Natural Homemade Living

Natural Homemade Living Trail Mix Trail mix is a great snack for traveling, camping, school, lunch boxes and a simple treat for home! I like to buy my ingredients separately in bulk, it is cheaper than cans or packages. The best part is you can use any ingredients you love! This is our favorite combination. Ingredients: 2 c peanuts 1 c cashews 1 c pecans 1 c almonds 1 c raisins 1 c sunflower seeds 1 c chocolate candies Mix with your fingers in a large bowl and store in a large, covered container. If traveling or using for lunches, I use small baggies for each serving, the snack size baggies work great. You can add dried fruit, more nuts, coconut, pretzels or any of your favorite snack items. I like this combination of sweet and salty and I use gluten free ingredients. Enjoy and be blessed! Love and peace, ~ Tammi

Simply Homemade Blueberry Lemonade We hope everyone is enjoying their summer! It always seems like there is SO much going on when the weather is warm. The gardens are growing, camping trips are happening and lots of outdoor grilling! This afternoon is hot and humid so I decided to make some fresh homemade blueberry lemonade. I am not really a fan of lemonade but it makes all of the difference with fresh fruit. Ingredients: 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice, I used 7 organic lemons 3/4 c sugar mixed with 2 cups water 2 cups frozen blueberries (or fresh ) 5 cups water Start by squeezing the lemons to get fresh lemon juice. Then pour the lemon juice into a pitcher. I used my tea pitcher. Add the sugar to 2 cups water and microwave it for a minute (or until the sugar dissolves). Your objective here is to make a simple syrup. Let this cool for a few minutes then pour it into a blender. Add the blueberries and puree for about 15 seconds. Pour this through a fine strainer unle...