By Amanda Rose | Natural Remedies
Springtime comes once again and we begin the wonderful new season of foraging. We might as well start with nature’s most beautiful wildflower – the California poppy. Did you realize that it actually has medicinal qualities? It is beautiful and useful! All parts of the plant are useful in combating insomnia, anxiety, and nervousness. Of […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Elderberry
If, by chance, you have oceans of elderberries around you like we do here in the Giant Sequoia National Monument, you might consider drying them to preserve them. Drying elderberries is very popular. In fact, it is the primary way to purchase elderberries that have been harvested and processed for you. The internet abounds with […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Elderberry
I love to keep an elderberry vinegar around to toss into salads, particularly using this elderberry vinaigrette dressing recipe. This is extremely simple to make. In fact, when I’m harvesting elderberries for elderberry syrup (find out how to make that here), I always pick extra so that I can have some elderberry vinegar around. The […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Intermittent Fasting
Should I take nutritional supplements while intermittent fasting? Yes, I recommend that you take a nutritional supplement. (Check out all of our resources on intermittent fasting here.) You might wonder why I say that if you have followed my story and the Fresh Bites Daily website for any period of time because I really rely […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Intermittent Fasting
Here I keep a little compilation of success stories from my intermittent fasting. I am down 70 pounds in five months intermittent fasting (and had lost 20 pounds in the previous four months, for 90 pounds total). (Check out all of our resources on intermittent fasting here.) These are some of the photos from along […]
Continue readingBy Amanda Rose | Intermittent Fasting
Are you completely starving the rest of the day while intermittent fasting? How do you not eat your arm off? How can you really make it through the day? This may be one of the most-asked questions I get and even I find it surprising that I can get through the day as easily as […]
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