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Please read this post I wrote on this preservative as there are some concerns that it might not work well or at all. I know the appeal of natural can be very strong, but if it’s on par with using no preservatives, we are putting ourselves and our loved ones at risk for all kinds of...
In this post, Katie posed this question: I also read that you do not consider there to be any natural preservative. Your post was from a little while ago, so maybe you have changed your thoughts on this? I should clarify that sentence – there are “natural”* preservatives, but I have yet to find one comparable...
In this post about making whipped avocado butter, Katie writes: I am just wondering why you did not use a preservative in this product? I just made a whipped shea butter for the first time using sweet almond butter, shea, vitamin e, and essential oils. It sounds like its consistency is similar to yours and it...
Thanks for your e-mails and comments while we were away. I’ll be going through them this weekend and answering them as I can. I’ll be back to regular, every day blogging by Monday (she said with hope!), and I enjoyed coming home to a full inbox of interesting questions and pictures! I know I have a...
What a great trip! We ended up at Fintry Provincial Park between Kelowna and Vernon, B.C. It was a lovely site with Okanagan Lake a mere 5 minute walk away and lots of frogs, crickets, and owls to make the park sound more rustic. We did a lot of resting, sleeping, dozing, lounging, and roasting...