Hopefully, your holiday table is ready and preparations are well underway! Are you going with the traditional, tried-and-true recipes, or will you be experimenting with one of your favorite Food Network star’s recipes? Meal planning for a holiday can be tricky, especially when you consider the potential for late guests and what to do with all the leftovers! But this year,… Read More
How to Have a Quick and Chemical-free Harvest!
One of the best parts of fall is going to the apple orchard and pumpkin patch or picking up some local produce at the farmer’s market. It adds so much to your fall cooking and baking when you can use some fresh, local ingredients. And, it’s even better when it is coming from your own garden! Incorporating this thoughtful touch… Read More
Replace Paper Towels with Norwex Counter Cloths!
What if you could drastically reduce your need for paper towels? You could free up money and space in your grocery cart, storage, and trash can! What do we even use them for anyways? Cleaning up a spill, wiping off a child, removing grease, makeshift napkin? Most jobs done with a paper towel, could be done with another piece of… Read More
Norwex Napkins: Classy and Convenient
Napkins can mean a lot of different things now’a days! Cloth napkins seem pretty fancy, not really for everyday…Paper napkins make me think of fast food…and grease…where is the right balance? Paper products are biodegradable, but it takes a lot of trees to keep up with the demand– 51,000 yearly just for North America to be exact. I would much… Read More
Christmas Cookie Clean Up!
What is your favorite Christmas cookie or candy to make? I love making Christmas cookies, but the mess can become very overwhelming! An afternoon of baking turns into a long evening of scrubbing…scrubbing…scrubbing… when all I want is a “long winter’s nap!” Norwex has made cleaning up the Christmas cookie mess much more efficient. There is a cloth for every… Read More
Smarter Shopper: Norwex Produce Plastic Bags
For quite a long time, I have dutifully carried a large container of cloth bags into the grocery store. I may use 5 bags, or I may use 10. But I have at least 20 ready to go – I like to be prepared. Until last summer, I had never considered that maybe my efforts to be more eco-friendly at the… Read More
The Most Low Maintenance and Sustainable Cutting Board for the Kitchen!
When it comes to cutting boards, the type of material it is made from matters because it will determine whether it is sustainable and low maintenance! It matters for how you will use it in the kitchen, and where it will go once you’ve gotten rid of it and need a new one. As I’ve become an eco-friendly consumer and… Read More
5 Time-Saving Tips to Get Out the Door Fast
The thing that I don’t like about back-to-school is the fact that you have to go back on a routine. Waaaahhh! I literally want to cry. Because it means: packing lunches the day before waking up early again getting both you AND the kids ready doing it all on-time I think ‘frazzled’ is a good way to sum up school… Read More
This Is The Last Straw
“Do you want fries with that?” “Yes….no…..Yeah….” We make choices about the way we live every day. In our fast-paced culture, many of these choices are set to defaults for our convenience. Fries generally come with the burger. When we know the default isn’t our preference, we request something different, like “no mustard please (or ever. YUCK.).” As much as… Read More
3 Reasons to Rethink your Sink Products!
In recent years, there is a new favorite of the sink products: the dish wand. This tool makes dish washing much simpler and less gross. I’ll be honest, I hate washing dishes by hand because soggy food is nasty. The dish wand does all the hard work for me! From scraping food into the garbage, to mashing it down the… Read More
12 Days of Norwex Christmas: Foodie
Its Day 5 of our 12 Days of Norwex Christmas! 5 gold rings don’t sound too bad, but they are not in everybody’s budget! Instead, lets look at some ideas for the Foodie in your life. Chances are that this person gifts you with delicious treats throughout the year so lets give gifts back to them that will make their… Read More
Norwex Silicone Lids: A New Way to Join the Green Bandwagon!
Plastic and foil food wraps and containers are on their way out, and here’s why: since plastic wraps’ invention, every single piece is still in existence! Not only do they take many years to break down, but some are difficult to recycle, like Styrofoam, because not as many facilities do it. This past spring, Minneapolis, MN, following a few other… Read More