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DIY Diffuser Jewelry {necklace and bracelet} Essential oils are rapidly gaining popularity -- and with good reason. I quickly realized that essential oil jewelry would be a breeze to make (and fun, too!). I'll take you through the steps of making both an essential oil diffuser necklace and an essential oil diffuser bracelet -- so you'll be making essential oil jewelry on your own in no time. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

DIY Essential Oil Jewelry {Diffuser Necklace & Bracelet}

Strawberry Meringue Shells with Lemon Curd | If your layers are prolific and you have eggs to use up, make this! The whites make the meringue and the yolks go in the lemon curd. Though I used strawberries, this recipe is flexible for whatever fruit is in season. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Strawberry Meringue Shells with Lemon Curd

Transitioning to Gluten-Free Baking: 10 Tips and Tricks for Success | As I navigated the world of gluten-free flours, starches, gums, and endless lists of substitutes, I learned a few things that made my baked goods both better and healthier. Here are my top 10 tips to help you transition successfully and healthfully. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Transitioning to Gluten-Free Baking: 10 Tips and Tricks for Success

16 Recipes and Tips for Real Food Camping | Fond memories aside, just because we are “roughing it” on a camp site doesn’t mean we have to compromise on providing delicious, nutritious, whole food meals. To prepare for this year’s camping season I scoured the internet and our own archives for creative, healthy, delicious, and easily-prepared camping meals. You can also put all of them on your camp-out menu and won’t need to pack a single sheet of tinfoil! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

16 Recipes and Tips for Real Food Camping

9 Insanely Refreshing Popsicles {that you and your kids will love!} | Summertime means 2 things: 1) fresh food abounds and 2) it's hot. So, what better way to celebrate summer than to indulge regularly in cold, refreshing, nourishing popsicles, packed with seasonal delights? Here are 9 insanely refreshing popsicles... that just happen to be good for you, too! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

9 Insanely Refreshing Popsicles {that you and your kids will love!}

Tropical Probiotic Smoothie | Not only is it healthy, this simple smoothie is like vacation in a glass -- picture yourself on a tropical island, lounging under a palm tree, listening to the waves crash against the beaches! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Tropical Probiotic Smoothie

12 Yummy Snacks Using Sourdough | You love sourdough and your family loves snacks. We're putting the 2 together to make you all happy! We vetted a whole bunch of sourdough snack recipes on the internet and pulled out the best ones -- whole grain and incorporating a full souring of the grain for best nutrition and digestion. Enjoy! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

12 Yummy Snacks Using Sourdough

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

Diagnosed With 5 Serious Health Conditions By Age 40... Now Healed {Megan's Story} | By the age of 40, Megan had been diagnosed with 5 serious health conditions, including arthritis, Hashimoto's, and other auto-immune diseases. Today? Megan is healed, thanks to a gut-healing diet. Not your normal restricted diet, though -- no deprivation here! Watch, listen, or read her story and her approach to beautiful, feast-worthy, gut-healing foods. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Diagnosed With 5 Serious Health Conditions By Age 40… Now Healed! {Megan’s Story}

How the word "alternatives" turns gut-healing foods into feasts | Megan and her family have been on a gut-healing diet for more than 4 years. Not only have they experiencing healing, no one's choking down blah, dry, and repetitive meals. No one leaves the table feeling any lack. Why? Because Megan's favorite word is "alternatives" and it should be yours as well -- if you want to thrive on a gut-healing diet. Video and transcript included. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How The Word “Alternatives” Turns Gut-Healing Foods Into Feasts

A chutney is the perfect way to get started with fermenting because it's easy to make and delicious. To help you dive in -- and use up the fruits you're likely bringing in by the boxload or bucketful -- we pulled together this collection of lacto-fermented fruit and chutney recipes. Enjoy!

25 Fermented Fruit & Chutney Recipes

Summertime is for reveling in the heavenly flavors of ripe summer fruit, is it not? Based on the traditional French method of making apricot preserves and apricot butter, I look forward to making this recipe each summer. I hope you enjoy it as thoroughly and delightedly as I do.

Heavenly Traditional French-Style Apricot Preserves

Recently, I created my own version of a delicious blackberry mocktail my husband and I enjoyed on a business trip. My version, however, uses fresh squeezed lime juice and honey in lieu of limeade concentrate along with fresh mint and local crushed frozen blackberries. I omit the alcohol so it's family friendly. Enjoy!

Blackberry Mojitoes {Summer Mocktail}

I discovered this soup last summer during the garden abundance of yellow lemon cucumbers. I love that it requires only a food processor -- no oven at all! The color is a delicate pink, making it ideal for a feminine summer gathering such as a bridal shower, yet the smoky flavor is robust enough that my husband enjoys having it for dinner.

Smoky Cucumber Soup

It's possible to hit the trail (or paddle down the river) without compromising your health! Whether out for a day hike, or on a wilderness adventure with loaded pack or canoe, here are foods that will keep you nourished!

Real Food for the Trail: Eating Well in the Backcountry

In less than 30 minutes, you can whip up a batch of No-Bake Coconut Delights. That and all the other scrumptious and healthy no-bake cookies and bars we've got here for you today are the kinds of recipes you want to have in your back pocket -- whether it's 80 degrees in your house or not!

49 Nourishing No-Bake Cookies and Bars

Raw green plantains contain resistant starch, a healthy prebiotic that sets the stage for a healthy colon. However, they're usually not palatable. Undeterred, I wanted to create a green plantain treat, something really good as well as being really healthy. And here it is... green plantain crackers that my family loves!

Green Plantain Crackers {& all about resistant starch}

With food-allergies and a wide variety of diets to accommodate, my family set out to experiment with alternatives to the usual campfire fare. Here are our favorite tasty (and healthy!) alternatives, plus ways to spice-it-up, dip-it-up, and turn it into a special treat.

Delicious Real Food Alternatives to Roasting Marshmallows