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Finding Inspiration at the Playground A few weeks back I took the boys on a walk. We stopped at our produce stand to pick up some vegetables for dinner. Zeke enjoys this stop as Les, our produce man, always grabs some grapes as he sees us approaching and gives them to Zeke to snack on […]

Into A Whole Food Kitchen – The Gruetzmacher Family, Part 1 of 3

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I Began This For My Family, We Press On To Inspire More Families “The dinner table is a place in which children come for consistency. They are reassured by it, met by parents who anticipate their arrival, and meet them where they are at. The dinner table is a safeguard against a private life apart […]

Announcing: “Into a Whole Food Kitchen – Real Stories of Real Families Eating Real Food”

Time Management

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Life Is A Whirlwind Last Saturday Gray and I ventured out to downtown Milwaukee to celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary (without the kids, yeah!). Our date began at one of our favorite brunch spots, Cafe Benelux, and ended at the Milwaukee Public Market, sitting together at a quaint little table with some coffee (to help us […]

Fending Off Convenience Foods When Life Gets Hectic – A Couple Of Our “Go-To” Whole Food Recipes

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Life Is A Whirlwind Last Saturday Gray and I ventured out to downtown Milwaukee to celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary (without the kids, yeah!). Our date began at one of our favorite brunch spots, Cafe Benelux, and ended at the Milwaukee Public Market, sitting together at a quaint little table with some coffee (to help us […]

Fending Off Convenience Foods When Life Gets Hectic – A Couple Of Our “Go-To” Whole Food Recipes

Time Management

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Nourishing Their Bodies We began eating real food shortly after the birth of our first son. He turned our world upside down. With his arrival came a whole new realm of things to consider. How will we raise this tiny being? We began looking at our lives with much more scrutiny. One of the areas […]

Nourish Also Their Spirits – Praying Scripture Over Our Children

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I Learned A Few Things About Road Trips With Kids… We took a road trip to Kansas City this past weekend. It was a little bit of a last-minute decision, made upon the realization that since we are moving there on October 1st, we should probably find a house to buy–our very first house. Oh, […]

A Few Things I Have Learned About Traveling With Kids – And Our Visit To The Kansas City Farmer’s Market

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What Does a Food Blogger’s Kitchen Look Like? Are You Ready For This? Here It Is! I don’t want to boast, but that is an entire three feet of usable counter space to prep food on! Sometimes I don’t know what to do with it all. That is, until I bring out the bread maker, […]

Tour Of A Food Blogger’s Kitchen – The Kitchen Tools You Don’t Need To Create Good Food

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Savoring Some “Me” Time I’m leisurely sipping on a glass of red wine, taking my dear, sweet time. In fact, there is nothing and no one petitioning for my time or energy ay the moment, and so I am actually sipping my second glass of red wine. It doesn’t matter that I’m not in the […]

Why I Write A Food Blog – How A Little Bit Of Cheese Helped Me To Refocus

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How To Eat Out The Wholesome Way – Dining At Locally-Sourced Restaurants I was recently asked by a friend for suggestions on where she could eat out while still remaining true to her whole food diet. This got me thinking about how to eat out the wholesome way. Gray and I believe in moderation. Since […]

Eating Out The Whole Food Way

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How To Eat Out The Wholesome Way – Dining At Locally-Sourced Restaurants I was recently asked by a friend for suggestions on where she could eat out while still remaining true to her whole food diet. This got me thinking about how to eat out the wholesome way. Gray and I believe in moderation. Since […]

Eating Out The Whole Food Way

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An Unfamiliar Ingredient While my mother-in-law was visiting with us last week to help me with the boys, she asked if I knew much about quinoa. I didn’t. In fact, I had only eaten it a handful of times, and only ever cooked it once, and not very successfully. The next day, Grayson and I […]

Quinoa, A Seed In Disguise – Quinoa Salad With Edamame, Goat Cheese, and Roasted Pepitas

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