Tightening My Belt -- My Personal Challenge for One Month in 2010

[Blackbird]

DrakeMaidenn, do you remember the wild foraging thread we had on here??

I'm going to try and find it...

I agree, nettles! Yummy! If you lick your fingers you can pick them bare handed and eat them straight up.

Good luck on your personal challenge!

 

[freemotion]

Poke will be up soon, too, just learn how to cook it properly. There is a link somewhere, I think on that foraging thread. Dandelions, too.

 

[Blackbird]

Here are some foraging threads!

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3655

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2996

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2226

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Watch out DM, M_P is going to show up in a kilt at your front door!

I believe it! Nice try M_P!

Sadly, I cannot go without cheese. Both because I like it and because I need the calcium. :/

Thank you Blackbird, for your support and offering to find that thread for me.

I have heard of poke, but I don't know what it is. I guess I need to do some research. Thanks Free. Oh . . . I have wanted to try dandelion for some time and have not. I guess I should get busy.

 

[big brown horse]

Dandelion is good! Dandelion flower fritters are better!

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Dandelion is good! Dandelion flower fritters are better!

Wasn't there a recipe on here for those?

Thanks for the links BB!

 

[hwillm1977]

Buy a gallon of milk and turn it all into yogurt. Quick, cheap, easy and good for you. We also buy all of our chicken on sale at $.59 per pound. Those are the two cheapest ideas, right off the top of my head.....

I would die and go to heaven if I could find chicken for .59 cents a pound.... chicken breasts (granted they are the most expensive part) are $11.47/pound. The cheapest I've EVER seen a whole chicken is $1.99/pound.

I love dandelion...

I think it's a great goal to not buy groceries for a whole month.... I'd love to try it in the summer, although I have to say if forced to by circumstances I doubt I could do it on a moment's notice... a few weeks maybe.

Good luck!

 

[big brown horse]

Dandelion is good! Dandelion flower fritters are better!

Wasn't there a recipe on here for those?

Thanks for the links BB!

Some really smart person posted a thread in TEG: http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=25477

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Thank you hwillm1977.

I wouldn't try it if I hadn't been stocking up on food for quite some time anyway, and if I didn't still have a glut of stored garden produce that needs to be eaten anyway.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Hmmm . . . that smarty-pants on TEG was talking about us "weirdo's" on SS. :/

Have you tried the fritters, BBH?