With more people becoming aware of their health all the time – and more people not wanting to poison their family and friends for Christmas – gift giving can be a bit more complicated. Where once a scented candle or Bath & Body Works lotion was an easy gift to grab, knowing how toxic those items are makes it difficult to inflict them upon your loved ones.
What can you do to keep your gift giving healthy and non-toxic this year? Here are some ideas! (And remember, you can treat yourself with these, too!)
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If you prioritize organic or pasture-raised meat in your diet, you probably know how difficult it can be to source it. I spent 12 years raising and eating our own beef, so I already struggle to buy meat at the grocery store, but when I started learning about the benefits of grass-fed beef and pasture-raised chicken and pork, I knew I had to up my game even more.
The problem was that I couldn't find a local producer who raised their animals on pasture. I live in the midwest, and almost no one questions the conventional method of raising livestock on grains. I know I didn't until just recently, but once I did, I tracked down a couple companies that can provide it.
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Essential oils are one of the easiest tools for naturally dealing with a wide variety of health ailments. However, so many people never get started because they just don't know which oils to begin with. I'm here to change that.
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It's a common concern I hear about. When Christians start delving into the world of more natural options regarding their health, they can run into a lot of confusing information. Some of the practices that seem like they could help are condemned as new age or occult.
When this happens, you need to take a careful look at what the practice is versus what people have made it to be.
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Have you decided to make the switch to better groceries – whether you're looking for organic, non-GMO, pastured, more nutrient dense, or anything else? Having made that decision, are you now struggling with where to find them?
There are many reasons you may face a shortage of quality groceries. For me, I've always lived in a more rural and agricultural area. Most of my life, I was in a town of 1800 people with a single grocery store, and even now that I have two large grocery stores and a smaller, more natural-minded one to choose from, I still struggle to find the quality of food I want.
Furthermore, in agricultural-focused areas, few people seem to think twice about spraying Roundup and other poisons on or near their gardens or feeding antibiotic-laced feed to their healthy animals, so sometimes, even the farmers markets or local gardeners don't have what I'm looking for.
If you're feeling my pain, don't worry – I'm going to lay out exactly what I do to find the quality groceries I want, starting with the best option and working my way down.
