Category Archives: frugal

Food Storage Friday -Feb $10 a week Challange -Week 1

So here is my first weeks $10 worth of grocery’s. I got two packages of mushrooms, one very large pinnaple, a big celery bunch -which’s end I have planted in a pot of good rich potting soil and I can … Continue reading

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Old Fashion Onion Soup

So both last week and this week I was able to pick up a 3 pd bag of white onions for 88 cents for one and a dollar for the other, this means I have lots of onions in the house … Continue reading

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Homemade Super Soft and Frugal In House Dog Collars.

My old Girl is being kind enough to be the model to show off some of the new super soft yet amazingly strong knitted (lucet style) slip on in house dog collars. This blue one is a simple two strand … Continue reading

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Have a Heart? Heart shaped Box of Chocolates.. nope..

How about a whole host of yummy hearts recipes..  In this case, lamb maybe a few chicken or duck heart recipes thrown in. So I have four to six planned recipes over the next week or two that are going … Continue reading

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Food Storage Feb -$10 a week Challange

Well, I thought about making this a flat food storage feb but the truth is, I am paying good money to get some help in regards to health related to diet and working towards having a little one, so it … Continue reading

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A little soup love..

Since I have been home, I have made a number of soups, here are just a few, some I posted with recipes and some have never made it to a post but they were so good.. Every single soup was … Continue reading

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Costs of Replacing my stove..

This monring I walked into my kitchen and went huh, its so strange to have a bright white stove where my black stove sat, it certainly catches my eye..  I made my first dish on it this morning, a pot … Continue reading

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Farmgal’s Frugal but Doomer practices radical frugality..

Canadian Doomer is at the #4 spot on Google for “Radical Frugality”. Let me clarify something – frugality is the opposite of “cheap”. Doomer put up this post! its awesome, as her new website and matching built in blog, if … Continue reading

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Swag or as I like to thing about it.. free stocking stuffers!

While I am not that fond of running the farm on my own, I am happy to have Dh get some time off the farm and getting back to his roots on regards to work terms and the different conferences, … Continue reading

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Chicken Feed-Protein from thin Air..sort of..

So a couple weeks back one of the blogs that I like to read recommended a new chicken book, The small Scale Poultry Flock by Harvey Ussery, now she did a glowing write up to the point that I had to … Continue reading

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