Another week has rolled by both on the farm and on March Challange, and so far the only thing that has been challanging is the fact that I am limited.. my meat is currently, in order of the most on the farm/freezers/pantry-Lamb/Hoggot, Duck, Chicken and Rabbit, My carbs are potato’s, rice or corn, my veggies are frozen red and green peppers, frozen carrots, canned beets, canned corn, canned sqaush, For Fruits, I have canned and dried still in all the basic’s along with lots of apple sauce..

In the storage area I have dried onions, garlic, cabbage-green and purple, dried pea’s, lots of dried greens, and a few fresh greens, being mainly spinach, wild greens, green onions, chives and just starting this week, fresh stinging nettles. Fats are tallow, duck fat, oil oil or butter, We have milk, yogurt, soft cheese’s and lots and lots of eggs..

You can tell that the hens are free ranging the afternoons away, as the eggs have gone from dark yellow to darn near orange in color and the taste after the winter eggs is amazing..

The sheep are starting on their downward curve in regards to milk production, I am currently curing leg of lamb which will then be smoked.. I have to admit that I normally make corned beef for st. Patty and was all out, so I am learning how to cure my lamb and duck, so far the duck is turning out to be more close to beef then the lamb, which is not to say that the lamb is not good, it is.

I think if I dig hard enough, I will have a few things of salmon to brine and then smoke at the same time.. we have not added anything to the storage this week, I did get to the stores in the sense of checking out the flyers for sales and there was really nothing there to rock my world..

Other then eggs, we really are in a lean month in terms of what you can find to add to the pantry. So how about you, did you find a good sale this week? Did you stick to your food budget? Did you look at your three or four or five current meat or veggie stash and think.. come summer time when the garden or the garden markets are in full swing, you will have ten or twenty different things to choose from again.. I will look forward to even having six to ten more different greens to choose from in the next month or so..

You know what the first thing I am going to get for april? Apples! Fresh tart crunchy apples!