Hello from 13,000 feet up in the Andes: Part 2
Our 11-day trip to Peru will soon be over, and it’s officially the only long trip I have ever taken where I wished I could stay. Emma and I have fallen madly in love with 34 little brown children. We just went to church with them, where some of the girls were wearing Emma and [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →raw food: here’s what’s in my dehydrator right now
You know I love my dehydrator, especially this time of year when I’ve got so much stuff coming out of the garden that I don’t want to go to waste. Right now I have all 9 trays full in my dehydrator with two recipes contributed by readers. (I love y’all! Thanks for your ideas and [...]
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Preserving raw foods, two ways to make living the lifestyle CHEAP!
If you’ve read my books, you know that I promote ways of making a whole-foods, high-raw, plant-based diet very affordable, especially the #1 and #2 highest-impact methods: Plant a garden and use everything in it (see Ch. 5 of 12 Steps to Whole Foods). Have a full-sized freezer in your garage and use it to [...]
24 Comments • Continue Reading →Weedy Smoothie
When you’re weeding in your yard or garden, are you keeping the edible ones and tossing them in your smoothie? My GS today is made 100% from volunteer greens: volunteer chard and spinach, greens regrown on beets I overwintered from last year, and . . . MORNING GLORY and DANDELION. If you don’t know what [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →national study on grocery budgeting
How much does the average family spend on groceries? Nationwide, according to the USDA, here it is: Two adults: $361 thrifty / $459 low-cost / $569 moderate / $711 liberal Two adults and 2 kids under 11: $603 thrifty / $779 low-cost / $974 moderate / $1,182 liberal Spending for my [...]
9 Comments • Continue Reading →Square-foot Gardening
Robyn, Not sure if you have shared this before, if so could you point me in the right direction? If not, would you be willing to share your square-foot garden with us? I am interested in what and/or how much you plant. I do have Mel Bartholomew’s book and one large garden bed all [...]
5 Comments • Continue Reading →The Essential GreenSmoothieGirl Library . . . last part
For those wanting to grow a garden (the #1 way to save money eating a plant-based diet), these are my “bibles”–click on the link if you want to pick it up at Amazon: Marian Morash’s The Victory Garden Cookbook is the definitive garden how-to, with hundreds of recipes on how to use each of [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →fall/winter planting: get heirloom garden seeds
If you garden, you should use nonhybridized, untreated, non-genetically modified seeds, known as “heirloom.” Much of what you get at the local nursery has been chemically treated or mildly radiated to not produce offspring (so the seeds cannot be stored for more than one season). Or their genetic components have been changed, so [...]
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beet cake, and pink smoothie, here I come
Look what I pulled out of my garden! Tennyson is holding a beet, the size of a cantaloupe, now washed, peeled, and cut into chunks in my freezer. I love fall, when we can pull all the produce out of the garden and put it in jars (fermented) or in the freezer against [...]
13 Comments • Continue Reading →What do YOU spend on groceries?
I have wondered this for years and was so interested and enlightened to learn, on a Yahoo group I belong to, what others spend on groceries in a month. Only a handful answered the question, but the answers ranged widely, from $1,000/mo. for a family of 4, to $400/mo. for a family of 7. [...]
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