Here of late, I've been realizing more and more that there are things I've 'always' done or thought and that by simply changing my mind I can save us a bit more money. It started when I was watching "Old World Home" vlog. Hilary makes bread for her family every week and she always uses packets of yeast. Someone asked her 'Why don't you buy yeast in bulk?" Sheepishly, she admitted that it had never occurred to her to buy it in bulk...
Hello dears,
Here we are in a new month and six weeks or so of winter remaining. Fortunately, for us in the South, our winters are not generally terribly cold, or terribly grey. Nor do we do with a lot of snow and ice. Admittedly those things make life a good bit easier. We might hit a spate of rainy miserable days (or weekends while weeks are sunny and bright) and want to shelter at home but for the most part our winters are tolerable.
I know it's just February, but in my area, it will soon be Florida strawberry season. I can't wait! I love strawberries.
In the meantime, let's see what we can expect to use that is in season this month. I've mixed citrus and fruits in with vegetables this month. I'm more than a little surprised at how much we can expect to find seasonally speaking.
Just as I am getting deep into the swing of cold weather cooking, we warm up. It was in the 70's last Thursday. There are more of those days ahead for this week. Lovely weather. Kind of makes you not want the heartier foods though.
Never mind. I've got plenty of food in the freezer and cabinets and I'm certain I can make some good meals whatever weather we have. You'll see some things that will look like repeats, but they are meals I planned but we didn't eat.
1. Hopefully having guests the first of the week. Bryan and Ginny are supposed to be in town this week and it's my hope we will get to see them before they head back to Texas. I did not hold their feet to the fires in a promise but did let them know they are welcome and that we're really looking forward to seeing them.
Saturday: Bagels and Croissants.
Pizza with the kids.
Cheeseburgers and chips. When I was digging in the freezer doing an inventory last week, I found two beef patties at the bottom of the basket. I pulled those out to thaw, along with the last two homemade burger buns and made Cheeseburgers for supper tonight. I've no idea how old that meat was but I'll say they were from before July because that is when I started dating meat that I put in the freezer.
Goals for February:
1. Finish the deeper cleaning. I didn't quite finish that task up. I confess this last week of January I took it easy and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. I've read two books, am itching to take up a third...but with a new month, I definitely want to finish what I started in deeper cleaning. I want to get the guest room and bath deep cleaned and then I want to go back to the living portion of my front room and get it cleaned up really well. Honestly there's no reason why this should take me a long while this month, but I do know it will be intense, so I'll give myself grace enough to work on it properly and not rush through it.