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.
Old Fashioned Gingerbread Cake
Pineapple Buttermilk Pie – Perfect if you are serving ham!
What will YOU be serving for dessert this Christmas?
~Mavis
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It was another banner week in the food scrap department. We have had a steady flow of bananas over the past few weeks and I am seriously running out of ideas on how to use them up.
Help!
Here is what we decided to keep for ourselves this week –
No to shabby for free. Being able to pick up these free chicken scraps over the past year has really helped reduce our feed bill for the chickens. It’s pretty crazy when you think about it. Oh how I wish more stores would allow people to pick up their castoffs.
~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.
You can read more on the topic of food waste in Jonathan Bloom’s book American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food {and What We Can Do About It}.
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I spotted these deals under the Birthday Party section this morning.
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Well, I finally managed to get the last of the bulbs planted this weekend. Buying over 2,000+ bulbs at 75% off sure sounded like a good idea at the time.
But having to plant 2,000 bulbs on my own, plus breaking out in a major rash twice, and being doped up on Benadryl {I’m allergic to a lot of plants/bulbs/flowers} did not exactly fair high on my gee, let’s do that again list. Oh well, the deed is done, and I am totally looking forward to cutting flowers next spring from our garden.
As I was covering the bulbs with dirt, I became aware of hundreds of mini shasta daisy starts {best perennial flower on the planet of you ask me} growing in the nearby rocks. So I decided to carefully pull the strays up out of the rocks and replant them in the dirt over the newly planted flower bulbs.
When we moved to this property about 5 years ago I brought 2 small clumps of shasta daisy plants from the garden of our old house {okay, maybe I swiped the purple coneflower plants too} and planted them in our backyard. I remember paying $2 for the packet of seeds and let me tell you, it was the best seed money I’ve ever spent.
Every summer since planting them, new ones pop up and we are able to replant the daisies throughout the property. In fact if you look closely, you’ll see 11 clumps of shasta daisies in just this one small area. Pretty darn amazing if you ask me.
I’d really like to plant a few more perennial flowers this summer, but I’m not sure which ones. All I have so far are shasta daisies, purple coneflowers and foxglove.
Do you have any suggestions?
What are your favorite perennial flowers?
~Mavis
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