About

Why we started

We used to eat like most people: convenience food, a cupboard full of packets, and a cleaning shelf full of things we couldn’t pronounce. To improve our health and longevity we have changed all of it. We eat mostly meat, eggs, dairy and fresh food; keto and carnivore most of the time, and we make our own cleaners and oil blends from simple ingredients.

We’d rather understand what we put in and on our bodies, and look after ourselves the old-fashioned way where we can.

What started as trying the carnivore diet to solve gut issues, has turned into making our own soap, and blending our own remedies.

What’s here

The recipes we cook every week, the cleaners and blends we make, and notes on what we buy and why. Some of the recipes are older family favourites from before we changed. We’ve kept them because we have kids that don’t need to be as strict as us, and because these recipes are part of our story.

Where we have found something we think is great that we don’t need to make from scratch, then we link to it. Feel free to try them for yourselves - these aren’t affiliate links so we don’t earn from any click or purchase.

Use it freely

Everything here is public domain (CC0). Copy it, change it, print it, share it, no credit needed. Where a recipe started as someone else’s, we try to say so on the page.

Please read this

We’re a family, not doctors, nutritionists or chemists. This is what works for us, based on all of our research and knowledge. But we’re not medical professionals and this certainly isn’t medical advice.

If you have a health condition, take medication, are pregnant, or are thinking of a big change in diet, make sure you do your own research first, and consult whatever practictioners and experts you feel comfortable with - that’s your story, this is ours.

Read the safety notes on every cleaner and oil page, patch-test anything that goes on skin, and keep it all labelled and out of reach of children and pets.