Re: Patricia/Once a Month Cooking
Posted by: stampinbookworm <stampinbookworm@...>
Actually ours would probably be more like twice a month because there is
only two of us and we live on a very limited grocery budget of 67 dollars a
month in food stamps. Normally I do add from my SSI approximately around
another 50 dollars for groceries but not this month because I had to pay a
bill that was way overdue and that took all our grocery money that we
had...we did manage to buy some steak on sale and had that on sunday...first
time in probably about a year since we even had steak. Mostly we have
chicken, very very few veggies and some fruits. I've been drinking more
water lately, buying bananas for me (I cannot eat the others like apples
unless its applesauce because of very few teeth left in my mouth) apples and
oranges for Naomi. I do need to supplement our diet with vitamin C but it is
sooo expensive and is not covered by medicaid. We are slowly changing our
diet to a better one....hopefully eventually we both will be a lot
healthier.
Vaughnde Lee
Missoula, Montana
http://www.stampinbookworm.eboard.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Duane and Julie Banks <dabanks@harbornet.net>
To: homesteadheaven@weloveGod.org <homesteadheaven@weloveGod.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:54 AM
Subject: [HomeSteadHeaven] Patricia/Once a Month Cooking
>Patricia,
> I used to love to do once a month cooking. I always chose a day when my
>kids could help me out. They loved it during the month too because it was
so
>easy for them to just heat up dinner for all of us then. Made it easier on
>everyone. I haven't done it now in about a year because we are living in
>our camper waiting for our house to get built. We used to make a lot of
>dishes like stir fry, where we chopped up the veggies and bagged them up
>separately from the meat we would use, we made Salisbury steak, hot beef
>sandwich fixings (of course store the buns separately), lots and lots of
>soups and stews, chicken and dumplings, baked beans, hot dishes, pizzas,
>lasagnas, taco/burrito meats, sloppy joes, etc, etc,. It was so much fun
on
>cooking day all though it would take us all day. We tried to choose a day
>it was forecasted to rain and be a little colder. We utilized the crock
pot,
>the oven, the stove burners, the barbeque grill..anything that we could
cook
>on that day. One of us would be in charge of all the chopping, one would
be
>in charge of grill foods, etc,. We would switch off frequently because the
>poor soul who got stuck with the chopping job would get sore hands quickly.
>I never did buy the Once a Month Cooking book, but there are websites with
>ideas. I don't know where they are right now but I can sure look them up
for
>you. I just kind of made it up myself as I went a long and it went really
>well.
>How exciting! Adopting a little girl. That is wonderful. I know the Lord
is
>blessing you greatly with this little child. Take care, Julie 🙂
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Patricia" <patricia@mccammons.com>
>To: <homesteadheaven@weloveGod.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:49 AM
>Subject: [HomeSteadHeaven] WA
>
>
>> Erin - My friend lives in Federal Way. I think it is near Spokane.
>> I remember building our home and trying to get settled in. It was
exciting
>> and exhausting!
>> We just recently went and picked strawberries, which have already been
>made
>> into jams, preserves and some frozen. Children really enjoy this.
>> Sometimes the simplest things can be great blessings!
>> I am looking into once a month cooking for when we go to China around
Dec.
>> (we are adopting a little girl) I will need to stock up for a couple of
>> months. Any suggestions? I'm going to check out the book "Once a Month
>> Cooking".
>>
>> Boy Debra, it looks like you have developed a pretty nice garden for what
>> your working with! We have a little of everything planted. We have
>> planted a lot of watermelon and are going to be planting a bunch of
>> pumpkins! Which I am excited about.
>>
>> Patricia
>> Hickory Lodge
>>
>> http://www.mccammons.com
>>
>> Let the words of my mouth & the meditation of my heart
>> be acceptable in Your sight,
>> Oh Lord, my strength & my redeemer --Psalm 19:14
>>
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