I’ve been on a quest for a healthy breakfast that will also help with weight-loss for a long time. I love my toast with almond butter, but I am such with carbs that I will gain weight on that (or certainly not lose it). I lose weight on Atkins, but my cholesterol goes sky high and, well, it hardly feels healthy.

I posted an early version of this as a bread on the site, but this new version is working much better, and yes, the photo is true to the bars. I took it myself.
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It seems like it’s impossible to turn on the news without hearing a scary story about the latest flu bug. This year, it’s H1N1, or the swine flu. Imagine how great it would feel to navigate our germ-ridden world with a sense of confidence, knowing how to protect your health naturally. Natural Flu Protection has dozens of tips, tricks, and recipes using only healthy, all-natural ingredients. From do-it-yourself cleaning products for sanitizing your home to herbal and homeopathic remedies for strengthening your body’s defenses, Natural Flu Protection offers natural ways to get through the flu season.

With the Natural Flu Protection eBook, I address these concerns, giving people a fighting chance against getting the flu, while safeguarding them against noxious chemicals. Formulas and tips for d.i.y. home and personal spritzers are provided, using essential oils (tea tree, eucalyptus, oregano, etc.) with proven antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral and antiseptic properties. I explain other plant-based materials (vinegar, witch hazel, aloe vera) that are effective in killing germs, molds and viruses, but are not harmful to people and animals.

Like antibiotics, when overused chemical antibacterial detergents can lead to “superbugs;” bacteria that are impervious to all our efforts to kill them. The plant-based purifiers in this kit are perfectly safe, based on ingredients that have been used for centuries. With the recipes and formulas, I explain how to use them effectively, with information on how long viruses survive on surfaces and tips on commonsense practices.

Natural Flu Protection is available as a downloadable eBook. BUY NOW AND GET our Fun Baths eBook for FREE!

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The information contained on this site and in the eBook is for educational purposes only. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease and any product featured on this site is not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any disease.

Happiness. For a few years now I have said that there is a green product that works for just about everything you could want, except there doesn’t seem to be a green dishwasher detergent that works as well as commercial brands, all of which are made with eco-UNfriendly phosphates.

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I have become a huge fan of wool. My love affair began after sleeping under an organic wool comforter and waking up feeling like I had been touched with bliss, I was so calm. (Some research says that sleeping under wool will lower the heart beat, among other things.)
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For one year, you can clean your house in a non-toxic, healthy way, with the recipes in this eBook and save $398.90 – and that includes heavy-duty cleaning of your carpets, furniture, and bathroom. If you use these formulas instead of store-bought products for a year, using the exact same amount of product, you would spend for only $23.67! Add on $6.95 for the eBook and the total is $30.63. That makes cleaning with DIY natural recipes 17x cheaper that using store-bought, toxic products – you save $368.28 per year. Plus, you, your family, and your house will be so much healthier!

While this eBook doesn’t replace Clean & Green or Better Basics for the Home, it offers you 41 formulas to clean just about everything and calculates how much you pay for each formula compared to storebought versions.

To learn more visit Green Chi Cafe’s eBooks or CleanForPennies.com

by Cait Johnson with Annie B. Bond.

What is your favorite scent of home? The aroma of freshly baked apple pie or the scent of warm cookies fresh out of the oven? Scent is the strongest of the five senses, often eliciting memories and feelings that you thought were long forgotten. Today the commercial market is full of air sanitizers and air fresheners that pollute the air and are detrimental to your health, but there are many natural, healthy, and appealing air freshening alternatives. In Natural Scents for the Home author Cait Johnson teaches you how to make a variety of mists, air fresheners, incenses, and sprays that will naturally freshen your home. These scents are not just appealing to your nose; they can also be used to ward off ants and mice, to disinfect any surface, and to calm and refresh your mind. With this easy-to-follow guide you can easily make your home the best smelling house on the block.

Learn more about this easy to download eBook.

We have all experienced red, dry, itchy skin in the winter, or red, achy, sunburnt skin in the summer and immediately we rush to the store to buy intensive lotions for ultra-dry skin or bright blue “aloe vera” gel to soothe the ache, but the easiest, healthiest, and most natural way to nourish, heal, and beautify your skin, the bath, is right in your home. In this book you will discover 40 easy-to-make baths including:
• Hydrating baths for the deep winter
• Baths that fight acne
• Soothing and healing baths for psoriasis and eczema
• Baths that will bring out the natural beauty of your skin whether it is dry/oily or young/old
Bestselling author Annie B. Bond, an expert on green living, not only teaches you how to make each bath, but also teaches you how to use each bath to care for your own skin type. This guide provides you with all you need to know to naturally beautify your skin and will leaving you wanting to slide into a warm healing bath of your own.

If you’d like to know more, or to buy the eBook, see www.skincarebath.com or Green Chi Cafe’s eBooks

I am thrilled to publish my daughter Lily’s eBook The Green Dorm Room.
Here is the back cover copy:
Nowadays, green is the word. You can’t take a walk around campus without seeing people wearing shirts or bags that command, “GO GREEN.” The Green Dorm Room, based on real-life experience and tested in a real college setting, shows you how to navigate the department store aisles for essential and affordable green items and gives you tips on living a healthy, clean and green life at college. Lily B. Bond, founder and writer of Adventures of Green Girl for care2.com and a recent freshman herself, guides you through the entire pre-college and freshman year process with:
- Witty stories about green failures and how to fix/avoid them.
- Green alternatives to toxic products.
- Energy efficient alternatives
- Ways to de-stress and stay both mentally and physically healthy

With The Green Dorm Room in hand, your freshman year, and packing for it, will be a snap.

Learn more or buy the eBook here!

I do love Aloe Vera. It’s gel, so easy to get from the succulent leaves, must be the world’s gift to skin. It just heals, heals, heals. Well known for healing the skin of burn victims, it is also wonderful for sun burns! And small burns, such as from touching the hot outdoor grill by mistake.

A friend was visiting for the weekend the day after she had just found out that she has a very severe dust mite allergy. Worried about what bedding to use for her I remembered that the lanolin in wool naturally repels dust mites, so I gave her an organic wool pillow to sleep on!