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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.
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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
A Week Without a Menu Plan
I thought I'd do something a bit different this week. Instead of posting my Menu Plan, I'll tell you what we've eaten after the fact. Why you ask?...
Menu Week of September 12
Almost halfway through September already. Where does the time go? I remember reading once that time seems to go faster as we age. Soon I'm sure my...
September Food Spending- Take 2
My food budget for September is $490 (my budget for September actually runs from August 23 to September 22 to coincide with my husband's once...
Menu Week of September 5
Last week was one of those weeks when I'm not sure why I took the time to make a menu plan. The only night we actually ate what was planned was...
Budgeting Tips and Tricks
If you have read here much, you may have noticed that most of my posts over the summer have been our menus and our monthly budget. (I do hope to...
Menu Week of August 29
Hard to believe that it is the last week of August. We are adjusting our new schedules. Our day looks something like this. Kiki is up at 5AM to get...
September Food Spending- Take 1
My budget for the month of September is $490 divided between Cow share ($54), Beef CSA ($50), Azure Standard ($135.23), Dining Out ($50) and Grocery...
August Budget Wrap-Up and September Budget Plan
If you've been following along, my food budget for August was $550 (our budget coincides with my husband's once a month pay day and runs from the...
Nectarines, Nectarines and More Nectarines
I ordered 40 pounds of nectarines from Azure Standard this month. When I ordered them, it didn't sound like very much (I actually thought about...