Back to Basics: How to make a nourishing Beef Bone Broth

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How to make a nourishing beef bone broth

Ever since I discovered the health wonders in drinking beef bone broth, I have become a preaching fanatic for the stuff. My second-hand slow cooker from Ebay that cost me a whole ten bucks made the endeavour to master the much haloed bone broth all the more sweeter. I was determined to make that liquid gold elixir turn into a gelatinous jell-O and wobble like it was Santa’s gluttonous belly on Christmas Eve. Would you believe it, on my first attempt I succeeded! And I’ve been making jelly-like, drool worthy, bone broth ever since!

So if you haven’t heard about it already, prepared to be amazed.

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Christmas Giveaway! Get your hands on $100 of Cold Hard Paypal Cash!

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Win $100 of Cold Hard Cash - Enter via The Urban Ecolife

Enter to win $100 of COLD HARD CASH (deposited into your paypal account) to spend on anything you like!

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30 Days of Gratitude Project – November 30th

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NO duty is more urgent

Today I am grateful for you – my readers! There is nothing else I’d rather be doing right now than to be sharing the stories and information I do with you. I’m at your service. You are what I’m here for!

It’s been an amazing 30 days and I can’t believe it’s over. But don’t let the gratitude stop there! Let this be the start of a lifetime of gratitude and may your days overflow in abundance :-)

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Friday Link Digs – 29th November

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Friday Link Digs - The Urban Ecolife

Friday Link Digs is a weekly segment where I share what I’ve dug up from around the web that I’m really, well, diggin’. Whether they be blog posts, recipes, DIY projects, healthy living advice, green living tips, gardening how-tos, you name it, I’m willing to share it! So long as it supports the vibe of The Urban Ecolife. The best part being, I share the link loves with you all from one convenient spot – HERE! –Enjoy

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30 Days of Gratitude Project – November 29th

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Nothing is more honourable

Today I am grateful for the education I received. We are so blessed to have the schooling system we do and to have freedom of access to an abundance of knowledge at our finger tips. Never shall we grow bored. Seriously, what are we complaining about?

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Here are 5 easy to grow balcony herbs for those without a green-thumb

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5 Easy to Grow Herbs for those without a green-thumb - The Urban Ecolife

“I don’t have a green-thumb.”

This has to be one of the oldest and lamest excuses for an excuse to not grow plants. Of all excuses to not grow something, that’s all you could come up with? I’ll take a bitzillion other excuses before I take that one.

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30 Days of Gratitude Project – November 28th

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Thanksgiving is good but thanksliving is better

Today I am grateful for the opportunity to pursue my dreams and the belief that was encouraged from a young age that I can do anything I set my mind to (except turn into a dolphin).

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Why The Australian Heart Foundation is doing us wrong

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Why The Heart Foundation is doing us wrong

 

I’m stepping out on a limb here but I’m going to say it. There’s no heart in The Australian Heart Foundation. If there was, it’s no where to be seen right now and I swear I might have even seen it floating around in one of the toilet bowls, not quite wanting to be flushed, at the train station the other week. Some of their responses to the flurry of media attention they’ve been receiving of late have been anything but heartfelt.

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