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Three Days In
The June Food Stamp Challenge continues. I was going to cook something interesting for dinner tonight but when I saw that we still have chicken, corn on the cob, sausage and eggplant parm left over from earlier JFSC dinners, plus a salad I made for Mr. Husband’s lunch that he didn’t take to work, I said heck no. Leftovers it is. The salad may have cost $1 counting the lettuce, tomatoes, green onion (from my garden), celery and radish (from previous week’s trip to the farmers’ market), plus homegrown alfalfa sprouts off my kitchen counter. Cost of the salad: $1. Everything else is already accounted for. Breakfast: Oatmeal, coffee (from pantry*), hardboiled egg.…
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Food Stamp-o-Rama (Or, What we ate for lunch today)
Tracking what we’re eating this week to keep on the Food Stamp Challenge: WednesdayBreakfast: Oatmeal (bulk-buy, from pantry), small amount of cinnamon-sugar* (pantry) and milk; coffee**Snack: 2 apricots, slice of cheeseLunch: Leftovers: cold chicken, half a red bell pepper, coffee Snack: 2 plums, handful of unsalted peanuts*** (pantry); hot tea**** Dinner: Baked eggplant Parmesan and Italian sausage: 1 eggplant (leftover from last week’s farmers’ market trip), half a bunch of chard, 1 chopped tomato, 1 chopped clove garlic (pantry), 1 frozen pint of tomato sauce from last summer’s harvest, 1 cup of red wine left from guest visit. Baked with 1 cup shredded cheese on top. Italian sausage (bought 6/1…
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The June Food Stamp Challenge begins
My friend Katy over at the NonConsumer Advocate lit a fire under her followers to take the June Food Stamp Challenge. I won’t go into parameters, so check her out for all the details, but the idea is to live on a food stamp budget — what you would get for your family if you were living on food stamps — and, if you are so moved, donate the difference in what you spend vs what you would have normally spent on food. (We’ll be donating to the Alameda Food Bank.) Katy has a chart on her blog site about how much to spend per family/person, but for the sake of…
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yeah, well, so it’s Monday.
So what has occurred since last time I posted? The Tax Man. We’ll leave it at that. Meanwhile, we spent the weekend digging up dirt (not on the neighbors, but for the garden). Planted more strawberries (8 new plants), and one new artichoke. Next spring will be crazy with plants. Will we still be here? At the current rate of attrition of children-leaving-the-nest, one wonders. We’ve been thinking about how long to stay in this dreamhouse as the nestlings fly away. A 5-BR house was perfect when we moved in in 2006. Now there is one empty bedroom, an office, and the other two girls make noises like they might go live…
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train to nowhere
When sleepless in Alameda, the only thing to do is read (but I finished my book earlier this evening), watch TV (nuthin on) or blog. Here I yam. I’m slowly adding to the wonder that is the garden. I planted corn in a very small box — usually I have tried planting a row (one line) of corn, and we get perhaps a dozen ears. But I know it does better when it’s closer to other stalks, in multiple rows. The pollen needs to run into itself, and in one straight line that just doesn’t happen. Our friend Phil says that we have to have sex with our vegetables to make…
