Project Food Budget Weekly (10-day) total: $116.67 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal (local if possible,) home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and gardening. There’s two of us eating (mostly) 3 meals per day. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at [...]
Archive for June, 2012
Instant Yeast & GMO (Genetically Modified) Ascorbic Acid (Vit C)
I home bake a lot of bread, about 2-3 loaves per week (kneaded in my bread machine). I don’t use an excessive amount of yeast (only about 1/4 – 1/2 tsp), as I like my dough to rise slowly, sometimes overnight in the fridge, depending on how quickly it’s needed (or kneaded, ha, no pun [...]
Walmart Factory Farmed USDA Choice Steak
Walmart is in full tilt promotion mode. On Master Chef tonight, they were shamelessly promoting Walmart’s new USDA Choice steaks, touting how cheap they were, but not bothering to mention that the cheap meat is raised in a devastating factory farm. Shame on Gordon Ramsey who used to be all about sustainability and high quality [...]
Gardening Diary: Another Harvest & Pest Update
It’s supposed to rain most of the today, so this AM I went out and gathered a bunch of fresh veggies from the garden. Yum Cut a bunch of lettuce & basil, just a few tender beet greens, a few pea shoots (I’m growing shoots in a separate container), bunches of pea pods, a few [...]
Project: Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: June Month 8 / Week 3
Project Food Budget Weekly total: $62.29 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal (local if possible,) home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and gardening. There’s two of us eating (mostly) 3 meals per day. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, [...]
Gardening Diary: Garden Expansion Photos
I wanted to share some of the photos I took of my little veggie garden. It started off smaller, then expanded, and expanded. For now, I’m posting wide angles, but soon, I’ll share more detailed photos to show the growth of each plant. Last season, we started with a very small patch of garden, as [...]
Bob’s Red Mill Cereal Muffins with Peaches, Strawberries, & Raisins
I love making muffins using Bob’s Red Mill 7 Grain (or 10 grain) hot cereal. They’re similar to oat bran muffins, but so much better! My husband enjoys eating muffins for an easy breakfast-on-the-go, and I always keep a batch in zip bags in the freezer for him. These muffins are especially great for those [...]
Gardening Diary: First Pea Pod Harvested From Garden
I noticed my first snap pea pod in the garden yesterday! I’m sure it’ll wear off soon, but it’s all so new and exciting to me, since this is my first year with a real vegetable garden.
Humbled By a Spider
This morning, after a marathon weeding and grass-clipping along the fence near our vegetable garden, I snipped off two branches of grape leaves, so I could perhaps try a new recipe. I left them for a few minutes inside in the workroom, and when I came back later to get them, I picked them up, [...]
Project Food Budget / My Healthy Budget: June Month 8 / Week 2
Project: Food Budget Weekly total: $62.88 My healthy budget goal is to eat seasonal (local if possible,) home-cooked meals while sticking to a $400 monthly budget for all food including groceries, dining out, entertaining, vitamins/supplements, and gardening. There’s two of us eating (mostly) 3 meals per day. My husband occasionally eats take-out lunch at work, [...]
