Recently, a few of my recipes for coconut oil sugar scrubs were published on CoconutOil.com and Health Impact News. I wanted to share those recipes with you here as well, since sugar scrubs are one of my favorite DIY projects. They are so easy to make, very customizable, and make great gifts! This is a… Continue Reading
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Vanilla Maple Cinnamon Nut Crunch (Gluten, Grain, Dairy Free)
Crispy, crunchy, sweet, and oh-so-satisfying, this Vanilla Maple Cinnamon Nut Crunch is so good you’ll have to fight the urge to eat your weight in nuts in one sitting! The warm vanilla maple flavor is perfectly offset with the spiciness of Vietnamese cinnamon (my favorite kind of cinnamon). This makes the perfect mid-day snack or… Continue Reading
How to Make Creamy Coconut Milk Yogurt (No Yogurt Maker Required)
I have been on a serious coconut yogurt kick recently. It all started when my friend Starlene from GAPS Diet Journey sent me a little bit of the yogurt starter that she uses when she posted her great recipe for coconut milk yogurt. It was instant love from my first batch. The rich, creamy, thick, and slightly… Continue Reading
How to Make Your Own Homemade Vanilla Extract
Have you ever made your own homemade vanilla extract? I will never go back to buying vanilla extract. It is so easy to make your own at home, costs a fraction of what a bottle of high-quality vanilla extract costs, and tastes amazing! Plus, it’s pure, with no additives, sugar, etc. I make both a… Continue Reading
Continuous Kombucha Brewing: How To and Why
Do you brew your own kombucha? If you’re like me, you learned how to start brewing kombucha using the batch brew method. I wrote a detailed beginner’s guide on batch brewing that you can read here. But, in the long run, batch brewing is tedious and time consuming. I knew there had to be a… Continue Reading
Baking with Coconut Flour: A Book Review
Coconut flour is tricky. Seriously tricky. I’ll never forget when I first started trying to use it. I had several disasters as I learned how coconut flour differed from every other flour I had ever used. I really wish I had had Starlene’s eBook Baking with Coconut Flour then. It would have saved me a… Continue Reading
The Importance of Fermentation: An Interview with Sandor Katz
Many of you will remember that in 2012, I got serious about fermenting and started a new series called 52 Weeks of Bad A** Bacteria, where I featured a new ferment recipe or fermentation-related post each week in 2012. I ran into some set-backs in the fall of 2012, and I didn’t get to finish… Continue Reading
Coconut Oil Arnica Salve Recipe
Last fall, one of my recipes was featured on Health Impact News and CoconutOil.com. I wanted to share it here as well! Enjoy! ~~~~~~ One of my goals for health and wellness is to avoid using anything that contains petroleum products. Once you start paying close attention to the ingredients in many common hair and… Continue Reading
Miraculous Magnesium and DIY Magnesium Oil
Learn how to make your own magnesium oil at home for a fraction of what it costs to buy already made. It really is super simple. Directions at the end of this post, but first, let’s take a look at why magnesium is so important in the first place! This is just the very basics… Continue Reading
Let’s Get Fizzy With It! Your Water Kefir Flavor Guide
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