Preparing and Preserving Cheap and Free Past Prime Foods
Yesterday I wrote about how I went to the market and came home with an insane amount of produce, most of it that I got free, and a lot of it past prime. 154 lbs of food that needed to be dealt with when I came home yesterday and all today. The past two days […]
AT&T Access
By Jeff777BC – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, When my son learns something cool on his own, as an unschooler, I like to share what he learned with my friends. Recently, after my son decided to learn some coding on his own from KhanAcademy.com, and I shared what he was coding with my Facebook friends, […]
An Insane Amount of Food… For Insanely Little
My arms hurt. My whole body is tired… I think a big part of that is because of how much food I carried home from the market today in my cart… I’m doing the math to figure out just how much the entire thing weighed… 156.5 lbs of food- 145 lbs of it produce, and […]
Spicy Baked Sweet Potato Fries Recipe- Paleo, Vegan, Easy
The other night I wanted a treat. I had to go out to a fancy dinner event where I knew there was likely not going to be any food that I could eat, because of my restrictive gluten free, egg free, predominantly paleo diet, and I didn’t want to be sitting there eating boring, simple […]
Reflecting On My Spending Recently
Something I’ve been doing right now- to correct an unnecessary and expensive splurge-making my own alcohol. I want to be frugal, to budget well, to save money where I can, but I realize that, often, even to the most frugal minded of us, money sometimes can slip through our fingers in a slow trickle, so that, over […]
Larb Gai- Laotian Meat Salad Recipe- Frugal, Paleo, and Vegan Options
I really appreciate traditional recipes from around the world, especially when they use healthy, cheap ingredients that I can get easily. I mentioned to someone how much I love gizzards, that I even wrote a whole manifesto about them, and a friend mentioned to me that if I want a great gizzards recipe, I should […]
What to Expect when Living on Your Own for the First Time
I moved out of the house and became fully self supporting, other than health insurance, when I was 17. It was a rough transition, and though I was managing well at first, I made a lot of mistakes, and there were lots of things that I just got lucky with, so I didn’t get into […]
My Most Frugal Shopping Trip Ever
Today my fridge looked scarily empty. As someone who tries to stick to a paleo diet as closely as possible, my diet is very produce heavy. My kids also prefer to snack on produce, ideally fruit. Having a mostly empty fridge is stressful for me because then I don’t really have anything to eat or […]
What Unschooling Is Not… and What It Is
My unschooled, not uneducated kids love learning KhanAcademy math. This is a screen shot of what my 9 year old recently covered in KhanAcademy. I never require him to learn math. He asks for it. As someone who tends to be, not only the token homeschooler in most circles I travel, but also the token […]
Are You “Penny Wise and Pound Foolish”?
This is a post by reader, Nancy Evans. Saving money sounds easy on paper. Avoid overpaying, take advantage of discounts, get creative, and the retained cash starts to build. Anyone who has actually tried their hand at saving money knows this perception is an illusion. Seemingly simple ways to save are in actuality more complex […]
