Category Archives: frugal

Ground Turkey Meatballs made with Cornmeal Recipe

Posted on December 15, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

Turkey Meatballs with Cornmeal instead of bread crumbs 1 Pound of finely ground turkey 1/4 cup of finely ground cornmeal 1 tbsp of herb blend of your choice, in this case i used smoked bacon/maple flavor 1/4 tsp of salt … Continue reading →

Posted in Depression meals, frugal | Tagged Buying in bulk, Buying on sale, Cormeal, dinner, food, Food Production and Recipes, Meatball recipe with cornmeal, meatballs, Meatballs and gravy, recipe, recipes, Turkey meatballs | Leave a comment

Blood Orange Marmalade Recipe

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

The wonderful scent of simmering marmalade filled the kitchen on this bitterly cold winter day, for here in Canada, the citrus season comes in during our bleak winter months. The color on these oranges as i cut into them was … Continue reading →

Posted in Canning, Food in jars, frugal | Tagged Blood Orange, Blood Orange Marmalade, Can what you eat, Canning, Canning Pantry, Deep Pantry, Do it yourself, food, Frugal, jam, make your own, marmalade, orange, recipe, recipes, save money, Shelf stable, Waterbath canning | Leave a comment

Deep Pantry -Shop the flyers and Loss Leaders

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

While they stopped delivering flyers in our mail years ago, the odd flyer on a few things still comes, mostly Canadian Tire an the local feeder stores or hardware stores. However a friend of mine has a small but awesome … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, frugal | Tagged Cost of living, Feeding the teenager, Fill the freezers, food, fresh-food, grocery prices in canada, Health, Inflation, Making a special stock up trip, nutrition, Planning your shopping trip, Shop your flyers, Shopping loss leaders, Shopping with a list, Stocking your pantry | 1 Comment

Pumpkin Time!

Posted on October 31, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Right now at stores all over the city, country lanes and locally at a one or more of our green houses, sales are happening, the value of the pumpkins and squash’s grown for Halloween just dropped like a stone. Last … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Food Storage, frugal, Garden harvest | Tagged After sales, compost, Compost your pumpkins, Finding way to use things up, food, Frugal, halloween, Halloween pumpkins, Pie pumpkins, pumpkin, Pumpkin sales, pumpkin seeds, pumpkins, Pumpkins for fodder, recipes, squash | Leave a comment

Ultra Frugal but Foolish Way to Get Garden Bean Seeds

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Sometimes i adore when both ultra frugal and yet foolish things cross over my facebook feed LOL This fits the bill perfectly! On the frugal side of things, in the usa this appear to cost around $2.50 cents and i … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged beans, community projects, cost savings, dried beans, Eating green beans, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, Green bean, Growing beans, Growing food cheaply, Growing Soup beans, Homesteading, Stringless green beans, vegetables | 1 Comment

Poor Man’s Fertilizer “SNOW”

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

In fact, snow does contain nitrogen and other particulates like sulfur, which it collects as it falls through the atmosphere, however so do rain, sleet and hail, and believe it or not, lightning. Rain and lightning contain more nitrogen than snow. Statistics from agricultural … Continue reading →

Posted in frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged canada, Farmgal, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, Gardening in a northern climate, just another day on the farm, nature, Northern climate, Snow, Snow cover in the garden, Snow fertilizer, Snow protection, Using natures gifts, Winter | 4 Comments

Number One Trick for Loads of Elderberries!

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

These a wild (Bird Gifted years ago) local native Black Elderberries. I am lucky enough to have them growing wild in ditches and field edges all over my local area. However those bushes will produce clusters about a 1/3rd of … Continue reading →

Posted in farm, Food Forest, frugal, Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, Native Plants, wild foods | Tagged Bigger Elderberry harvests, elderberries, Elderberry fruit, How to grow Bigger Elderberry fruit size, Top Trick to grow more elderberry fruit | 3 Comments

Fried Banana Peel Recipe

Posted on February 7, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

Fully admit it, I say a clip on Facebook on this one and went.. huh?? They called it mock bacon, and its not mock bacon to me at all. Pick your Banana, with the reading I did on this on … Continue reading →

Posted in food, frugal, Life moves on daily | Tagged Challenge yourself, Eating Banana Peels, Eating Fried Banana Peel, Fried Banana Peel Recipe, Frugal, Try something new, Waste not | 1 Comment

Baked Beef Shank Steaks

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

This garlic loving somewhat made in the pot BBQ sauce works so perfectly with these baked till pull apart tender Shank Steaks. There is enough sauce made for four steaks with the fixings for sure if you wanted to pull … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, frugal, grass fed beef | Tagged Baked Beef Shank Steaks, Cheap and Frugal Meals, Garlic, Shank Steaks Recipe, use different cuts of meat to help cut costs, Ways to stretch your meat | 3 Comments

Low Buy Jan

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

I joined a budget based group that lasts the month of Jan, its a good overview and tweeking type of plan.. I laughed a touch as folks are like.. what is something your life that costs you money every single … Continue reading →