Real Food Living Blog

A student of health and nutrition for 30 years, Vickilynn Haycraft has over 20 years of actual hands-on experience reviewing and personally using different tools of the homemaking vocation, focusing on the areas of health and nutrition. Vickilynn is a magazine columnist, product reviewer and cookbook author, as well as being full-time wife and mom to 5 children. Vickilynn's reviews can be found at the Real Food Living ministry website.

The King Is Born: Book Review
Author: Wendy Dena Cohen
Illustrated by Baruch Maayan

“Adonai Keeps His Promise: The King is Born” is a unique and visually exciting reading and learning adventure for children, teens and adults. Yes, for all ages, in the same book! The story is the birth of the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) in the context [...]

Book Review: “In Faithfulness, He Afflicted Me”
A mother finds purpose and victory through heartaches
Author: Lynnette Kraft
www.growingthroughaffliction.com
Paperback, published by Tate Publishing, 2008

“Lynnette is the mother of nine children but has been called to endure the great sorrow of watching three of them die. She has suffered, but she has been victorious through the loving help of [...]

Shalom Y’all,
One thing I want to do more consistently is update my blog with personal entries. A dear friend of mine, Sylvia Britton of the Christian Homekeeper Network sent me this idea today and I love it! That structure helps me from rambling on too much (oh dear, am I already rambling? ), [...]

The Bible
Center column references
Book introductions
Translation and explanatory notes
Concordance
Words of Messiah in red
Full color maps
Black bonded leather
Gilded-edge pages
A $40 value
This is a drawing for Christian Homekeeper members. I love that board and discussion group and have been a participant for many years. Come and check out the articles and discussion and if you sign up [...]

ENCLUME – RACK IT UP! pot racks

Dear Readers, have you ever cast your eyes longingly and lovingly upon those gorgeous hanging pot racks and wished with all your heart that your kitchen and / or budget could handle one? Can you just imagine how a pot rack would transform your kitchen ambiance as well as [...]

Shalom all you foodies!
Check out this awesome gluten-free cookbook from Elana’s Pantry.      
If you want to win a FREE copy of this book, plus a 5-pound bag of blanched almond flour, enter here at Elana’s Pantry.
If you win this book and almond flour, be sure to come back and tell us what gluten-free goodies you [...]

Bagel
Photo: Amazon.com
Bagels.
Yum. Those round, dense, chewy, tasty bites of history now grace the plates of people from all over the world. Toasted or not, slathered with cream cheese, lox and whitefish, or topped with pizza or sandwich fixin’s…bagels are mainstream! McDonald’s even has had Breakfast Bagel sandwiches filled with egg and cheese.
I reviewed the Brooklyn [...]

Shalom Y’all,
I’ve been messing around with this recipe for some time. I have a great version in my newest book, but I wanted to tweak it even more. I think I have achieved exactly what my family wants.  Now, having said that, you may not like the texture of this recipe at all because it’s [...]

Updated from our family favorite, Baked Oatmeal comes a wheat-free-dairy-free Oatmeal Blueberry Breakfast Cake.
Wonderful warm for breakfast, room temperature for brunch or a snack, or even topped with ice cream for a simple, delicious dessert.
Oatmeal Blueberry Breakfast Cake
Variation on our family favorite “Baked Oatmeal”
Servings: 15
*Use organic ingredients whenever possible**
5   cups  rolled oats,  or quick oats
2   [...]

Hey, y’all! Check out my new review at the Real Food Living website! Read the Morningware Infrared Halogen Oven review.
My review includes a recipe, too: Vickilynn’s Whole Wheat Yeast English Muffins/Biscuits.