go check it out. Great retro pedal cars and wooden rockers |
Ok , I am trying this again, I wont do any big shopping till this weekend but I wanted to share what I got at the farmers market. |
Most of the planet still looks at me crazy when I am forced to talk about our eating choices, even some of my closest friends think I am a little fanatic when it comes to what I buy and willingly feed my children. http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2007/sep/07_99.shtml
sorry folks I forgot the links I have added them now :) Goodnight all |
Alright its time to go back to tracking and blogging all of our food purchases, I buy food for 3 teens 2 adults and a toddler. This month I hope to spend $450 but I will also be buying apples for processing and begin buying for holiday meals and fall and winter baking. So today we did our first little bit of Sept shopping, at the farmers market. $3 peaches $3 plums $2 6 cukes and a giant zucchini $3 2 cantaloupes $1 3 purple and a yellow pepper $12.00 total and then the wonderful Sausage lady gave us 10 pounds of sausage for free she told me to bring her cookies. We will do our regular shopping on Wed. Have a Blessed Holiday weekend. |
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I wanted to let you all know I plant to go back to recording all our shopping trips starting in Sept. |
I pray every day that one day soon my little garden will be a big big garden and I will be able to provide my family with its wonderful bounty all year long. But until then I will continue to make baby steps. I then tossed this with some cooked pasta and grated cheese, the pasta and the cheese came from the store everything else from garden. The night before we had strambolli basically French bread with seasoned ground beef and sprinkled with cheese. I served this with fresh Tomatoes sprinkled with Mozzarella and broiled for a moment and slices of fresh Hermiston watermelon from the farmers market. For this meal we only bought melon and ground beef and cheese. I am looking for a good source of milk so I can make my own cheese I cant wait. (I also need to post the recipe for parmesan cheese I will do that this week) Tonight we will have green beans with bacon, melon, and fried zucchini and maybe a pasta salad. I hope everyone is enjoying the summer bounty. Our adventure for the week will be picking wild blackberries hoping for at least 20 pounds. |
Yes you read that right and yes you read that right. Let me explain myself, no I am not crazy,:) however some times you have to splurge even when you are on a budget. DS almost 1 loves Potato salad, So I splurged and made a huge batch that should last all 6 of us for many additions to lunch and dinner. This winter we plan to build 4 potato planters, then we can gow most of our own potatos in under 8 square ft. Well I am off to find the perfect chicken tractor plans. Have a wonderful night |
Today we drove to town and enjoyed our closest farmers market. Everything was either Organic or No spray, 2 of our favorite local farms are NOT cetified organic but both have been farming for 25 plus years and use no chemicals. The beef is certified I spent 42. dollars 8 yummy tomatos 10 pounds peaches picked this morning 6 cucumbers 4 zuchini 4 garlic 1 pint raspberries just for nibbling while we walked, Ill pick up a couple of flats from the farm directly tommorow for freezing and jam 4 pounds steak On the way home we stopped by the creek and picked about 10 pounds of Blackberries as well Hope everyone is enjoying summer and staying cool, we are going on our 3rd week of 100+degrees, so keeping the garden moist has been the top priority around here we should begin harvesting somthing besides green beens in the next couple of weeks. Remember dont be afraid to talk to your farmers check your classified ads for veggies and when you can take the time to pick them yourselves,
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We all went Blueberry picking last week, we went on the 3rd day after picking started at the nearby organic farm, the berries are wonderful. Husband and middle son started off down one row I and the booger started off down another. What an adventure it is picking blueberries with a toddler on your hip. Now booger had never had fresh blue berries as his early arrival eliminated our ability to go picking lat year. Booger loves fresh Blueberries he was pulling them out of my bucket almost as fast as I could pick themJ Now for those wondering what this has to do with eating Organic on a budget let me get to that now. My family spent about 45 min enjoying each other exercising we spent $8 dollars $10 if you count gas and we came away with 9 pounds of berries not counting the ones we ate. We save about $3 dollars a pound, picking our own.
See if you have a you pick produce place near you and don’t be afraid to take the children, We had Booger with us he isn’t yet one he road nicely in the sling and enjoyed the outing just as much if not more than the rest of us |
I cant get my batteries to keep a charge so it looks like I will have to get some more, wont be heading to town till Fri I will pick some up then. DS picked his first tomato today and I got our first handful of beans I will be getting 50 pounds of Walla Walla Sweet Onions next week,yummy yummy. I plan to freeze some, dry some, and make relish with some. Does your State have a Vegie? You should check it out. Remember in some cases eating local is just as good if not better than certified Organic. Get to know your farmers. My favorite fruit grower is a small scale family farm that isnt certified but sells top of the line non sprayed fruit at the local farmers market or out of his home if you give him a call he and his wife and daughter do all the work and I can often get it only hours old with very little drain on resources because it never has a middle man and is never trucked any place.
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I enjoyed looking over this it is a little stilted in my opinion because even in going organic I drink more than water. However it does show that it can be done. Not sure where they bought groceries but the prices even for Organic seemed high, but it still worth checking out http://www.mercola.com/2005/feb/16/organic_food.htm
Check later I will have new garden pics The only thing Better than the farmers market is your own garden no matter how small:) Have a wgreat day. |
Things have been crazy around our house betweeen the end of the school year and my husband getting ready to leave for the summer. But after this weekend my life will be back to normal, well not normal but far less hectic and I will be here more. Remember visit your local farmers market I picked up brocalli, cabage,radishes,2 buches of lettuce and cherry tomatos, for less than 6 bucks. we had salad for 2 meals plus enough left for a couple of lunches.
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While cleaning the inside of my kitchen and my pantry of foods that are non organic I have also started the process of cleaning out what I put in our garden. I have one hybrid tomato still but after this year I will get rid of it as well. Definitely a five star place to shop After this year I will be able to save all my own seeds and will only have to buy new ones if we want to try something new. I love heirloom seeds one more way to save money:) |
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Come To The Table Food, Faith and Farms I really love the idea of our schools and churches incorporating community gardens into their programs. So while I was surfing blogs I ran across a thoughtful post. http://glastonburyfarm.blogspot.com/ |
This is a wonderful book and someone requested a picture the book was published in 1978 |
I have spent most of the babies nap time in the garden for the last 2 days I still have a couple more bundles of seeds coming (hopefully tomorrow) Then I can mulch with straw So maybe tomorrow I can post pictures of the garden. Also DH is adding me a new spot that’s 8x6 I will pick up some new things from the farmers market next weekend. Looking forward to our summer’s bounty. On a side not I am excited about starting a worm bin. Next is building a chicken tractor. J shhhhh don’t tell my DH he isn’t ready for chickens yet, soon very soon. |
I stumbled upon a website this afternoon. The True Food Network, a consumer site from The Center for Food Safety, goes "behind the label" to give the facts on genetically engineered foods. if you're buying food produced by any of the following companies, you're most likely buying food which contains genetically engineered ingredients:
a more detailed list of foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients can be found at True Food Now network Also check out these other sites http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/ http://www.geo-pie.cornell.edu/crops/eating.html http://www.organicconsumers.org/
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Cereal baby Snack bars baby 2.03pounds pinto beans 1pound cork screw pasta 2.11 pounds Basmati rice 2.17 pounds Lentils 4 pasta 2 lg can tomatoes 2 small can tomatoes Apple cider vinegar 16oz 1 can soup Corn chips 24 Gorditoes (not Organic but 100% natural Broth Fresh 2pounds carrots 2 pints tomatoes 2.3 pounds Broccoli 1 red onion 1 avocado 2.5 pounds banana’s 5pounds potatoes Dairy 6 yogurt 2 cottage cheese 1 gallon milk Sour cream 2doz eggs Frozen Sweet potatoes Broccoli Corn Peas 2 Fries Meat 2 pounds ground beef 1 chicken Small roast |
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