How do we cook from scratch without spending all day in the kitchen? Here’s my slow living realist approach to meal planning, pantry stocking, and feeding a family without burnout.
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Why I Read the Little House Books as an Adult (And Why You Should Too)
Reading the Little House books as an adult has reminded me that simple living isn’t about aesthetics — it’s about gratitude, resilience, family culture, and perspective. The Ingalls family didn’t have abundance, but they had contentment. And that might be the greater wealth.
Creating A Life You Don’t Have To Escape From
*this post may contain affiliate links*I ran into someone not that long ago at the library, and she had recognized me and she looked vaguely familiar, but I wasn’t really really sure if I knew her or just seen her. She came up to me and we started talking and turns out we did know…
Fresh Milled Sourdough Banana Bread
*this post may contain affiliate links*We all know how popular banana bread is. I mean, surely we’ve all see that reel “dude I got some banana bread at work today dude”. Well I wonder what he would think if he had THIS banana bread. I fermented at 48 hours but 24 is plenty! It adds such…
5 Tips to Realistically Practice Slow Living
*this post may contain affiliate links* We’ve all seen the homesteading instagram reels, you know the ones, where they go out to their chickens each morning and grab the eggs for breakfast, stop at their garden for tomatoes, and go milk the cow for the milk to make the cheese. It looks so idyllic. And,…
Slow Living in September
*This post may contain affiliate links* Today marks the first day of September. And for a lot of us that mean back to the daily grind of juggling homeschooling and homemaking. Personally, I love this time of year, making new plans for our homeschool days (as if I didn’t already plan that back in April),…