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Start your day with this! | The best thing you can do for yourself each day is so simple, but it's often overlooked. I know this because I myself -- a person who cares a great deal about healthy living -- have neglected it for years. What is it? Drink enough water. But even more than that... | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Start Your Day With THIS!

water faucet that is part of a whole house water filtration system, turned on so that it is clean water is flowing from it into the sink

Which Whole House Water Filtration System We Chose And Why #AskWardee 134

dehydrator trays of walnuts, almonds, and pumpkin seeds

Soaking Nuts & Seeds (+How To Dehydrate Them, Too!)

#AskWardee 014: Can I Eat Gelatin Instead Of Broth And Still Get The Benefits? | "Even though I know it's so good for me, I do not enjoy cooking a pot of bones... especially with chicken feet! Can I use a quality powered gelatin and achieve similar healing results?” asks Jenny M. I'm sharing my answer on today's #AskWardee! | AskWardee.tv

Can I Eat Gelatin Instead Of Broth And Still Get The Benefits? #AskWardee 014

Anatomy of a Blended Soup | The sky's the limit when it comes to deciding what to put in your blended soups. Use up any stray produce: an extra potato that didn't get baked, bits of broccoli or red pepper from a party tray, zucchini that's gone soft, wilty herbs that might be thrown out anyway... Anything is fair game. And delicious! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Anatomy of a Blended Soup

Perpetual Stock or Broth | The routine of making stock constantly can be inconvenient. With perpetual stock, however, you hardly feel like you're working at all. With perpetual stock, the stockpot is always on, always ready. You don't have to store the stock, you don't have to wash the pot daily, you're not always messing with it. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Perpetual Stock or Broth

two quart-sized glass jars of beef bone broth next to fresh herbs, onion, and garlic

Homemade Beef Broth Recipe (Stove Top, Instant Pot, Crock Pot)

As the fresh tomato season wears on, you find that you've exhausted your family's patience with all. those. tomatoes. So make sauce! You'll use up several pounds of tomatoes at a time, plus sauce freezes well and cans for long-term storage. This sauce includes healing bone broth!

Fresh Tomato Sauce with Healing Broth

How To Can Beans The Nourishing Way | Canned beans are easily found on grocery store shelves, but by canning your own you can go further. And not just 1 -- but 2 -- steps further! Here are directions for *nourishing* canned beans, and you'll save money, too! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Can Beans The Nourishing Way

Green Beans with Bacon & Mushrooms | Sick of green bean casserole that uses canned cream of mushroom soup? Want a Real Food version instead? My family enjoys this recipe throughout the year -- especially during the holiday season. No canned mystery soups necessary! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Green Beans with Bacon & Mushrooms

Loubieh -- Arabic Green Bean Stew

Loubieh — Arabic Green Bean Stew

Stir-Fried Green Beans

Stir-Fried Green Beans

Mujadareh

Mujadareh

two raw chickens in black crock pot

2 Whole Chickens in the Crockpot

black beans in bread bowl

Seasoned Black Beans for Rice Bowls

black bean spread on four-grain flatbread with tomato side on white plate

Black Bean Spread

bowl of homemade soaked oatmeal with coconut, raisins, and almonds

Rich Soaked Oatmeal

Healthy Homemade Popcorn (with free video!) | Our healthy homemade popcorn tastes amazingly just like the theater -- but without any of the guilt that comes with consuming highly-processed and/or trans fat vegetable oils. My son and I made this free how-to video for you (though he did all the work). | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Healthy Homemade Popcorn (with free video!)

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I’m Wardee Harmon and I help Christian families who know they should eat healthy but are tired of complicated, time-consuming, weird-tasting, and unsustainable “healthy” diets…

…who want to look and feel better, save time and money, and have more energy for enjoying family life and serving Him fully!… like I was. Click here for more…

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