Tag 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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Foot and Nails do not go together!

It was a crazy busy weekend working to get things done, and late afternoon, I missed the board that was in the barn gutter and stepped down and straight onto a nail, which went though my boot, sock and part … 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

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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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Horseradish Round Two

https://livingmydreamlifeonthefarm.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/horseradish/ Here is the link to the first Horseradish post, I am not going to repeat the basic’s here as they are all there.. One of my mini-Goals was to dig out and process my larger second patch of horseradish, and … Continue reading

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Things we take for Granted

Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.. a beautful but barren place at a times I truly adore the fact that most of the time, you can just walk into a store and get darn near anything you could want and most of the … Continue reading

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Rising Food Prices..

Did my shopping this week, I like to shop for the house every two weeks ideally, and its always a shock to me at the cost of certain things in the stores, up to a point because many of the … Continue reading

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