Aldi and Walmart are setting back prices to 2019 prices. It is best to buy items a little time when loss leaders arise. Buying things will keep. I am ready for Thanksgiving. My daughter is coming to stay until December. She has Celiac and her husband is lactose intolerant. This will make my cooking fun. My husband likes a traditional gluten-stuffed holiday. I have planned the following to keep the costs down and flavors high.
butternut soup
turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy
cranberry sauce
sweet potatoes
turnip, beets, squash
Dessert will be fresh fruit
I am not doing stuffing or pies this year. It is not worth the expense of specialty flours.
All the vegetables we grow this year. I want our granddaughter to experience all the bounty of our garden.
House guests can be an extra expense with extra groceries and entertainment. We have been saving all year for extra gas, entertainment, and groceries. We have an envelope for our granddaughter to have keepsakes from her visit.
I cannot say enough about having hobbies that generate income. We live in the beautiful state of Colorado. Every day, I take photos of the place we go. I have earned several thousand dollars this year from a local gallery by selling photo canvases.
I love infinity scarves. I do not often knit scarves. I have been cutting apart sweaters and to the bottom pieces create infinity scarves. I stitch up the cut side. I have also made mittens from this method. I believe this is also the time of year to help others. I will pass out 30 sets of homemade mittens and 10 knitted blankets. I work on these all year. I usually spend about 30 dollars on the yarn using sales.
I have returned to the practice of refilling the ink cartridges on my printer. Canon changed the cartridge design a bit. We print a lot. I found that you can refill a cartridge 12 times. Then, you need another one. So, the last one I bought I drained it as I always do, Well, they changed the design a bit. You have to drill it now from the bottom to fill it. I looked it up on youtube. I hate paying 30 dollars a piece for these. I use 1 every month. That is over 300 dollars a year, I save, not to mention the waste of plastic.
We went to get errands done early before school. Today springs and new wires needed to be added to our son's mouth. We stopped at Walmart to pick up a few things and get our glasses adjusted. Frugal tip, they do this for free. My son's glasses came from there, I disclosed mine did not, and the tech said no problem.
We were looking at the items on sale. Potatoes were on sale for 1.50 for a ten pound bag. You can make many things with potatoes. Side dishes, potato soup, potato bread, and potato pancakes.
Cabbage and carrots were cheap if you paired them with V-8 juice and a large bag of frozen mixed vegetables you would have an expensive soup. You made coleslaw, cabbage rolls, pan-fried cabbage, eggrolls, and dumplings from a large cabbage. From a 5 lb bag of carrots, you could make raw carrot sticks, roasted carrots, carrot fries, and 24 carrot salads.
There was a lot amount of rice marked down. I called my neighbor to see if she needed it and she did. I picked her up 20 pounds, Her family eats a lot of rice. Four dollars was an excellent price for 20 pounds of rice. It was 12 dollars for 10-pound bags at the City market last week. In turn, yesterday, she brought me over bolts of new fabric from the church sale that didn't sell. The little gifts we give each other help our budgets. The farmer up the street brought us over chicken manure that was aged because I drop vegetables for his pigs we can't use. I bring beet greens that are too mature, fruit rinds etc.
Meat is cheaper in Colorado when you purchase from the ranch. My husband was thrilled when he was gifted with Elk steaks. We purchase half a cow and raise our pork, I do have a firm stance I will not eat our chickens. I eat very little animal protein as my body cannot handle it.
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