Homemade Prickly Pear Scrap Wine Recipe- DIY Foraged Alcoholic Beverages
I’ve written before about how I enjoy my alcoholic beverages, but have a problem with the price tag. My first recent experiment with making my own hooch, after a break of a few years, was simply using the only fruit I had available in the house at the time- tangerines and a lemon, and it […]
My Latest Super Frugal Shopping Trip
And… I’M BACK!!! I feel like shouting from the rooftops, because I am officially back in the game! After about a month of frugal slacking, since I’ve been so busy finishing up my cookbook so I can get it out already that I haven’t been able to do my usual frugal and extreme-frugality things, I’m […]
My Latest Foraging and Frugal Escapades
Life has been pretty busy lately, doing lots of things, many of them money saving or money making (or both), but I have been so tired that I didn’t have the energy to post about them as they happened! So, here’s a rundown of some of my latest frugal escapades! I previously shared that in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Crafting With Nature
The kids and I recently went to an event that had as its activity green crafting, which was a great frugal activity that I wanted to share with you, as it was really fun, not to mention can be done entirely for free. All the crafting base materials were items found in nature, or things […]
8 Free Gallons of Expiring Milk- Cheese Making and Beyond
In my community we sometimes get deliveries of free past prime fruits and veggies, dry goods near or past their expiration date, and the occasional dairy product. On Wednesday, among the deliveries were 1 liter cartons of milk, and initially they told everyone they can take 4 per family. But barely anyone took. Why? Because […]
Some Amazing Bargains I Got and an Exciting Deal I Made
Yesterday, I went into town to do some much needed produce shopping (other than picking up a head of lettuce, a cabbage, 4 red peppers, 6 cucumbers, and a bag of carrots on Thursday, I hadn’t bought any produce for 10 days); as a family that goes through a lot of produce, pickings were very […]
