FarmerDenise
Out to pasture
I have many years experience of subsistence living 
So whenever I have the money to shop, I buy the best that I can get for my money.
I stock up on pasta, rice and legumes. I also like have assorted canned fish like tuna, sardines, smoked oysters and shrimp on hand.
I try to grow more and more of my own stuff every year. And do whatever it take to preserve/store it.
I buy stuff on sale that I know I will use. Otherwise I stick to my shopping list. We are also getting more and more away from storebought food stuff as well as cleaning products. We canned and dehydrated more foodstuff this past year than ever before. We started butchering our own chickens. I keep canning stuff I have never tried before. We still have to buy most of our meat, milk, cheese and coffee as well as SO's pepsi and my wine. I am getting a milk goat kid so I will hopefulley be able to get our own milk in about 2 years.
Our meals usually revolve around our home grown vegetables. We have large servings of vegetables and lots of fruit in season. We also have friends and family who in exxchange for either our goods or some labor will let us harvest food itmes that they have and we don't. For instance last year I helped a friend clear out blackberry vines and helped prune her apple trees in exchange for all the apples I cared to gather later in the summer. Another friend has fig trees, I traded eggs for figs.
We keep learning how to grow and preserve more stuff. We enjoy learning how to make more and more stuff ourselves.
SO and DSS are going hunting this weekend and hopefully we will get a couple of turkeys for me to can.
I think we could manage ok with what we have stashed away right now and with what we have growing for close to a year.
So whenever I have the money to shop, I buy the best that I can get for my money.
I stock up on pasta, rice and legumes. I also like have assorted canned fish like tuna, sardines, smoked oysters and shrimp on hand.
I try to grow more and more of my own stuff every year. And do whatever it take to preserve/store it.
I buy stuff on sale that I know I will use. Otherwise I stick to my shopping list. We are also getting more and more away from storebought food stuff as well as cleaning products. We canned and dehydrated more foodstuff this past year than ever before. We started butchering our own chickens. I keep canning stuff I have never tried before. We still have to buy most of our meat, milk, cheese and coffee as well as SO's pepsi and my wine. I am getting a milk goat kid so I will hopefulley be able to get our own milk in about 2 years.
Our meals usually revolve around our home grown vegetables. We have large servings of vegetables and lots of fruit in season. We also have friends and family who in exxchange for either our goods or some labor will let us harvest food itmes that they have and we don't. For instance last year I helped a friend clear out blackberry vines and helped prune her apple trees in exchange for all the apples I cared to gather later in the summer. Another friend has fig trees, I traded eggs for figs.
We keep learning how to grow and preserve more stuff. We enjoy learning how to make more and more stuff ourselves.
SO and DSS are going hunting this weekend and hopefully we will get a couple of turkeys for me to can.
I think we could manage ok with what we have stashed away right now and with what we have growing for close to a year.
I also buy large quantities - as the budget allows - when there is something on sale that I know I will use.
