A is for Arm & Hammer Baking Soda

Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

~ I Cor 5: 6 - 8

As Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread approach, we are busily cleaning our homes of all leavening and examining and cleaning our minds and spirits of 'spritiual leavening'.  In another week, we'll be focused on eating unleavened breads as a symbol of filling our lives with all that is good and right.

In my pursuit of cleaning out the physical leavening, I have a variety of leavened products that need to be used or tossed in the trash.  Girl scout cookies, rolls, freezer-burnt hamburger buns from Bug's birthday in August. The cookies will be eaten (the hubby wont' let me toss them!).  The buns will hopefully go to the ducks.  One of the other things to get rid of is the big bag of Arm and Hammer Baking Soda.

Every spring after the Days of Unleavened Bread are done, I buy one of these 13.5 lb bags of baking soda.  Then every year, I make it a goal to use as much of it as possible.  I always end up with some left that I need to use up quickly.  I could bake a bunch of muffins and cookies, but who really needs that?  Instead, I'll use the remainder the same way I used it the entire year.  All over the house!

Did you know there are all kinds of uses for Baking Soda? Not just in yummy baked goods. You can use it to clean in every room in the house and you can even use it on your body!

Here is a quick list of some of the things I use baking soda for.
- No 'Poo Hair Care
- washing your face
- homemade deodorant
- scrubbing the sink, tub and the toilet in the bathroom
- carpet freshener
- shine my kitchen sink
- clean my glass stove top
- deodorize my fridge
- scrub that nasty, burned on black stuff at the bottom of a pot

And my new favorite:
- turn it into Washing Soda to be used in homemade laundry soap (this is the recipe I use, but there are many ways to make it)!

Do you have other uses for baking soda? Share them with me! I'd love to know what else I can use it for!