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Holistic lifestyle advice for families looking to eat wholesome foods, and live more sustainably.
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2- 10- Minutes Method — To Battle Being Overwhelmed with End of the Year Tasks, Goals, Holidays to Dos
Trying out the 2- and 10- minute blocking method and see if that works. The approach is to use either a 2- or 10 minutes block for routine tasks, such as 1. household chores, 2. food prep, and combine with other expansive activities like 3. music making (learning the piano, singing), 4. making art (drawing,
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Bread Machine for Microbiome Friendly Nutrition for Kids to Eat and Make — Bread (Sourdough, Pumpernickel, 10 Grain) and Yogurt
Yogurt and select types of bread (sourdough,pumpernickel, 10 grain) have become our kids’ stable. We hope by consuming these food they get a microbiome rich diet as the kids’ haven’t developed a palette for kimchi, sauerkraut, or miso yet (we are working on it). Yogurt The bread machine, we use at home, has a yogurt
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10 Minutes BREAD MACHINE SOURDOUGH W/ French Bread Function
Baking I learned has been great to show that the impossible in within reach. This would be my third attempt at sourdough sinceI have killed the other two sourdough starters by not feeding on time. I have over the last three days worked on THREE sourdough bread loaves and TWO sourdough pasta recipe variations. This
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Private Journal Entries in Springpad: What is happyconnected’s Role?
The last time I published here was February 25, 2013. I’ve since then last publication wrote privately, on Springpad. I usually start the week with a calendar Spring, plan forward with some description of how I want the week to transpire (bridal shower, finish x, y, z tasks). Thereafter, I would document the week with
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My Happiness Project Involves a Cohesive Smarter Work/Live System
I’ve reread Gretchin Rubin’s Happiness Project multiple times (I am a huge fan). I’ve also read her recent work, Happiness at Home. But somehow, I feel that I need something more cohesive. As I was charting out the “work smart” system that allots for work life balance, I recognize that some of the techniques that
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Baptism by Fire Calls For a Need to Work Smarter
It’s been awhile since my last post. The last few months had felt like baptism by fire. The forever increasing task and project list at work, more deadlines, new developments that call for changes in processes. It’s never ending. I needed to take some time off the fast rail and to regroup, to think of
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