Simple Lives Thursday, #137

It’s Simple Lives Thursday! My favorite day of the week where you share your tips and recipes for living a simple life. Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all 4 sites! As a reminder, this blog hop is a way to share with many people your posts on what you are doing to live a simple life. Whether that’s gardening, raising urban chickens, homeschooling, sewing, making your own deodorant, or cleaning supplies… we want to know about it! If you’re into homeopathy, ways to save $ by conserving energy or other ways to live frugally… we want to know about it! If you bike, cook real food, homestead or farm… we want to know about it!

Your Hosts (for the time being, due to hosts taking breaks)

1. Wardeh from GNOWFGLINS
2. Alicia from Culinary Bliss
3. Anette from Sustainable Eats
4. Me!

Please read and follow the Simple Lives Thursday bloghop rules

1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole. Such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of “nourishing” food, we will delete any recipes that utilize processed, boxed foods. We are definitely not going to be ingredient policeman, however, please note that this is a hop hosted by advocates of the real, local and sustainable food movements.

2. Please link your posts back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common blog hop courtesy. This link helps build the Simple Lives Thursday community by sending your readers to all of the other participants posts. We all end up sharing and learning from each other.

3. No giveaway away or otherwise primarily advertising oriented posts. Keep your topics to fit our simple living theme of “consume less, produce more.” We will delete posts that don’t fit.

Featured Posts from Last Week’s Submissions

We really enjoy reading your posts each week! Featured post bloggers, please grab the badge above and display it on your site! Link it to one of the host blogs’ posts for the specific week that you were featured.

Here are our picks from last week’s submissions. Thanks to all who participated — it is always hard to choose!

1. Homemade Zucchini Bar Recipe by Our Heavenly Homestead. “If you are anything like me, you are still trying to use up the numerous bags in the freezer of shredded zucchini from the last couple of seasons. If not you can just buy a couple and still make this amazing dessert.”

2. DIY Baby Legwarmers by Purposefully Simple. “A while back I found a tutorial (or two) floating around Pinterest for DIY baby legwarmers and I thought they were super cute and functional (no need to take them off for diaper changes!) so I’ve been on the look out for discounted knee socks so I could make some.”

3. Making a Rainbow Cake with All Natural Food Coloring Review-Does it Work? by Green Idea Reviews. “Colored baked goods to suit your fancy is a fun way to express yourself in the kitchen. But the artificial dyes used to do this are generally chemicals that have a shady history and are hazardous to your health.”