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Best Nontoxic Coffee Makers and Tea Kettles

05/30/2017 By Kathleen 8 Comments

When our coffee maker bit the dust earlier this year, I was determined to replace it with a nontoxic option. Ditto for our beloved stainless steel tea kettle which had become increasingly difficult to keep clean.

From a toxicity standpoint, the trouble with most coffee makers (and coffee pod machines) is when hot water comes into contact with plastic parts. Hot plastic leaches chemicals into that steaming hot cup of joe. No thanks!

Fortunately, there are some great nontoxic coffee makers and tea kettles available. If you’re in the market for nontoxic coffee makers and tea kettles, you’ll want to consider these options.Read More

Kathleen

Let’s get real! I’m Kathleen Henderson, your Natural Living Mentor, and I’m on a mission to help families see the joy in real food, while finding natural remedies and creating a nontoxic home.

Make Over Your Kitchen with Nontoxic Bakeware

10/25/2016 By Kathleen 2 Comments

If you’re in the market for safer, healthier kitchenware, you’ll love this list of my favorite nontoxic bakeware…

Nontoxic bakeware is an important part of reducing toxins in the home. When I first learned about the dangers of cooking and baking with plastics, aluminum, and nonstick coatings, it became a high priority to replace our unhealthy kitchenware with nontoxic solutions.Read More

Kathleen

Let’s get real! I’m Kathleen Henderson, your Natural Living Mentor, and I’m on a mission to help families see the joy in real food, while finding natural remedies and creating a nontoxic home.

A Natural Plastic Wrap Alternative and a MightyFix Review

09/13/2016 By Kathleen 4 Comments

While I’ve found several great replacements for plastic food storage in our kitchen, one item that has eluded me for some time is a natural plastic wrap alternative.

We plow through tons of produce each week and cook most of our meals from scratch, which makes adequate food storage a major concern in my kitchen.Read More

Kathleen

Let’s get real! I’m Kathleen Henderson, your Natural Living Mentor, and I’m on a mission to help families see the joy in real food, while finding natural remedies and creating a nontoxic home.

4 Best Nontoxic Food Storage Containers

05/04/2016 By Kathleen 3 Comments

As the responses continue to trickle in from my Yankee Homestead Reader Survey, one thing that’s clear is that you want more reviews of my favorite products for healthy living. Have you taken the survey yet? If so, thanks! You’re the best! If not, there’s still time! Click here to take the survey.

Let’s talk about nontoxic food storage.

It’s a well-documented fact that plastic containers leach toxic chemicals into the foods they contain. Especially when subjected to real life conditions such as heat, sunlight, microwaves, and dishwashers, etc.

In other words, when we eat food stored in plastic containers, we are eating chemicals harmful to the endocrine and reproductive systems.

This is not good, my friends! It’s not good for any of us, but especially for babies and young children, as well as for expectant mamas.

Several years ago, I began a quest to rid my kitchen of as much plastic as possible. Even with three young children, we use very little plastic. It can be done!

Below I share my favorite non-plastic, nontoxic food storage containers–the ones my family uses on a daily basis for baking, serving, storing, and transporting.

All of these options for nontoxic food storage are durable and affordable and have served me well for years. They’re proven winners!
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Kathleen

Let’s get real! I’m Kathleen Henderson, your Natural Living Mentor, and I’m on a mission to help families see the joy in real food, while finding natural remedies and creating a nontoxic home.

6 Handy Kitchen Tools

12/17/2015 By Kathleen Leave a Comment

When you spend lots of time in the kitchen, any tool that saves time is a winner in my book. And while I’ve seen many kitchens smaller than mine, my own culinary storage space is not particularly roomy. Any tools that take up room in a drawer or cupboard had better earn their keep!

With this in mind, I present to you six tools now considered indispensable in my Real Food kitchen…

By the way, have you checked out my new list of Favorite Things? I get lots of questions about my favorite ingredients, products, and resources here at the Yankee Homestead. Everything on my list of Favorite Things (including the 6 tools listed below) is something I use myself and recommend from personal experience.Read More

Kathleen

Let’s get real! I’m Kathleen Henderson, your Natural Living Mentor, and I’m on a mission to help families see the joy in real food, while finding natural remedies and creating a nontoxic home.

Pack a Plastic-Free Lunch with LunchBots Stainless Steel Containers

04/15/2013 By Kathleen Leave a Comment

Remember the stainless steel, divided lunch containers I mentioned in My Ongoing Household Detox Resolution, Phase Three: Kitchenware? In my efforts to pack a plastic-free lunch, we invested in a set of LunchBots containers. We’ve been using them for several ~~months~~ years now, so I thought I’d do a little review…

The verdict: We really like them!

Update (October 2017): More than four years later, our LunchBots are still going strong. We love them so much that our collection has grown to include quite a few LunchBots in various shapes and sizes. All the details are shared below…

Kathleen

Let’s get real! I’m Kathleen Henderson, your Natural Living Mentor, and I’m on a mission to help families see the joy in real food, while finding natural remedies and creating a nontoxic home.