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Teach Yourself to Be Plant-Based: Our Favourite Plant-Based Recipes, Books, and Resources

January 12, 2022 by Elsie 4 Comments

Mandarin oranges on a colorful floral napkin

Learn how to eat a plant-based diet with a few of my recommended plant-based diet books, recipes, and documentaries. These are the resources that helped us switch to a plant-based diet!Welcome to the third post in my "miniseries" about eating a plant-based diet! Part 1 was about why we switched to a plant-based diet, and what it is, exactly. Part 2 was a reflection on the Weston A. Price Foundation diet that I used to esteem highly, and some problems associated with that diet.Finally, this last part is a resource post with book recommendations, websites, and recipes for anyone who's curious about plant-based eating (or is already ... Continue Reading

Goodbye Nourishing Traditions: The WAPF Diet in Retrospect

November 3, 2021 by Elsie 21 Comments

Nourishing Traditions Cookbook by Sally Fallon - Yellow cover with colorful multi-cultural illustrations

We stopped eating a Weston A. Price diet (WAPF) and switched to whole foods plant-based. Here's my review of the WAPF diet and why we started eating WFPB instead!In the first post in this miniseries, I talked about why we switched to a whole foods plant-based diet, and some of the everyday ways we implement it.Today I'm sharing my review of the Weston A. Price diet (also called the WAPF diet or Traditional Foods diet), which is the diet we tried to align with previously.Before I begin, I'll give two caveats, because I like the word "caveat."The first is that I realise this post will not be relevant to some people, since ... Continue Reading

The Way We Eat Now: Our Plant-Based Switch, Part 1

September 28, 2021 by Elsie 16 Comments

A flat lay of plant-based foods including tomatoes, cashews, carrots, cilantro, and other fresh fruits and vegetables.

Although we thought we were pretty healthy eaters before, we've made some big changes to our diet in the last couple of years! This is our family's story of switching to a plant-based diet.Did you know that processed lunchmeat can cause cancer...even when the lunchmeat has "no nitrates added"?I didn't know that until my husband sent me an article to read and got me investigating.I looked at the article and thought: How annoying.How inconvenient to discover that a staple of your weekly lunches isn't doing you any favors! And we thought we'd been doing it the healthy way by getting the lunchmeat packages that said "no ... Continue Reading

25 Car Essentials for Prepared Homemakers

February 10, 2021 by Elsie 4 Comments

Interior of minivan stocked with car essentials

In a quest to be a more intentional, prepared homemaker, here are 25 car essentials I'm stocking in our minivan! You never know when these car must-haves will come in handy, but when you need them, you'll be grateful you planned ahead!One of the best tricks a homemaker can have up her sleeve is to be prepared for whatever day-to-day life might throw her way.This means having a "next step" for minor emergencies. Power goes out? Fetch the battery-operated lights. Child falls in muddy ditch at the park? Whip out that extra change of clothes!This also means being ready for the good surprises. Let's say you want to go for an ... Continue Reading

Pumpkin Overnight Oats: The Breakfast that Keeps Our Mornings Simple

October 14, 2020 by Elsie 3 Comments

Overnight oats in a bowl with pumpkin puree swirled on top

These no-cook overnight oats are everything you could want in a breakfast: healthy, easy, cheap, and extremely tasty. For fall, we make this recipe with pumpkin puree and spices for a pumpkin pie overnight oatmeal that our whole family loves!I'm sure you've heard of the "daily uniform" trend, right? Where you choose to wear the same outfit (with slight styling variations) every day? Picture Steve Jobs and his ubiquitous black turtlenecks. The attraction of a daily uniform is that it simplifies your choices and frees you up to focus on other things, as well as saving you a bit of cash.Why not apply the daily uniform concept to your ... Continue Reading

12 Things I Want to Do with the Time That is Given Me

September 10, 2020 by Elsie 8 Comments

Every year I write a contemplative "birthday post" with either some personal reflections, or some fun points of interest for my readers to get to know me better. What follows is this year's offering--some deep thoughts for the decade (or so) ahead.Ah, birthdays. How nice to have them every year!I've never understood why adults grown and grimace and try to hide their age or the fact that it's their birthday. Why wouldn't you want people to make a fuss over you on your birthday? Why wouldn't you want to celebrate another year of life?Last week I turned 32.It's not a milestone year or anything, but I did spend some time ... Continue Reading

What Simple Living Looks Like When You Have Three Kids

July 16, 2020 by Elsie 6 Comments

Family's shoes on a shoe rack

Here's what real-life simple living looks like, when you're a busy parent smack dab in the middle of raising young kids. It's about little habits and shifts in perspective that add up to something big.Is simple living unattainable when you're in the throws of parenting young children?Sometimes it feels like it, when you have to choose between housework and spending time with your kids.Or when you re-heat your coffee for the fourth time because so many little emergencies bubbled up over the course of the morning.Or when the donation bag is overflowing, because while you might snatch some time to declutter upon occasion, it's a ... Continue Reading

Recovering the Lost Art of Writing Letters

June 5, 2020 by Elsie 12 Comments

Letter writing materials

Time to stop letting junk mail and bills monopolize our mailboxes! Let's bring back the lost art of letter writing, one lovely piece of snail mail at a time.I remember watching a documentary on the Civil War that showed pictures of letters written during the period, and it struck me how distinguished and elegant the handwriting looked in those letters. Fine handwriting has been a lost art for some time, and nowadays letter writing itself is a fading practice!Handwriting and handwritten letters go, you know, hand-in-hand; the decline of one leads to the atrophy of the other. And the reasons why we write less often are readily ... Continue Reading

Essential Reading for Homemakers: 10 Books to Cultivate a Beautiful, Simple, and Purposeful Home

May 5, 2020 by Elsie 7 Comments

Books about homemaking

These 10 books will make you a better homemaker! I've read many homemaking books, and these are some of my favourites for decluttering, decorating, routines, and intentional living at home. They'd make an excellent addition to any homemaker's reading list.One of my greatest pleasures in life is keeping house. I don't mean cleaning, necessarily (especially not cleaning bathrooms). I mean all of it--the holistic art of making a home, that hub and center for all our comings and goings and life pursuits. Homemaking is satisfying because it has direct bearing on the lives of the people who matter most to us. It's rhythmic work, and ... Continue Reading

Our baby girl, and the story of her birth

April 15, 2020 by Elsie 11 Comments

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who dreamed of someday having a lively home full of children. There were both girls and boys in the mix, running colorful through the yard with plastic toys and bubbles and collected "nature" to show their mother.Then a long while later that little girl grew up, and the children that were so familiar to her yet so inscrutable began to show up. First the boy, a force of nature with a passionate soul and an endless imagination. Then three years later a little brother, full of precious smiles and an eagerness to watch and learn and do. And then, a sister...It was familiar territory at first. ... Continue Reading

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