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Have you ever looked at your favourite meal and really looked at it asking yourself, can I make that from scratch?  You might be reading that and scoff thinking, "I already do make it from scratch."  What I am asking is the true scratch of scratch.  Let's take pizza as an example.  Let's break down all the ways you can make a pizza for dinner: Make a call for pizza to be delivered. Pick up a frozen pizza and throw it in the oven. Purchase pre-made pizza shells and put together the toppings. Make your own dough and sauce, adding...

There is a term that became popular over the last number of years – mainly due to reality TV portrayals – that word is “prepper”. Those belonging to what is called the “prepper community” are a community of folks who are often viewed through a very narrow lens, seen as a group preparing for an event like a zombie apocalypse. Preppers are considered slightly crazy, stemming from a generation that built bunkers in their backyards preparing for a nuclear event throughout the cold war era that never happened. The prepper mentality is often seen as somewhat “overzealous” in their view of the world...

The idea of a garden is revered by most everyone.  It is in our nature to cultivate the land, grow our own food and produce meaningful crops to sustain our bodies.  Most people think a garden is unreachable for them, as they live in a condo, their yards are not big enough, or they do not have the time and find it too overwhelming to start. The two most important things to consider when planting a garden is space and sunlight.  Having a yard is not necessarily as important as you might think it is.  You can get away with...

Everyone has their 'perfect cup of coffee', a moment of complete enjoyment to start the day.  Unlike our weekday coffees, rushed, spilled, sipped lukewarm, or purchased from a café, the perfect cup of coffee usually comes with its own environment.  Our Perfect Cup of Coffee... The old remodeled 1979 Scamper trailer is pulled into a quiet mountain lake.  It is just a bit chilly this morning, but heat is radiating from the piles of covers I am tucked under.  Cool air drifts in under the covers as my husband lifts them to get up and start the coffee.  The dog...