As a fun break from content on cooking real food on a budget and reducing waste in your home, I thought I’d do a quick round up of my favorite blogs written by crunchy, Christian moms!
These blogs have encouraged me to combine both my faith and my passion for natural living in my life and this blog. I have also learned tons of techniques, tips, and recipes from following them, whether I’ve followed them for years, or just recently stumbled upon their blogs.
If you’re Christian, interested in living a healthier life, and looking for some encouragement, check out these lovely ladies and their blogs!
For each blog, I’m going to share a bit about what each person blogs about, as well as three of my favorite posts of theirs.
The Natural Catholic Mom
Mariette over at The Natural Catholic Mom was probably one of the first bloggers I found who so completely integrated her passions for natural living and her faith. I think I actually found some of the other blogs on this list through following her blog and Instagram.
She blogs about natural pregnancy and birth, cloth diapers, and holistic health, as well as homemaking, parenting, and catholicism.
I love reading her tips on how to live a healthy life on a budget and how to simplify your home so you can focus on more than just cleaning up clutter.
My Favorite Posts:
- My Reusable Household Favorites – {Save Money/Reduce Toxins}
- No Longer Buried: How Our Family Minimized Half of Our Possessions and Reclaimed our Home
- How I Prepare for Natural Childbirth {And Why It Matters to Me}
Finding Joy in Your Home
I originally found Jami’s blog, Young Wife’s Guide, when I was looking for articles about being married young/in college. Since then, she has rebranded to “Finding Joy in Your Home.”
I looked at some of her articles, but didn’t really start following her again until after I’d had my son and was trying to figure out how to balance a household and a baby.
Leave it to a woman with six kids (with two sets of twins back to back!) to have some awesome tips on how to simplify your cooking and homemaking routines so you don’t have to spend all day just cooking and doing laundry!
Jami shares wonderful tips on homemaking, marriage and parenting, planning and organizing. She infuses every post or podcast with biblical encouragement for moms and shares her favorite products for homemaking and healthy living.
My Favorite Posts:
- The Secrets to Batch Cooking
- How to Get Ahead in Housework (When You Feel Behind)
- When You Spend All Your Time Managing THINGS!
Heavenly Homemakers
I don’t even remember when I started following Laura over at Heavenly Homemakers, but it was probably early in high school when I was still years away from thinking about marriage or children!
Laura shares her favorite, delicious recipes that you can make pretty quickly and can even get the kids involved in. She’s been blogging for years, so she has tons of recipes in her archives!
As a mom to 4 boys high school age and up, as well as a foster and adoptive mom to 5 more children, Laura is a great example of how our priorities around food, cooking, and the rest of our life outside of the kitchen can shift depending on our current season of life.
As she’s raised her boys and her “bonus kids”, as she calls them, Laura shares her fun, quirky insights into parenting, marriage, and homeschooling in addition to her passion for food and natural living.
My Favorite Posts:
- More Healthy Food Convenience Foods
- Simple Recipes We’re Using to Help Our 5-Year Old Learn Kitchen Skills
- Three Keys to an Organized Home
The Essential Mother
I love Melody’s bravery for standing up for what she knows is right, whether it’s related to her faith, food, or right to know what goes into or onto our bodies.
She’s not afraid to “say it like it is” and shares how changing her diet and lifestyle helped her deal with her chronic illness.
Melody blogs about technology and its role in our lives, medical freedom, faith, parenting, and motherhood.
My Favorite Posts:
- Why You Should Be a Quitter to Regain Your Health
- Mirror, Mirror on My Phone: Finding Identity in a Digital Age (A Short Story)
- Transform Your Health Through Diet (8 Steps)
Kateable
Kate’s blog is one that I’ve just started following recently. I “met” her in a beginner blogging group on Facebook and loved that she loves natural alternatives and her faith just like me!
Kate blogs about faith, marriage, and mental health. She also talks about how to use essential oils and herbal remedies in our daily lives.
My Favorite Posts:
- Top 15 Best Herbal Products and Essential Oils for Labor and Postpartum Recovery
- If You’re a Mom, You Need Oils in Your Life
- Ditch and Switch: Getting Natural Products in Your Home One Step at a Time
Clarissa West
Clarissa lives on a small homestead with her family, and she blogs about her daily life homeschooling, homemaking, homesteading, and being a special-needs parent.
She also shares biblical resources, including Bible studies based around certain key words in the Bible.
My Favorite Posts:
- A Lost Generation & The Generation Rising To The Challenge
- Why You Should Start A Mini-Farm or Homestead
- More Frugal Living Tips From A Large Family Mom
Kelly the Kitchen Kop
I’m pretty sure my mom found Kelly’s blog first when my family got interested in the Weston A. Price Foundationstyle of cooking.
Kelly shares recipes she came up with using the WAPF cooking techniques to make them more nutritious while still being simple enough on a busy schedule.
Kelly shares the science behind why real food and natural remedies are best for our bodies, what is really in our personal care and cleaning products, and resources for things like gardening, skin care, and emergency prep.
My Favorite Posts:
- How to Feed Your Family a Traditional Diet with Limited Time and Money
- The Real Food for Rookies Version of Dave Ramsey’s Money Principles
- Nourishing Frugal Healthy Meals
Real Food RN
Kate at the Real Food RN shares about how to make a non-toxic home and a healthier diet.
She builds off of the knowledge she gained as a nurse and loves helping people figure out how to use food and natural alternatives to solve the root cause of issues, not just treat the symptoms with a prescription medication.
Kate talks about how to juggle cooking from scratch as a busy mom and wife as well as how to make your own skincare and household products.
My Favorite Posts:
- Real Food Bucket List
- Necessary Baby Items You Can Get Delivered to Your Door
- How to Wash Garden Vegetables
Farmhouse on Boone
Lisa at Farmhouse on Boone is probably best known for her sourdough recipes and her farmhouse decor.
I’m not in a farmhouse yet, and when I (hopefully) am eventually mine probably won’t look like hers, but I love getting inspiration from how she turned an old house into something so beautiful!
I have started using some of her sourdough recipes, and she definitely knows her stuff! I made her sourdough bagels (linked below) and next I really want to try her sourdough chocolate cake recipe!
My Favorite Posts:
Mary Haseltine
Mary is a homeschool mom, wife, and doula (if you don’t know what that is, she has posts on her blog about what they are and what she does as one).
She’s passionate about her faith and helping moms have natural, less-stressful births (if possible).
She blogs about pregnancy, labor, and postpartum and using both faith-based and natural resources to support our bodies and minds through all different stages of life.
My Favorite Posts:
- Five Favorite Postpartum Wellness Items
- My Five Favorite Weirdo, Crunchy, or May-Take-Some-Convincing Things I Love After Having a Baby
- The Top 20 Reasons We’ve Gone Cloth
Now, if you don’t follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you might be wondering, why are so many of these links baby or pregnancy-related?
Well, as you might have guessed from this post, we’re due with our second child in September!
So, as is the case with most pregnant mamas, I’ve been reading blogs to learn what I can before we welcome this little one. If you don’t have kids or they’re all grown up, these women still have tons of wisdom to share in all other areas of our lives.
I hope you enjoyed this roundup and possible found some new blogs to read!
There are dozens of crunchy, Christian mamas I follow on Instagram who I would have loved to include as well, but since I already had quite the list, I just limited this to active bloggers and their blogs. If you’d rather follow them on social media, you can find most of them their as well!
