and it was great. Except that this was the weekend my oldest (Sierra) moved back to Oregon. We took her to the...
Re-Visiting the Food Budget
> When I first began this blog, one thing that I did was share our monthly food budget and the results of achieving (or not) that budget. Toward...
Clabber Cheese
I have very much enjoyed taking the GNOWFGLINS series of eCourses. Each of the four courses (a fifth course starts in January) has been extremely...
Taco Soup
Taco Soup is a delicious way to finish off a pot of beans. Usually, by the end of my bean pot, there are still some beans in it with quite a bit of...