Another day of eating

Day 2

Its Monday.  And its New Year's Eve.  What are we up to?  Being awesome and falling asleep on the couch.  [insert obvious being poor meme].

Here's what we are eating today- note the lack of most festive foods/holiday treats because that stuff is just too expensive to buy and I haven't had any time to bake.  Food from my previous post may not have its source labeled.

Breakfast:

Bacon, eggs, toast, and homemade jam

Snack:

Roasted peanuts from Christmas

Lunch:

Leftover pork tenderloin sandwiches (from Christmas, gotta use that up!)

Dinner:

Olives and cheese from the Co-op

Homemade chicken soup (chicken leftover from previous post)

Bread

Chocolate bar from Co-op

Eggnog =)

This is a simple, typical day for us.  Every single time that we eat meat with bones, I save those bones to make soup.  It is a little tedious, but stretching out meat this way saves so much money.  You'd be surprised how good the flavor of the broth it.  

Happy New Year, and be safe!

What we eat: how we eat organically/sustainably for next to nothing

What we eat.

Day 1

I"m starting this on a Friday.  'Cause I like Fridays.  I'm spending the day catching up on knitting Jon's sweater...a task that I've sadly put off for a long time.  I'm also making whole wheat bread (recipe from Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book).  I thought that it might be a good idea to record what we eat for a week, with recipes, notes, and advice.  Eating on a budget is difficult, and eating well is even harder.  I hope that this list might help others to stretch out meals creatively as well as help me see where we might be lacking in our diet.  I won't be posting every day, but I hope to give a good picture here of what we eat!

(Jon's parents sent us back after Christmas with a ton of food, things that we don't normally have)

Breakfast:

Bacon from Our Place Farm in Loudon, NH (trade for labor at Kelly Corner Farm)

Local eggs from the local Blue Seal (trade for labor at Kelly Corner Farm)

Homemade maple oat bread from last week

Organic tea from Ocean State Job Lot

Coffee from Co-op with raw milk
Organic banana

Lunch:

Leftover pork tenderloin sandwiches, with pork from Jon's parents, same bread, and kale

Homemade caramel cream pie, made last night from the Better H&G Cook Book (raw milk, local eggs, turbinado sugar, etc.)

Strawberries from Jon's parents

Snack:
Homemade bread and homemade blackberry blueberry jam

Dinner:

Olives and cheese from the Co-op

Roasted chicken (trade for labor at Kelly Corner Farm) with mushrooms (from Jon's parents)

Boiled cabbage, potatoes and carrots (organic carrots and potatoes from Co-op, cabbage from Jon's parents)

Stonyfield caramel ice cream from Co-op, on sale

Whole wheat bread, warm from the oven
Organic eggnog from Co-op

Roast Duck

Today, I made roast duck.

It is the most amazing thing I have ever made in my entire life.  I am not exaggerating.

This is the recipe.

Seriously.  Go look at the pictures, and you can imagine the absolute goodness.

I didn't take a picture of it.  Because there wasn't time.  We ate it all.

The glaze makes it, too.  With root vegetables underneath to cook in the duck fat.

If you've never made roast duck, you must try it.  It takes a little over 4 hours, but it is just so incredibly worth it.