An Arkansas Mama's journey to natural, simple living.
WEEK 12: SHOW YOUR PLASTIC CHALLENGE TOTAL – 9.5 oz, 51 Items This week we continued with all of the various changes that have been introduced over the past 3 months during the Show Your Plastic Challenge: Every Wednesday has become our milk delivery/pickup day, Thursday has become the day to bake our gluten free bread, Tuesday is the day that my weekly plastic free update is due to you. The process of educating ourselves continues along the journey. Last {Read More}
One of our family’s basic foods is homemade gluten free granola. A perfect snack, breakfast cereal or yogurt addition. I’ve been making it for over 10 years. The recipe recently went under a Gluten Free renovation out of necessity but that doesn’t mean it still isn’t delicious! You can make so many variations with this basic recipe. Add some cranberries, raisins, dried banana, cashews, almonds, pecans…you get the picture. Any taste buds can be delighted with this granola. Without store {Read More}
With our recent diagnosis requiring a gluten & soy free diet, I began to rely on pre-made GF convenience foods like Whole Foods GF blueberry muffins. I had always baked from scratch our food but was now overwhelmed with the idea of learning to bake entirely gluten-free. Several months later, I’ve now experimented with all kinds of gluten & soy free basic recipes during our plastic free-living project since I can no longer purchase those packaged GF foods. I decided {Read More}
Week 8 SHOW YOUR PLASTIC CHALLENGE TOTAL – 58 PIECES, 13.6 OZ How do you react when life hands you a lemon? A wise old friend of ours (in her 80s now) once told Amanda & I, “When life hands you a lemon, stick it in your bra.” Everyday, every week we come against obstacles and we could choose to allow those obstacles to interfere with our goals, whatever they might be. If you’re like me I might trip and {Read More}
WEEK 5 SHOW YOUR PLASTIC CHALLENGE TOTAL – 54 PIECES, 1 LB 6.5 OZ Finally…a reduction in volume of our plastic waste, small but good. Since we didn’t ‘clean house’ at the beginning of the year of our accumulated plastic but continue to use what was on hand, plastic is going to continue to filter in as the year progresses. My prior, consumeristic mentality had stockpiled my organic favorite ingredients when coupons and sales arose (packaged in plastic). So I {Read More}
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