Making progress on one thing a day that matters to you helps you to accomplish more without feeling overwhelmed. It is called the Progress Principle, and it is empowering. I have been using this for years in many different situations not knowing that this is a thing that science backs up. This ...
Simple Living
Cookbooks to Start a Plant-Based Diet
We are sometimes being asked if it was hard for us to change to a plant-based diet. Our answer is no and it has two reasons. For one we are both people who do not mind to try something new and for two there are great cookbooks to start a plant-based diet. The list of plant-based cookbooks is ...
Our Plant-Based Pantry
Our plant-based pantry consists of produce that we grow in our garden and plant-based products that we buy in. We talk a lot about the food that we grow and also recently shared our homegrown pantry and food storage here, check it out if you haven't yet. Today it's about our plant-based pantry, ...
Freestyle Cooking
Freestyle cooking is an easy, fast, flexible and realistic way to prepare food. In a day and age of overload of recipes, it can easily get lost. Recipe makers (blessed be their effort), make us believe that it involves hard work and special skills to make a recipe, and unless you follow it to the T, ...
The No-Plan Meal Planning Method
The No-Plan Meal planning method emerged out of disability to plan meals. Well, sort of. There are several reasons why I think meal planning is overrated and not everyone's cup of tea. If you have been struggling or feeling guilty for being a ‘not so planned person’, keep reading. After we discover ...
Thoughts on the whole-food plant-based diet
If you follow us on social media you might have noticed that we talk about the whole-food plant-based diet more often. I thought it was time to share our thoughts on the whole-food plant-based diet, what is it, why eat healthily, and the challenges that come with it. What is a whole-food ...
How People Lived Simple Yesterday
Simple living, self sufficiency, off grid living and back to the basics is having a huge comeback these days. Homesteading and backyard farming has become popular again. In this post I share childhood memories of how my parents lived a simple, mostly self-sufficient, urban homesteading life. How was ...
Start Homesteading
Homesteading is something we talk about a lot here at Northern Homestead, even though we are not a classic homestead. Nevertheless, we are here to encourage you to start homesteading right where you are at, and here are 5 reasons why: 1. Homesteading is not about where you live If homesteading ...
5 Appliances I Would Not Want to Miss in my Kitchen
Most food in our house is prepared right in our kitchen. There is not much that we buy ready made. We cook from scratch. To be able to do this without being in the kitchen all the time, I have little kitchen helpers. One can easily get carried away with all the kitchen appliances that are ...
Gardening for the Weak, Sick and Lazy Gardeners
Since I write a homesteading/gardening blog you could get the impression that I am a hard working gardener, always on top of things. Well, that is not true, and I feel that I have to apologize if I have given you this false impression. The truth is that I am a weak, sometimes sick, and a bit lazy ...