eating well, living cheap: September 2010

GM BT corn

insecticidal proteins found in midwest streams.

http://www.caryinstitute.org/press_2010-09-27.html

Thank you Monsanto. Greed makes me sad

Seasonal Foods can be a budget saver.

So it is apple season in our little valley:) Yes I know you can always find apples in the store but not like these.
Today we picked 100lbs of warm juicy apples. We will eat them sauce them and dry them for later not to mention they will store for months in the fridge and this weekend we will pick a 100 more pounds.

So some of you may be wandering what 100lbs of organic apples might cost, let me tell you we paid 15cents a pound we spent 30 min picking and we drove less than 5 miles so all in all I say we got a pretty good deal!

Doing this allows my family to eat organic apples, apples sauce, pie,dried apples and of course a few jars of apple butter all year long for less than $40 dollars.

We also picked up about 20lbs of free apples, I guess when the packers come in if the apple hits the ground they cant pick it up so the owner let us take all the fallen apples we wanted for free.

Labels: seasonal foods

He who Feeds you owns you!!

Who feeds you??

Struggling with sugar?

If you have ever wondered things like ’how bad can it be?’

Or maybe you haven’t felt really good for years, or you always feeling tired and worn out.

Maybe your mood is off or maybe its something even more serious. Did you know it could be sugar?

Check this article out I guarantee it will cause you to rethink and ask more questions about what’s in you cupboard.

http://www.macrobiotics.co.uk/sugar.htm

http://www.organicnutrition.co.uk/articles/is-sugar-bad-for-you.htm

I find myself a little frightened about some of the information I have found but in a strange way I am excited. Because it all makes sense and now I know why I have always felt the pull towards a simpler life I am finding that this also means a simpler menu it’s a challenge to keep all my kids on the same page but even lately they seem to be understanding the changes in our home a little more .

I hope in sharing the information I am finding that you will also find you self a little excited about making some new healthier changes in your diet and saving money at the same time.

Even Better than the dirty Dozen

As I started my search into organic food I kept coming across the "Dirty Dozen" list the top 12 items you always want to buy organic. It seemed pretty basic but I knew it wasnt really showing me what I needed to know about our diets I wanted the big picture. Corn isnt listed on the dirty doz but I knew that since it his a higly genetically modified product I wanted to all my corn products to be organic. So my search continued.

Then I found this http://www.foodnews.org/fulldataset.php

I encourage you all to do your own research, as I will only be able to share a very small portion of what I find in my Blog.

I am now heading forth into the land of frugal organic armed with ‘the Deaf Smith Country cookbook’, found on ebay for about a buck gotta love a bargain,And the ever pressing desire to assure that my family is healthy and that I am a good steward towards the land the our heavenly Father gave us.

Labels: Organic

The things we eat

As we get ready to head into fall I find myself cleaning out the cupboards. It is time to take inventory for winter and to find room for the extra bounty of summer.

Time to squirrel away a little extra for when the days are cold, as the leaves begin to change so does the way we eat.