I all the time really feel like I put up many how-to’s and never many “actual lifes”. Though I do try to incorporate that into my newer posts, I’ve usually thought that it is perhaps much more useful for my readership to get a greater glimpse inside what our easy/homestead/from scratch/frugal life actually seems to be like.
Frugal Friday Week 16
So I’ve began a brand new collection referred to as Frugal Friday and want your assist. My thought for this collection is to share among the tasks/recipes/issues we labored on this week and, usually, simply what life seems to be like.
I want your assist as a result of I’ve tried one thing related earlier than, and I gave up after some time. I received bored, felt like nobody was studying it or cared, and I moved on to different tasks. So what I want 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
As I discussed earlier than, this summer season, my meal plans will likely be extra of an outline as a result of they aren’t as a lot meals as pieced-together issues that we eat from the backyard!
This week the one factor we had prepared from the backyard was just a little little bit of rhubarb, which we used to make Rhubarb Crisp. It was tasty! I ought to have greens prepared this week.
Virtually each meal this week was one thing quite simple that we put collectively rapidly like hard-boiled eggs, summer season sausage, fruits, carrots and ranch dressing, and many others. We merely gathered up no matter was readily available and straightforward and made a meal from it! For breakfasts I made French Toast, Scrambled Eggs, Oatmeal, and we had cereal for a day on the go. Lunches had been picnic fashion, quesadillas, or on one of many cooler days…soup.
Purchasing I Did
I’ve been dwelling working all week. Apart from shopping for some vegetation and flowers on Mom’s Day I skipped the purchasing!
Exterior Tasks We Labored On
This was an enormous week of outdoor work, identical to subsequent week will likely be. I labored arduous on cleansing up the home gardens. I planted flowers, corn, rhubarb, and can get the raspberries in quickly too.
Then it was a LOT of weeding. We had a bunch of rain firstly of the week so the grass and weeds have come up like loopy. I labored on getting solar burnt getting the beds weeded. I feel I’ve performed all however 2 in the home gardens.
I’ll be engaged on planting all weekend now that it’s barely drier. Corn, beets, and carrots all going within the floor lastly!
Inside Tasks We Labored On
The one time I used to be inside this week was to eat and sleep and work on the weblog!
Weblog Posts I Wrote
I’m making an effort to be a bit extra seasonal with my weblog posts, right here’s what’s new and up to date this week!
Trying Forward to Subsequent Week
A number of planting in my future! We solely put in 6 beds within the new backyard thus far so I’m hoping we are able to get extra on this coming week to maintain planting. It’s that point of yr!
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 may examine Merissa’s journey from penniless to the 100-acre farm and ministry on the About Page. You may ship her a message any time from the Contact Page.
