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Welcome to my Crazy All Natural Mama Blog!  This blog is for me to post what I am learning and all the things I am making on my all natural journey.  I have been reading lots of other christian mama blogs and trying so many new things I felt I needed to have a place for me to share what I have learned.  I am slowly changing how I think of food and good fats and how to make sure what I am feeding my family is real food and nutritiousness.  Hopefully as I continue with this blog, I will tell you my story and how I got to this place in life at 47 years young; turns out, you can teach an old mama new tricks!
So you wonder how I came up with the name of this blog?  Glad you asked.  My twin 13 year old daughters started calling me Crazy All Natural Mama just for fun because they could see the changes I was making in the food I would purchase; or more like the food I wouldn't purchase anymore.  They wanted cookies and granola bars for lunch, so I would make them homemade and they liked them!  I have been trying new real food recipes and they liked them too!  So, the name kinda stuck as they would be telling their friends and other family members and I liked it, so I am going with it! :)
My biggest struggle is where to purchase the best quality food for the best price and still stay in our budget.  I can still shop at Aldi's to get many things that are not processed and produce that are on the Clean 15 List and some organic foods.  The hardest to find is affordable organic produce.   Of course, I am going to be having a garden, but it is not producing yet, so until then I hope to find what I need at the local Farmer's Market.  The Family and I went this last Saturday, but it was about 11:30am so I think we missed the veggies, so I hope to find some next week.  I have been getting my organic produce from Meijer so far since there is not a Whole Foods or Trader Joe's anywhere near where I live. I actually went to Kroger today to get a few free things, and had looked at their ad online for this store's address and saw they had organic bell peppers on sale. Yea!  However, I didn't see any organic produce there, so I asked the lady putting produce out and she said they don't carry any organic produce.  Strange, since it was in there ad.  Fine!So I had to swing by Meijer on the way home to get the produce they didn't have.  I will be writing to Corp. Kroger about that; why have online ads for specific stores if they don't have those items in that store?
Anyway, here is a picture of the food I got today.  Picked up 2 dozen cage free eggs on Manager's special for $1.99, another regular eggs for free(luckily my hubby & girls all love eggs for breakfast) and some cool ranch Doritos's for free!  (I know, not natural, but I try to be 80-90% natural with some compromises to keep the peace in the family! :)  Also got some yogurt for .99 for 4 and 1.69 for large tub for smoothies.  I actually did pretty good today at the store, but I really can't wait until I get to eat from my garden this summer!

 This picture below is my new water dispenser!  I had to get a new one, cause the old one was to hard to push to get the water out!  Funny how the lime sinks and the lemon float!  The organic strawberries will go in tomorrow to make a wonderful strawberry lemon/line water!  This yummy water makes it so easy to be done with Diet Mt. Dew!