We can’t hardly wait to eat salads full of vegetables from our own garden ! But since that’s going to be awhile still, we have been working on improving our fresh veggie intake by buying a lot of fixings from the store. But we know it can be all too easy to turn that nutritious … Continue reading »
Well last month I tried to make homemade peanut butter with less-than-stellar results. Remember this? It turned out far too thick. We couldn’t even use it for sandwiches because it tore up the bread. When I posted about it, many of you told me that I just didn’t allow it to blend long enough. I … Continue reading »
We are like all typical American families: we consume peanut butter like it is going out of style. And since part of this journey is a quest toward consuming more real food, your typical jar of peanut butter on the typical grocery store shelf is full of unknown weird ingredients. Not something we’re looking to … Continue reading »
I was determined to learn how to make yogurt as part of our homestead experiment. Honestly, hubs doesn’t get why that was so important to me. Maybe I don’t either. It just seemed to be a rite of passage. Of sorts. I have to be honest, making yogurt was very intimidating to me. I just … Continue reading »
We’ve become conditioned to believe that we have to buy everything we need. That’s not very frugal, now is it? And not very sustainable. In reality, it wasn’t that long ago people made everything they needed. They cooked from scratch. They whipped up a batter from scratch for waffles and pancakes. They made their own … Continue reading »
A couple of days ago I ran out of store-bought sliced bread. And so it begins… One of the primary aspects of homesteading for us will be scratch cooking. I already do a fair amount of that out of love of cooking. But it takes on new meaning when you begin to realize the extent … Continue reading »
