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Delicious cashew chicken and homemade hoisin sauce without MSG, GMOs, or other fake stuff.

My husband really like Chinese foods. Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of great options for local Chinese cuisine that meets our food standards. We like to avoid MSG, GMO soy sauce, and CAFO meats as much as possible. Thankfully, I’ve been able to real foodify one of our favorites: Cashew Chicken. And the hubs [...]

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Cast Iron Cookware 101: How to use, clean, and season a cast iron skillet.

Over the course of the past four or so years I’ve been slowly taking steps to cleaning my life up: Better food, better exercise, and better living. A huge part of this has been ditching all my toxic “stuff” found in my makeup, personal/cleaning products, and cookware. Of course, despite knowing how toxic teflon pans [...]

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Is sugar bad? Learn why it's essential to good health.

Is sugar bad? Oh boy. Here we go again. I’m about to go against mainstream (and alternative) diet dogma and tell you why I think sugar is essential to good health. You heard me right, essential. Now before you going throwing darts at me… or worse yet, linking every sort of “study” and post on [...]

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Don't throw your lemon peels away! Here are 31 ways to use them.

I love lemons. They are bright, refreshing, and smell divine. I’ve gotten in the habit of squeezing fresh lemon juice in a glass of water to help wake me up (and my digestive system) first thing in the morning. When I first started, I’m ashamed to admit that I would usually just throw the lemon [...]

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Honey sweetened strawberry lemon sorbet - oh yeah!

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a sucker for cold things like sorbet. It’s just so refreshing and delightful. And anyone who knows the kind of winter I had (blah) can bet their money that I’m looking for any signs of spring and summer. So when I saw the beautiful organic strawberries at [...]