Category Archives: frugal

Garden Friday Report May 8th to 16th 2013

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

Well, Its a good thing I am writing things down in the farm book to help keep track of these things for this post but wow, I can see that in true harvest time, this is going to be a … Continue reading →

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Garden Friday Report May 8th to 16th 2013

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

Well, Its a good thing I am writing things down in the farm book to help keep track of these things for this post but wow, I can see that in true harvest time, this is going to be a … Continue reading →

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Rending down Rabbit Leaf Fat

Posted on January 12, 2013 by

Lets just say that my big bucks that I raised up not just for meat but for full proper winter coats on them, were fat! FAT! they are free feed and Dh does not believe in giving out the ration … Continue reading →

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Friday Report.. Ten dollar a Week Food Challange/Weigh in

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

The Ten Dollar a week food Challange is coming into its second week, the first week the ten dollars went to the Good Food Box fund, this week, I spent 4.22 cents, which was one 3 pds bag of onions, … Continue reading →

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Snow, Blood and more meat for the house..

Posted on December 16, 2012 by

Well, I had hoped that the weather forcast for today in regards to the snow would mean that it would in fact be a bit warmer then yesterday but alas it was not meant to be, Jack Frost had a … Continue reading →

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Spruce Tip Beer

Posted on November 2, 2012 by

Now you may or may not depending on when you started reading the blog, me talking about all those amazing things you can do with fresh young spruce tips, I found a note book from my time when I worked … Continue reading →

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Pink Slime -No! Meaty Bones-Yes!

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

So two days ago on the CBC, while I was washing floors for the billionth time, I was very interested in the story of what was happening in regards to fallout from Jamie Olivers showing of just how meat scrapes … Continue reading →

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Garden Monday-Indepence Day’s

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

I decided to combine the wonderful Independence Day Challange with the once a month garden update for my monday’s main posts. Going to also add links to blog I read that are doing this challange, if anyone else who read’s … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

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

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

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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