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Homemade Cost Cutting
Cut Your Budget This is the beginning of how I saved my family $1200 on our grocery bill. Three years ago, we found out that we needed to make some serious chances in the food we ate due to health reasons. Everything needed to be all-natural, low sodium and have no preservatives or pesticides. Turns out this is quite a chore! Keeping Tract of Costs This prompted me to start documenting everything we did to keep track of the best recipes and decide which endeavors we could afford to tackle. We have now started growing, raising and preserving over 75% of the food and products that we consume. Putting Together…
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Food Prep Enchiladas
It just came to me one day… I have never been a fan of enchiladas with red sauce. So my Mexican Food masterpiece landed on the green enchilada side. After having a food prep day where I made a boat load of refried black beans for frozen burritos I needed a dinner to go with the left overs. Surprise, surprise, I also had left over shredded chicken. I decided to go ahead and give red enchiladas a shot. Turns out its not even necessary to use any tomato sauce or paste! News to me. All I needed was chili powder, chicken broth and a few other little things. After that…
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Homemade Chocolate Pudding
Share on facebook Facebook Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on email Email Share on print Print You cook the pudding? When I was about 10 years old my mom told me about my grandmother cooking homemade pudding. Having been from the generation of eating everything instant and out of a box, I was appalled at the thought or cooking something that I always thought of as cold from step one. Flash forward about 20 years and my husband requested a homemade chocolate pie for the holidays like his grandmother used to make. Now I never even met his grandmother before she passed let alone getting any of her recipes! All…
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Peppermint Fudge
Share on facebook Facebook Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on print Print Share on email Email Little girls in the kitchen My daughter, Savannah, loves baking and is always digging up some new things to try. She bakes yeast breads and quick breads, cookies, and cakes. So this last year at Christmas her and I were discussing what all we wanted to bake as gifts and she asked if fudge was hard to make. I told her that it can be but lets give it a shot! We found a fudge recipe, tweaked it for us, and added some certified therapeutic grade essential oils for some fun flavors and it…
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Turkey or Chicken Broth
Share on facebook Facebook Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on print Print Share on email Email Who doesn’t love fresh, savory, and healthy broth to use in the kitchen? I really enjoy fresh broth, but I was so wrapped up in following an approved recipe for canning as well that it felt very cumbersome. Due to adding my choice of seasonings as needed for a broth that I would really enjoy wasn’t an option if I was following an approved recipe. So with many of my homemade adventures (or revelations I guess), I realized that if I made it part of my regular routine its not as much of a…
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Belle of the BBQ Homemade Baked Beans
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see disclosure and privacy policy here. When I was in my early twenties I loved to cook as much as I do now, but didn’t have the skills yet. When the company I worked for was having a pot luck BBQ I wanted to bring something fantastic. My aunt said that I could have her baked beans recipe and I was so excited to show off my skills! My excitement quickly turned to disappointment when she told me to use Pork and Beans. I thought that I was going to be making a real crowd pleaser from scratch, not from a can. I didn’t…
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Blackstrap BBQ Sauce
Share on facebook Facebook Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on email Email Share on print Print Has there ever been a recipe that you would never believe that you could make? Maybe Grandma’s Apple Pie or a fancy dish you tried while on vacation. Well I have always had one that intimidated me for sure. My big intimidator has always been BBQ sauce. I guess I just always felt like you needed some sort of advanced degree in grilling to make your own sauce. Boy was I so incredibly wrong. I have now passed this hurdle without a degree I am very proud of myself. I picked this recipe to…
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Wire Compost Bin
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see disclosure and privacy policy here. Making Dirt From Scratch I decided to start with compost once we decided that our version of clean eating was going to include growing or raising as much of our food as we could. From there we started looking at the financial aspects of making these changes. It can be very expensive to set up gardening beds, green houses, chicken coops, and livestock pens all at once. When my husband started talking about turning our dry lot pasture to an irrigated field I knew we would need A LOT of organic matter; manure, mulch, and compost. We can…
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What do you mean that’s not from scratch?
What do you mean that's not from scratch? Finding ways to make your favorite recipes completely from scratch.
