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6 Amazing eBooks to Simplify Your Kitchen

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Ready to simplify your kitchen? (Of course.)

This offer has been super fun to put together. Our goal is to help free your kitchen time so you can spend more time loving people. But hey, we do all still need to eat. Plus we want to eat well so we’ll be healthy enough to love people. So how does this look?

In an effort to provide you with resources that will help you simplify your real food kitchen, we put together this great collection of eBooks. Then we marked them all down to a dollar each. Then we added freebies. See? I told you we’ve had fun!

For 6 days only, you can get 6 fantastic eBooks that will help you:

  • Save time
  • Save money
  • Save energy

Plus these eBooks contain hundreds of recipes and tips so you can feed your family fabulously!

Here’s what you’ll get for only $6. It’s kind of amazing actually!

Simplify the Simple – $4.95 value

What if we handed you an eBook full of ideas, recipes, links, and tips to help you actually stay on top of your life in the kitchen? We think this eBook is especially fun and we love how the tips included have saved us so much time and money. This book shares my very best tips and recipes for getting ahead in my real food kitchen.

Simple Recipes for Simple Meals – $6.95 value

You’ll love this eBook filled with 24 simple recipes that are all made with whole foods that you probably already have on hand. Every recipe only take a few minutes to prepare! What will you do with all that free time?

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Simple Mixes that Save the Day – $7.95 value

The Simple Mixes recipes in this eBook will take you back to the days of using boxed mixes, but not to worry! You’ll be using ingredients you feel great about. From brownies to muffins to cakes and cookies – you will love all the delicious food you can bake quickly with this eBook!

Healthy Make-Ahead Meals & Snacks – $5.00 value

Need to get some family friendly meals and snacks in the freezer for those extra busy days? This eBook offers you 33 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks and provides you with freezing and reheating instructions!

 

Beat the Heat – $4.95 value

Summer’s on its way (so I hear)! Survive and thrive with the 33 Simple Summer Recipes and Tips filling this eBook. Summer heat? Bring it on! (No seriously. Please, bring it. This Nebraska girl is cold.)

Healthy Breakfast Made Simple – $3.95 value

Save the cereal boxes for another day. Healthy Breakfast Made Simple gives you 10 incredible recipes that will make your mornings stress-free. Yes, it is actually possible! Here’s how we do it.

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Get 6 eBooks for $6 for 6 days only

Our 6 for $6 deal means you get all these wonderful eBooks for just six bucks! ($33.75 value)

And here’s what’s even better. When you purchase the eBook package, we’ll give you all of these Master Lists that you can download for free!

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This is fabulously fun, and we are delighted to provide you with so many great kitchen resources at such a low price. No catch. No strings. Only simple, straight forward, family friendly eBooks and printables.

Ready to dive in?

Get your collection and dive in right away. They’ll land in your inbox within minutes so watch for your email with download links after your purchase.

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This offer ends Monday, April 23, 2018.

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Want a Free Swiffer Starter Kit? (Seriously. Free.)

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Through April 18 only, we can get a FREE Swiffer Sweeper Starter Kit! These deals are rare, but it’s completely FREE, so well worth the mention. Cleaning the floor is better when we can do it for free!

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Simple Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Treats

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I’ll admit it. My family took one look at these Simple Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Treats sitting in the fridge and asked, “Mom, what are those things that look like Poop Emojis?!”

What can I say? I whipped them up and plopped them down and this is what they turned out looking like. You don’t even want to make them now, do you?

I promise they taste delicious! I suppose if you took more time to make them pretty, you can avoid this conundrum at your house. But what’s the fun in that? Forever and always, these snacks will be called Poop Emojis at our house. I don’t even remember what the actual title of this recipe is. Chocolate Chip Cookie something or other?? Meh, the new name is much more fun.

I suppose I’ll find a little maturity here and tell you that these Poo Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Treats are naturally grain/gluten free, full of protein, are low in sugar, are full of healthy fats, and are a very filling and delicious snack. There you go. See, I can be a grown up when I want to.

{Giggles and pokes an elbow into your ribs while showing you this picture}

I am so sorry. I can’t even. Apparently today, I’m a nine-year old boy. Um, so uh, just whip the ingredients, fold in the chocolate chips, and then freeze the mixture into these funny looking globs and with that, I must stop writing words and just give you the recipe.

Simple Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Treats

Simple Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Treats (Low Sugar, Grain Free, 5 Ingredients)
 
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Serves: 12
Ingredients
  • 8 ounces softened cream cheese
  • 12 ounces almond butter (1½ cups)
  • ½ cup softened butter
  • 30 drops liquid stevia, 3 Tablespoons real maple syrup, or a combination of both
  • 2 Tablespoons mini chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Combine cream cheese, almond butter, butter, and sweetener in a high power blender or in a bowl with a hand mixer, whipping until smooth.
  2. Fold in chocolate chips.
  3. Scoop mixture onto a parchment paper-lined or silicone lined cookie sheet.
  4. Freeze for 30 minutes.
  5. Transfer treats to an air tight container and store in the fridge.

What do I have to say for myself?

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em?

I’ll go read my Bible now.

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How to Have a Successful Baking Day

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Just like my grandma used to do, sometimes I like to have a big baking day in an effort to crank out food for busy days ahead. My most recent baking day happened right after our basketball season ended and just before our soccer season started. I was feeling the crunch to get ahead before life turned crazy again. Allow me to share pictures of this adventure and my best tips for having a successful baking day!

How to Have a Successful Baking Day

  1. Block out several hours to focus on being in the kitchen.
  2. Make a plan. Write a list of items you want to bake.
  3. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. (Literally, because of the baking. I’m so funny.)
  4. Gather ingredients so you can be efficient. (Many baking ingredients overlap in recipes, so it’s nice to get out what you need and leave them out to use in a variety of recipes.)
  5.  Plan simple meals for the day or plan to serve leftovers for lunch and/or dinner. I’ve found that it’s too difficult to cook regular meals and bake extra food all in one day!

Ready to see how my recent baking day played out?

First, I made a list of baked goods I wanted and needed to make.

I gathered all my ingredients.

I ground two rounds of flour, both Soft White Wheat (pastry flour). My poor Nutrimill has seen better days, but it still gets the job done!

Once flour was ground and all other ingredients were gathered, I mixed up a double batch of Orange Glazed Poppyseed Bread. I put it into the oven and realized I’d buttered one-too-many bread pans. What’s a girl to do?

I decided to stir up a batch of Stir-and-Pour Bread to fill my extra bread pan. It’s wayyyyyy too easy! (It’s a yeast bread recipe so I needed to use hard white wheat for this one. I had some on hand in the freezer already, so this made mixing up this bread very simple!)

With the Poppyseed Bread in the oven and the Stir and Pour Bread mixed up and rising, I started a double batch of Stove-Top Granola.

Once done, I moved the Granola off the stove and poured it onto a cookie sheet to dry a bit before transferring it to a jar. The Stir and Pour Bread went into the oven and I paused my baking to do a Biology lesson with my kids. But wait!! Why not get two jobs done at one time?? While I was reading Biology, I put my kids to work unwrapping Hershey kisses for my Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies. (I’d picked up a few packages of kisses the day after Valentine’s Day – what a score!)

Biology finished and boys onto their other school work, I headed back and mixed up a double batch of Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. I frozen them all in cookie dough balls to have on hand for an upcoming weekend when we were hosting teens.

Suddenly I realized I was starving, so I prepped a very easy lunch of Beanie Weanies. #noshame

Next, I cleaned my kitchen. Why? Because after all that baking, it was a mess. Also, next on my baking agenda was Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies. I wanted to keep these gluten free to serve at a high school gathering. Three of our high school youth group need to eat gluten free, and these cookies are perfect! But not with all the wheat flour flying around my kitchen. So I cleaned up so I wouldn’t cross-contaminate with wheat before baking a quadruple batch of these easy cookies!

Breads done, granola done, cookies done…I packaged everything up for the fridge, counter, or freezer.

Finally, I ground one more batch of flour so I could fill my Muffin Mix and Pancake Mix containers. Having these on hand saves me tons of time and effort, and these are our favorite mixes of the collection.

You can bet I needed to do some extra kitchen cleaning after all these hours baking! I had my kids mix up Tuna Salad for dinner, which we ate on my freshly baked Stir and Pour Bread. Then we headed out for our boys’ Choir Concert. Never a dull moment.

Why Have a Baking Day?

  1. Because if you’re going to make a mess, you might as well make a big one.
  2. Because many baking ingredients overlap between recipes. It’s nice to get out ingredients like baking powder, oats, butter, and flour and use them for several different recipes before putting them away.
  3. Because taking a few hours to bake in one day provides baked goods to last you for many days.
  4. Because it’s nice to have baked goods in your freezer to pull out for your family’s needs on busy days or to share with others who have needs you become aware of.
  5. Because everyone likes cookies.

What are your favorite foods to bake?

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The Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

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If we had to pick a favorite cookie at our house, these Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies would be the winners.

Hoping for low sugar recipe? Welllllll, this one isn’t so much low in sugar. This is the recipe I make when I have a house full of teenagers or college students. This is the recipe I make in bulk to keep in the freezer for all our cookie hospitality needs. This is the recipe that is my go-to because I can make it in my sleep. You can be sure I have definitely made these in my sleep before. What can I say?

My favorite things to do when making this recipe is 1) double it and 2) freeze cookie dough balls so I can bake them fresh as needed.

Once I’ve frozen the cookie dough balls, I transfer the balls to a gallon-sized freezer bag. When we want/need fresh cookies, we pull out a few and bake them. This saves a lot of time and dirty dishes! It also means I’m prepared for last minute guests. Need a quick dessert? All I have to do is pull out cookie dough balls and bake them. Perfect!

The Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

The Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
 
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Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • 1 cup melted butter
  • 1½ cups brown sugar or sucanat
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups rolled oats
  • 2 - 2½ cups whole grain flour (I use freshly ground hard white wheat)
  • 2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. In a large mixing bowl, stir butter and sugar together.
  2. Add eggs, baking soda, salt, and vanilla and stir well.
  3. Mix in oats and flour (starting with 2 cups of flour and adding more until correct cookie dough consistency is reached)
  4. Fold in chocolate chips.
  5. Scoop dough onto a cookie sheet leaving 2 inches between each scoop.
  6. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are golden brown.

Bonus: This recipe calls for whole grain flour! This doesn’t really make the cookies healthy, but at least all the ingredients are real food. That counts for something!

What’s your favorite cookie recipe at your house?

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The Best Orange Glazed Poppyseed Quick Bread

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This Orange Glazed Poppyseed Quick Bread will shock you, especially when you see that it is made with whole wheat flour. How can something made with whole wheat be so moist? Ahh, let me tell you athe secrets.

First, I believe a huge factor in making this bread delicious while baking with whole grain is that I use freshly ground soft white wheat. There is a big difference in wheat flour ground from hard red berries (which makes heavy, dark whole wheat flour), wheat flour ground from hard white berries (which makes lighter whole wheat flour), and wheat flour ground from soft white berries (which becomes a light pastry flour – still whole wheat!).

Read more details about these varieties of wheat here. I use hard and soft white wheat berries, depending on what I’m baking. (Hard wheat must be used in recipes that call for yeast.) For recipes like this Orange Glazed Poppyseed Quick Bread, I use soft wheat berries. The pastry flour this makes is so light it seems like I’m using all-purpose white flour. But it’s whole grain – and full of nutrients!

Beyond the kind of flour used in this recipe, I believe the Orange Glaze is what gives this bread an extra measure of moistness! Mix a little orange juice with honey, add almond and vanilla extract, and this glaze is incredible!

And speaking of almond extract, I’m going to make this ingredient the MVP of this Poppyseed Bread recipe. Wow, does the almond extra take this bread from a one-star to a five! This, from a girl who loves vanilla extract. Sorry, vanilla. It’s almond that wins the prize this time. :)

Orange Glazed Poppyseed Quick Bread

The Best Orange Glazed Poppyseed Quick Bread
 
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Serves: 2 loaves
Ingredients
  • 3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
  • ¾ cup sucanat, brown sugar, or raw sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 ½ teaspoons sea salt
  • 1 ½ cups milk
  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ teaspoons almond extract
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup melted butter or coconut oil
  • 1 ½ Tablespoons poppy seeds
  • ORANGE GLAZE:
  • ¼ cup orange juice
  • ¼ cup honey
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon almond extract
Instructions
  1. Mix flour, sucanat or sugar, baking powder, and salt.
  2. Add eggs, milk, extracts, oil, and poppy seeds.
  3. Mix well.
  4. Pour batter into 2 well-buttered loaf pans (or six small loaf pans).
  5. Bake 45-60 minutes at 350°.
  6. FOR GLAZE:
  7. Whisk ingredients together until smooth.
  8. Pour mixture over loaves of poppyseed bread about 3 minutes after they have been removed from the oven, but before removing the loaves from the baking pans.

I guess it’s clear that while this is a Poppyseed Quick Bread recipe, poppy seeds aren’t the ingredient that gets my attention. Those are important too, but whole wheat pastry flour, orange glaze, and almond extract are the key to making this recipe absolutely amazing!!

By the way, I love doubling this recipe and freezing extra loaves to pull out and serve another time. This bread doesn’t get dry in the freezer and thaws to be a perfect convenience food!

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How to Have a Homeschool High School Graduation

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Here we are again. It’s time to plan another homeschool high school graduation!

First item on the agenda? Cry a few tears.

This is the second time we’ve launched a great kid from our home. While I’ve already graduated one kid and have experienced so much delight that comes with having an adult child, I still reserve the right to cry again this time. These are tears of joy and gratitude, you can be sure. When I think of all God has done to bring us to this place and to grow our sons into men, the tears come. Why hold back? Tears are a gift.

Many people ask me, “How do you do a homeschool high school graduation?” No caps and gowns, no valedictorian address, no walk across the stage. What does a homeschool high school graduation look like, anyway?

My answer: Your homeschool high school graduation can be whatever you want it to be! Each child and family is different. One of the perks of homeschooling is choosing to educate your kids in whatever ways work best for your family. The same is true for graduation!

Today I’ll share what we’ve chosen to do for our sons as we celebrate the end of their high school career.

How Our Family Does Homeschool High School Graduation

  1. We invite grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins to join us for a weekend in our home. We’d invite every single person we know and love, but only so many people fit in our living room. The big reception comes later (see #10).
  2. Saturday at noon we enjoy a nice meal in our home with our guests, the menu of which is chosen by the graduate.
  3. After we eat our graduate’s special meal, we pull chairs into the living room for our time of celebration.
  4. In true Coppinger fashion, we share a fun video that our boys have put together on behalf of the graduate. :)
  5. Each person then shares a special word of encouragement and offers a blessing to the graduate. There are not many dry eyes during this special time. Family members who live too far to join us for this send emails that we read at this time so that their words can be heard too. Did I mention that there are tears?
  6. Matt and I are the last to share our words of love and blessing to our graduate. I can’t talk and cry at the same time, so I write mine out and make Matt read it while I boo-hoo beside him. What can I say?
  7. We all gather around our graduate and say a prayer of blessing over him.
  8. Matt and I present him with a diploma that we’ve printed and framed.
  9. We all share a special dessert that has been chosen by the graduate.
  10. Sunday afternoon we have a big graduation reception at our church fellowship hall in which extended family and friends have been invited to come celebrate.

It is a full weekend of joy, you can be sure! I learned last time around that I must be very organized in order to pull off such a big weekend full of company, food, and a big reception. Thankfully, when family is here to visit, many pitch in to help as needed. I try to keep food as simple as possible, but still, with many to feed and a party to execute, even the simplest of plans takes hard work.

How to you do high school graduation?

If you are a homeschool family, I’d love to hear how you do high school graduation at your house. And whether you homeschool or not, I’d love to hear how you honor your graduates. Please pass the kleenex.

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Simple Ingredients for Simple Meals Printable! Gift for You!

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After many a request, we’ve finally created a Simple Ingredients for Simple Meals printable list for you to work with. Just when you thought it wasn’t possible, simple cooking just got even easier!

Over the past several months, many of you have requested that I create a list of all the ingredients I like to keep on hand to make real food cooking easier. It’s taken a while, but I called in for back up and had one of my assistants help create what I declare to be beautiful, practical, and of course, simple!

Simple Ingredients List to the Rescue

The timing is perfect for this fun Simple Ingredients list to become available for you. Why? Because we just kicked out our High Five Recipes eBook, which shares 111 recipes that all include 5 or fewer simple ingredients. Wondering which ingredients can be mixed and matched to make all 111 of these recipes? This list pretty much covers it! And then some.

Don’t you love how easy this printable breaks down that basics of ingredient needs? All the ingredients listed are real food, nourishing, and un-complicated. Simple, simple, simple! Yes, real food cooking is SIMPLE!!! And it tastes great. This, of course, is a must.

Obviously we’re all going to have favorite items not listed here. But this is our go-to list for all Simple Ingredient needs for Simple Meal preparation. Add to it as needed for your family!

It’s our pleasure to give you this Simple Ingredients for Simple Meals printable list as a gift.

We hope it is a huge help in simplifying your real food cooking lifestyle. Use it as a guide so that grocery shopping will be simpler, so you can save money, and so you’ll be able to have basic ingredients on hand for creating Simple Meals.

Sign up here so we can send you this wonderful freebie. (As an added bonus, we’re including several surprise freebies too. Wait till you see!)

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Coupon Code Expiring! High Five Recipes Just $5!

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Did you get your High Five Recipes eBook yet? Now’s the time as we’re launching it at half price!

This High Five Recipes eBook includes 111 wonderful recipes all of which:

  • Call for 5 or fewer ingredients
  • Are all made from real food ingredients
  • Taste incredible
  • Take very little time and effort to make

You probably already have all or most of the needed ingredients in your kitchen. Don’t you love it when food becomes un-complicated!?

What will you do with all your extra time??

High Five Recipes offers:

  • 14 Bread and Breakfast recipes
  • 35 Main Dish recipes
  • 13 Side Dish recipes
  • 29 Dessert and Snack recipes
  • 16 Drink recipes
  • 4 Extra recipes

While High Five Recipes is worth more than five bucks (regular price is still a value at $9.95), we decided to launch it at $5 to give us all the complete High Five experience. So if you hurry, you can get High Five Recipes eCookbook, filled with 111 recipes that each include 5 or fewer ingredients, for just $5.

Bet you can’t guess what coupon code we set up. Ok fine. It was too obvious. Use the code HIGHFIVE to get the book for just five dollars right now! That’s half off, so take advantage!! Code expires Thursday, April 5.

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What is the Perfect Diet for Everyone?

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I just wrote at length to share why my family eats a diet high in fat. The question is, is a high fat diet right for everyone? Is there one perfect diet for everyone?

During the past thirteen years, I’ve made healthy food my profession. I’m passionate about the subject and spend hours of time reading and learning from a variety of credible sources. Then I come up with recipes that are simple, tasty, and nourishing. Fun!

After all this time, I still find research that declares all fat to be unhealthy, especially saturated fat. I still find research that declares artificial sweeteners (like splenda and aspertame) to be a healthy option. I still find research that shows a diet high in white flour and white sugar to be heart-healthy. The trouble with these articles is that they don’t have credible data (in my opinion) to back their claims and ironically, most of these articles are written in an effort to promote synthetic drugs or manufactured “food” products.

Why have I concluded that a fats like butter and coconut oil, beef and eggs – all foods that are high in saturated fat – are healthy and beneficial? Read my thoughts about that here. But now the question of the hour…

What is the perfect diet for everyone?

Should we all eat high fat? Should we all go low carb? Is it best that we all cut out gluten? Perhaps we should all adopt the “everything in moderation” idea?

After all my years of research, and more importantly, after years of discussions with a variety of people with different needs and body types, I believe the perfect diet for everyone is:

The diet that nourishes.

The perfect diet for everyone is the one that nourishes.

I have friends who have serious health issues when consuming gluten. I know people who have to stay away from eggs and nuts entirely. I have met people who tell me that if they ate as much fat as I eat they would bloat and be miserable. I have a friend who has a fructose intolerance so all the healthy fruits in the world aren’t at all healthy for her.

Each person must determine what their body needs, what their body can handle, and what will keep them healthy and strong.

But if we aren’t eating food that nourishes, whether it is low carb, high fat, grain free, or otherwise, no matter our dietary needs or restrictions, we still aren’t offering our bodies food for good health.

As for my family, we can eat whole grains, dairy, fruits and vegetables, meat, eggs, and plenty of good, healthy fats. These foods keep us strong, energetic, and nourished. As for you and yours? Only you can determine what is healthy.

But remember: Healthy Food = Nourishing Food.

All the conflicting research we find might have us confused about what it really means to eat a healthy diet. And all the “my family eats this way and so should you” information we read can have us in a puddle of confusion.

So do your homework, and consider what nourishes. Learn what provides your family with energy, brain power, good health. Focus on eating food full of nutrients.

And one last thought:

Don’t feel bad about the occasional splurge. With all my talk about feeding my family real food that nourishes, you should know that sometimes we buy ice cream or chips from the store as a special treat and we don’t even feel bad about it. I don’t agree with the “everything in moderation” idea, because I think that lends itself to the mindset of eating whatever you want as long as you don’t overeat. This doesn’t necessarily promote a nourishing diet as an overall lifestyle. But eating a nourishing diet most of the time while occasionally splurging on a treat? You bet!

Now I’d like to hear from you! What kind of diet is nourishing for you and your family?

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