Vickilynn Haycraft

Vickilynn Haycraft is a wife and mother of five children. Although she struggles daily with a painful disability, Vickilynn administrates e-mail lists and writes cookbooks and magazine columns. Vickilynn is the author of the the books: Wrapping It Up! Making Sensational, All-Occasion Wrappers and Fabulous Family Meals and Real Food for Real Families.

Vickilynn is a former paramedic and, with her husband, owned successful businesses: bread/pasta home catering and sales of products for health. Her own family's illnesses caused her to learn all she could about whole grains, real foods, natural health and products that help support taking care of the family. Vickilynn has over two decades of experience using and market-testing different products and tools of the homemaking vocation, focusing on those in the area of better health and nutrition.

Vickilynn's articles, columns, poetry, book and product reviews have been distributed worldwide. She has been published in magazines such as Teachers of Good Things, Homemaker's Forum, An Encouraging Word, Gentle Spirit, Above Rubies, Healthy Foods e-zine, Dollar Stretcher, Coming Home, Naturally Healthy Living magazine and Naturally Healthy Home Study Course. Vickilynn's recipes and recipe-testing abilities have been included in several successful cookbooks including Healthy Foods by Leanne Ely and Miserly Meals by Jonni McCoy. Currently Vickilynn writes a weekly e-newsletter Real Food Living focusing on healthy foods.

A passionate crusader for truth in advertising and consumer's rights, Vickilynn strives to inform, assist and empower families by giving accurate, honest and unbiased reviews on products and books for the whole family.

Vickilynn and her family make their home on five mountain acres in rural West Virginia (affectionately known as the "Almost Heaven Homestead") along with a bunch of chickens, a lazy dog and three cats. Vickilynn’s website is at www.realfoodliving.com.