One Hundred Dollars a Month - Page 1730 of 2143 - I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Raising Backyard Chickens – Checking in on Pablo

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 10, 2013 · 15 Comments

I’m beginning to think Pablo should be a show bird. Just look at him. He’s gorgeous.

While The Girl and I were outside in the coop yesterday, Pablo came right up to us and said hello. I think he saw the camera and wanted to get his picture taken, but what do I know.

And, at 17 weeks, he still hasn’t crowed. Which in my book, makes him one smart bird. He knows he has it good here in suburbia and I think he wants to stay put. So everyday we go out to the coop and hold him for a few minutes and remind him that he can only stay on the gravy train if he keeps mum. We’ll what happens.

All I know is this. We love him, and would hate to have to ship him off somewhere.

In other backyard chicken news… The hens received a special delivery.

The Handsome Husband said the green tarp I placed over the chicken coop was making our backyard look like a ghetto. So I had to order the girls a shiny new $28 rain cover for their crib.

Ahh suburbia. You gotta love it. No tarps allowed.

~Mavis

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From Trash to Table: Waste Cooking Video

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 9, 2013 · 11 Comments

One Hundred Dollars A Month reader Birgit shared a link for this short film of Austrian reclaimed food cooking show Waste Cooking.{with English subtitles}

“Dumpster diving has become a kind of hip response to this waste of perfectly good food, and now a group of Austrian activists have taken “freeganism” to the next logical step: they’ve created a cooking show for food “rescued” from grocery and restaurant dumpsters.

Started last Spring, Waste Cooking follows food from dumpster to dinner table.

Part Food Network, part Greenpeace-style activism, each episode of the show {which is in German} follows the process of finding ingredients {complete with rubber gloves and headlamps}, and then making a meal out of the found food.”

What do you think? Is this something you could see yourself doing?

What do you think about the people who do this?

~Mavis

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Get Organized | 30 Days = 30 Bags Part 2

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 9, 2013 · 10 Comments

I loaded up the trunk of my car today and headed to the woman’s shelter and local thrift store. There won’t be any time for spring cleaning this year, because I’ll be too busy in the garden.

So I packed the kids old suitcases from when they we teeny tiny little people with gently worn clothing, old backpacks and a few Christmas gifts I know we won’t use. I’d rather someone who can use them have the stuff rather than it sitting in a closet collecting dust for the next 5 years.

I also found a few extra blankets we were not using, and donated the smaller of our two Christmas trees as well.

As we were packing up the Christmas ornaments this year, The Girl made it known that we will be having a REAL Christmas tree next year. Not a fake one. She already has the tree farm picked out, and I wouldn’t put it past her to have her tree picked out too.

I don’t know about you, but getting rid of stuff feels good. Only 22 more bags/boxes to go. Yee-Haw!

~Mavis

Part 1: Get Organized | 30 Days = 30 Bags series

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Easy Side Dish Recipes – Roasted Cauliflower with Curry

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By Mavis Butterfield on January 9, 2013 · 6 Comments

Last week when we received a head of cauliflower in our reclaimed produce box, it took me a few minutes to figure out what I was going to do with it. Luckily I had been cleaning out the spice cupboard earlier that day and the curry container was still out on the counter. Weeee! I love when stuff like that happens.

This recipe for roasted cauliflower curry is awesome. You should try it.

Ingredients

1 head of cauliflower, cut into small florets
3 cloves of garlic, minced
2 Tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon curry powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper

Directions

Preheat oven to 400°F.

Chop cauliflower into florets and steam until tender. Place the softened cauliflower and all the ingredients on to a baking sheet and toss with garlic, olive oil, curry powder and salt and pepper.

Roast for 20 minutes {give the pan a shake every 5 minutes or so} until lightly browned. Serve warm.

Looking or more delicious recipes with roasted vegetables? Check out The Roasted Vegetable By Andrea Chesman. Amazon currently has it in stock and ready to ship

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