Last year Canadian Doomer and Backyard Farms joined me in this challange, I do need to give a heads up on this, all three of us found holes in our storage, and while we all managed, there was shortages in different things that meant we were required to either a ) do without b) cook around it.

So while I would love to have folks join me in this challange, and if you have food storage, it is a great way to take on a short term goal of learning how to use more in your every day cooking, find any gaps in your planning and to be reminded of the old saying.. two is one and one is none!

I took the knowledge learned last year and did my best to fill them in over the past year, this coming month of march will tell me if I got the job done or not.. You are welcome to join this challange in a baby step way, like one meal a day out of your storage, or only doing a week of it, or you just comment and provide support that way, I know last year, having folks comment and share helped keep me plodding forward on days that I really just wanted to go get something anything, that I didn’t have to prepare by hand.

Basic Rules are as follows

• Pets and Critters are exempt
• Pick a month and go from the 1st to the 31st

Our extra rules

• Can still shop stores for loss leaders or sales for our food pantry but it can not be used during the month of the challange.
• If DH is traveling out of town for work, those days are exempt from the challange for him.

Dh agreed to the challange but threw out one of his own.. he says he is happy to give a hand and follow along but that I need to make it seems like there is no challange going on when it comes to meal time..and that in and of itself is going make this just a touch more tricky..

So the month we picked was March for a couple reason

• Just coming off $10 a Week Feb, means that we are already lean in the house in regards to fresh stuff.
• Its a long month with a full 31 days in it.
• Everything outside is still frozen solid-putting me at a disadvantage
• we are well into winter and there are a number of things that are getting low in storage as we have already been eating out of our home grown pantry for five months now.
• No Shopping extras before the start of the month,

These factors should give the challange a bit more Oomph! Make your own extra’s so that they fit your own family’s needs.

To read last years 2011 weekly round ups and also to see each day’s meals, plus a write up on different subjects, check out the link below, scroll about half way down the page to get started.

https://livingmydreamlifeonthefarm.wordpress.com/march-challange/

Want an Idea of what I have in the house, Gardening count 2011, an Canning Count 2011

Just to add a little more work and to keep myself on the level -I will do a daily meal planner, last year some day’s I love writing my post to go with the meals and other days the writing did not flow, but I was faithful and got a post out each day on it..

This year, I want to continue to do a daily post on what we are eating, but I have a different plan in mind for the daily posts that go with it,  I am planning on going with a garden theme.

Some day’s it might be just a single plant that is talked about, some days it might be compost, some day’s it might be harvesting, somedays it might be about building hugelbeets or building garden growing supports or it might be a gardening book review or how to build a cheap worm bin or using chickens in the garden.

 I want to leave it as open and flexable as possable while keeping it related to gardening in general.

I will start posting on March 1st, I hope that a few folks will take the challange or a version of the challange with me, let me know in the comments if you are planning on joining in..

This is part of the homestead prepardness challange