Category: At Home
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Meat Substitutes – Our 10 Favorites
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May is the perfect month to feature some of our favorite meat free options. There is currently a shortage of meat in the grocery stores with the pandemic happening. I shared a few of our favorite recipes here and wanted to dive into a couple options to help you turn…
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Favorite Meatless Recipes
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This April was our 8 year anniversary of the beginning of our meatless life. We do eat fish every once in a while so we are technically Pescatarians. It started out as a month long experiment to try and eat some new foods. Once we did more research and started…
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How We Stay Active at Home
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With all that is going on in the world right now, I’m sure that everyone is feeling as cooped up as we are. For the last year, we have been able to hike and explore every day. Our FitBits buzzed daily with our 10,000 step goal without any second thought.…
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Sanity During Isolation: 12 Ways We Stay Entertained
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We are officially on Day 6 of self isolation/quarantine/distance/sheltering in place/safer at home – whatever the government officials are calling it these days. Eggs are the only staple food we are completely unable to find at the moment, but we have at least 8 rolls of TP so we are…
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Social Distancing, Kindness and Staying Entertained
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I’m writing this from the dining room table of a beautiful bungalow in San Diego. We are currently dog/house sitting for a wonderful couple that is vacationing in Central America for two weeks. Our plan for our time back in the United States was to use Trusted Housesitters to get…
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Favorite Books – Winter 2020
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It has been a few months since we shared this list of favorite books. Since a list for the whole year is a little overwhelming, we decided we would post every couple of months. There is a little overlap because we often convince each other to read books we have…
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6 Ways to Save Money
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I always thought that people that took these gap years to travel must come from a very wealthy family that is able to pick up the bill for everything. The more we dreamed about seeing more of the world, the more we talked about what would need to happen to…
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Christmas Card 2019
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Mail is a wonderful thing when you see those handwritten addresses instead of the usual typed bank statement or utility bill. Christmas card season is the best time of year for the mailbox. Since we weren’t really able to pull it together and mail out cards, we are sharing this…
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Some Gift Ideas That Don’t Suck and Do Some Good
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‘Tis the season of giving. We are opting out of holiday gifts this year and it is hard. I love finding gifts for friends and family, but it definitely comes with a little stress and pressure also if you can’t find something for every person on your list. I’m hoping…
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Favorite Books of 2019
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One thing that our lifestyle change has enabled us to do is read more. Whether it’s a three hour train ride, mornings in the tent with no electricity or coffee shops while slow sipping coffee, reading has become part of our daily routine. We have read almost 100 different books…