by Boxed | Jan 4, 2020 | apothecary & health, Baby Steps, Blog, Boxed=to-Basics, Essential Oils, Natural Living, Recipes
Dirt … Mud … Dead Bugs … Toilet seats … Oh, I can’t take it anymore, yuck! Double yuck! I can remember before my kids, walking into some well known ‘bath stores’ to buy those bottles of hand soap that were brilliantly designed...
by Boxed | Nov 20, 2019 | Blog, Boxed=to-Basics, gluten-free, grains & legumes, Real Food, Recipes
Some things about growing up and eating dinner are just etched into my memory. The smells of Rice-a-Roni is one of those dishes. You would think we ate it once a week, which I know we did not, but the smell is something so grounding … so gives me the feeling of...
by Boxed | Nov 7, 2019 | Baby Steps, Blog, breakfast, dairy, gluten-free, Real Food, Recipes
Mornings are about smiles, hugs, coffee and my daily greeting to my kids “How did you sleep, my love?” as each of them wakes up and emerges from their rooms. As the aroma of coffee fills the kitchen, it becomes the place in our home that we busily pack...
by Boxed | Oct 1, 2019 | apothecary & health, Baby Steps, Blog, Essential Oils, Natural Living, Recipes
Dust Bunnies and Laundry are two things that continue to GROW at our house … regardless of whether it’s a good week, bad week, we feel great or we feel yuck! The dust bunnies are allowed to ‘sometimes’ get bigger for a week (or two!) but the...
by Boxed | Oct 1, 2019 | Baby Steps, Blog, Budgeting, Preparedness
I don’t know about you, but we aren’t looking out the windows for Zombies or Aliens! When we talk about preparedness, we’re talking about preparing for both good times and bad. We all have times in our life when things are going really well with: our...
by Boxed | Sep 12, 2019 | apothecary & health, Blog, Homesteading, meat, poultry & fish, Real Food, Recipes, sauces & condiments
Homemade Chicken Stock… this should be called “liquid of the GODS”! For years and years, every time I needed some “stock” that a recipe called for, I reached into my pantry and pulled out a box. I can remember buying 4 boxes at a time, so...
by Boxed | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Real Food
“What’s for dinner?” Why does everyone ask this daily during the bewitching hour? You know at 4:30pm … when you realize you totally forgot about dinner, or did you? Lots of you ask about my ‘Meal Planning’ and even though I’m VERY Type-A, OCD … I...
by Boxed | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, breads, muffins & crackers, breakfast, gluten-free, Recipes
Going from Boxed to Basics, isn’t really that hard! Just LOTS of little changes … helped us go from a “bagged” blueberry muffin recipe to Homemade! When I was a little girl, my family used to take a yearly car-trip to where my parents were from...
