We did it. We finished our September challenge! And since we did not spend a single dollar during the last weekend of September (other than gas and eating out because we did not know we’d be away from home so long on Sunday) we finished the month spending a grand total of….$53.83 at local grocery stores and $432.52 at local farms, farmers markets, dairys and chicken or beef producers. Total
We’re nearing the end of the first 30 days of our Challenge that we set for ourselves and I have to say, I really miss, most of all, pretzels. Small, Snyders pretzels. That was my favorite snack food at work and for almost 30 days I have not had any of those. I really miss those. Instead my snacks have been the usual grape tomatoes and sliced cucumbers, apples and
Twenty Days Now. And believe it or not we don’t feel all that deprived. We have spent $40.76 at the local grocery stores on groceries. This includes things like parmesan cheese, some Kale that we forgot to pick up at the farmers market, peppermint patties and raisins. Remember by the way, we’re allowing ourselves a total of $60 per month at the local grocery store. We have spent a total of
Well, we’re almost halfway through the month of September and here’s how it goes thus far.We’ve spent $34.29 so far at traditional grocery stores like the commisary or Walmart. Now here’s the kicker. We’ve spent $135.15 on local groceries. That means at farms like Brad’s Produce, orchards like Lohrs Orchard and the farmers market at Bel Air.This past weekend we visited the farmers market because we were starting to run
Five days into our challenge now and my son is already crying because there are no snacks in the house. It didn’t help that we had a three day weekend which we spent camping and we brought most of our fresh apples and peaches. We do have two peaches left, one of which is getting kind of mushy. That one will be turned into dried peach slices tonight in our
This weekend was a bit hard to gauge how we’re feeling. We went camping this weekend and while we had a strict “No buying bread, pasta, milk, cheese, etc” rule we did splurge and buy a bag or two of M&M’s or Amish Coconut Stacks. I told Edward these expenditures could be considered slightly different since we were “officially” on vacation. Normally I would classify all of this expenses under
Okay, I normally like to give credit to certain bloggers or websites out there when I use their recipe however in this case my husband and I, once deciding to do this, read about fifteen different ones and took what we wanted or needed from each one. So here’s the recipe. Homemade Liquid Laundry Detergent 1 Fels Naptha bar, grated 1 cup Borax 1 cup Washing Soda (DO NOT USE
This morning I brought in fresh Bing cherries to work that we purchased a week or so ago at our local commissary. Anyone here on the East coast knows that cherries are no longer in season here. Their time passed in June for us. As I snacked on these while I worked on reservations for passengers, processed schedule changes I was hit with the most intense uncertainty and fear
This weekend I decided to bite the bullet and tear out our lovely, beautiful lone tomatillo plant. If you remember right I posted earlier that I made the rookie mistake of only planting one tomatillo plant. You know, the old saying, it takes two to tango? Well that applies here. Tomatillo plants are self infertile which means they need two plants to produce fruit. Since I only planted one plant the tomatillo was
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