Ever wish you had a mentor to show you how to be a good homemaker? These instructional DVDs are a breath of fresh air! Learn homemaking skills from these down-home sisters (who have families of their own) and their mother as they work together in their homestead. Watch them demonstrate how to do just about everything needed to keep your family fed, clothed and cared for! These DVDs are entertaining and friendly—and easy to learn from! It is so very helpful to see something done, rather than just read instructions on how to do it. These Christian sisters live close to the land and have a lot to share that would make your life better. I highly recommend these!
Want to eat wholesome whole foods? It can be hard to find good, tasty main dishes or yummy desserts without the refined products. Here is our family's own personal collection of original recipes that constitute our daily meals. Our standards for these recipes are—little meat, no refined flour, and no sugar. You'll find casseroles, main dishes, soups, breakfasts, sandwiches, cookies, cakes, muffins, and treats. I've included my favorite Whole Wheat Bread recipe too. I know you'll like "Taco Casserole," "Move Over Pizza Hut," "Subway Our Way," and more. And for lunch, we like "It's Not Tuna Sandwiches." If it's not tuna, then what is it? No one can guess, but it is 100% delicious and nutritious. Spiral bound, 120 pages, with black-&-white drawings by my son Nathan.
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I used to always be on the lookout for good, European-style bread. The grocery stores seldom have it, and if they do it is made from white flour and has a hefty price tag on it. I would buy what I termed "good bread" from specialty bakeries for special occasions. Although I baked my own bread often, my recipe was for traditional loaves of sandwich-type bread, not the tantalizing, crusty, chewy loaves of bread I remember from Europe.
Then a friend introduced me to the super simple method of making artisan bread without kneading. It seems too good to be true, but after making 20 loaves in one week, I am here to tell you that it is ridiculously easy, fast and foolproof. It has revolutionized bread at my house! No need to buy it at the grocery store when fabulous bread is this easy to make. And it only takes 4 ingredients: flour, salt, yeast and water.
Hardbound book contains 100 fabulous recipes for healthy ethnic breads, whole wheat hamburger buns, pizza, corn bread, and gluten-free baking. Although they often use a mix of white flour and whole grain flour, I use only whole grain flour and the recipes turn out great. Bake your own artisan breads for just 40 cents per loaf! Color photographs will make your mouth water. A whopping 336 pages.
La Leche League (the breast-feeding moms' group) did what it takes a lifetime to do-gather recipes from mothers all over the nation who have converted over to whole foods (meaning whole grains rather than refined flours, and honey or fruit sweeteners instead of sugar). My copy of this excellent cookbook is bedraggled and beloved. Now, it has been printed with a hard cover and large spiral binding so yours won't wear out like mine did! All 900 recipes have passed the taste test and are wholesome and nutritious. Quick and complete, make-it-from-scratch instructions make this valuable indeed. This book's "Making Your Own" section taught me how to make my own cream of mushroom soup, granola, enchilada sauce, and buttermilk. Instructions are also given on how to cook all the grains and beans, and what to serve them with to create a protein complement. Besides your normal cookbook sections of breads, main dishes (meat and meatless), and desserts, wonderful information is also included on breakfasts, lunch recipes, baby's first foods, non-allergenic recipes, sprouting, and using natural food dyes for Easter eggs or in cooking. I have often referred to the quick meals listed in the section entitled, "When It's 4 o'clock" to find out what I can scurry together for dinner. You will use it daily—one of my favorite cookbooks! 364 pages.
Everything (and I mean everything) you ever could imagine wanting to know to live self-sufficiently is jammed into almost 900 large pages. This is the book I turn to for recipes, how-to advice, and information on every aspect of doing things yourself. Better than an "old-timer" for help and instructions!
Chapters include:
1. Oddments: move to the country, buy land, live self-sufficiently and simply, quilting, cook on a woodstove, start a beehive, make soap.
2. Plants: vegetables from garden to table, saving seeds, improving the soil, raising earthworms, growing mushrooms.
3. Herbs and Spices: cultivate, dry, freeze, store; make cosmetics, forage for wild food.
4. Grains: grow, thresh, winnow, grind all grains. Dry corn. Make pasta. Make your own "grapenuts"! Hundreds of recipes.
5. The Orchard: prune a tree, raise nuts and fruits, press apple cider.
6. Make Foods Last: sun-drying, root cellar, make vinegar.
7. Animals: buy, house, feed, doctor, butcher, breed.
8. Poultry: raise chickens, turkeys, guineas, ducks. Pluck and cook.
Paperback, 858 pages, 8 1/2" x 11" format. Very practical, very popular and recommended highly!
From make-shift shelters to raising animals for food; growing, gathering and preserving plant food; nuclear war—every possible survival topic is examined! Learn what to do before, during and after an earthquake, flood, winter storm, tidal wave, hurricane, tornado or volcano. Understand biological and chemical warfare and what you can do to protect and take yourself and your family. Take care of the necessities of life by creating a 14 day emergency kit per this book's detailed instructions. Explores food storage, heat, shelter, light, clothing, sanitation, first aid, water and other needs. Teaches you what food to store and how to do it. Instructions will lead you through medical aid, including emergency childbirth. Includes recipes, herbal recommendations, plans for building emergency shelters and so much more—a comprehensive guide book. Paperback, 350 pages with black and white illustrations.
Learn to Cook and Sew with a Home Economics Course
It hasn't been too long ago when nearly every girl could cook and sew. Nowadays, a girl with domestic skills seems to be the exception rather than the rule. But the homemaking skills are so essential: everyone has to eat and wear clothes daily! Home life's joys depend in part on these skills. This homemaking course is just the thing I was seeking for our daughters, 12 years and up. Ten write-in workbooks teach, tutor through projects, and test the home skills needed to be a good wife and mother. Basic sewing, using the sewing machine, creating clothing, basic nutrition, shopping techniques, food preparation and cooking, housekeeping, home decorating, tidiness, child care and development are covered in depth. The final workbook contains guidance in becoming a godly woman, understanding herself, God's plan for her body, singlehood, and Christian courtship. This course from the Mennonites contains conservative Biblical doctrine. Ten large-size workbooks, slipcased, illustrated throughout.
In this nuclear age, prior preparation and knowledge can mean survival during a nuclear crisis. Author Kearny has great knowledge acquired as a result of his own field testing of shelters and other survival needs, and from intensive study of serious preparations undertaken by other countries (Switzerland, Sweden, USSR, China). Responsible for translations of Soviet civil defense handbooks and of a Chinese manual, he gained additional knowledge about Nuclear Survival Skills. Here are the vital do-it-yourself instructions that field tests have proved to be practical. With over 400,000 copies in print, this is the authoritative text on expedient survival during nuclear war. Acclaimed by nuclear defense experts throughout the world.
There may be times when medical care is not available, where there is no doctor. I found this book to be amazingly informative! With millions of copies in print in more than 75 languages, this manual provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common injuries and illnesses. Special attention is focused on nutrition, infection and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as primary ways to prevent and treat health problems. Updated 2010. 512 pages, black and white illustrations.
After many years of searching for the secret to health, I feel I have finally discovered some pure and simple truth. It isn't in veganism. It isn't in exercise or sleep or herbs (although they help). The secret is in the food that goes in our mouths every single day of our lives. Dr. Weston Price, author, was stunned at the increasing incidence of dental decay that he saw in his dental practice during the 1950's. What could possibly be creating such degeneration in America's formerly strong children? He discovered that dental decay, crooked teeth, obesity, infertility, low immunity and many other health problems are modern conditions. He lived at a unique time when there were still pockets of people in the world that were untouched by modern civilized foods, such as white bread, sugar and pasteurized milk. Tirelessly, he traveled to remote places in the world to examine native people's teeth and take samples of their diet. Dr. Price's astonishing results are detailed in 8,000 photographs (more than 150 are included in this book)! Those native people had incredibly straight and decay-free teeth, exuberant health, strong and fit physiques, high fertility, and absence of birth defects and mental illness. This book will make a difference for yourself, your children, your unborn and generations yet to come. You can have vibrant health and whole, decay-free straight teeth and immunity to illness! I highly recommend this comprehensive book for the serious student seeking health.
New Expanded Version! New cover, 56 new photos never before put into print. All photos have been restored and rescanned (from the originals) and are the clearest photos ever published in the book. New Chapters with articles and correspondence to and from Dr. Price. Paperback, 572 pages.
In no period of our history have Americans been so concerned about the subject of diet and nutrition. Heart disease and cancer were rare at the turn of the century. Today, chronic illness afflicts nearly half of all Americans and causes three out of four deaths in the United States. In this unique cookbook, author Sally Fallon challenges the "politically correct" diet and nutrition of our day. The recipes are based upon traditional cooking methods and ingredients that have created good health in the people who ate that way for centuries. Many well-known cooking methods and knowledge which creates good health and which have been lost are brought back to light in this book. This is not just a cookbook either—my favorite parts are the interesting traditional cooking methods, eating habits of people around the world, and voluminous research data found on each page next to the recipes. Here are the much needed recipes to put the book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration into practice. Paperback, 618 pages.
Suspenseful and interesting, this book will even hold your teenager's interest. Although fiction, Naya Nuki is based on the true story of an Indian girl who was captured by an enemy Indian tribe and used as a slave. Naya Nuki was well trained in living off the land, and when the opportunity finally came, she was able to escape and return to her people, running by night and hiding by day. Her use of survival skills is detailed as she manages through the seasons to eat, hide, and stay alive against all odds. I took mental notes, as I feel ill prepared to manage without the comforts of civilization. Reading level: 10 years and up. Paperback, 175 pages.
Chock full of information and endless illustrations, this comprehensive book teaches the skills of traveling, camping and surviving outdoors. If you ever wanted to know how to cook on a flat rock, or make a fire by rubbing two sticks together, you'll find it here. Chapters include information on getting lost, hiking, emergency kits, travel in desert, mountain and weather extremes, building and using shelters such as igloos, caves and Indian shelters, firemaking, cooking, finding water, hunting and trapping, camouflage, staking, fishing, wood cutting, using a compass, maps, binoculars and astronomy, weather and clouds, ropes and knots, signals, birds and animals and their tracks, edible plants, and first aid, to name a few! Paperback with many sharp color drawings, a whopping 1080 pages for teens and adults.
Using whole grains in your family's diet can make a world of difference! Healthy whole wheat contains so many more nutrients than the white flour that most of our grocery store products are made with! It can be challenging to cook with whole wheat if you aren't used to it, and this cookbook will give you the skills you need to make healthier, yummier, less expensive meals with whole wheat. Even has a recipe for Wheat Thin-type crackers—yes! Comb bound book with black-and-white illustrations.
Sometimes you just can't read it in a book and figure it out—you need to see it! I think I would have saved a year of making door stops (and other assorted brick-like loaves of bread) when I was first learning, had I been able to see someone experienced do it! 50-minute DVD shows you just how to prepare wheat for cooking, how to grind it into flour and how to make up popular recipes in the cookbook, Wheat Cookin' Made Easy or with other recipes that use whole wheat.
This comprehensive recipe book shows how to make beans into every conceivable dish—from breads to desserts. Many recipes contain "hidden beans" for families who insist they won't eat beans. For those allergic to dairy, you'll be amazed to learn that white beans ground into flour can make a wonderful dairy-free cream soup. Forget to plan ahead? No problem. You can make instant 8-minute refried beans using beans put through your wheat grinder. Paperback, 195 pages. A wonderful book!
One difficult part of eating healthy is that meals often take so long to prepare. Here is a collection of high-fiber, low-fat meatless meals that can be thrown together in less than 30 minutes! From breakfasts to sandwiches, soups, desserts, and more, you'll find unique and creative ways to use good wholesome ingredients quickly. Also included are recipes for homemade yogurt, cheeses made easily from dry milk powder, and other gems. You'll find easy sprouting methods and how-to for growing greens indoors. This author knows all the tricks! A great book for those trying to improve their family's diet and use their food storage in their daily meals. Paperback, 192 pages.
If you are like me, you invest quite a bit of each day in meal preparation. These excellent tips, projects, and charts will save you time in the kitchen! Includes reproducible master shopping lists, meal planners, recipe organization ideas, how-to instructions for taking inventory of your food storage and freezer so you actually use what you have, and more. I couldn't help thinking that these hints took me 30 years of homemaking to figure out! Spiral bound, 44 pages.
