Trim Healthy Mama Tips

Category: Trim Healthy Mama Tips

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

A Primer: Baking With Coconut Flour | Coconut flour is the only low-oxalate, GAPS-friendly flour that is also very low in anti-nutrients, making soaking unnecessary. In this post, I'll help you discover what makes coconut flour unique and how to bake with coconut flour, plus some of our favorite recipes. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

A Primer: Baking With Coconut Flour

Why We Steam Kale and Other Greens | Nutritional powerhouses like kale, collards, spinach, chard, and beet greens all contain oxalic acid, which binds with calcium and other minerals (like magnesium and iron) in order to be excreted from the body. Calcium and magnesium are precious minerals our bodies need to function and grow properly. The good news is: oxalic acid is easily reduced by steaming, boiling, or wilting the leaves of any of these vegetables. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Why We Steam Kale (and other dark leafy greens)

How To Make Healing Homemade Broth & Stock + Why You Should

How To Make Healing Homemade Broth & Stock + Why You Should

A Handy Guide For Washing Produce | The beginning of spring is the perfect to time to talk about preserving produce. I don't mean recipes, canning, or lacto-fermentation, though. I want to talk about the first thing you do to produce once you bring it home. Let's talk about the best ways to wash produce! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

A Handy Guide For Washing Produce

10 Herbs For Iced Tea All Summer Long | You already know the many benefits of drinking herbal tea. Enjoying them on ice is a great way to reap the health benefits and beat the heat, too! Here are 10 common herbs to use in your iced teas all summer long... | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

10 Herbs for Herbal Iced Tea… All Summer Long!

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!

How To Cook Pastured Chicken | Since you and your neighbor aren't "engineering" your chickens to be plump and juicy, you may notice that your pastured meat is sometimes dry or tough after cooking. No one wants to eat dry chicken, especially when you've spent years raising it or quite a lot of money to buy it! Here's how to get tender and juicy pastured chicken. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Cook Pastured Chicken {so it’s flavorful & juicy!}

How I Lost More ThanaHow I Lost More Than 30 Pounds In 1 Year | Up until last May, I was working out regularly and watching my "carbs". Yet even though I'd been eating healthy for many years, I was still gaining a bit of weight each year. Then it all turned around. In the last year, I've lost more than 30 pounds. Here's how I did it... 100% traditional foods on THM! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com 30 Pounds In 1 Year | Up until last May, I was working out regularly and watching my "carbs". Yet even though I'd been eating healthy for many years, I was still gaining a bit of weight each year. Then it all turned around. In the last year, I've lost more than 30 pounds. Here's how I did it... | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How I Lost More Than 30 Pounds In 1 Year

How I Lost More Than 30 Pounds In 1 Year... with 100% Traditional Foods | Up until last May, I was working out regularly and watching my "carbs". Yet even though I'd been eating healthy for many years, I was still gaining a bit of weight each year. Then it all turned around. In the last year, I've lost more than 30 pounds. Here's how I did it... with 100% traditional foods. | KnowYourFoodPodcast.com/113

How I Lost More Than 30 Pounds In 1 Year {podcast} (KYF113)

The tradition of making tea concentrates is centuries old. This time of year, cold weather provides an excellent excuse to cozy in and give your body something hot, soothing, and healthy: a well-loved tea. Let's explore the many reasons why you'd want to make a tea concentrate, and then I'll teach you how to do it!

How {and Why} to Make a Tea Concentrate

Do you enjoy bone broth? By the mug or the bowl, broth is good, nourishing stuff. You, however, may not like bone broth. This post is for you! Perhaps this will help make broth more appealing, so you too can enjoy this nutrient-dense food.

5 Ways to Make Your Bone Broth More Exciting

Between 2014 and 2015, I lost more than 30 pounds with Trim Healthy Mama, while still enjoying my favorite nourishing, nutrient-dense foods. Here are my 13 best tips for doing Trim Healthy Mama with traditional foods.

A Baker’s Dozen Of Tips For Trim Healthy Mama With Traditional Foods

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If I Were Starting Trim Healthy Mama With Traditional Foods Over Again… (KYF147)

Yes! Homemade Mayo Is Easier Than Store-Bought! | Oh, no! You've got a *big* problem. You just ran out of mayo! In my house, at least, this *is* a big problem. Did you know that making your own is EASIER (yes, easier) than getting more from the store? Plus it's healthier and cheaper, too! Watch this video, and I'll prove it to you! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Yes! Homemade Mayonnaise Is Easier Than Store-Bought!

At a time when I spent most of my free time baking, I was told I had to give up eggs. But to bake without eggs? Was that even possible? I'm here to tell you that it’s more than possible -- and easier than you might think. Although there are several egg-replacing products available, it’s just as easy to create your own substitutes from ingredients you probably already have on hand. Here are 6 of my favorites, and how to use them.

Baking Without Eggs: 6 Substitutions & How to Use Them

Spinach is one power-packed veggie that I love adding to regular and green smoothies. There's just 1 problem: spinach has lots of oxalates. Here's how to lower oxalates and use spinach in smoothies without the pain of steaming it every time.

The Best Way To Add Spinach (or any greens!) To Your Smoothies

19 Foods You Need To Start Trim Healthy Mama {the Traditional Food way} | Is it possible to follow Trim Healthy Mama WITH traditional foods and still lose weight? Absolutely. Do you have to loosen your nutrition standards? Absolutely not. I lost 30 pounds on THM with only whole, traditional foods. Here are my essentials... | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

19 Foods You Need To Start Trim Healthy Mama {The Traditional Food Way}