This page contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links. In an earlier post I wrote about using a strategy to help you gather the ingredients you need to make DIY Low tox Household products. I have now written a few posts that mention ingredients so I Continue Reading
We have see many changes in household technology over the years. I remember the days when my mother made mince meat using a manual mincer and washed clothes with an old wringer washing machine. Until about 10 years ago I had a fridge that needed to be manually defrosted every few weeks. If you left Continue Reading
Just looking for something to cook for dinner in Mum’s old Recipe Book and found a recipe that brings back bitter sweet memories. It’s a tasty veal recipe that Mum started to cook when I was in my late teens. But the reason why she started cooking this recipe was that my dad became very Continue Reading
In an earlier post I wrote about my love for cooking and how my Mum had influenced this passion. I also shared that I would be posting recipes from her very old cookbook. I will continue to do this but today I started looking through some of her newer books. This recipe is from my Continue Reading
As I was searching in Mum’s Recipe Book for something for dinner tonight I stumbled across a recipe for ‘Mezzetti’. What is Mezzetti I hear you ask? Well I think it might actually be ‘Marzetti’ or ‘Johnny Marzetti’ which is a Midwestern Italian American pasta (I found this out through a Google search!). This makes Continue Reading
One of the first products I made was a natural deodorant. I did a lot of reading about this one because it was something that I was very hesitant to do. Even though lots of people were raving about their natural deodorants, there are also lots of warnings out there about not trying them in Continue Reading
I really like my kitchen sink to be shiny. But It’s not just about the look, I also like to scrub it with something that will make it very clean. In the past, before I went on a mission to detox my house, I would have used a scourer like Ajax. So I needed to Continue Reading
We all have aches and pains at times and need something to take the edge off. It’s so easy to reach for the painkiller or if the problem is muscular, the heat rub or the anti-inflammatory gel. I actually used paracetamol and quite powerful anti -inflammatory drugs for years as I had a dicky knee Continue Reading
In my last post about DIY with Essential Oils I outlined a plan of attack or the process I followed to decide what DIY products with Essential Oils to make and how to do it. It is really just a way to help you decide where to start. In this post I want to share some of what Continue Reading
I don’t know about you but sometimes my evenings can be busy with people coming and going at different times, making dinner preparation a bit tricky. I have been working from home now for over 13 years and find that the best idea for these busy times it to use my slow cooker. Mine is Continue Reading
