Baby animals are here! They sure threw me for a loop. Let's see if you can catch up. We have 3 goats (Lacey, Angel and Polly) And we have 1 sheep (Paula) First I thought Lacey (one of our goats) was due any day. I watched and waited and woke up in the middle of the night numerous times to check on that dang goat. The … [Read more...]
A Simple Granola Recipe
This isn't some fancy-shmancy granola. It's simple. It's cheap. It's sweet, salty & crunchy with a hint of vanilla. It's great for breakfast, snacks, yogurt. Kevin takes a cup and scoops some out for his drive to work in the wee hours. I don't add any nuts, seeds, dried fruit or coconut flakes. The main … [Read more...]
A Whole Foods List
I get asked a lot about what it is we actually eat. Well, here you have it! We really try to stick to these on the list and it has really helped me maintain my weight loss and I think prevented us from getting any colds or flus or stomach bugs this school year. Health, in my opinion is more important than being skinny (but it … [Read more...]
An easy way to get in your veggies
Like my new blog name? Pretty dern clever, eh? Yeah, prolly it'll be even MORE clever when I actually have a garden. So, I wanted to show how we get in our veggies. It's quick. Easy. Healthy. We've been doing this for years, literally years. The kids are so used to pulling this out at lunch and dinner it is a … [Read more...]
Certified for Foster Care!
We did it! We sat through 30 hours of training to become Foster Parents. 10 WHOLE weeks of classes. And up until the 10th week, we struggled with the decision to OFFICIALLY become straight-up Foster parents. We took the classes because it makes it easier for us adopt through the state if we are … [Read more...]
Healthy Fudgesicles
Got another great recipe here! Creamy, chocolately, fudgesicles! This is a frequent after-school snack in our house. And a quick dessert. The bananas supply a healthy dose of Vitamin C, potassium & fiber. The coconut milk provides an array of healthy nutrients such as phosphorus, iron, & … [Read more...]
Pomelos
In the Southwest, we love CITRUS! From December to February, everybody seems to have too many lemons, limes, oranges, and grapefruit. When we moved here, we were excited to have a full-grown grapefruit tree in our backyard. (Well, it looked like a grapefruit tree to us.) Turns out it was a Pomelo Tree. … [Read more...]
Healthy Soft Gingerbread Cookies
My sweet mother-in-law gave me this recipe and it's both a blessing and a curse! It's BOTH healthy & delicious. Two things that are hard to find these days.They are SO yummy that I prolly ate the whole first batch myself. In a day. Then I hurried and made another batch so my husband wouldn't notice I ate them all. Then I had to eat more of the … [Read more...]
An ‘Ode to Peter the Sheep
It was a sad week last week. Our poor sheep Peter, died. He seemed fine to us (although we've never raised a sheep before), he ate our grass, played with our baby goat and seemed happy and healthy. BUT, now we don't think he was very healthy because, well, he's dead. One day I noticed how Peter was laying down while … [Read more...]
My did it!
So as you know we have 2 goats that we milk every morning. Who am I kidding, I MILK EVERY MORNING. I'm like the little red hen. "Who will help me milk this goat?" Needless to say I get a lot of "Not I's" And then we actually drink the milk! Without pasteurizing it! Shocking, I know. Every day I get a … [Read more...]
I know, I know
Gosh, why do I not blog more! Here's the skinny on what's been happening in our lives... I canned strawberry sauce (recipe found here) so we could instantly flavor our yogurt. Goat milk yogurt that is. One of our chickens tortured and eventually ate a snake. And then for some reason this happened to one of their … [Read more...]
Spring, Spring, Spring!
Here are some pictures of all the new babies at our house. (and some pretty cute human kids too.) Our newest addition, Peter. Peter and the WOLFords. Classic. And no we did not choose his name. And why did we get a lamb, you ask? Well, because so we can eat him of course! Well, … [Read more...]