Frugal Talk: From Healthy Pantry Eating to Baking Bread

Hi Friends! It is good to be back with just enough solar power to pop in with a quick post. So much is happening on the homestead and I can’t wait to share it with y’all, but today I’d like to share some recent frugal talk articles with you.

At Saving Money Plan you’ll find…

At Saving Cooking I wrote about…

And at Saving Naturally I shared…

As usual these articles stem from my own experience and research so I would love to hear your insights in the comments.

Avoid Becoming the Self-Righteous Locavore

A lot of people say that locavores and “real foodies” are elitist. It seems like a silly argument to me, since the very first job man was given was to till the garden. Of course, if they are referring to those who fill their carts with expensive “organic” foods and have no intention of ever…

An Ordinary Day – My Very Favorite Kind

The day began like many others – a fire in the wood stove, fried eggs for us, greens shake for him. We talk, he takes his first dose of supplements, and hands me mine because “We can’t both be down.” And he’s right. After many mid-mornings of dragging myself from chore to chore I am…

Maybe There is No Such Thing as Balance

Everywhere I go women are talking about balance. We have our spiritual life and husbands and small children and housework and gardens and crafting and reading and writing and blogging and cooking and… we could go on all day. Everyone tells me that I need to balance all of these things, but is that really…

Rainy Days

Last week we had a series of rainy days. When the sun shines and I can get my hands in the dirt I seem to forget the importance of the rainy days. Without them where would be? After one full day of rain, though, the little ones start to get antsy… and so do I….

Frugal Talk: Time Not Money, Turkey Day Leftovers, and Gluten-Free on the Cheap

Last week I talked about some of my favorite topics in my frugal living articles – using time instead of money, leftovers, and going gluten-free on the cheap. First I shared more ideas for ways we can avoid the need for more money by doing a bunch of things ourselves in… Saving at Home: More…

Food Roots – June 4

“Or what if I had simply grown up in a time when food was seasonal? When there was, in each year, a time of more and a time of less? When food was not just there in packages on the supermarket shelf all year?” ~ Jessica Prentice ~ Welcome to another edition of Food Roots!…

4 Comments

jenny havens says:

December 19, 2011 at 11:24 AM

Thanks so much for these great articles! I continue to learn from your blog!
Kathi Harju says:

December 19, 2011 at 7:30 PM

There is nothing better than homemade bread :). I have never tried homemade tortillas, though, maybe it is time.
Elisabeth says:

December 20, 2011 at 4:58 PM

I noticed that some of the bread recipes that you linked to use either unsoaked whole grains or white flour. Do you have a way of converting these recipes to be more healthy? All the bread recipes look really delicious, I’m just not used to seeing unsoaked/refined grain recipes on your blog!
1. Shannon says:
  
  December 22, 2011 at 2:49 PM
  
  Elisabeth – The article was more geared towards those who had never baked their own bread rather than those who were experienced or further along in the journey towards sourdough or soaked breads.
  
  That being said, I often convert “regular” recipes to soaked ones. For biscuits, for instance, I will simply combine the flour/butter with the soured milk or buttermilk the day before. Then when I want to bake them I sprinkle on the baking soda, salt, etc. and knead it in. Then shape to bake.

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