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.

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
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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.

Shalom dear readers!
Thank you for hanging in with me even though my blogging has been sporadic. I hope to update more often.
Because of my physical limitations, I am always looking for ways to make my batch-cooking techniques work for many things so that I don’t cook or bake every day.
This week I made a large [...]

Shalom Y’all,
It’s been awhile since I’ve added to this blog. I’ve been writing for a syndicated column, Examiner.com Please come and check it out and subscribe! That way you will get all the new posts, reviews and recipes as soon as they are published.
This past week, I made Zoodles Alfredo,  Recipes using Zucchini, and 3 [...]

Shalom Y’all,
Please subscribe to my new column for Examiner.com where I write about all sorts of gadgets, tools and resources for homemakers.
When you go to my column, next to my picture is a link which reads “Subscribe to Email.” Please click on this you will receive my new articles as soon as they are published! [...]

I am so excited to be writing 3-4 times per week for the syndicated outlet Examiner.com!
My new assignment is as the “Housewares Examiner” for the Charlotte area and I will be writing articles on my Product Reviews. My column addresses Tools of the Trade for homemakers worldwide. For example, my first 2 articles are on [...]