Tag: food

Edible Weeds

If you have ever taken a wilderness survival or wild edibles course, no doubt your eyes have already been opened as to the plethora of freely available, wild edibles right at your feet – often, right in your own yard! In addition to being incredibly 

Mondays With Millie: Kitchen Beginnings

For the past several weeks we’ve been talking about how to Transition to Real Food in 8 Easy Steps.  We’ve talked about ditching cold cereal and what to have instead. We’ve talked about changing our fats from man-made fats to traditional fats.  Last week we learned 

Monday’s with Millie: The #1 Food That Should be in Your Kitchen

Monday’s with Millie: The #1 Food That Should be in Your Kitchen

The last few weeks we’ve been talking in detail about how to Transition to Real Food in 8 Easy Steps.  Today I’m going to share with you the #1 Item that Should be in Your Kitchen.  Before I go into that, want to take a minute 

Mondays with Millie – Healthy Fats

In the article Transition to Real Food in 8 Easy Steps, step #2 was Change Your Fats.  Contrary to what we have been led to believe, fat is not bad for us. Our bodies need fat. Fat helps with brain function, helps us deal with stress, helps 

Mondays with Millie: Quick and Easy Alternatives to Cold Cereal

A few weeks ago I offered some suggestions for transitioning to real food. A suggestion that I suspect wasn’t very popular was #1.  Stop buying breakfast cereal.   I know that this is a hard one. Cold cereal is so easy. Open the box, pour 

Mondays with Millie: 7 Real Food Dinners

Last week I shared 8 easy steps to help you transition to real foods.  In that post I tried to offer some suggestions to help you move toward real foods.  I thought this week, you might like to see (read) just what my family eats.  

Mondays with Millie: Transition to Real Food in 8 Easy Steps

Have you heard about the benefits of a real food diet but aren’t sure how to go about making the switch from a Standard American Diet (we’ll just call that a SAD diet from here on out) to a diet more focused on Real/Whole/Traditional foods (we’ll 

Meal-Planning – A Chef’s View

One of our favorite customers, Pantry Paratus, put up a blog post this week called “Chef Nancy: Menu Planning and Weston A. Price Foundation” we felt warranted special attention.

Mondays with Millie

This week marks an exciting addition to Black Chicken Host’s blogging week – Mondays with Millie, featuring the author of Real Food for Less Money, one of my favorite food websites. Millie’s expertise with creating healthy, nutrient-dense foods on a budget is vast and impressive, and 

Before You Reach for the Chocolate Sauce…

…might I suggest something else? Something utterly unconventional and pretty odd-sounding? Yes? Ok. Here we go! My husband and I received an ice cream maker for Christmas, which gives me the perfect excuse to indulge (ok, perhaps to over-indulge) in one of my favorite ice