20 Healthy Drinks For Spring

Late spring is a funny time of year. We wake up to cool mornings, as the day goes on the afternoons warm up rather quickly. Now is the time when you may find yourself greeting the morning with a cup of tea only to find yourself reaching for a glass of icy lemonade mid day.

Today we have a collection of recipes that will fit every type of weather and diet. Maybe you want to wrap your hand around a mug of tea in the early hours of the day. What about a pick-me-up drink for when you feel sluggish after a long day in the garden? Working out, what about an electrolyte drink?  Are you in need of a quick breakfast, why not try of of these nourishing and filling smoothies? Are you in the need for something sweet? We have that too!

Every one of these recipes is bursting with flavor and real food ingrdients that will nourish your body and give it the energy it needs. Head on over to Frgual Granola to disover all these wonderful spring drinks! 

Natural Living Monday

Welcome to Natural Living Monday where we share all our natural living tips, tricks, and fun ideas.
Natural Living Monday

Thank you for joining us on Natural Living Monday. I am excited to see the great things you have been doing to live a more natural, whole, holistic life.

Your Hosts:

Amanda from Natural Living Mamma
Katie from Nourishing Simplicity
Angela from Mama Rosemary
Andrea from Homemade for Elle

Last weeks top four popular posts were:

10 Apple Cider Vinegar Cures by Rockin the Green Life

10 Apple Cider Vinegar Cures by Rockin the Green Life

How Gardening Can Make You Healthy by Livin In The Green

How Gardening Can Make You Healthy by Livin In The Green

Tame Unwanted Hair Growth by Oatmeal With A Fork

Tame Unwanted Hair Growth by Oatmeal With A Fork

No-Fail No-Pound Sauerkraut by Phoenix Helix

No-Fail No-Pound Sauerkraut by Phoenix Helix

 

Congratulations on being featured! These amazing posts (and a few others) will be tweeted, shared on my Facebook page and pinned on my Pinterest boards!

Are you ready to link up?

From this week forward the list is in random order!

Here are the rules: Your blog article must fit these categories: sustainable living, homesteading, DIY, herbs, home-made body and skin care, real food (no processed ingredients, Weston A. Price Foundation guidelines are a good place to start to define “real food”), and all things “natural“.

Link back to this week’s blog hop post so that everyone can see the other amazing posts. It is just basic common courtesy.

Show some love! Go check out and see what others have posted. Share the hop and the posts you love!

Not required but I would love it if you would grab the button and share share share!

What are your best natural living posts this week?



Brittany’s Buttons- Handcrafted Beanie Giveaway

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I have a wonderful giveaway for you today! One blessed reader will have the opportunity to win hand crafted beanie of their choice from Brittany’s Buttons. Brittany is a sweet creator behind each of these beanies. She is from Columbia, Missouri just a few hours south of where I was born. 

Brittany’s beanies come in all shapes, sizes and designs. After drooling over her site I am in awe of her creations and I know you will be too!

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Can’t you just see one of your kids in these hats? Or maybe one for yourself? Well here is your chance! One reader will be selected via rafflecropter and be able to select the beanie of their choice.

The giveaway will run from today May 18 through May 31. It closes at 11:59 PST. 

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a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

Simple Meals Friday #31

 

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Welcome to Simple Meals Friday!

There is nothing like having a collection of simple meals to throw together in a slow cooker first thing in the morning or in a skillet as a last minute dinner. What are your favorite slow cooker, rice cooker, skillet meals and salads?
 
We want to know your easy to make meals. It’s great learn and be inspired by others. When you link up on any of our sites the links will show up on all the blogs.
 
Meet Your Hosts
  1. Katie of Nourishing Simplicity
  2. Amanda of Natural Living Mamma
  3. Jacquelyn of LittleOwlCrunchyMomma
Please Read and Follow these Simple Meals Friday Rules
  • Keep the foods “nourishing”, such as homemade chicken stocks, whole grains, vegetables, fruits, healthy fats (lard, coconut oil, butter, olive oil, tallow), unrefined sugars, flours and salts and meats.
  • Please don’t include recipes using processed oils such as soy and canola oil, msg laden bouillon and other highly processed foods. Try to incorporate traditional methods of preparing foods like, sprouting, soaking, sourdough and lacto-fermentation. If I notice a recipe using these ingredients it will be deleted.
  • Link back to this blog hop, it is a common linking courtesy. It helps to build a stronger blogging community. That way we can all learn and share with each other.

We enjoyed reading all your submissions. The hosts will pick a favorite post to feature on next week’s Simple Meals Friday. If you want to be featured please be sure to link back to this blog hop. Our favorites will be featured on facebook and pintrest!

Featured Simple Meals

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How about a crustless breakfast quiche baked in a muffin tin sound?

 

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These blueberry muffins from LittleOwlCrunchyMomma are a favorite around here! 



Neurofibromatosis Awarness Month

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May is Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month. Neurofibromatosis (NF) is a genetic disorder of the nervous system. It causes tumors to form on nerves anywhere on the body at any time.  It also affects the development of non-nervous tissues such as the bones and skin. The disorder that effects millions of people worldwide. It effects all races, ethnic groups and both sexes equally. It is one of the most common genetic disorders in the United Sates, effecting  more than 100, 000 of the population.

Neurofibromatosis is an autosomal dominant genetic condition, it is not contagious. Approximately 50% of people with NF have a prior family history with it. The other 50% of a result of spontaneous genetic mutation.

My family has been personal efffeted by NF for at least 4 generations. Please join me at Modern Alternative Health to learn more.