Complete Guide to a Healthy Lifestyle
HEALTHY LIVING
Your family guide to health and happiness! Bookmark our fab health articles and favourite products. Watch our Green Event Guide and our fave picks of blogs & sites. We also have gallery of Green Stars, to inspire you!
GREEN HOME
What shade of green is your home? Our articles, product recommendations, home product guide and shortcut to GREAT online shopping sites will help you create a more sustainable, eco-friendly, energy-saving and cost effective home.
CONSCIOUS PARENTING
Every parent needs to hear words of inspiration from time to time! From family planning & pregnancy to birth and beyond… we’ll share excellent current articles & options that encourage well-being for all!
MOMENTS & MEMORIES
Whether you’re planning a holiday, day trip or going out for a meal, we’ll share our best travel articles loaded with tips, family friendly accommodation, and restaurants and even help you capture the memories!
GREEN KIDS
Daphne, Protector of the Forest, shares the most amazing videos full of ideas, information and good green stuff!!
GREEN STARS
Amazing people and initiatives making our world a shade greener with inspiring ideas – for the good of our children & our earth.
HEALTHY RECIPES
What’s for dinner? Healthy, thrifty and quick recipes for your family… breakfast ideas, snacks, drinks, salads, light meals and even sweet treats.
SPECIAL OFFERS & GIVEAWAYS
Let’s face it… families COST moolah!…We’ll find the most amazing green family deals and offers and FABULOUS GIVEAWAYS for your family! .
Helping families go ‘green’ since 2007!
Our journey started 9 years ago! We were mamas with new-borns, desperate for a bit of guidance. We knew that there were innovative and eco-friendly baby products out there, but were clueless where to find them.
Necessity really is the mother of invention … we sourced products and articles that ‘felt good’ to us, inspired us and helped us survive and decided to share them! So the Survival Guide for Families magazine was born.
By the time the babies, who’d suckled while we burnt the midnight oil doing layouts, started ‘Big School’, we discovered that they weren’t the only things that had changed. The world was a very different place!
It was time for us to change too! Even eco paper did not feel light enough on the planet and totally unnecessary in a technologically changed world where sharing information quickly and inexpensively is possible.
So here we are, your green family guide to help your whole family thrive!
What’s New
Oryx Desert Salt Bringing the Kalahari to Whole Foods USA!
After many years of growing the brand locally and internationally, in October 2021 Oryx Desert Salt will be one of […]
A Peek Into a REAL Montessori Classroom
Most often one does not find the teacher at a desk when peeking into a Montessori pre or junior school […]
Boerewors with Polenta and Chunky Roasted Red Pepper Salsa
Today in South Africa we celebrate Heritage Day, also fondly known as National Braai Day. Elite South African Ironman Africa […]
It’s Time for Big School – How to Get Ready!
For parents and children, the step up into Grade 1 (or big school!) is a time of excitement – but […]
Veg Garden Tips – For Small Spaces
Love the idea of putting delicious, nutritious fresh veggies and herbs on the table for your family? Why not grow […]
Balsamic Caramelised Onion Burger
This month South Africa celebrates Heritage Day on Friday 24th September, also fondly known as National Braai Day. Elite South […]
Heidi le Roux – Aspiring Artist and Inspiring Human!
Heidi was born on the 18th of May 2011 in George. The meaning of her name (heid – second part […]
Aneska Bruwer – Heart and Hands of Green!
Aneska is a happy 10 year old girl. She loves the outdoors and spending time with her brother and friends. […]
WIN with Earth Probiotic!
The 17th of September is National Recycling Day in South Africa, and while many of us are great at recycling […]
TOP TIPS to SAVE Energy, Money & Our Planet!
How would you like to to reduce your waste and save? Our Green Home 101 guide will help you implement […]
Protecting Breastfeeding is a Shared Responsibility!
Breastfeeding is the recommended ideal, a natural and sustainable food for the healthy growth and development of infants and young […]
Now is the Time for Insights on Fireplaces and Heating!
Having the right fireplace or fireplaces in your home can bring an elemental warmth that not only heats your home, […]
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