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Cook & Clean
Learning how to cook basic staples and throw together simple, inexpensive, earth-friendly cleaners are two great ways to save money, help the planet, and become more connected with your food and home. The recipes and tips that follow range from simple to complex for the modern omnivore (vegan, vegetarian and eco-friendly options are all featured). Make your own all-purpose and area-specific cleaners and odor fighters for non-toxic options that keep you, your family and the planet safe and clean.
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Never Buy Cleaning Supplies Again! Make These 8 Cleaners at Home
Check out these amazing homemade cleaning supplies for every room in the house.
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Detox Your Home: Assemble a Green Cleaning Kit
We've excerpted some of Bond's favorite clean and green basics. Add a few drops of your favorite essential oils for a spot of aromatic grime fighting. Bonus: Lavender and tea-tree oils are also natural antiseptics.
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50 Ways to Hack a Mason Jar
Mason jars have more used than just canning those jams and pickles. They can be used for everything from storing Legos to creating a solar light. Here are 50 of the best ways to use the jars in Grandma's basement.
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Natural Odor Removing Secrets
Here's how to remove most odors using kitchen cupboard ingredients, all except mothballs, and even chemical experts say the only way to rid something of the smell of moth balls is the sun. Keep these odor tips to tack on your laundry room wall.
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Vinegar is Amazing! 16 Green Uses for Vinegar around the House
What can I say that hasn't already been said about vinegar? Nothing. It's great. It's green, and it can clean the heck out of your house. Check out these tips.
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Stock Your Pantry with These 5 Health-Essential Vegan Foods
It's becoming more and more clear that veganism is one of the easiest ways to eat for the planet and I love to write about it because it's also an extremely healthy way to eat if you're careful to mind your vegan food pyramid.
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Make Your Own Brown and Serve Rolls
Homemade brown and serve rolls allow you to have fresh, homemade rolls in minutes. Use organic ingredients, and a combination of your favorite flours to create the perfect roll.
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Make Your Own Mayonnaise
Here's how to make homemade rolls in minutes at a fraction of the cost of store bought.
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Make Your Own Mozzarella Cheese
Making your own cheese at home -- much like other dairy products, like yogurt -- is one of those things that, while requiring some demystification and a few special ingredients, can be done a lot more easily than you think. In the case of mozzarella cheese, one of my favorites, can be done in less than an hour, for the cost of little more than a gallon of milk.
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Make Your Own Gourmet Cheese with a Cheese Making Kit
To many of us used to heading to the grocery store for our kitchen staples, cheese seems like a lost art that we're better off leaving to the experts. In reality, it's a pretty simple process and you can make some wonderful cheeses at home with little effort.
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How To Make Homemade Ricotta from Goat's Milk
When you have livestock, even small livestock, you get used to a pattern of feast followed by famine. In the winter the milk is scarce, the eggs, are scarce and you find yourself supplementing with purchased organic milk. If life gives you goat's milk? Make ricotta!
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Make Your Own Vanilla
Not many people think about making homemade vanilla extract. It isn't difficult to do at all and takes only a few supplies.
