It has been a crazy busy summer, including travel for a funeral, art exhibit, family reunion and a wedding. None of my travels allowed me computer access, and it was a refreshing break.
During the last trip, I spent 10 days in Northern Michigan wilderness, where I grew up. While I was away, my husband, Mike, was working a summer position in Olympia, so he ate his meals there and snacked on what little was left in the house. As a result, I returned to find there was almost no food in the fridge, and the rest of my little family turned around and left the following day to go settle an estate.
Left alone with part of a jar of peanut butter, some rice milk, and a can of tuna, I considered a run to the grocery store. But, then I harvested 3 gallons of raspberries, which I was putting in our garage freezer when I realized we still had a few bags of tamales that we made during the winter, two frozen chicken breasts, and some turkey, along with quite a few bags of frozen veggies. Plus, the garden, while severely neglected, is producing a lot of fresh food. So, I made it my goal to survive on what is here on our property until my family returns.
We have made an effort to eat a lot food that we grow ourselves, but I've been lazy about it lately. My daughter has been eating nonstop and I am not the kind of mom who will spend a lot of time preparing food. It's one of my least favorite chores, and I had fallen back into the habit of using store bought groceries for the main components of our meals. I hope this exercise will remind me that I can make better meals using the eggs and produce we grow. So far, I've had turkey with kohlrabi and zucchini, a couple of salads with grilled chicken, a lot of cucumber slices, fresh berries, quite a few tamales, and I've been cooking chili in a crock pot, made with dried beans, turkey, zucchini, tomatoes and spices.
So far, I'm enjoying every meal, I'm eating more healthfully than I have in a long time, our grocery budget for this month will be almost nothing, and I wash and reuse my freezer bags, so there has been almost no garbage!
During the last trip, I spent 10 days in Northern Michigan wilderness, where I grew up. While I was away, my husband, Mike, was working a summer position in Olympia, so he ate his meals there and snacked on what little was left in the house. As a result, I returned to find there was almost no food in the fridge, and the rest of my little family turned around and left the following day to go settle an estate.
Left alone with part of a jar of peanut butter, some rice milk, and a can of tuna, I considered a run to the grocery store. But, then I harvested 3 gallons of raspberries, which I was putting in our garage freezer when I realized we still had a few bags of tamales that we made during the winter, two frozen chicken breasts, and some turkey, along with quite a few bags of frozen veggies. Plus, the garden, while severely neglected, is producing a lot of fresh food. So, I made it my goal to survive on what is here on our property until my family returns.
We have made an effort to eat a lot food that we grow ourselves, but I've been lazy about it lately. My daughter has been eating nonstop and I am not the kind of mom who will spend a lot of time preparing food. It's one of my least favorite chores, and I had fallen back into the habit of using store bought groceries for the main components of our meals. I hope this exercise will remind me that I can make better meals using the eggs and produce we grow. So far, I've had turkey with kohlrabi and zucchini, a couple of salads with grilled chicken, a lot of cucumber slices, fresh berries, quite a few tamales, and I've been cooking chili in a crock pot, made with dried beans, turkey, zucchini, tomatoes and spices.
So far, I'm enjoying every meal, I'm eating more healthfully than I have in a long time, our grocery budget for this month will be almost nothing, and I wash and reuse my freezer bags, so there has been almost no garbage!
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