Back Yard Tea: Add Beautiful Medicinal Herbs to your garden this year

by Cara | Mar 12, 2024 | Do it yourself and save, natural health, supplements

Plants are for healing, and animal products are for nutrition. That is the premise of the GAPS Diet, and the recently popular Carnivore Diet. Read: Red Meat is Good for the Earth and You 🌎 Last year I experimented planting healing flowers, mainly because they were...

Easy Homemade Fruit Roll Ups (100% fruit!)

by Cara | Oct 19, 2023 | Dairy-Free, Dessert and Treats, Do it yourself and save, GAPS Recipes, Packed Lunches, snacks

If you can make a smoothie and own a dehydrator, you can make homemade fruit roll ups.  These are a great treat for lunchboxes, road trips, and more.  We love them with peach in them, all the seasonal peaches are absolutely delicious right now! Try seasonal fruit, and...

How To Make 1 gallon of Broth from Leftover Costco Rotisserie Chicken

by Cara | Oct 6, 2023 | Carnivore Diet Recipes, Classic Recipes, Do it yourself and save, keto recipes, Soup

  When time is short and my brain is scattered, rather than hit fast food, takeout, or induce more stress into my kitchen I swing into the crowded Costco parking lot, and then make my way to the back of the store for a $4.99 Costco Rotisserie Chicken.That chicken...

Home Canned Black Beans in Broth Recipe

by Cara | Jun 13, 2023 | Canning, Dairy-Free, Do it yourself and save

Pressure canning makes for easy, delicious, and inexpensive beans! Whenever you would normally use canned black beans, use these instead and enjoy the nutrition boost since they are made with broth. Canned beans are really that easy to use- just open a jar and heat...

Carnivore Diet Ranch Dressing

by Cara | May 30, 2023 | Carnivore Diet Recipes, Classic Recipes, condiments, Dairy-Free, Do it yourself and save, Lactofermented foods

Ranch dressing is a favorite of nearly every American. As parents and people interested in improving our health, we can use that to our advantage! This carnivore ranch dressing swaps out the seed oils for bacon grease, and adds in a good bump of probiotics with dairy...

DIY Milk Kefir for Good Gut Flora

by Cara | May 22, 2023 | Classic Recipes, Do it yourself and save, GAPS Diet, natural health

Homemade dairy (milk) kefir really is that simple.  Plop your kefir grains into a jar, cover with milk or cream, and then 12-24 hours later you have cultured milk that has nearly no lactose left, and is now filled with gut-healing beneficial probiotics. Over the...