Centrifugal vs. Masticating Juicers A new year has arrived, which means that December's sugar and butter saturated grocery ads have been replaced by January's kale and grapefruit. All those aisles of Christmas candy are being squeezed out by yoga pants and water bottles. Sales cycles follow our attention spans as much as the seasons. I half expected the whole raw juicing kick to be the same deal. In one month, out the next. But I have been pleasantly surprised that it's been one of those healthy habits that has actually lasted longer than New Year's Resolutions (If you're interested and/or skeptical about making & drinking raw juices, check out Keep Reading

This is a re-post from a previous year. There are piles of laundry dumped in random places around my house, my husband's brown bag lunches are strange combinations of leftovers found lurking in the fridge, my kids are eating Pirate's Booty on a daily basis, and I have been staying up way too late with way too much produce. This can only mean one thing: Canning Season is here. I have a love-hate relationship with this time of year. The produce is so abundant in September. Then I start ordering and picking and freezing and canning produce, and I can't stop. Restraint is not in my vocabulary. Like most things in life, I go all-or-nothing, turning Keep Reading

This is a re-post from a previous year. According to the National Retail Federation, the average American family with school-age children will spend about $600 this year on back-to-school clothes, shoes, supplies, and electronics. They didn't bother defining the "average" family, but I highly doubt my family qualified (and I can guarantee that couponers are anything but average). Growing up, I was one of five kids. Five kids that needed new pencils and notebooks and shoes every September. Our family's already tight budget was stretched to its limit every fall. When I hit the ripe old age of nine, my mom came up with a brilliant Keep Reading