It is so hard for me to keep my mouth shut when I see or hear people discussing low fat foods. Like for instance on facebook right now, there has been an on going discussion regarding low fat cream of chicken soup. I mentioned to a FB friend that I make my own mixes because if you take a look at the ingredient label of Campbell's cream of chicken soup you'd be wondering what EXACTLY was in there! As a modern homesteader, I have made my own mixes for years now. But have changed even that since going...

One of the hardest things for most people when switching to low carbs is the no bread thing. I mean, how can you eat a sandwich with no bread? What can you eat with your eggs in the morning? What about peanut butter? You can eat that! But without bread! Anyone care for peanut butter on a spoon? Well, to be honest, I have eaten it that way myself. Not bad.

The One Minute Muffin or better known as OMM comes to the rescue. I eat it with my eggs all the time. I cut it in half...

I have started re-reading my The Power Of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. This book changed my life a couple of years ago. My father had given me some books he had on his bookcase and was trying to make room in his house. So he gave me these old books and I was planning on selling them online. I found this book The Power Of Positive Thinking and looked through it. I started reading it out loud to my husband in the evening. We have no television and many nights I read out loud to him....

To be honest, I wasn't as bummed out about my tomatoes getting the Northeast blight as I normally would have been. I think maybe it is a good thing. The reason being one of my favorite things to eat in the summer is tomato sandwiches made with real soft white bread and mayonnaise. Not exactly a low carb meal!

Every year I usually can about 60 quarts of tomatoes and that is what I normally make my sauces for pasta from. But lately even my husband does not seem to care for pasta meals....

I wrote that in a previous blog a few days ago. Then I was getting that book ready to list on paperbackswap...