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 Jeanie Rose | Nettle
How could anything this healthy be so totally delicious? Nettle soup has a growing fan base across the country and for good reason. Nettle leaf is delicately flavored and cooks to a smooth silky texture. The prickly little needles are completely gone. No other vegetable in our experience provides the texture that nettle does. And […]
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 […]
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