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Teacher on hiatus raising my littles. Believer|Wife|Mama
One day, one meal, one product at a time making our home & life A Little Less Toxic®

08/07/2025

Making healthier choices is simple, but not always easy. Sneaky ingredients lurk around in ingredients lists that look more like tech user agreements than a recipe list. While the ingredients lists can overwhelm you, I never want to.

Wherever you are on your own journey to live A Little Less Toxic, I made this list to help simplify food shopping for you.

1️⃣If this is all new to you, start at stage 1. Maybe you’re not used to paying much attention to ingredients lists, I wasn’t! It felt overwhelming. Having a few things I knew would be better for me to reduce my exposure to made it manageable for me. You’ll likely be amazed at how many items contain these artificial additives. They’re not necessary and not benefiting your health.

2️⃣ if you’ve been at this for a little while and have mastered avoiding the big 3 artificial ingredients, stage 2 is for you. Your ingredients lists are already much shorter than they used to be. Now you’re ready to get less food items with less GMO’s, highly processed preservatives, and more inflammatory and highly processed oils like canola, vegetable, soybean, and sunflower oils.

3️⃣ You’re an ingredient reading machine and you want to level up again. You start aiming to buy things that only have I gradients you would use in your own home kitchen. You’re not an extremist or purist but you’re looking for food made with food and nothing but the food, when possible. When you can’t find those that fit your budget, you get the best you can, skip it altogether, or make your own version at home.

No perfectionism. No extremes. No added anxiety or stress. We do what we can with what we’re able and as it makes sense for us. Small things add up. For our betterment or our detriment. We’re informed consumers and we’re making big change - one meal, one product, one day at a time.

07/01/2025

I love a fun beverage. It’s fun to custom make your own and it’s nice to be able to pick some up locally on occasion. I don’t live in extremes and I’ll not turn down a sparkling water with the natural flavors when that’s what’s offered. I’m just sharing some brands and options because I love to see brands making products with more ingredient transparency and simpler, better for us ingredients. I also love finding new-to-me items that are doing it better and thought I might share in case I can introduce you to some new-to-you goodies.
As always, we are not perfectionists. We do what we can, with what we’re able, and as it makes sense for us. Be present. Enjoy your community. Have gratitude.
Celebrate. Be joy filled. Have a great time.
Fun beverages are just that. Fun beverages. They’re not necessary. Annnnnd when we enjoy them it’s awesome to have options that are A Little Less Toxic.

06/29/2025

Food “freedom” doesn’t have to mean abusing your body. Fun food can be nourishing. Celebrations don’t have to tax our bodies. Annnnd it’s one day of the year so don’t stress yourself out. Stress is toxic. You know my motto-
✨Do what you can, with what you’re able, and as it makes sense for you.✨
Here’s a round up of some great (not always completely pertect - (we’re A Little LESS Toxic, not perfectionists 😅) options for your summer time gatherings and 4th of July BBQ. When possible, I opt for ingredient transparency, simpler, real food ingredients. Thankfully, those options are becoming more and more available as we, the consumers, continue to shift the market with our purchases 🙏🏼💪🏼🙌🏼
Products and brands change over time. It’s best practice to always “put the thang down, flip it and reverse it” aka turn it around and read the actual ingredients so you make informed choices for yourself, your family, and your wallet.

06/27/2025

I saw a post the other day where a woman said she’s giving up on the low tox life.
That nothing is ever good enough. Everything ends up being toxic somehow.
She’s sick of missing out on scent. Tired of products that don’t work.

I see and hear this so often.
Sometimes I feel like a broken record—or a noisy gong—because I repeat certain things a lot.
But here’s the thing: this matters.

The heart of why I care for my body the way I do is because I believe it’s part of my duty.
Caring for my health is something I get to do.
But if that care ever compromises my mental or spiritual health… that’s not really caring for my body well.

This will look different for each of us, and that’s okay.
But it can—and should—be approached in a healthy way.
With balance. With discernment. With wisdom. With grace.
And with a deep sense of responsibility and reverence.

You are more of a spiritual being having a physical experience than the other way around—
but while we’re here, these vessels matter.

*I’d add a song to this post but patiently waiting for to create a custom one on this very topic. Just for us. No pressure, Franny. But also, let’s go.

06/12/2025

I hope this is helpful!

☀️Comment SUMMER and I’ll send you a DM with a clickable version with all the links and discount codes (hopefully I did it right 😅)

If you have a copy of A Healthier Home, check the chapter called Outside the Home for great info on all these topics and DIY recipes and tips.

03/27/2025

It’s true! I attended this event last year that put on and it was absolutely incredible. SO GOOD. Being listed among these others for the 2025 Share The Arrows event is wild to me and I’m so incredibly honored. I hope to see you there! I will try my very best to bring you encouragement and goodness. At the very least, I’ll land somewhere between this presentation by Creed Bratton (slide 3) and the great speech given by one Dwight Schrute (slide 4).

Grab your tickets before it sells out!
sharethearrows.com

03/21/2025

Food is meant to nourish and support our bodies. To help them function the way they were designed to.

But what we’ve done to food has consequences.

The takeover of highly processed, hyper-palatable, lab-manufactured food has been an experiment on our bodies we never truly signed up for.

The good news? We can opt out. One meal, one product, one day at a time.

This isn’t an endorsement of every item under a brand’s umbrella. Always turn products around and read the actual ingredients because they can, and often do, vary greatly from one item to the next.

Brands also change their formulations more often than we think, and it rarely comes with a heads-up. Quality can quietly go down while prices keep going up.

03/20/2025

Following up on the previous post about fast food fries … making them at home is simple!

From A Healthier Home Cook by … Yours Truly!

Ingredients:
3 pounds (3 to 4 medium) russet potatoes, peeled if desired
¼ cup beef tallow or avocado oil
Salt, to taste
Optional: Seasonings of choice
1. Cut the potatoes into sticks about ½-inch wide. Or use a mandolin with wavy blade and cut potato rotating 90° every pass to make a. waffle cut.
2. Put the cut potatoes in a big bowl of cold water and let them sit for 30 minutes, or refrigerate them up to overnight.
3. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Drain and pat dry the potato with a clean cloth.
4. In a large bowl, mix the avocado oil with salt and seasonings, if using. Toss the potatoes in the seasoned oil and spread them out in a single layer on the lined sheets. (They get crispier if they have a little space around them, so don’t overcrowd the pan.)
5. Bake for 35 to 45 minutes until golden and crispy. Turn the oven to broil for the last 5 minutes or so to toast the tops. Keep a close eye, though!
Tip: If the potatoes will sit in the water for longer than 30 minutes, store them in the fridge until you’re ready. This will keep the potatoes from turning black, and it will also help draw out some starch so that you end up with a crispier fry.

When shopping for tallow, look for one with only a single ingredient, grass fed and grass finished, and minimal processing. I’ve listed a few great options in a slide here.

For a convenience fry, we love and keep a bag in the freezer often for a quick and easy side that uses ingredients I’d use myself. The look amazing and are available lots of places around the north east currently. You can check either of their websites for store locators or use the Instacart app to see if stores near you carry any of these items mentioned in the post.

If you don’t have it yet, my cookbook is sold pretty much anywhere books are sold. It’s on a crazy sale on Amazon right now. If you want the link in your inbox you can comment COOKBOOK here and it’ll appear there with the help of technology.

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