Category: recipes/DIY

Strawberry Rhubarb Chia Jam

This recipe is a variation on the super-easy Strawberry Chia Jam. The addition of rhubarb is perfect for rhubarb season (my rhubarb plant has exploded for the second time this summer). Rhubarb is also a vegetable, and since my daughter doesn’t eat a whole lot of vegetables, this jam is an easy way to get a bit of veggie in her diet! I need to...

How to Freeze Rhubarb & Rhubarb Stew Recipe

In the heat of an Edmonton summer, the rhubarb is abundant in many backyards. The question is, what to do with it all? You can make some delicious strawberry rhubarb jam with it, among many other things, and you can also freeze it for use in the winter months when there’s none available. Here’s what I did to freeze my rhubarb...

Peanut Butter Granola Bars (no gluten, dairy, or sugar)

I tried this original recipe from My Whole Food Life‘s Peanut Butter Granola Bars, and loved them. Only problem was that they had banana in them and my husband hates bananas. He looked so disappointed when he realized he couldn’t eat them. So I decided to replace the banana with applesauce. I also doubled the recipe because the first time I...

Strawberry Chia Jam RECIPE

My first encounter with My Whole Food Life recipes was her Blueberry Chia Jam, which she adapted from another blogger, eatgood4life. The recipe boggled my mind because it was so simple – 3 ingredients. I had never made jam before because it seemed like such an arduous process, pectin is completely foreign to me, and my friends who made jam...

My Little Girl’s “Big-Girl” Non-Toxic Bed

I’m thrilled to post about the finished big-girl non-toxic bed! My daughter is loving being a big girl. (Plus she doesn’t sleep half on/half off the bed anymore.) The bedframe itself is the Abbey Trundle Bed from Costco.ca (this model is no longer available, but they have alternatives), made by CafeKid. I was debating whether to go with solid wood...

DIY tutu hair clip holder

My daughter was born with a lot of hair. Even when she was in utero, the ultrasound tech said, “wow that is a lot of hair!” Because of her abundant locks, we have a lot of hair clips. And by a lot, I don’t mean 10 or 15. There are a LOT. And we keep getting more and more because...

DIY Wool Duvet with Organic Wool & Organic Cotton

So in my post about how to avoid toxins in bedding, I said I was going to make my daughter her very own wool duvet, with organic cotton fabric and organic wool batting. I learned the steps from the River Oaks Farm & Studio blog, and I’m ready to report some progress! We are moving our daughter to a twin-size...