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Feed Your Face With This Lemon, Honey, Oat, Banana Facial Recipe

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This homemade skin care recipe makes me hungry just looking at it, let alone making it!  Lemons, honey, oats and bananas aren’t just a treat for your taste buds though, they have a lot of different benefits for your skin too, and, when mixed together can make a nice, fragrant, relaxing facial.

As for the benefits, the oats exfoliate and offer antioxidants while the honey soothes and protects against bacteria.  Lemons also have easily accessible antioxidants and lighten and tone the skin while bananas have anti aging properties and more!  When fresh and mixed together these organic ingredients feed your face with balanced, natural nutrition.

Please remember though to always make any natural beauty recipe like this that uses fresh ingredients…fresh!  Never store it.  Bacteria can grow so quickly and as soon as that happens, you might as well forget it.

When made fresh though, the benefits these all natural ingredients hold are released and ready to be absorbed by your skin to feed it from the outside in.  Check out the following natural beauty recipe for our lemon, honey, oat,  and banana facial and see for yourself just how easy and affordable it can be to be naturally beautiful!

All Natural Lemon, Honey, Bananna Oat Facial Recipe
Recipe Type: Skin Care/Facial
Prep time: 5 mins
Total time: 5 mins
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 1 med, ripe organic banana
  • 2T organic honey
  • 3T fresh organic lemon juice
  • 3-4T chopped oats (Optional)
Instructions
  1. Smash bananas
  2. Add honey and lemon juice
  3. Mix thoroughly
  4. If using, add chopped oats
  5. Apply mixture to face rubbing gently in a circular motion with your forefingers. Be sure not to pull the skin by rubbing too hard.
  6. Continue to gently rub the mixture into your face for a few minutes being sure to get it everywhere including your neck and decollete (upper chest) area.
  7. Now leave on for about 10 min
  8. When ready, rinse your face with lukewarm water (NOT hot)
  9. Pat dry

 

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Easy Recipe for Quick, Organic Garlic Carrots

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Carrots are readily available most places and nearly any time of year.  If you have the space, carrots are quite easy to store through the winter.  If you can’t store them, they’re also a cold season crop and can even be started early in the spring and last throughout the fall outside in the garden.  In fact, if you have the right set up (or are blessed w/a mild climate!) carrots can be grown year round outside!

Organic carrots are also packed with nutrients that benefits your entire body including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Potassium and, they’re a great source of fiber too.

Whether you’re enjoying fresh from your garden carrots or are using organic ones you brought home from the store, this recipe helps  make them extra tasty and  even more nutritious too by adding garlic; also known for its many beneficial properties.

This recipe isn’t only nutritious though, its really tasty; even some of our pickiest eaters love it.  Our organic garlic carrot recipe is quick to make too, and if there’s one thing that’s helpful when we’re trying to nourish our hungry families its recipes that don’t take forever to prepare.

Enjoy these organic garlic carrots along side any main dish or as a quick snack, or however else you choose!  They’re packed full of nutrition and so delicious you’ll find yourself making them again, and again….and again.

Organic Garlic Carrots
Recipe Type: Side Dish
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 15 mins
Total time: 25 mins
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • 1 pound carrots cut into about 2in pieces
  • 2-4 garlic cloves depending on preferences
  • 2 T olive oil
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1/3 t dried thyme
  • salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Saute carrots and garlic in oil for 5 min over med heat. Add water, salt, thyme and pepper. Bring everything to a boil then reduce heat to low/med and cook for about 10-12 min. Carrots should be tender yet not mushy when done.

 

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Corn Chowder – A Recipe Perfect For Those Cold Winter Days

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Homemade Corn chowder is a nice, comfort food of a soup.  Its rich, homey tastes all blend together for a wonderful bowl of soup that will warm you up from the inside out on those cold, dark winter days.

Soups can also make a nice way to extend your cooking as leftovers are so easy to heat up.

They can be great to take to friends who are ill, nursing a loved one back to health, enjoying their baby moon, or even to a pot luck too.  They freeze well and are easily transportable in a crock pot or even simply put into glass jars and re heated wherever you’re going.   Because most people, even kids enjoy a simple soup like corn chowder, it’s a vegetarian soup, and its even easy to make vegan, this soup in particular is perfect for all these occasions and more!

As far as the corn chowder recipe that follows – its incredibly easy to make, pretty quick for a soup, and comes out perfect every time!  Enjoy it with a fresh green salad and some tasty homemade bread or croutons for a naturally delicious meal that will keep your belly full and warm even when its cold outside.

Corn Chowder
Recipe Type: Soup
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 45 mins
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 4 T butter
  • 2 large onions chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic minced (more if you like garlic)
  • 5 C vegetable stock
  • 3 medium potatoes chopped
  • 1 C (8oz) creamed corn
  • 2-3 C fresh or frozen corn kernels
  • 1 C cheddar cheese
  • 1/4 C milk or cream (optional)
  • Fresh chives to garnish
Instructions
  1. Heat butter in large sauce pan and add onions and garlic to cook for about 5 min.
  2. Add vegetable stock and bring to a boil
  3. Add potatoes
  4. Simmer uncovered 10 min.
  5. Add the creamed corn and corn kernels and bring to a boil.
  6. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 min
  7. Stir the cheese through
  8. Add cream or milk
  9. Garnish with chives and serve