The Power of Peroxide
In my Mean Green Cleaning post, I listed 3% hydrogen peroxide as a strong (but gentle) stain remover for the off chance that the all purpose cleaner did not fully work. This post is dedicated to the power of peroxide….
Zucchini Parmesan Crisps Recipe (Food Network)
For the last 2 or 3 weeks, we have been missing “meatless Monday”. It’s been more like meatless Wednesday or Thursday. Regardless, we still have to get those veggies in and since I’m always experimenting with new ways to introduce…
Unleash your inner child!
This has been a long time coming so here it is… KID SPACE! This room has been everything from storage to an office to a guest room before it found it’s true calling as the little one’s bedroom. Of course…
Homemade Spice Blends
While trying to go green, spend less, save more, and know/control what’s going into my food, I decided that I’m not too cool with all the “stuff” in the spice blends I buy that are unnecessary additives. I also decided…
How in the heck do you mess up BOILED EGGS?!
Let me just TELL you! My oldest thought he could boil eggs faster (i.e. in 5 minutes) simply by boiling with the lid on THE ENTIRE TIME. Needless to say, after five minutes of boiling his 3 eggs, he cracked…
7 Tips to Furnish Your Place on a Shoestring | Money Talks News
Great article from Money Talks. It echoes many of the sentiments I’d use for my college kid. I can’t wait for him to move into his first apartment; think of all the fun I am (oops, I mean WE are) going…
NATURALLY Fresh
In a previous post, I wrote about how great our home smelled after I accidentally left a dish of baking soda with peppermint EO sitting out over the weekend. After that, I decided that I want to keep this natural…
Hand Soap Experiment
I was going through the house filling up the soap dispensers yesterday and ran out of this industrial sized Shea butter soap that I’d bought a few months ago. It was so super cheap that I had no choice but…
A Word of Caution About Vinegar and Castile Soap
Dr. Bronner’s Castile soap and vinegar can clean an entire house. They are effective, versatile, biodegradable, and non-toxic. But the sole point of this post is to emphasize that these two should not be mixed directly. This is true for…
Mashed “Potatoes”?
I am always looking for ways to get more veggies into our diets. We eat pretty healthy most of the time but can you really ever eat to many veggies? It’s possible I guess, but I’ve never met anyone who…
