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One of the biggest health trends these days is low-sodium diets. Pretty much every restaurant, grocery store, and TV commercial boasts about the low-sodium content of their food. It seems as though just about everyone is either trying to limit the sodium in their diet or they’re feeling guilty for not limiting it as everyone… Continue reading Are Low-Salt Diets Really Healthy?

Thanksgiving may be over, and the leftovers may be all gone, but there’s no reason to abandon the bottle of sage in the back of the cupboard. Sage is famous for being the “Thanksgiving herb,” the one everyone puts in their stuffing for the turkey, but sage is an incredible herb that’s great to use at all… Continue reading Don’t Abandon the Sage!

When I first started this blog, the name “Vintage Nostalgia” seemed fine. My blog was going to be about finding ways to learn from the past and live an old-fashioned lifestyle in our modern world. The name of my blog seemed appropriate at the time – a nostalgia for the “good old days” and a desire… Continue reading Same Blog, New Name

Sometimes I find myself with oh-so-helpful words of real food wisdom on the tip of my tongue, ready to point a finger at some offending food and enlighten the poor souls that were about to consume it about its evil ingredients… …. And then I stop myself just in time. Wait a minute, I can’t say… Continue reading Am I a Food Snob?

There was a time when I never would have considered throwing away my toothpaste. I used to think that my toothpaste was the only thing that could keep my teeth healthy, the only thing standing between my teeth and the dentist’s drill. I’ve always struggled with problems with my teeth, which, I realize now was probably partly because… Continue reading Why I Stopped Using Toothpaste (And What I Use Instead)

      What do you do with an over-abundance of cucumbers, besides eating them? That’s the question I’ve been trying to answer lately. I’ve been eating cucumbers just about every day for the past few weeks, but there are still extra cucumbers lying around. The plants in my garden produced cucumbers, and the place where… Continue reading What to Do with All Those Cucumbers?

  Since I’ve become a raw milk convert I finally have a source of true sour milk to use in old recipes. What was left of the most recent gallon of raw milk that I had just went sour. Even though sour raw milk is still perfectly safe to drink, the sour taste and smell isn’t… Continue reading Sour Milk Gingerbread Recipe from 1869