One Hundred Dollars a Month - Page 1746 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.

How to Get Free Food Week #33 – Reclaimed Food Show and Tell

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By Mavis Butterfield on December 27, 2012 · 5 Comments

This past week in the free chicken scrap boxes there was such an abundance of spinach, we ended up giving a bunch of it away to a few of our neighbors. I don’t know about you, but I prefer to eat it fresh so I didn’t want to freeze any of it. But now in hindsight, I should have frozen it for the HH’s spinach smoothies. Oh well, I guess I’ll freeze it next time.

We ended up saving some watermelon, grapes, cilantro and a several handfuls of spinach.

Since it was Christmas, and the chickens LOVE melon, we decided to give them the majority of them.

Even though picking up the scraps and processing them has a little time consuming, I think it’s been totally worth it this past year and we are looking forward to doing it again next year as well.

Life is good!

Peace Out Girl Scouts, have a great day. Now go forth and eat trash!

~Mavis

Would you like to see what else we have brought home over the past 8 months?

Head on over HERE to read all the past stories and to see all the pictures.

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York Photo | 60 Free 4 x 6 Prints – Just Pay Shipping

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By Mavis Butterfield on December 27, 2012 · 1 Comment

York Photo is offering 60 free 4X6 photo prints for new customers.

Here’s how to order

Go HERE to create a York Photo Account.

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Offer valid for new customers only.

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Daily Photo Project – A Picture a Day for 5 Years Straight

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By Mavis Butterfield on December 26, 2012 · 4 Comments

This man took a picture of himself everyday for 5 years straight. WOW. I didn’t realize the calendar in the background until about 1/3 of the way through the video.

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Recipe – How to Make Vegetable Stock

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By Mavis Butterfield on December 26, 2012 · 11 Comments

If you ever find yourself with a bunch of extra vegetables and you’re not sure what to do with them, you should try making homemade vegetable stock. Not only is vegetable stock super easy to make, it’s good for you as well.

Here is my simple recipe.

Ingredients

14 cups Water {I was all out of Evian so I used tap} Ha Ha Ha
1 bunch Green onions
1 Onion, quartered
3 Carrots, large, broken in half
5 Celery stocks
10 Mushrooms, halved
1 tablespoon Mc Cormick Italian Seasoning

Directions

Place everything in a large stock pot, cover pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour.

Strain.

Once the vegetable stock has cooled, use a funnel and place the stock in mason jars until ready to use. The vegetable stock should keep for 5 days in the refrigerator or up to one year in the freezer.

Have you ever made vegetable stock from scratch before? Do you make it differently?

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