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Grinding your own Flours: Nutrimill?

DO YOU OWN THIS MILL?

We recently purchased this mill through
Pleasant Hill Grain
You can read review at this link about the Nutrimill

MY REVIEW ON THE NUTRIMILL and why we are shipping it back.

We did a lot of research on mills and settled on this one because of the

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Vinegar Cleaning Tips:

Remove mineral deposits from coffee makers with white distilled vinegar. Fill the water reservoir with 1 cup or more of white distilled vinegar and run it through a whole cycle. Run it once or twice more with plain water to rinse clean. (Check the owners’ manual first.)

Remove soap buildup from faucets by scrubbing them with

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Shampooing with Organic Castile Bar Soap.

Well the verdict is in. You can read about my recent posting about removing all store bought commercially made shampoos / conditioners and not using them anymore. The information I’ve learned and my updates when I started and how things progressed here.

Now after 3 day’s in a row since stopping the use of baking soda

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The No - Poo Shampoo Challenge!

Here is where my first posting for No-Poo Shampooing is. It was last year in 2008 that I tried to go the route of not using any store bought shampoos. I wasn’t all that pleased with it and went back to using what I have have used for years. The msnbc. link on this posting

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Zote Soap ~ Home made Laundry Soap

What is Zote soap? It is a laundry bar soap created in Mexico that use to be made by hand and continues to be made today but with commercial equipment. My hubby came home from the grocery store with a bar. He found it next to the Fels Naptha. He was picking up Fels, Borax

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Homemade Dishsoap & I fixed my vacuum with water!

While I sit here minding my hair dryer that is on the floor aimed at the vacuum cleaner hose stretched out I thought I would post the dish soap recipe I finally located. First though……about the vac hose. I fixed my new / used vacuum I picked up a while back at a thrift store

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Flour Mills and Wild Turkeys.....

The Spring Turkey hunting season here is over. Next season will be in the Fall. In the Spring you can only shoot Tom’s. Hen’s lay their eggs and raise their family of young poults.

This morning I spotted a very large Hen just south of the house in the tree line. I’ve

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Rice Cookers

Zojirushi Automatic Rice Cooker & Warmer – 10 cup.

This is one of my favorite kitchen appliances. There is no loss in nutrients when you cook your rice this way. And it’s impossible to over cook. You just put your measured rice / water, close the cover select cook and that’s it. No standing over the

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No-Poo.......that is no Shampoo!

Ditching shampoo a dirty little beauty secret
An underground, eco-friendly hair trend finds followers and fights frizzies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30337386/

Maybe you have already seen this if not check out the above link on going the route of tossing out our health and beauty aides of shampoo and conditioner.

I found it interesting that this

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A Revisit with Dental care and toothpaste:

Giving my teeth a good brushing tonight I thought it was time to revisit our use of Homemade toothpaste use versus store bought since now I’ve converted my husband over to using it. I’ve been using it for several months on a consistent daily basis and continue to like it. He’s hooked on

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Laundry Soap Update:

Time for an update on the homemade laundry detergent found at http://www.thefamilyhomestead.com/laundrysoap.htm.

It’s a keeper! Laundry is coming out very clean, no residue left on and absolutely no itching from any of the ingredients for us. I didn’t bother to calculate out our costs per load since I figure it is pretty much in the same

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New Venture in Saving Money:

Been waiting for some time to see how the homemade laundry soap end results would turn out to be for Paula & Steve. Results seem very positive.
So after I purchase all the ingredients I am going to give it a try. Start with just a small batch and see how it goes and

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More on Toothpaste and Dental care:

Just thought I would drop a note on my latest toothpaste recipe in previous posting. I added Coconut Oil as I had seen it on Tammy’s recipes.

It is great. I really liked the aspect of making the soda / salt / flavor into a paste. Though now I am debating on going strictly back

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What a day to ENJOY!

THANK YOU LORD for such a beautiful day!
It’s 4:25 p.m. Saturday January 31st, 2009
Currently it is
71 degrees Fair and breezy

So sorry to ya’ all having really cold and / or bad weather.
Though this is not typical weather here this time of the year.
We sure don’t have any complaints about it!

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Coconut Oil:

Here are some websites to check out and read up on the Health Benefits of Coconut oil.
One of the reasons I chose to use it in my toothpaste is for it’s over all health benefits.
Yes, it has antibacterial properties that would help in killing the bacteria that would be bad, but but it has oh

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More on Toothpaste and Dental care:

More……plus updates added to the end of more sites to read.
I’ve done some more research on glycerin in toothpastes because I at first could not come up with the information on why glycerin in toothpaste was not good that I had been told about.
The first website below gives the details of why glycerin in

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Toothpaste / Dental Health:

[Recipe for my homemade toothpaste at end of post]

Homemade Toothpaste. Have you considered it? I have over the years given thought to it but never pursued it until over the past year. If you can get your hands on a copy of the book called ~ Nourishing Traditions ~ by Sally Fallon

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Handmade Goats Milk Soap.......Notes:

Hi all, I found the video in previous posting this morning after talking about handmade soaps on chat with my sister. I have been thinking on doing this myself for sometime. I buy handmade soaps made locally. They are wonderful and end the never ending itching problem you can get from store bought commercial soaps.

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Handmade Goats Milk Soap - video preview

Came across this video in my search for sources
to make handmade soaps. This is a preview video
of making goats milk soap. Her full version step by step
DVD is available for purchase.

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