Whether you grow your own food, buy locally, or buy what you can afford, preparing it yourself is one way to embrace the homesteading lifestyle. Here are some ideas on cooking from the garden or replacing purchased foods with homemade versions.
Dairy Free Chocolate Chip Cookies With Honey
Did you know that Costco has milk free chocolate chips? Well, they do! And they're fantastic for making dairy free ...
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Super Easy Dairy Free Cherry Crumble
Do you need a super easy dessert to make? This dairy free cherry crumble is very versatile and quick to ...
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Easy Homemade Playdough Recipe
Homemade playdough is a great way to spend time with your kids, or keep them happy while you work in ...
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Freezing Vegetables Is A Quick Way To Preserve Your Harvest
Some people are totally awesome at canning and put up loads of food every summer. Luckily for the rest of ...
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Blanching Vegetables Before Freezing Your Garden Excess
One of the easiest way to save excess garden produce is by freezing it. Some things can just be tossed ...
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6 Easy Snacks You Can Grab Quickly
Life gets crazy, and sometimes all you have time to do is feed the chickens and get the kids out ...
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How To Dehydrate Food Without A Dehydrator
Being able to dehydrate food without a dehydrator is a highly useful homesteading skill. While having a fancy dehydrator can ...
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List of Fruits and Vegetables with Storage Tips
Here is a list of fruits and vegetables with storage tips on how to extend the life of your produce ...
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How To Make Homemade Vanilla Extract
Homemade vanilla extract is super easy to make. Plus you can use different alcohols to create subtle differences in flavor ...
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How To Make a Totally Delicious Chocolate Cherry Smoothie
It's not secret that I love green smoothies. I don't love vegetables so hiding them in a smoothie is my ...
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How To Make Sour Cream Ice Cream
Making your own sour cream is a fun way to get more beneficial probiotics into your diet. The best part ...
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Healthy Snack Ideas For a Boost on Harried Days
I think even the most devout homesteaders among us fall prey sometimes to the harried pace of modern life. Despite ...
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Crockpot Breakfast Casserole For When You Are Limited On Time
Everybody's busy. Throw in some animals that have to be fed every. single. morning. and things can get really crazy, ...
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What To Do With Random Cabbages In Your Fridge (AKA Cabbage Recipes)
I've had this cabbage in my fridge for almost a month now, and we really, really need to eat it ...
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How To Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs -With Fresh Eggs
Sometimes fresh eggs can be difficult to peel. Thankfully, there are a few ways to easily hard boil fresh eggs ...
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7 Ways To Eat Riced Cauliflower
Cauliflower is one of those amazingly versatile foods that can be prepared in so many different ways. One of the ...
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How To Freeze Broccoli
Produce seems to come in waves. Sometimes you have a bumper crop of one item and it needs to be ...
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24 Colorful Roasted Vegetable Recipes For Insanely Easy Meals
It's a bit of an oxymoron, but I'm a homesteader who hates cooking. Home grown, home cooked food is supposed ...
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48 MORE Cauliflower Recipes That You’ll Want To Eat
Just in case you didn't get enough recipes for cauliflower in our post 53 Tantalizing Cauliflower Recipes For When you ...
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53 Tantalizing Cauliflower Recipes For When You Have Extra
It's an amazing feeling when you grow enough of a food in your garden. It's even more amazing when you ...
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3 Popular Ways of Preserving Garlic From Your Garden
Garlic is one of my all time favorite plants to grow. It's pretty much foolproof, which is very important for ...
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Cleaning a Cast Iron Skillet Is Astoundingly Quick and Easy
My all time favorite type of pan is cast iron. It's sturdy, can cook anything, anywhere, and it's super duper ...
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Here’s How To Make Creamy Rabbit Gravy
If you have just started raising rabbits you may be wondering what sorts of foods you can cook with rabbit ...
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Beet Brownies are the Best! (Made with Honey!)
We're all supposed to eat more fruits and vegetables, right? But what we really want to eat are brownies. Have ...
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How To Make Super Easy Rabbit Stock
Homemade rabbit stock is super easy to make! Making it is a great way to utilize each animal fully and ...
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How To Make Fantastic Peanut Butter Fudge
Chocolate is awesome. I mean just about everyone can agree that it's just amazing. Except my husband. Because he is ...
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Just How Easy Is It To Make Raspberry Jam?
Yay! Books! I love books! If you've been around for awhile you might have noticed that. It's because books are ...
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A Green Smoothie Is The Perfect Way To Hide Vegetables
I can't stand eating vegetables. It's a funny thing, considering I'm trying to grow as much of my own food ...
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What To Do With Leftovers When You Have No Fridge
If you are living without a fridge, or with a very small fridge the number one easiest strategy for having ...
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Make “Peter” Rabbit Pot Pie For a Homegrown Dinner
I have to admit, I was a little nervous the first time we sat down to eat one our backyard ...
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Simple Crustless Quiche Recipe For When You Have Too Many Eggs
When you have too many eggs it's time for quiche! It's a perfect spring time dinner that can be made ...
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How To Make Easy Kefir Cheese
If you are ever faced with an excess of kefir (which happens all the time to me) make kefir cheese! ...
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14 Foods To Stop Refrigerating When You Have Limited Space
The mailbox lid clinked shut, and the dog started barking at the window as the mailman walked down the sidewalk ...
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Easy Potato Chowder You Can Make From Your Homestead
Growing your own food is fun, but the really special part comes when you sit down to the dinner table ...
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How To Make Homemade Chili Powder
Earlier this week I sprinkled the very last of my chili powder into my homemade ketchup and immediately thought I ...
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How To Make Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar
I was so excited when I learned I could make my own homemade apple cider vinegar from bits of apple ...
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How to Make Sour Cream With Yogurt
Did you know that you can make your own sour cream? I recently discovered that making sour cream is SO ...
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How to Render Fat And Make Your Own Lard
The other day I was getting ready to put a fatty roast into the crock pot when I realized I ...
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How To Dehydrate Hamburger And Make Hamburger Rocks
If you are interested in becoming more self reliant and living off grid, you will want solutions for preserving meat ...
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Preserving Meat Without Canning Or Freezing by Making Oven Jerky
Preserving food is always a good idea, but for meats conventional storage methods can be energy intensive, (such as pressure ...
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What To Do When You Have No Refrigerator
Uh-oh, sometimes emergency happen. Your fridge DIED and it's going to some time before you can replace it. Or it's ...
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Here Are The Fundamentals Of Dehydrating Foods Without Electricity
Preserving food by drying is easy and you don't even need to purchase an electric dehydrator. There are several ways ...
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Foraged Food: Sweet Chili Thistles Recipe
Ever looked outside and wondered just how much food is available for free? When you learn how to prepare foraged ...
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A Simple Homemade Tortilla Recipe For You
Have you ever read the ingredient list on a package of tortillas? Yikes! They can be super scary. And when ...
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Did You Know You Can Make Homemade Granola In The Crockpot!
For a long time I thought making homemade granola was scary. All the recipes I saw had a ton of ...
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Gluten Free Brown Rice Bread Anyone Can Easily Make
Whether you are gluten free, considering going gluten free, or want to make something for a friend who can't eat ...
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Nourishing Traditions Is The Best Cookbook For Beginning Homesteaders
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon is the best cookbook for beginning homesteaders. It's a great way to jump into homesteading ...
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Homemade Applesauce Just The Way You Like It
Applesauce used to be one of those foods I always enjoyed eating but never ever made from scratch. I didn't ...
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How To Make Easy Homemade Pumpkin Puree
Pumpkin puree is one of the easiest things to make from scratch. You can replace your canned pumpkin with pumpkins ...
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