Amazon Book Promo Code

EXPIRED: Save 30% on any book sold by Amazon when you enter the promo code BOOKDEAL at checkout until December 1st!

UPDATE: Amazon is now offering a $5 off purchase of $35 or more promotional credit when you share/create a wish list. Just click this link, select your wish list to share, answer a holiday-related question, and click share! The code expires December 15th and is only available for U.S. residents. Hurry! As these might not last long.

This is a great opportunity to score some more stocking stuffers or cross off someone on your Christmas list. I'm a big believer in giving literature. It's a gift that keeps on giving!

 

The promo code works once on books sold and shipped by Amazon.

I think I'll be ordering The Artful Parent by Jean Van't Hul and some Astragalus root capsules (comes in a pack of four). My mom turned me on to this product sold by Twinlab. Love that they sell it in a pack of four so I can give three away and still have one for our natural medicine cabinet.

Recommendations for stocking stuffers:



With fun colors and vibrant pictures, The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature is a very entertaining and informative book for any young child. My three year old loves looking at it and letting me read to her. It's a great overview with simple facts that they can easily grasp. With over two hundred pages, it provides a lot of educational material. It's inspired many crafts in our household and it seems we read it daily.
Emily P. Freeman's wonderful blog Chatting at the Sky has always been uplifting and encouraging. In her newest book A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Made to Live, she reveals to us our true identity: Our Creator's Masterpiece. The book is refreshing and enlightening where many books with similar purpose may fall flat. It's beautifully written and you'll find yourself pulling out a highlighter every other page and looking at the world with a new perspective. She has also published Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life .

Other Suggestions that look entertaining and interesting (just click on the image):


 
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What book are you hoping to find in your stocking?

Peppermint and Ginger: Aid Digestion with Healthier Candy Choices this Holiday Season

Feeling bloated and overall stuffed from this onset of delicious Holidays? Instead of offering a bowl full of treats or candies, pick just two types that aid in digestion: Peppermint and Ginger.

Have a bowl full of these ready for guests to nom on.

Peppermint can help relieve tension headaches, nerve-induced nausea, colonic spasms, gas and other stomach pains. The minty herb's oils also freshen breath! Peppermint is both calming and revitalizing, creating a peace among the storm which some of us may feel this holiday season. Find peppermint candies flavored with natural peppermint oil and dyed with carrot and beet juices from your natural health food store or trader joe's (this is where I bought mine).

Ginger can also help overindulgence, gas and nausea. This spicy herb is an anti-inflammatory, improves circulation, and strengthens immunity. Feeling sluggish after all the heavy food? Try ginger to get your digestive enzymes going and give yourself a mood boost. Ginger chews or crystallized ginger are sold at your local grocery store and on amazon.

Also stock your pantry with fennel seeds to make this fennel tea (full post here). Both peppermint and ginger teas can aid this as well! And are beneficial without the sugar! All the herbs combined can be a great digestive-aiding drink. Also they taste delicious!

I buy my herbs for teas and other creative endeavors from Mountain Rose Herbs.

Rustic Pear Tart

There are some recipes you make simply because someone you love likes it with their bacon.

Not that I don’t love a fruit tart for breakfast. I do! But when I’m working on recipes, I sometimes feel my husband gets the short end of the stick. So this is for you, babe.

This oat crust is hearty and crisp underneath the soft and slightly cinnamon-scented pears. Perfect for Fall! And easy for any gathering or holiday! It's also is great served cold the next day with a hot cup of tea.

This is another of Witty Husband’s favorites, another one being the chocolate chip breakfast rug. He also loves the baked oatmeal here on the blog if you are looking for more gluten-free and dairy-free recipes that gluten&dairy-lovers will enjoy. Recipes the whole table will enjoy!

The oat crust for this pear tart is made solely in a food processor. No need to get any bowls dirty! Here are directions if you don't have a food processor: (1) Grind the oats in a spice/coffee grinder. (2) Stir in the remaining dry ingredients. (3) Using a potato masher, cut coconut oil into the flour ingredients until it becomes gritty like biscuit batter. (4) Add liquid and stir well.

Rustic Pear Tart
2 1/2 cup oats
3 TB chia seeds
2 TB evaporated cane juice sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
6 TB coconut oil
3/4 cup liquid + extra for spreading dough *

3-4 Bartlett
1-2 TB Fresh Lemon Juice
2-3 TB evaporated cane juice sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

Directions:
1. Pulse the oats and chia seeds in a food processor until sandy flour texture is achieved.
2. Add sugar, bakind soda, sea salt, and cinnamon. Pulse until incorporated.
3. Add coconut oil until it is incorporated and the mixture may have little clumps. Add liquid and process until dough forms.
4. On a parchment-lined baking sheet, spread dough with a wet spatula (keep spatula wet to prevent dough from sticking to it). Spread dough until it is about 1/3" thick.
5. Slice Bartlett pears (remove stems, core and seeds) and layer all over the crust. Sprinkle with lemon juice, sugar, and cinnamon.
6. Bake in a preheated 375 oven for 35-40 minutes or until edges have browned and pears are soft.
Cool 5-10 minutes before cutting.

Enjoy!

*For the liquid, I've used tea, water, unsweetened almond milk, apple juice and even leftover canned pear juice (from when I canned my own pears).