There is a real joy in feeling resourceful, even with simple things. One of my favorite things to figure out is how to stretch the use of something and my least favorite thing is to waste food. The main focus of all this writing here has been how to eat well on a budget, but [...]
Our food in 2010 seems to be following a color pattern…
In Nourishing Traditions, there is one instance that Sally Fallon gives a thumbs up to the increased globalization (and industrialization) of food and that is to the availability of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables year round, which insures that people will eat enough [...]
I’ve gotten my starter up and working again. This is the same starter I received in the Spring of last year. (It came from a very sprightly 80 year old, so that’s encouraging). I used it briefly but for most of the year it has sat neglected in the fridge. Now its clear that its [...]
I realize that for a lot of people mayonnaise is a horrific subject for a photograph. But I made it and it’s delicious and it’s just an egg yolk and olive oil. Not so bad?
Homemade mayo now sits next to homemade salad dressing and is becoming one less processed packaged food we get pre-made. This [...]
There is a good discussion going on at the great blog Cheese Slave on ways to cut back on spending and still eat good real food, whether that’s cutting back on the food itself or cutting back in other areas of life. The ideas behind living mind to mouth are important in the effort to [...]
There is nothing like that validating feeling of when something you’ve done for years for out of necessity starts to become “a thing”. This is especially nice when the trend towards becoming “a thing” indicates something positive happening in the world. For me this is the appreciation of the tiny living, and more specifically [...]
Maybe because I enjoy making the point that you can eat a seemingly endless variety of delicious healthy meals at low cost I haven’t addressed the quintessential tight budget meal of rice and beans. Also because it seems time is one of the biggest barriers to eating well, tight budget or no, and making rice [...]
The poster dish for the concept of “a little goes a long way” good soup is something to master in any effort to live mind to mouth. While the dish can conjure up Dickensian “please sir may I have more” poor houses, depression era or homeless shelter soup lines, and scenes of poor families boiling [...]
This is a follow-up to my friend’s dilemma of what to buy in order to eat well on a tight schedule and a tight budget.
She asked me about essential foods I keep on hand and how to deal with the eating at the rushed times during the day at breakfast and lunch.
Here’s something I know [...]
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No lettuce required for this purely garden salad. Tomatoes and cucumbers have been our most reliable (and hard to keep up with) producers this month. This salad gets through one cuke per person and a handful of cherry tomatoes. Our bigger sized tomatoes haven’t been ripening quickly and coming out mealy so these small guys [...]
