Diapers

SO I have to admit I have been off and on cloth diapers for a week now. A WEEK!!! I do have an excuse but no excuse is a good one right. I was visiting family in NJ and had trouble traveling with cloth. Then I got home only to discover that I was exhausted and did not want to do wash, lazy lazy girl. Well after only one week of disposables I discovered something. MY TRASH HAS TRIPLED!!! You read that right, I was shocked but for everyone that doesn't think disposables make an impact on our landfills come check out my trash, you are more than welcome =) So I washed everything and first thing this morning we went back to all cloth and it feels so good. For baby too!!! My trash has thanked me and I challenge you to at least try cloth every once. It is not only better for the environment, it is better for baby (no chemicals or plastic on their lil bottoms) and easier on your wallet. Oh p.s. if you are trying the "it costs more in utilities route" I want you to know that after we started cloth diapering my water bill went up a whopping, wait for it .40 cents. OMG and I only do two extra loads a week, oh plus you only use 1/4 the recommended detergent for each load. So every two weeks I use one extra scoop. Hmmmm got you thinking right. Well if you ever want to try I would love to help!!!! Seriously!!! Happy diapering Laur

Publix

So I have to say was super excited to go to Publix today and find that they have made there own version of lunchables. But wait a healthy version of them!!! With things like organic yogurt, apple slices, fresh wrap and pita sandwiches. So excited to see things like this happening so that us moms have healthy quick options for our little ones. The best part is at only $3.99 for sandwich, drink and side item it's cheaper than drive thru. Rock on Publixs, you get my praises this week!!!

Harvest Chicken Salad

I love this recipe in the fall but I have been craving it and wanted to share. Nice twist on plain old chicken salad, so having this tonight!!!!

1/2 cup olive oil Mayonnaise
2 cups cut-up cooked chicken or turkey
1/3 cup thinly sliced celery
1/3 cup cut-up apples or grapes
Combine all ingredients in medium bowl. Serve topped with some lettuce on your favorite freshly milled bread =)

Blessings, Laur

Freshly Milled

As I sit here and drink my coffee (between bread batches) I can't help but think about the wonderful god we have. I was introduced to milling and baking and from the first moment fell in love with it. I just knew in my heart that this is something God wanted me to do. It wasn't long before I wanted to do it for others and had an idea that I would love to do this for a living. Come on, I am excited about getting up at 4am to bake =) I expressed this to a friend at bible study one night and from our conversation just felt it could never happen. I put it on the back burner and went back to real life. Well as amazing as God is and as we all know if he wants you to do something he will make it happen, I got an e-mail three weeks ago from that friend who happens to be on the committee of a local farmers market. One of the bread vendors was going to be out for two weeks and they wanted to know if I would fill in. Wow, I was in shock, excited, nervous and overwhelmed. I baked and baked and baked and we sold out of almost everything. Week two came and went to quickly and my friend had asked if I would like her to speak to the committee about staying on all season. Tired but knowing how amazing it was I was even there I gladly said yes, but knew there was a very small chance since the committee did not want three bread vendors. Well I pretty much wrote the chance off and had told my hubby that I would have felt bad staying because the other vendor had been there all season and I did not want to have to compete with her. Well God is so amazing and I truly know this is what I am supposed to be doing because on Wednesday I received an e-mail that said the other bread vendor had dropped out for the rest of the season and they wanted to know know if I would come on as a regular vendor. When God wants you to do something he will make it happen. So here we are Freshly Milled and I can't tell you just how amazing it is. God Bless, Lauren

Baby Laughs

Baby's have the most infections laugh, I could listen to it for hours. As I listen to my eight month old laugh to tears at her sister bouncing a ball (I know what you are thinking bouncing a ball how hysterical), but I had a thought if you could bottle baby laugh no one could ever be mad!!! Seriously thank god for beautiful babies. Blessing Laur

Farmers Market

We will be back at the Brookwood Farmers Market tomorrow!!! 4-8pm and we are so excited and tired =( But so worth it. I have created a "website", I use that term loosely because it is really just a blog with our info. Check it out http://freshlymilled.blogspot.com/

Blessings Laur

Strawberry honey

So if you are like me you grew up on Aunt Jemima aka liquid sugar, actually.... INGREDIENTS: CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATER, CELLULOSE GUM, CARAMEL COLOR, SALT, SODIUM BENZOATE AND SORBIC ACID (PRESERVATIVES), ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL FLAVORS, SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE.
I switched us to pure maple syrup at like 4 times the cost (ahhhh) and it turns out that the heating process to make maple syrup actually destroys much of the nutritional value. Ok so now what? Strawberry Honey!!!! Woo Hoo

Place 1 cup frozen organic strawberries in a microwave safe bowl
Pour 1/4 cup raw honey over top (we use Sage honey)
Place in microwave for 1 min and then stir to squish strawberries
Place back in the microwave for 1 more minute and stir, your done.

So yummy use this on pancakes or waffles. We even use this with PB to make PB and Jelly!

Blessings Laur