Frugal Fridays #30

Successes and Blessings:

• I came in at around $60 under my monthly grocery budget of $400 (per month) for our family of 7.
• I made 2 loaves of bread.
• We harvested beets and garlic scapes from the garden to eat this week. I made pesto with the scapes, and roasted the beets in foil packs on the grill.
• I picked up some produce from the veggie stand near our church for some great prices.
• I picked up another 40lbs of soft white wheat from the farm feed store. I got a great price on dog food there, too.
• I started more kale, cow peas, mesclun and beets for the garden.
• My husband has had the opportunity to take a good deal of overtime at work over the next 3 weeks. We’re hoping to be able to do a mini-remodel on the kitchen with the added income. This is one of the things we’re doing to prepare our house to sell in 2 years (God willing) so that we can move somewhere with more land.
• I picked up the rest of our pig order, which included the lard and smoked meats (ham, bacon, hocks).
• I dehydrated about 10 lbs of onions in my dehydrator (this dehydrator is very similar to the one I have
  ).

Goals:

• Transplant starts.
• Find a U-Pick strawberry place and make jam.  My husband’s uncle let me pick mulberries from his tree when I went for my beekeeping lesson today. So I’ll be making mulberry jam instead!
• Render lard.
• Pick up some craft mesh to make screens for dehydrating diced/chopped foods.
• Pick up bread from the outlet. I’ll be busy in the kitchen with other things this week, so I’m going to take a little help in this department.

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