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A student of health and nutrition for 30 years, Vickilynn Haycraft has over 20 years of actual hands-on experience reviewing and personally using different tools of the homemaking vocation, focusing on the areas of health and nutrition. Vickilynn is a magazine columnist, product reviewer, cookbook author and now radio talk show host, as well as being full-time wife and mom to 5 children. Read Vickilynn's Product Reviews and Family Preparedness Articles at Examiner.com. She blogs at the Real Food Living Blog.
Survival Mom: How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios by Lisa Bedford Survival Mom: How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios articulately yet clearly makes the case that every mom has it in her DNA to take care of her family in preparation for whatever may come. [...]
Whole Wheat Bread Making Book Review by Vickilynn Haycraft “Whole Wheat Bread Making” by Donna Miller of Miller’s Grain House is a delight to read. I have had the pleasure of hearing Donna Miller teach her whole wheat bread making class in person and I was drawn in by her warm, inviting and adept [...]
Haycraft Homemade Whole Grain Matzah Vickilynn Haycraft Yield: 20 matzah 2 cups hot water 2 tablespoons butter (or olive oil) *or good fat of choice 2 teaspoons salt 2 tablespoons honey – optional 4 1/2 cups whole wheat flour — more as need to make a sturdy dough *You can use sprouted flour here if [...]
Do you love Greek yogurt and yogurt (cream) cheese? Are you seeking a healthy, homemade, inexpensive alternative to cream cheese or sour cream? Then, this handy manual yogurt cheese maker is perfect for you! Whether you make your own raw milk yogurt, or purchase yogurt with actives cultures, the Donvier Yogurt Cheese maker will perform [...]
Announcing the new, free weekly Real Food Living Newsletter! This will consolidate email updates from both Real Food Living and the Real Food Living blog. Each week we will send out a short, easy to read email including “What’s Cookin’”, real food recipes, tips, product reviews, topics from the Get Real – Get Prepared radio [...]
Harness the free energy from the sun to bake, broil, steam, dehydrate and even more. The idea of using the sun to cook our food is not a new one, in fact, it’s ages old and successfully used with many variations. Today you can find solar cookers in all shapes, sizes, design, price ranges and [...]
Back to Basics, the compilation of popular Cooking Traditional Foods’ Menu Mailer series, is a jam-packed 322 page manual of everything you always wanted to know about buying, storing and preparing real foods in the traditional method. Not only is this an amazing recipe book, complete with options for those dealing with food allergies and [...]
KerryAnn Foster of Cooking Traditional Foods, has experienced first hand the pros and cons of having to feed her family totally from a food storage while not sacrificing the types of food her family prefers or requires (due to allergies). During Kerry’s husband’s 11-month period of unemployment, the Foster family was able to place their [...]
This recipe was given to me by my friend Trish Figgers, mom of 9 and frugal homemaker. I added more water and some optional ingredients, but this is our go-to and favorite pizza sauce. Everyone loves it! You can find Trish’s original pizza sauce recipe and several of her other frugal recipes here. SIMPLE [...]
Make a pan of cornbread (recipe following) and pour it into pan. Cut organic all-chicken or all-beef hot dogs in half lengthwise and “bury” in the cornbread batter. Bake as usual. Cut pieces so that each piece has a hot dog in it. Serve with lots of ketchup rather than butter or honey! OPTION: Add [...]
