For the month of February in my wellness community we are taking on a Faux Lash Challenge. Over the last few years I have loved finding and learning how to swap in natural recipes for different ailments and even more so, beauty hacks!
We all know lashes are all the rage and of course we want fuller, longer, more luscious lashes and I’m sharing a recipe to help boost lash and hair growth naturally. Come join us as we take on this challenge as we’ll be starting February 14th!
1) Register for our February challenge by clicking HERE.
2) Not yet a Young Living member? No problem, it’s so simple to get started. Grab yourself a Basic Starter Bundle by clicking HERE.
3) Add the needed Young Living essential oils to your order and grab the other supplies through the links provided in the email.
4) Once your supplies arrive, go ahead and get started!
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Weekly Meal Plan: January Week 4
Over the last few years we’ve made a bigger effort in eliminating processed foods and making more things from scratch. We decided on this to really eliminate the amount of sugar, sodium and MSG that’s often hiding in foods, especially when it comes to spice blends, dressings, marinades and sauces. This week I added two recipes for dry seasoning mixes in place of buying the packets at the grocery store. I’m all about convince, but it’s easy to mix up a larger batch of seasoning mixes and dry rubs and store them in the freezer or refrigerator if you don’t feel like you’ll use them quickly enough.
Same goes for salad dressings. Try making some of your own to control the amount of certain ingredients. They also taste so much better than the many found on the shelves at the store. For this week’s Cobb Salad, I suggest you use your favorite go to recipe, I always mix things up when it comes to Cobb salad because anything really goes. But instead of using a store bought dressing try making it yourself. This week we’re using Joanna Gaines’ Buttermilk Ranch Dressing from her first Magnolia Table cookbook. We also love using Ree Drummond’s from The Pioneer Woman.
*Buttermilk Tip: to make your own buttermilk use milk and either white vinegar or lemon juice.
For 1 cup of buttermilk use 1 tablespoon lemon juice/vinegar and fill the rest of the way with milk
3/4 cup use 2 1/4 teaspoons lemon juice/vinegar
2/3 cup use 2 teaspoons lemon juice/vinegar
1/2 cup use 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice/vinegar
1/3 cup use 1 teaspoon lemon juice/vinegar
1/4 cup use 3/4 teaspoon lemon juice/vinegar
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Weekly Meal Plan: January Week 3
Find the recipes for this week’s menu below.
Sweet Kale Salad recipe c/o Magnolia Table Vol. 2 page 125
Homemade Tortillas
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Emotions & Essential Oils
This last week has been quite the rollercoaster ride on top of just finishing up one of the craziest years. It’s easy for us to be affected by events and situations which of course lead so many of us to feel an array of emotions that are difficult to navigate through. Being pregnant during all of this chaos doesn’t do well for my hormones to say the least. I know so many of my friends and family are incredibly hurt, confused, sad and angry. We all are experiencing these feelings. Since we started using essential oils as part of our daily routine I can say they have helped our family be more in control of the emotions. We still feel all of them, but they don’t take over and control everything we do and I’m thankful for that. In hopes of helping others deal with their current emotions I’m sharing some of my favorite essential oils to use for emotional support.
Many of you know we only use Young Living essential oils because we trust the quality and we’ve seen awesome results. The quality of essential oils is very important and if you’re interested in learning more about Young Living’s Seed to Seal promise of quality oils and products you can read more about that HERE.
Essential oils have incredible benefits that can support the different systems of the body. What’s really cool about essential oils and other natural wellness elements is that they can work well with western medicine. It’s creating a balance of the two. This can work especially well for emotional support like our feelings. Young Living even has an entire kit just for emotional support called The Feelings Kit and you can learn more about it HERE.
Here are some of our favorite essential oils to use for emotional support...
Use these oils aromatically by diffusing in a room or throughout the home. I also love using these oils topically by mixing them with a carrier oil and using them in a rollerball. These oils are great for our kids too. Let’s not forget all the emotions our kids may or still are walking through. We can use these tools to help support them just as much as ourselves and remember our emotional demeanor sets the tone for them. Keeping ourselves grounded and calm helps create an environment that feels safe and nurturing for our children. Our home is our safe place and we are the gatekeepers, we get to decide what we allow to come inside.
In our oil community we talk all about how to use our favorite essential oils to help support our bodies and our homes through simple DIY’s, class events and recipes. Come learn more about our Wild & Grape community and how to join in on the fun!
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Winter Reading Favorites & Reading Logs
Winter reading logs are here for the new year! We’re swapping all our Christmas books out this week for our winter and Valentine books. December seemed to fly by and we didn’t read nearly as much as we had hoped, so hoping to kick it back into gear this month. What are some of your favorite winter books to add to your kids’ bookshelves? Since Kensi is reading chapter books I’ve been on the hunt for some winter themed ones. One of her favorites from last last year was All the Fun Winter Things by Erica S. Perl, this is an easy to read book, but it was perfect for her as she was just starting to get into chapter books. I think we’re going to have to make a visit to our local library to find a few new ones for her.
Also, to help keep Kensi on track with reading her chapter books I created an individual book log where she can track her chapters. She’s very much like me in the sense she likes to cross things off her to do lists. This particular book log I laminated so she can use it again and again with a wet erase marker. She also has the book log so once she finishes her chapter book she will record her book on the other sheet.
| one | two | three | four | five | six | seven |
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Weekly Meal Plan: January Week 1
Happy New Year friends! Several of you have asked throughout the last year about our meal plan and to be honest, we weren’t great about sticking with it the last few months. So in an effort to be better and get back on track I’ll be sharing our weekly dinner meal plan right here and on my Instagram account @rachbraden. I only meal plan for our dinners, it overwhelms me to try and meal plan all three meals each day. We’re pretty low key when it comes to breakfast and lunch anyways, often eating eggs and waffles for breakfast and either leftovers or something simple for lunch.
I’ll also share where the recipes come from if I can link them. Often I throw something on the menu and just go with it such as our baked fish and sautéed green beans. I don’t do anything fancy, but season it with some olive oil, salt and pepper. Some days those simple meals we’ve made a hundred times are just what we need.
If you want to try any of our meals we have planned go ahead and scroll down to either grab the recipe link or work it into your own weekly plan. Happy Meal Planning!
(We grow pesto basil (mom brain) in our garden in the summer, harvest it and make large batches of pesto to freeze so we can eat all winter long. Also omit the pine nuts if you have a nut allergy)
Taco Seasoning (see below)
Homemade Pizza Dough from Magnolia Table Cookbook Vol. 2 page 29
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