Life in Tee Harbor, Alaska

Monthly Grocery Shopping

Rod and I have been doing our grocery shopping once per month since last February.  This month we decided not to shop except for milk and just use what we had on hand.  Tonight we had beef stew - used a london broil that I froze Aug 2006, potatoes and onions from the garden, and celery and carrots from October's grocery trip.  I was surprised to see that the celery was still fine!  I have some Chocolate Brown Sugar Brownies in the oven for dessert too.  We are down to 1 egg now, but we only have a couple days left.  No problem! 

I did cheat though and bought pies and whipping cream for Thanksgiving.  We decided not to make the traditional turkey (even though we have 2 in the freezer).  Instead, I fixed a roast in the crockpot.  It was our harvest meal with onions, potatoes and freshly pulled carrots from the garden.  Imagine that - end of November and we can still pull them - no snow covering them yet!

Our meat supply is dwindling.  The moose hunt I had a permit for was cancelled due to the hard winter last year - bummer!  So Rod is going deer hunting Saturday and will be gone for a week.  I sure hope he has some luck - I really don't want to have to go back to buying our meat.  If we were really careful, we could probably make it to next spring with what we have - just not much variety.  Lots of salmon - not that I'm complaining cuz I love salmon, just can't imagine eating it every night! 

So I'll be doing our regular monthly trip this weekend and I need to get my list finalized. The money that we saved by skipping November will be used for our emergency stock up supplies - focusing on the basic necessities.  That will be fun to plan how to stretch those dollars the furthest! 

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12:09 AM, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 .. Posted by Janetotto

Hi,
Love your blog... I have thought about doing home made soap with my girls to make a little extra money. Love to chat with you about hunting/fishing as well we only eat what we hunt no commercial meat. My husband is an Alaskan... I am a Texan who ranched for years...We are hoping to move to Talkeetna in two years. Lord Willing. How did the Bear Skin turn out I have taned a few and my husband run's a trap line so I have skined out a few animals in the last 4 years. Hope to hear from you soon.
Blessings,
Janet

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7:36 AM, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 .. Posted by morningsunshine

I do hope he gets a deer. How do you cook salmon? my husband will NOT eat water animals OF ANY KIND, but the kids and I like it. Since I can only make it when he is not home (it smells up the house), my recipes and experimentation opportunities are limited. the only thing I have done thus far is a butter/lemon sauce (a la macaroni grill) and grilled it on the BBQ. yummy but very rich.
and do you have any suggestions on using leftover cooked fish? I always throw it out because it heats up yucky.

ps - your soap table looked lovely!

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12:05 PM, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 .. Posted by haflinger

Brownies sound good to me is the water on for tea?haflinger