Category Archives: frugal
Winter Eating Challenge
DH and I have taken on the challange of eating one meal per week of made totally of local food, the basic rule is all parts of the meal must be grown/produced from within a 150 miles of where you are … Continue reading
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Turkey Talk
Well, I went to town a on the weekend, and one of the stops was at the human food store, I was standing going up around the outside of the store, no requirement for any bad food side trips.. in … Continue reading
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Frugal at its best-Homemade Christmas Urn
Yesterday when I went to town to get a few things, I saw that the stores all had these wonderful brough filled urns with red twigs for sale.. they were selling for 40 to 70 dollars depending on the size … Continue reading
Smoked Herring Chowder Recipe
I was able to find a nice little package of Smoked Herring on my last outing, wow, it should have said, Salted/Smoked Herring.. and it turned out that my little package had 12 halfs , much more then I was … Continue reading
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Sushi
I love Sushi, I blame it on a dear friend of mine who took me to my first sushi house in Calgary, the flavors were amazing, the different textures.. and o my god, the eel, raw, smoked, I like eel … Continue reading
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Homemade Elderberry Jello
Now if I served this, I am willing to bet that you would think Grape Jello? but in fact it is homemade Elderberry Jello, So simple, just cracked open one of my canned Elderberry light syrup made of course … Continue reading
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Cool Chicken Laying Box
Well, more like Chicken Laying tub.. I have bought a number of fruit tree’s over the years and they come in some fairly large black plastic tubs, and as I am the queen of reuse.. I have a nest box … Continue reading
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Ham and Cabbage Soup Recipe
Half a Head of Cabbage -Diced One med size Onion-Diced One clove Garlic 1/2 cup Barley 12 cups lamb bone broth 1/2 cup of left over chopped cooked ham 1/4th cup of dried Stinging Nettle Spices -A pinch of Basil, … Continue reading
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Cabbage Lovers Rejoice
Cabbage Fry Recipe Half a small head of cabbage, sliced-Today was a Savory Cabbage called Primavoy 1 TBP of olive oil heated till hot in a cast Iron Frying Pan Dump in your fresh sliced cabbage and don’t touch till … Continue reading
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Seed Catalogs- Stokes was the first one to arrive
Its Garbage Day today, and so I hauled my bags down to the end of the lane, I am late, normally this done much earlier in the day but its been a busy morning.. and I noticed that the little … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 