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Oh, there's one more thing I forgot. At least around here, the money you are given each month is for that month only. It expires at the end of the month. So there isn't the ability to spend less one month so you can buy better and healthier items next month. It's use it or lose it. I wish it...

Just today I put a whole chicken in my slow cooker. Sprinkled it with salt, pepper, garlic, parsley, sage, marjoram, and two bay leaves. Added a sliced onion and a bunch of water. Delish! Then served it with baked potatoes.

I volunteer at a food bank near where I live, and have for about 6 months now. When I started doing that I learned a LOT. Of course not everything I've learned applies to everyone, but if even one or two things applies to a family, then suddenly it gets very hard to provide good food for your...

I have been wondering about this a lot lately. Most of my self-sufficiency attempts are working well. I had no problem adding chickens to my lifestyle. Doing a compost heap worked almost textbook perfectly. The mealworm farm produced lots of bugs for the chickens to eat. Even after moving from...

OK, found my thread, it was over on BYC. Here you go: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/632389/can-a-brooder-be-outdoors

I had those same questions just a couple months ago. I got lots of advice and some good pictures. (I'll see if I can hunt up that thread for you.) But the long and short of it is: you just need somewhere for the chicks that is out of the weather, out of drafts, and that can be kept at the warm...

Looks like even the USDA is fine with refreezing foods, as long as they've been handled safely while unfrozen: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/FactSheets/Focus_On_Freezing/index.asp#14 Seems the issue is mainly with the loss of moisture from defrosting - defrosting twice means even less moisture and...

My life is very random right now. So is this post. 1 - Snails poop a lot. I had no idea. But it washes off easily if you use COLD water. Warm water just makes the poop slide around. 2 - I want a cow. I can't have a cow. I would settle for a goat, but I can't have one of those either. I...

Shovel it into 50-lb chicken food bags (you save yours, right?) And sell them for a couple dollars each on Craigslist (half the cost of the store). Great way to make some money!

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You know, I honestly hadn't thought much about that. But your comment made me curious, and I looked in to what's necessary to make escargot - and I learned that one of the species of snails that the French people use for their famous butter-and-garlic-escargot recipies is the common brown garden...

The newest adventure around here is that I'm farming snails. I want to put my garden in a yard covered by hundreds of brown garden snails, so they had to go. I gathered 50 in just a few minutes, and was trying to decide the best method to do them in, when I came across a website that talked...

OK. When I was young, I was raised that if a food item sat on the counter for more than an hour or so, that it might have gone bad and to throw it away. This applied ESPECIALLY to dairy items. Everybody knew somebody who ate egg salad at a picnic and ended up in the hospital, or someone who left...

My husband kept saying that my life was strange enough (at least to my real-life friends) that I should start a blog about it. So I did! You can check it out at www.rantingaboutrectangles.com Of course I'll keep posting on this journal, especially with things I want help with, but the blog will...

It doesn't taste good. The initial taste is fine, but the aftertaste just isn't right. It's pretty close to being a "spoiled food" taste. I guess the compost pile will like it just fine. Next time I won't forget to refrigerate it. :rolleyes:

I goofed yesterday and instead of putting some unused bread dough in the fridge overnight, I left it on the counter - and just found it now. So 24 hours on the counter instead of the fridge, and it smells very... "beery with an extra kick of sour" is probably the best description of the smell...

Another good one is an egg toss. Position partners 10 feet apart, and have one toss a raw egg to the other. Then back up 3 feet, and toss it back. Keep backing up and tossing until the egg breaks. Winner is the team that got the furthest apart without breaking the egg. Hands only, and it's your...

I have two brand new rabbits so new they dont have names yet. One is a Californian doe, about 2 years old. The other is probably an American Chinchilla Rabbit doe, also aged about 2 years. They are accustomed to being together, so when I brought them home I put them together into a super-large...

Bad! Bad! :th Now why did you make me think about that?

As I type this I'm in bed, sick. I've been sick since Tuesday (today is Friday). Probably the flu with the addition of a stomach bug at the same time. Horrid. 103 degree fever. So I haven't done anything at all since Tuesday except lay in bed and make trips to the bathroom. Thankfully I have an...