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.

Invisible Illness Week
This is a great way to blog about your invisible illness too. We may say, “no one understands!” but have we really given them the chance to? Fill this out, post it on your blog or on Facebook, etc. and then let your friends and family know. You may even [...]

Shalom Y’all,
I posted a picture of our fab Green Pizza Swirls and promised more info, which I promptly forgot about until today. I was looking up the Pizza Swirls for a friend’s request and saw that I left this undone! Accccckkk!
So, here is the follow-up:

OK, the Pizza Swirls. My family (and friends) have been going [...]

Shalom Y’all,
Each year we learn a bit more about how to garden organically and what’s best for our area and family.
This year we have 4 small raised beds (4 x 4) so that I can reach them without too much pain In them we have zucchini, eggplant, broccoli, cabbage, seedless cukes and spinach [...]

Cutting carbs is more effective than low-fat diet for insulin-resistant women

June 18, 2010

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Obese women with insulin resistance lose more weight after three months on a lower-carbohydrate diet than on a traditional low-fat diet with the same number of calories, according to a new study. The results will be presented [...]

Hey, y’all! I’ve got a new review up, for the helpful SideSwipe Spatula Paddle. “If you have a standing mixer, such as Kitchen Aid, you know all too well that you must stop and ’scrape down the sides of the bowl’ during the mixing process. We all put up with having to do this and we figure it’s just part of the process. Until now…”

Shalom Y’all,
I was blessed to attend the Asheville Artisan Bread Festival 2010. It is a wonderous yearly event highlighting local natural bakeries and farms who bring their best breads, jams, jellies and goat cheeses to sell.
Walking from table to table sampling the aromas and tastes, drinking in the beautifully-shaped loaves and the rustic [...]

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 [...]