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Fight Depression, Eat A Burger

Fight Depression, Eat A Burger

Nourishing Tallow Balm | After reading an article toting the Heaven-sent benefits of tallow balm, I made my own to help heal my keratosis pilaris. In this post, I share the benefits of using grass-fed tallow in skin care and a simple recipe for homemade tallow balm. Plus a current picture of my rash because I'll be documenting the results! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Nourishing Tallow Balm

Nourishing Tallow Hard Lotion Bars | A hard lotion bar can be applied to the hands regularly without gunking-up everything one touches, unlike balms and lotions. These contain skin-nourishing fat and healing essential oils. Plus, they're so easy to make! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Nourishing Tallow Hard Lotion Bars

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Extra-Virgin Olive Oil: About, Benefits, and Recommended Uses

Saturated Fats and Internal Warfare | Wars have been around pretty much since time began. Good versus evil. Cops and robbers. You get the point. There are opposing sides to just about everything -- and it's no different in your gut. In fact, there's a war waging as we speak. You can't always see or feel it, but it's happening just the same. The good guys are fighting to keep you alive and the bad guys want you, shall we say, less alive. Is it that serious? Sometimes, yes. Let's meet the players. GNOWFGLINS.com

Internal Warfare: Saturated Fats

Whipped Body Butter | It's not frosting, but it does look good enough to eat. This whipped homemade body butter is thick and rich. It nourishes the skin with just a few ingredients like shea butter and essential oils. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Way Better Than Lotion: Homemade Whipped Body Butter with Essential Oils

8 Ways To Get More Vitamin D Naturally | Coming out of the long, dark months, many of us may have a slight vitamin D deficiency. Our bodies need Vitamin D to function at our best. It increases bone health and helps the nervous system. Deficiencies have been linked to high blood pressure and even cancer. When I recently found myself vitamin D deficient, I increased my daily dose naturally. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

8 Ways To Get More Vitamin D (Naturally!)

Some Things Don't Change: Vintage Food Ads

Some Things Don’t Change: Vintage Food Ads

Real Food Makeovers for Your Holiday Recipes | Our favorite holiday recipes have had to undergo real food makeovers. Here are simple tips and substitutes to make your favorite holiday and family recipes a little bit more traditional, healthier, and even tastier! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Real Food Makeovers for Your Holiday Recipes

10 Reasons to Use Coconut Oil | If you've been around traditional/paleo/real foodies for any length of time, the subject of coconut oil has probably come up! Unlike the popular fats like canola oil, vegetable oil, and wannabe butter spreads, saturated fats (like coconut oil) are actually the healthiest fats you can eat and use in a variety of ways. Here are 10 reasons to use coconut oil... plus 33 recipes! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

10 Reasons To Use Coconut Oil + 33 Recipes!

Coconut oil. Tallow. Lard. Pasture butter. Ghee. Duck fat. These are the Traditional fats we typically hear so much about. Then avocado oil made its way into my kitchen. I predict that avocado oil is going to have a secure spot on our list of healthy fats very soon. And here's why. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Avocado Oil: The New Fat in the Real Food Kitchen

Raw Milk Q&A | Switching to raw milk is a good starting place for many newly health-conscious families. I went to one raw milk-producing family farm, Fall Creek Farms in TN, to ask important questions: Is it safe? Is it from a good source? How long does it last? Why is it more expensive? and more! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Raw Milk Q & A

There's a lot of conflicting information about food out there, and your head is probably spinning as you try to sort through it all. Yet, Real Food can be summed up in one simple statement. Do you know what it is?

Top 5 Nutrient-Dense Foods For Your Family

Did you know that the function of your immune system, the state of your mental health, the pain or lack thereof in your joints, and even whether or not you have seasonal allergies can all be determined by one thing? Do you know what it is? And did you know you can heal it yourself?

82 Ways To Heal Your Gut

Do you need to eat meat to be healthy? Watch, listen, or read to learn my 6 points that you can use to evaluate whether or not to add meat to your diet! | AskWardee.tv

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Would you like to start cooking traditionally? Watch, listen, or read to learn my 6 simple steps to getting started with traditional foods! | AskWardee.tv

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Are you on the GAPS Diet? Have you thought about starting? How do you know when it's time to stop? My family and I have been on the GAPS Diet for almost 5 years. We're unusual that way. We've been dependent on the GAPS diet for most of my children's childhoods. A year ago, I questioned if I personally would ever be able to get off. Thanks to my own research and various people I met along the way, I don't wonder any more.

Why, When, & How To Phase Off The GAPS Diet

Is pomace olive oil healthy? It’s the last bit of oil that can be extracted from olives — making it decidedly not extra-virgin (that’s the first pressing), yet also pleasantly inexpensive. Watch, listen, or read to learn if pomace olive oil has a place in a healthy kitchen!

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