Need a healthy dinner in a hurry? This is it. With just six ingredients, this easy white chicken chili recipe comes together in a snap!
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I’m lucky. I learned to embrace home cooking at the hands of an excellent cook – my mom. Not everyone has that kind of knowledge to fall back on, though.
If you’re aiming to live a more self-reliant lifestyle, my vote for the number one place to start is the kitchen.
Instead of counting on Campbell’s, learn to make your own soup. Instead of falling back on prepackaged spreads, learn to make your own.
Soft and Pillowy Homemade Potato Bread Recipe
This homemade potato bread recipe makes a pillowy soft loaf that’s perfect for slicing. Make a loaf over the weekend for fresh sandwich bread all week.
Safely Pressure Canning Homemade Broth
Canning chicken stock or turkey stock means that you’ll be able to get meals ready in a hurry using real, homemade ingredients. Plus? It’s like free food!
Fresh Garden Salsa for Summertime Flavor
This fresh garden salsa is a summertime treat. Memorize these five ingredients; you’ll never need a salsa recipe again. Nothing makes salsa as good as fresh ingredients from the garden. This fresh garden salsa will become your favorite way to use up the summer abundance of fresh tomatoes.
One Bowl Crunchy Kale Salad with Cranberries
This massaged kale salad with cranberries is great as a side dish or light lunch. With gluten free & paleo tweaks, it’s a great lunch or side dish salad.
Quick & Easy Hummus Bowls
Hummus bowls are a delicious and healthy meal with endless variations. Make up a batch of hummus and serve it with your favorite toppings.
Home Canning Recipes for Beginners
If you’re a novice at food preservation, these easy canning recipes are a good place to start. They all use a simple water bath method.
How to Make Chewy Dried Bananas — You Won’t Stop at One
These chewy dried bananas are a great healthy snack and dehydrating bananas couldn’t be easier. These chewy dehydrated banana chips are a winner!
Cookies in a Jar for Easy Gift Giving
For an easy-to-make gift, cookies in a jar can’t be beat. Everyone loves homemade cookies! Make a bunch of these for gift giving & hostess gifts.
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author and certified Master Food Preserver, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
I’m thrilled that my book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living (National Geographic Books) was awarded the best how-to book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Here at Attainable Sustainable, I aim to encourage readers — that’s you! — to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle, one small step at a time.
Limited on space? Don’t let that keep you from growing some of your own food! In my 5-Gallon Garden course, I’ll show you how to grow food in the space you have! Learn more about it here.
