Organic turkey – my first year cooking an organic turkey for Christmas I’ve been buying organic veggies for quite a while and this year for the first time decided to cook an organic turkey. I chose a 13lb organic turkey from Simple Truth – it’s the first year I’ve seen turkeys available from them. Now [...]
Essential Oils from dōTERRA – an introduction dōTERRA Essential Oils were introduced to me a year or so ago now by a colleague who now lives in Arizona and who is a dōTERRA independent product consultant. dōTERRA is pronounced ‘dough’-terra and it’s a Latin-derived wording meaning ‘gift of the Earth’. I’m a regular Essential Oil User [...]
Organic food more affordable in this part of the ‘Heartland’ – apples have made it! Doing a quick shop in my local Dillons last week, I was pleased and surprised to notice this price match. (See photos below). Pink Lady Apples (non-organic) $1.99 a pound Organic apples (Fuji), also $1.99 a pound Why buy [...]
Rhubarb Crumble - a popular British dessert When buying fruits and veggies in our local supermarket in Wichita, I often buy things that the person on the checkout doesn’t recognize. This happened a short while ago with rhubarb, a favoritefruit of mine which looks a bit like red celery but that has a sweet, tart, flavor to it [...]
Have you seen the ads reassuring us that High Fructose Corn Syrup is a good thing? I had noticed these ads being shown later last year and early this year, saying that High Fructose Corn Syrup or HCFS is ‘just like sugar’ and ‘one less thing to worry about’. And I thought to myself…hmnnnn…. This [...]
Well, I’ve been working away on this blog’s structure, and waiting, and waiting to post. Today seems to be the day to start, however, even though my links aren’t finished on some pages. So…neither is my house particularly clean or all the laundry done…but that doesn’t stop me living in it and wearing clothes! :-0 [...]