Tag Archives: Frugal

The piper is due! Lean times are here for many

Its a Friday ramble around the kitchen table type post.. If you are looking for homestead and or recipes or pretty photos, skip this one! Cause my eye is on the future and what some of the things on the … Continue reading

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Rising Food Costs Loss of Sales at 50%

I hear it break on the talk radio first, it was the topic of the day and it was slamming the phone lines, to say that folks were unhappy was a understatement but soon enough came the truth, well i … Continue reading

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Taking a Risk.. Unknown Apple to Farmgal Apple #1

Eight years ago we found an apple tree whip in an odd spot in the yard, across the driveway on the side yard. We were never sure if it was a bird gifted apple tree it could be given it … Continue reading

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Fried Banana Peel Recipe

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

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One Freezer Down

The big once a year beef order came in this week, which meant a rework of all the freezers, pulling older meat out, sorting, checking for freezer burn. Putting the new in sorted in types in fully newly emptied freezer, … Continue reading

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Bird Seed/Fruit Suet Balls

Like most everything else the price point in the stores in regards to Seed/Fruit Suet Balls for the bird feeder was eye popping.  Thankfully making your own is not hard to do. I took 10 cups of locally grown Bird … Continue reading

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Thermos Shuttle Chef Review – TEN years later!

Can you believe it, my 10 YEAR review on the Thermos Shuttle Chef..  and I still love it! First Thermos Shuttle Chef review  2011 and lots of photos, cooking info and more.. Thermos Shuttle Chef 5 year review and round … Continue reading

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Hello Lockdown.. Brace for Impact 2022

Well the powers that be.. that run our province of ontario just informed us! “BRACE FOR IMPACT” media report..  point in fact, that was one of the most honest reports of what we had now and what could be coming … Continue reading

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The Shifting Moral Sands Under our Feet

My Back to the Land Parents taught me young about shifting sands, on one hand I was allowed to flourish as a wild child, barefoot and bushy tailed, land, water, hounds at feet, wind running over me as I rode … Continue reading

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WHAT! WHAT… NO!

Bells is so much fun to take photography’s of but in this case, I am going to use it to express that feeling of WHAT.. WHAT!! that many of us are feeling at the moment.. Early Fall is shifting to … Continue reading

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