I at all times really feel like I submit many how-to’s and never many “actual lifes”. Though I do attempt to incorporate that into my newer posts, I’ve usually thought that it could be much more useful for my readership to get a greater glimpse inside what our easy/homestead/from scratch/frugal life actually seems like.
Frugal Friday Week 10
So I’ve began a brand new collection referred to as Frugal Friday and want your assist. My concept for this collection is to share among the initiatives/recipes/issues we labored on this week and, on the whole, simply what life seems like.
I would like your assist as a result of I’ve tried one thing comparable earlier than, and I gave up after some time. I bought bored, felt like nobody was studying it or cared, and I moved on to different initiatives. So what I would like you to do every week is to share what your week appeared like within the feedback part. I feel it might hold us ALL accountable and will function an encouragement to others!
So let’s dive proper into this week!
Meals We Ate
Breakfast –
Breakfast Cookies
Griddlecakes
Yogurt and Granola
Waffles (x2)
Egg Sandwiches
Scrambled Eggs
Lunch –
Huge Plate (unfancy charcuterie)
Mac and Cheese
Leftovers
Loaded Baked Potatoes
Nacho Sheet Pan
Ham and Fruit
Supper –
Tacos with Spanish Rice
Hamburger Casserole
Chef Salads
Honey Garlic Rooster Thighs
Rooster Noodle Soup and Dinner Rolls
Leftovers
Purchasing I Did
I used to be residence (and snowed in) for nearly the entire week so I didn’t do a lot for buying! I’ll have my coop meals once more tomorrow and shall be doing meal prep this weekend with it.
I did purchase a couple of extra issues for varsity for this fall. I wish to get an early jumpstart on issues as a result of in the previous couple of years, many faculty curriculums and books promote out early and are back-ordered.
For my youngest, we shall be doing Wee Folk Art’s Seasonal Curriculum. I did it with my boys and so they actually loved it. The entire studying, baking, and play suits our type for the early years effectively. For the boys, I used to be given nearly a full set of Sonlight Core D. This week, I ordered a couple of extra books to go along with it that I used to be lacking, and I additionally ordered Apologia Botany for our science as we haven’t been huge followers of the science that comes with Sonlight. It feels nice o have every thing we want for an additional 12 months!
Exterior Tasks We Labored On
The one factor we might do exterior was shovel snow, in order that’s principally what we did! Caring for animals in 2 toes of snow is tough and exhausting. It’s purported to be within the 50s and perhaps even 60 this weekend, so we hope it melts shortly.
We had twin Nubian goats born on Saturday, proper earlier than the snowstorm hit. They appear to be doing effectively to this point.
Inside Tasks We Labored On
I labored on creating a brand new each day routine schedule this week (it was about time!). All the things will change once more in a month after we end faculty for the summer season, however it nonetheless helps to have a greater plan.
I needed to re-pot a number of vegetation once more, like tomatoes and peppers. All the things appears to be nonetheless doing effectively and getting greater. I’m hoping for good wholesome, pleased vegetation that shall be able to go within the floor in one other 4-6 weeks. The cabbage is able to go, however with all of the snow, it should wait one other week.
We have been anticipating our incubator to start out hatching chicks on Saturday, however they began yesterday. We’re as much as 20 hatched to this point (out of 41), and I’m guessing we’ll see fairly a couple of extra in the present day.
Books I’m Studying
No additional studying this week as I labored on different initiatives.
Weblog Posts I Wrote
- What to Do With Eggshells – I actually dislike waste so this submit options all types of how you should use up eggshells with out throwing them away.
- 10 Hard-Boiled Egg Recipes – I used to be on a roll with the egg-themed posts so I up to date my submit with hard-boiled egg recipes this week. If you’re making hard-boiled eggs this weekend, make certain and take a look at this submit on what to do with them!
- 2 Ingredient Chocolate Truffles – This recipe is SO good and we used to make it on a regular basis! These are really easy and easy to make and put collectively.
- Chocolate Muffin Mix – That is one other nice recipe to arrange and have saved in your pantry for fast muffins. These are so good and moist. I used to make this recipe for our espresso store after we owned it.
- Long-Term Food Storage – So many have requested me about our long-term meals storage that I made a decision to replace this submit this week. It has all the data on what to retailer, package deal it, and the place to get it from.
Trying Forward to Subsequent Week
We’re actually hoping that the snow melts shortly in order that we are able to get again exterior! We now have an excavator rented for the following week, so we plan on doing fairly a little bit of grime work and are planning (for the hundredth time, it appears like) to complete that tunnel greenhouse to get the cabbage in.
So inform me….what did life seem like for you this week? What did you do, make, or plan to do?
Merissa has been running a blog about and living the simple life since 2009 and has internationally printed 2 books on the subject. You’ll be able to examine Merissa’s journey from penniless to the 100-acre farm and ministry on the About Page. You’ll be able to ship her a message any time from the Contact Page.
