Posted in Eating, Freebies, Garden, Green Living, Home, food, local, thrift, tagged cherries, fruit, liqueur, neighbors, pie on June 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This week, as I’ve been out walking the dog, I couldn’t help but notice a neighbor down the street with a tree full of cherries growing riper … and riper. I remembered my vow last year to ask for fruit that appeared to be going to waste, so I knocked on the door on Tuesday.
Nobody [...]
Posted in Eating, Green Living, food, tagged csa, enoki, food, garlic scapes, lettuce, organic, rhubarb, vegetables on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thursday was an exciting day: Our first CSA delivery arrived.
We stopped by our lovely host’s home and picked up our giant box, in which a couple of the ballyhooed-by-e-mail crops (garlic scapes - 4; Vidalia onion - 1) looked particularly pitiful.
The contents of our small share (half-share) were:
One lovely head of Bibb/butter lettuce.
One head of [...]
Posted in Deals, Eating, Green Living, Saving, Shopping, food, money, thrift, tagged Saving, milk, organic, coupons, Deals on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This showed up yesterday on The “Cent”sible Sawyer - coupons for organic goods. I would save it for Friday, but some of these things can expire quickly, so I’d advise jumping right on it.
Some of the services only send you coupons once, so bear that in mind, as well.
I had my own money-saving moment this [...]
Posted in Eating, Home, food, tagged blender, canning jar, kitchen, tips on June 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Check out this post that tells how to use a canning jar on your blender to blend things right in the jar — then flip it over, attach a lid and you’re ready to go!
The post and the comments suggest uses like:
Whipped cream
Chopped nuts
Ground spices
Using Mason mugs for frozen drinks right in the jar
Smoothies, anyone? [...]
Posted in Deals, Eating, Garden, Green Living, Saving, energy, food, money, tagged Deals, dvs, easy jam, Green Living, jam, Saving, strawberries, survivalism on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week, Free Money Finance wrote about MSN’s article on five foods it’s cheaper to grow and five foods it’s cheaper to buy. I added a comment that I think berries (strawberries) are cheaper to grow, and onions aren’t worth it (too space-hogging). What “crops” are worth it to you?
One of the biggest queries [...]
Posted in Eating, Garden, Green Living, food, tagged beef, bulk buying, csa, farmer's market, groceries, local produce, vegetables on June 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
June is exciting in these parts. It’s time for the farmer’s markets, CSAs and the like to swing into action.
Last year, we only went to one farmer’s market and I was not impressed. In the spring the tables were full … of goods brought in from other, warmer states. I wanted local produce, and there [...]
Posted in Eating, Home, Saving, Shopping, money, tagged prices, wheat, food costs, weak dollar, ethanol, economy on June 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday, we experienced the cold, hard truth about food costs.
Last year, on June 30, 2007, I purchased a 25-pound sack of flour at Costco. Just all-purpose flour. Nothing fancy. It cost $4.79, or $0.19 per pound.
Yesterday (June 3, 2008), I purchased the exact same product. It cost $8.49, or $0.34 per pound.
That’s a 79 percent [...]
Posted in Eating, Environment, Green Living, Shopping, food, money, tagged food, fruit, healthy, milk, nutrition, organic, studies, vegetables on June 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Last week I came across this blog looking at whether organic food is healthier than conventionally grown foods. I missed the story on NPR, but it sounds like organic fruits and veggies just might be more nutritious than “regular.”
(Regular, of course, is a relatively modern invention — “conventional” foods WERE organic for, oh, thousands of [...]
Posted in Eating, Garden, Green Living, Growing Challenge, Home, food, tagged Garden, spring, Growing Challenge, strawberries, mushrooms, iris, cantaloupe, kale, greens, lettuce, tomatoes, apples, summer on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Summer has come in, and this week’s garden update is an exciting one. The baby plants we’ve installed have finally started to grow, and some of our seeds are sprouting. In addition, Mr. Cheap’s iris are in bloom. This is the third year we’ve lived in our house. Most of the iris moved with us, [...]
Posted in Eating, Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, food, recycling, waste, tagged 50 ways to help the planet, baking soda, compost, cotton swabs, farmer's market, food, Gilmore Girls, hog, napkins, pigs, prices, stir sticks, Yale on May 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve written before about the many joys of baking soda, but there’s an entire book out there dedicated to “Resourceful and Ingenious Uses of Baking Soda.” It’s free online, so feel free to check it out. (via The Simple Dollar)
Verda Vivo posted “50 ways to help the planet” today. I noted that I have switched [...]
