Can I Have a Well Stocked Pantry Without an Actual Pantry?

I have this goal.....a long held, nearly impossible (for me) goal, but one I shall keep working on until the day I die.  That goal?  To have a well stoked, well organised pantry.  Thing is, I don't own a pantry.  I don't really even own kitchen cupboards which we could use as a pantry. We…

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Around the House in 80 Hours: Progress Week One – Bathroom

This week we have concentrated on the bathroom, which has needed such a lot of work done to it.  We only have one bathroom between the seven of us (we have a second loo upstairs but only one bath/shower), which means this bathroom has to work hard and, as a corner room off the kitchen…

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Spar-Klean Science: What is the dirtiest place in the kitchen?

We did this experiment along side our dish cloth verses the loo germ growing fest. First we made the agar from gelatin, bouillon and water: The children decided to take samples from the door handle, the coffee machine, the fridge door, the floor and the sink: My heart sank as I watched C11 poke the…

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Incr-Edible Science: Yeast (Micro Fungi – part 2)

After covering mold type fungi in Part 1, we moved onto the unicellular yeast: This is Leeuwenhoek, the man responsible for the discovery of micro-organisms through his very simple 'microscope' A labelled diagram of a yeast cell Yeast as we know it To find out a bit more about yeast we mainly used the same resources as before: We…

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A Summer of Little House Living: Learning the Hows of Cleaning with Spar-Klean Science

For all other posts related to our Little House on the Prairie Summer see here Meet our summer science curriculum!  Spar-Klean science is the sister of Incr-Edible science and will make up our entire science curriculum this summer.  I wrote Spar-Klean Science with the goal of teaching the children about the science of cleaning. It…

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Incr-Edible Science: Making our own Baking Powder

Whilst my home-made Incr-Edible Science curriculum is primarily one of chemistry, my personal aim is to help L10 become knowledgeable in the 'why' of cooking, rather than just the 'how'.  L10 craves to be in the kitchen every spare moment and would like to run her own business linked in some way to cooking in…

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