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Ugh...just typed it all in and poof....it glitched on me and disappeared Ok...here is our list. I may still tweak an amount here or there, but basically, this is what I'll be ordering from Harvest Time up in Lobelville, TN next week:
Rumford baking powder 5# 8.99 Carob powder 25# 22.00 Lecithin 5# 21.25 Olive Oil 6-53 oz jugs 79.00 Fructose 50# 41.25 Sucanet 50# 58.13 Turbinado (unrefined sugar) 50# 39.20 Wild Flower Honey 4-1 gal jugs 86.00 Rye berries 25# 13.50 Rye flour 25# 18.00 Prairie Gold berries 2-45# bags 41.40 Prairie Gold flour 3-50# bags 55.50 Wheat Gluten 25# 36.00 Blackeyed Peas 25# 27.00 Pinto beans 25# 25.00 Navy beans 25# 24.00 Red Kidney beans 25# 25.00 Great Northern beans 25# 21.00 Pearl Barley 25# 15.50 Peanut butter, smooth 5-5# tubs 39.75 Strawberry spread 12-20oz jars 45.30 Grape spread 12-20oz jars 36.45 Whole Wheat Spaghetti 3-10# bags 44.07 Kirk's Castile Soap 12-4oz bars 22.78 Dr. Bronner's Soap, mild baby 1 gal 37.46 Dr. Bronner's Soap, lavender 3-32oz 37.46 Dr. Bronner's Soap, peppermint 1 gal 37.46
Total, minus tax: 958.45
Now, as I said, I am still looking at adjusting a couple of items...the Prairie Gold and the peanut butter. We may want more of those. And, yes...homesteader that I am, I am buying dried beans and **gasp** jams And, we are saving the shipping fees as we plan to drive up (about 3 hours) to pick up the supplies ourselves and to make it more cost efficient, we might try to visit a friend (Hi Christina!!) and maybe pick up another order I have in the works. That's *the plan* at this point anyway. Oh, and a stop on the way to Ada's Unusual Country Store near Bethel Springs...need at least 100# of oats, too! Aside from this list, we have 2 small loans to pay off (yippee!!) and I will still need to pick up some items that Harvest Time doesn't seem to carry...yeast, a bag or 2 of bread flour, and some powdered milk. I will probably get these at Sam's Club...their blocks of vac-sealed yeast is $5, so is 25# of bread flour, and the powdered milk is comparable to regular store prices. To add to our stocking up, we will be making batches of egg noodles to dry and pack or freeze, as well testing some other pasta recipes out so I can put that pasta machine to good use If there is anything left (and dear husband isn't tagging it), I'd like to get some fencing so we can start setting up for milk goats...but, then again, there is always school needs for the coming year as well. I'm looking at a set of math programs through Systematic Mathematics and the complete set of Ray's Arithmetic over at CBD...these would be another $420 for all combined...but it's the end of my schooling list for the coming year. We are going to go straight reference material and internet sites, plus good reading (such as Project Gutenburg online texts, etc) and some unit studies for everything else. Really, $105 per child for the year isn't too bad for a homeschool budget, is it? (Did I cound convincing?? I may use this line on Dh later! *wink*) See...tweaking may be needed
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Technology stinks, sometimes.
But, in my defense, we have been without a garden for 2 seasons now and, well, we are out of everything short of a couple bags of frozen corn now and have had to buy store items...which we prefer not to with all the added junk in them. We need to replenish stock 'now', and then work on the harvest this year to get built back up. Next year's order should consist of mainly the grain needs and not much else.
And some feed for the chickens, and the dogs to have in storage. We will free-range the chickens quite a bit, and 10 layers are hardly going to eat us out of house-and-home, so these costs should be fairly decent as well. 
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