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Easy Homemade Tallow Lip Balm

Protect your lips with this glide-on tallow lip balm made with only two inexpensive ingredients. This frugal recipe is quick and easy and is super nourishing. In the past, I showed you how to make a healing lip balm with mango butter and oils. With my son’s lips chapping lately in our cold, windy weather, …

Toxic Superfoods Review: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick

Is Sally K. Norton’s book, Toxic Superfoods, really worth reading? Learn how eating healthy could be making you sick and how to recover! Recently, I wrote a post about high oxalate foods and why they are problematic. I thought I was eating a healthy gluten-free keto diet packed with lots of fruits and vegetables, nuts, …

High Oxalate Foods: Why They’re Problematic

Oxalates are chemical compounds found in many plant-based foods. While they are toxic antinutrients, most people don’t realize how problematic they can be. I was wrong. I thought I was eating a very healthy diet. I was eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, lots of nuts and seeds, and yet, each day I was …

Rendering Pork Fat: How to Make Lard

Rendering pork fat is an easy way to get a cost-effective, versatile fat for cooking and soapmaking. Learn how to make lard and why you’d want to. What is Lard? Lard is a semi-solid, white-colored fat obtained by rendering pork fat. It has been used for centuries as an ingredient in cooking and soapmaking. It’s a delicious …

Valentine’s Charcuterie Board

Perfect for parties or a romantic meal, this festive Valentine’s charcuterie board combines hearts and roses of meats and cheese for a fun and creative appetizer or small meal. In the past, most of my Valentine’s Day recipes have been sweet treats or desserts. That is, of course, except for my Valentine’s Day salad with …

How to Make Ghee from Butter

With a nutty flavor, ghee is a healthy, stable fat that’s great for frying and adds flavor to your foods. Learn how to make ghee from butter quickly and easily. It wasn’t until recently that I started to make my own ghee for cooking/frying. I had been frying foods in coconut oil and home-rendered lard to avoid …