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Zero Waste Grocery Shopping| How to Select Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
That’s me, picking up apples at the farmers market, selecting them by their color palate. What you can’t see is my best friend off-camera reminding me I’m allergic to apples and urging me to put them back before I have an allergic reaction. Simply put, I’m trash at picking fruit, my batting average is 100 if 100 means that I always buy a spoiled bruised fruit. This means there are many times on my travels that I miss out on experiencing the local market culture because I don’t know how to select fresh fruits and vegetables. I’m often left totally at the mercy of predatory stall owners that can spot…
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Healthy Family Meals |Easy Vegan Pasta Dinners
As a mom, easy vegan family meals are the ones you enjoy without pulling your hair out. Healthy dinner recipes abound on this here interweb. In my head, I’m Nigella, voluptuous curves and all. However, in reality, I can’t be bothered. I’ve become pretty adept at modifying healthy dinner recipes, into easy no-frill meals for my family. Full disclosure I don’t adhere to recipes when I’m in the kitchen. When a toddler is helping you make dinner for the family, vegan recipes are just guidelines for your meals. Winter Pesto Mac & Cheese My daughter loves vegetables, however, she’s very particular. She’s decided she loves raw spinach but hates it…
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Micro Locks | I’m rooting for Toddlers and Kids with dreadlocks, Here’s Why
When I was in middle school the coolest most popular girl with the best grades was a girl named Elisheba, she was the fastest girl on, the track team and the teachers’ pet. I was obsessed with here endless hairstyles ponytails that swang, as she walked, swooped updos held in place with jewel incrusted pins and the holy grail a center part with her deep brown tresses effortlessly framing her face and cascading down her shoulders. She had enviable dimples, flawless mahogany-colored skin, and waist-length freeform locks. Parent-teacher conference I caught a glimpse of her mother and knew in an instant my ideal form of beauty was set. Elisheba’s mom…
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Micro locks |The tool and products I use to maintain our DIY Sisterlocks
I consider myself to be a bit of a micro locks \ DIY sister lock expert. After seven years of retightening my own micro locks and convincing two other people to let me do their sisterlocks installation. If that’s not enough I’ve watched every video there is to watch about sisterlocks tools, installation and maintenance. What follows s everything I’ve learned on my micro locks journey, including what sisterlocks tool I use to maintain both mine and my child’s hair, both at home and abroad. Micro Locks Retightening Schedule I personally can’t stand to see my scalp so initially had an every other month retightening schedule. Now I retighten with my fingernails whenever…
