Budget Saving Recipes-Leftovers Bread

Using leftovers for easy bread making.

Sweet potato bread

http://www.chewoutloud.com/2013/12/04/sweet-potato-bread/

Philpy (cooked rice) Bread

http://baking.about.com/od/muffins/r/philpy.htm

Mashed carrot bread

http://www.eatliverun.com/carrot-bread/

Savory Herb Bread

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/garlic_herb_bread.html

Eggless leftover Whole Wheat Bread Pudding

http://www.sonisfood.com/2013/02/coconut-milk-bread-pudding-vegan.html

Garden for Good Health

Gardening is my favorite thing to do!

This is a great site with lots of herbal information http://mountainroseblog.com/category/info/

How to grow herbs in a small space

http://www.howtoinstructions.org/how-to-make-diy-vertical-garden-design-step-by-step-tutorial-instructions/

How to Buy Food on a Shoestring Budget

Food is one of the most important investments you can make for the future health of you and your family.
Anyone can eat well, it takes creativity and commitment.
1) I like to go to better quality grocery stores first of the month. They usually carry more organic choices. I check out what is on sale and what is marked down in the vegetable bin. They are especially good after the holidays, lots of mark downs then. I always find either duck breast, lamb or sometimes even Atlantic salmon half off. They seem to be meat that aren't appreciated as they should be. They are the safer choices compared to many other options and that way we get variety.
2) I go to pick your own sources once a month when in season. This is what I call my investment. I sacrifice $100 of my food budget and pick that in blueberries one month, strawberries the next and apples (it lasts us through winter when there is a shortage of organic choices) We got to an apple store and get seconds, $10 for a bushel of macintosh, they only have slight bruising. I immediately bring home, dice with skin on (to use as the sweetener in a dessert base) and slice and spice up some for pies
3)Gardening! Yes it costs on the onset, but it is an investment that keeps on giving. You can cut costs getting to know farmers who sell manures cheap and buy direct. Buy heirloom seeds and allow some of your plants to go to seed for next year. Don't forget to plant french marigolds everywhere in your garden. It deters pests and deer. Believe me it works! I have had my garden three years and bunnies skirt around it but never go in my lettuce patch and I live in the forest!
4) Learn the art of canning and dehydrating to preserve your food.
5) Find a farmer that grows grass fed animals. I prefer to buy 10lbs of good hamburg to store bought steak any day because I know what I'm getting. Liver is always cheap and round steak makes great stir fry's. If you can, go in with a friend who lives in the country on some chickens. The best tasting are the ones that roam free and find their own food in the barnyard.
6) Buy organic foods such as potatoes and garlic to plant in your own garden.
7) Herbs, can't say enough about them. They are one of the healthiest things you can grow and a herb garden can be grown in containers in the smallest of areas.
8) Dry goods from the bulk store, the more you go the more creative options you find to try out. I buy stores of dry beans and rice as well as healthy grain options for home made bread. Their herbs and spices are fresh, not sitting on a shelf for who knows how long.
9) Dollar store, great place to find large storage jars and spice jars.

Garden Adventure Spring 2013

Gardening Has Been Enlightening and Raised My Awareness of What is Around Me and How It Affects Me!

My top five favorite things to grow.
1) Heirloom Jerusalem Artichokes,
They are at the top of my list because you can't kill them, but you do have to try and keep them under control. They grow tubers like potatoes and have many nutritional values. They also provide a privacy screen for the year as they grow 8 to 10 feet tall. If you have a wood stove, the dried stalks make a great smokeless tinder.
The easiest way to cook artichoke tubers is break apart the nodules, scrub well and boil for a few minutes, drain rinse and boil again until they are soft. I then squeeze them out like a toothpaste tube and portion out in small freezer bags to later be heated and mixed with mashed potatoes.
http://groworganic.com/organic-gardening/articles/jerusalem-artichokes-101

2) Strawberries,
Again hard to kill and so tasty picked fresh. There is nothing like it. I got 24 plants two years ago and now I have over 100 from rooting the suckers. I have an Everbearing plant also that provides all summer. It isn't near as sweet and juicy but they are still strawberries. give them a bit of compost and coffee grounds in the fall (not spring because too fresh a fertilizer makes them mushy) and they are happy. I spread my strawberries on a cookie sheet and spaced out and freeze, then I bag them after.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Md01z1_9Wg

3) Beans
Very easy to grow and they fix the soil with nitrogen, for that reason they need little fertilizer or they will grow more leaf than beans. A quick blanch and in the freezer they go. There are so many varieties, my favorite are heirloom purple bush beans. They have high yield ,the most tasty and no worries about building them a trellis.

http://www.wikihow.com/Grow-Beans-and-Peas

4) Garlic
Purple Heirloom is the only ones I grow. the cloves are huge and it is potent.
You can plant the cloves but also the bulbils that grow on the top before they turn to flowers.
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/09-011w.htm

5)
Chocolate Mint Plant,
Just a beautiful plant, it makes a nice ground cover in the flower bed, it is beneficial to whatever you plant it near, my fruit trees all have their own Garden of Eden surrounding them with all sorts of beneficials, including garlic, chives and assortment of flowers.
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/care-chocolate-mint-plant-22402.html

My best tip for every garden, http://www.gardenguides.com/99503-information-french-marigolds.html
Buy heirloom French Marigold seeds, they are the only ones that have full potency. I don't have any rabbits or mice eating my vegetables. It gives something off in the ground they detest but it does no harm to the plant. I save the seeds, plant the whole head in soil medium and put in my portable greenhouse. When the sprouts are big enough, gently work them apart and plant them in a tray and later in the garden when ready. I have them growing all over. They brighten up the garden.

My On Going Journey Towards Wellness

My Healing Garden


Morgellon's struck me down overnight. The only relief for the swelling was to soak in a tub sometimes for even three hours. I collapsed in sleep for a few hours then wake to what felt like acid injected in my veins. It started on one side and slowly went through my whole circulatory system until it reached the other side. Like the rest of you I had all kinds of foreign matter coming out. I felt it travelling up through my muscle tissue for weeks before it presented. I felt near death. God spoke to me when I was too weak to get on to my bed and fell to my knees. I implored him "God what is this?" I felt a comforting hand on my shoulder and a calm voice say "All will be well." That was the beginning of my journey back.