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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
>January Food- Take 1
>A new month, a new year and a new time for food tracking. If you missed my post finishing up December food tracking you can find it here.In...
Menu Week of January 3
We try to eat Real Food. What does this mean to us? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. Our diet has a quite a bit of room...
>December Food- Final Take
>This is the final recap of food purchased (or otherwise acquired) for the month of December. The previous total spent was $460.66 (week 1, week 2,...
Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
Are you looking for a not too sweet yet deliciously moist cake? This Lemon Poppy Seed Cake is made with bananas and optional honey. For me, this is...
>December Food- Take 4
>This is a recap of food purchased (or otherwise acquired) for the past week.This week I payed my cow share. We contribute to the room and board for...
>Menu Week of December 28
>We try to eat Real Food. What does that mean to me? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. We still have a long ways to go...
Sourdough Pita Bread
I know that two days before Christmas I should be sharing something Christmas related with you. But I made these Pita Pockets last week and they...
December Food- Take 3
This is the recap of food purchased for the past week. The big thing was my Azure Standard order arrived. Yippee! What I ordered: 25...
>Menu Week of December 21
>We try to eat Real Food. What does that mean to me? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. Some days we do better than others...