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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
Meal Planning Process
I have been using meal plans/menus for a couple of years now. When I worked a full time job outside the home it helped so much to be able to know in...
5 Cheap and Easy Ways to Improve Nutrition
Are you at a point where you know you need to make some improvements to your diet to include more nutrient dense items, higher nutrition and less...
Menu Week of November 23
Thanksgiving Week! This year has gone by so fast. We will be staying home and having just the seven of us for Thanksgiving. Our plan is to eat...
Easy Soaked Oatmeal
One of the early changes that we made to our food was to soak our oatmeal. Why? In a nutshell, oatmeal is high in phytic acid. Phytic acid blocks...
Cheeseball Salad Parfait
As a little girl I always looked forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas partly because my mom made all different kinds of amazing foods. It...
My Version of Broth
I thought I would share with you how I make broth. If you are a broth/stock purist, you will not want to read this post. If you are a busy, slightly...
Menu Week of November 16
We try to eat Real Food. What does this mean to me? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. A few examples; when you see toast on...
The Mission
I work hard to feed my family whole, unprocessed, nutrient dense foods. We eat things like grass fed beef, pastured chicken and eggs, offal,...
Eat Raw
In the past when I thought of eating raw food I figured the occasional salad would be enough. I have to admit to not particularly enjoying salads so...