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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to show loved ones how much you care, and what better way to do that than with homemade pop-up cards? This year, my kids (ages 9 and 7) and I spent an afternoon creating Valentine’s cards using simple pop-up methods. It was such a fun and creative way to bond as a family—and the results were adorable! Here's how we did it and how you can, too.
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  I am always posting ways to preserve food here on the blog. Our family eats what I preserve. Unfortunately, I hear people all of the time say that they don't know how to use the thing that they have preserved or they are afraid to eat it or that their family won't eat it. That is just wasteful! So, I thought that I would write some posts periodically that talk about using the food that you preserve.
Today I'm going to really lean into the zero waste idea as I tell you about using the leftover cranberries from canning cranberry juice as well as the candied orange peel I shared a recipe for! This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  I have begun harvesting the beet roots now and that means there are plenty of beet tops that also need to be used!
I pulled about 8 beets today with the plan to pickle some! (Check out my recipe on this post) After I picked them, I had them waiting in a colander until I was ready to clean and process them. There were so many green tops that my husband thought that i was using them as a flower arrangement! (They did look beautiful!) But nope, I had other plans for those beauties! This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  Here in Phoenix it is the time of year when everyone who has citrus trees in their yards are trying to give away as much of it as they can. I don't understand why the grocery store still charges 50 cents or more per lemon when people have lemons falling off of their trees unused, begging people to come and take the fruit off of their hands.
I do not have a citrus tree at my house. But, I have been the grateful recipient year after year of wonderful oranges, lemons and grapefruit from other people's yards, sometimes to the point that I have had to search for ways to use them all! As you know, I hate food waste. To see oranges and lemons left to fall off, rot, attract roof rats and other rodents just kills me! I know it can be overwhelming to deal with it all, so I'm going to share the ways I've learned to process that citrus into usable food storage that you will be glad that you have as the year progresses! |
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! 
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