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Showing posts with label Modern Homesteading Skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modern Homesteading Skills. Show all posts
Monday, February 27, 2012

Homemaker or Desperate Housewife?!?

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Long time no see I know! I started a weight-loss challenge on New Years Day and it requires me to blog twice a week on it or be kicked out. ...
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Friday, January 6, 2012

Back to Basics

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Sorry I haven't blogged in several weeks, but I started an new blog with my weight loss challenge and between the challenge, that blog, ...
Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year from Our Urban Homestead

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 Here on the urban homestead front it's been kinda slow these last few weeks.  I think for awhile we were learning something new each ...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Making Bread Crumbs

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As I talked about yesterday, bread crumbs are very easy to make and can contribute to a frugal kitchen.  The only thing you need to mak...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Making Thriftiness Work For You

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Most people I talk with concerning down sizing and frugality think that in order to live this type of life you must always be doing withou...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Homemade Cleaning Products

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We have had several busy days here at our little homestead.  The holiday season is right around the corner and both of my girls are expectin...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Can You Cook Without Eggs, Milk, or Butter?

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Tonight I saw a post of Facebook by one of my friends/family who, by the way, has four children that said   "I have no milk and no ch...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Frugal Kung-Fu Part 4

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Take your Sword of Frugality and slice up your food bill so you can eat healthy... affordably! Join a Food Co-op!     Joining a ...
Friday, November 4, 2011

Home Cooking Saturday - Chuck Roast

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Today's home cooked meal is chuck roast.  This is an easy, hands free, and delicious meal.  When I was a young wife the only method ...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Passing On The 'Old Ways'

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Yesterday was a very busy day for me.  I woke up early and headed to the farm where I picked up 1 1/2 gallons of fresh raw milk.  Then I dr...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Snow On The Pumpkin

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I woke up this morning feeling all warn and toasty till I climbed out of the bed.  It was a little chilly in the house, so I grabbed the ...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

How Low Do You Go?

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As the cold front moved in today I was reminded of our goal to use little to no natural gas heat this winter.  We have worked all summer...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Where is all our money going?

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How do you know when something is a good deal?  Do you wait for the store to put it on sale?  Do you compare brands, prices, quantity, e...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Emergency: Starve or Thrive?

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    Since 2008, the U.S., along with the rest of the world, has been in seriously dire financial straits and the view from where we'r...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Avoiding an Empty Pantry

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Have you ever had times in your homemaker's journey when the pantry and fridge were a quiet, lonely place?  I have and I'm not t...