I hope all of you enjoyed a restful and worshipful Christmas last week just as my family did! We had a wonderful time celebrating Christ's birth and visiting family and friends. But, for us, the week after Christmas is also a treasured time of relaxing and enjoying time together. My husband is home from work and we do our best to sleep in, lounge around, and watch as many bowl games as we possibly can! Oh, the ... Continue Reading
2014 Crumbs Family Christmas Letter
Written by Mr. Crumbs Merry Christmas Friends! This post is a little out of the norm for us. Not a recipe, frugal money saving tip, kitchen hack, mole removal tutorial, but more like a Christmas letter. We're taking the week off from posting to spend time with our family and friends, and hope that you are able to do the same. Have no fear! Our regular posting schedule will resume after Christmas with more good ... Continue Reading
How to Make Loose Herbal Tea
If you're a new real food household, your family may be missing out on the drinks they previously enjoyed. Even though we've been on this journey for several years, my kids still ask for that neon orange stuff that passes for juice. Yuck! Once you ditch the sodas and colored drinks, you may not want to sip plain old water. What's a family to do? The answer for my family has been tea. We drink gallons of ... Continue Reading
Homemade Lip Scrub and Lip Balm: Easy DIY
There are many wonderful things that come along with winter holidays like kissing under the mistletoe, lots of coffee, and homemade peppermint fudge. Unfortunately, bills, lack of energy, and dry skin come with this time of year too. While it's easy to notice dry skin on our bodies, we often forget that our lips are skin too. When cold, dry weather hits, our lips are completely exposed and easily become chapped ... Continue Reading
9 Tips for Buying Extra Virgin Olive Oil
This post is brought to you by Jovial Foods. All opinions are 100% my own. Last year I kind of opened a can of worms, but I blame my husband. He sent me this article that said olive oil (among other foods) was diluted with cheaper oils. Somewhat infuriated at the fact that I was paying premium prices for less than premium products, I started researching the matter. Science won and I said that the ... Continue Reading
20 Ways to Save Money on Real Food in the Kitchen
Today's post is a guest post from Elsie of Richly Rooted. I've known Elsie in the blog-o-sphere for awhile now, but had the opportunity to meet her at Allume and she's every bit as sweet in person as she is on her blog! She inspired me to clean out my closet, encourages me to think outside the 'normal' box and her list of things to nail down before it's too late is as if she was reading my mind. I hope ... Continue Reading
8 Real Foods You Can Make For Free + 6 More for Under $1
If you haven't noticed, I've kinda been on a "make something for nothing" kick lately. First, it was ketchup from our backyard plants that just.keep.going. Then it was apple cider vinegar from the cores and peels of apples. Most recently, it was roasted pumpkin seeds (perfectly, I might add), from the baking pumpkin I roasted and turned into homemade pumpkin puree. All this coking-for-free stuff got ... Continue Reading
To the Wife Trying to Get Her Husband to Eat Real Food
How to get your husband to eat real food… An honest letter to the wives, from a husband who used to eat Doritos and Hot Pockets for lunch and wash it down with an ice-cold fountain Coke, but now enjoys a healthy meal made with real food prepared by the wife... so long as it doesn't have beets. My first letter was to the husbands, but ladies, this one is for you. Yes, it is possible to get your ... Continue Reading
30+ Nourishing Loose Leaf Tea Recipes
Don't laugh at me, but I have a pretty silly confession to make. I used to think people who drank loose leaf tea were wannabe crunchies. Go ahead and laugh, you know you want to... Seriously though - isn't that awful?! It's completely stereotypical and flat out WRONG of me to judge someone because of how they made their tea. Shame on me! What's funnier though, is that I'm now one of those ... Continue Reading
How to Get Rid of Acne Naturally
I have been plagued with bad skin my entire life and my ego is permanently scarred. Just slightly. The middle school years are mostly to blame. Between trying to fit in at a new school, braces and puberty, the fact that my face looked like a walking pepperoni pizza was devastating. While I made it through the first three, acne has continues to be an issue even as a grown adult. As a young adult, it ... Continue Reading