Frugal Eating
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Northern Colorado Urban Homestead Tour
This weekend we went on the Northern Colorado Urban Homestead Tour. The tour was a fundraiser for The Gardens at Spring Creek in Fort Collins and featured three houses in Fort Collins and three houses in Loveland which opened up their backyards to visitors. Chris and I have been dreaming about the possibility of growing more…
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End of the SNAP Challenge
I’m catching up with my end of the year work and realized I never wrote a final post for our Food Stamps Challenge. It also just so happens that today we were in the newspaper; the Gillette News Record ran a story about our challenge, along with some pictures of Chris cooking (taken by Daniel Brenner). …
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SNAP Challenge Week 1
The first week of our SNAP Challenge went well. We only spent $87.89 at the grocery store and actually have quite a few things leftover so I am going to try to delay shopping until Friday. You can see what we bought and what the price breakdown was on this spreadsheet; I will be updating…
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The SNAP/Food Stamps Challenge
We are, understandably, budgeting a little tighter this month and one of the first things we decided to reign in is our grocery bill. To be honest, we haven’t been doing much food budgeting since we moved here at the end of February (despite all those years of keeping on top of every last penny…
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Eating Local in Wyoming
One of the first things I looked up about our new community prior to leaving Nantucket was information on the food scene. Eating sustainable foods, gown locally and in season are very important to us because we believe that is on of the best ways we can remain healthy, minimize our impact on the planet,…
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Apple Butter
Whenever I make apple butter, I always think of my brother Brandon. Growing up, I never really liked apple butter, but he loved it. Chris loves it too, and I’ve come around enough to eat my own apple butter, so it’s generally a fall tradition. The thing I like about canning apple butter is that…
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Changing Seasons
At the beginning of the month, we were still running around in short sleeves. Still building “sand castles” and pretending it’s summer. Not long before that — just days — we were taking advantage of one last chance for bathing suits, water, and ocean discoveries. Then, just like that, the weather changed and now we’re…
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**Canning Basics (Read Me First)
This is the first of what’s going to become a series on preserving food. I do a fair amount of canning and freezing. Although I’m no Barbara Kingsolver, and some years I do decidedly more than others, canning is one of the ways that I help to keep our grocery bills under budget while eating as locally…
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Picking
I finally had a few moments to look through the pictures from Saturday’s pick-your-own at Bartlett’s. It was overcast and spitting rain drops off and on all day, but we couldn’t have had a better time. (And the gray weather was the perfect excuse for pulling out an adorable pair of overalls…I love itty-bitty, pink…
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Report Card
Quick Irene Report For our worried friends and relatives, we were much luckier than than many and didn’t see a single drop of rain. In fact, we woke up to bright and shiny skies that persisted through much of the day. Most of the concern on Nantucket were high speed winds, astronomically high tides, and very dangerous…
