January 2011 - Homespun Oasis by Millie Copper

Mung Beans: Menu Week of January 30

by Millie Copper | Jan 31, 2011 | Food Storage, Meal Plans, Stretchy Beans

Week 5 of my 13 Week Rotating Menu. This week is a bit of an experiment with Mung Beans being the Stretchy Bean of the week. I’ve eaten sprouted mung beans quite often but have never actually sprouted them myself. I figured that since I’ve been sprouting...

Real Food and Food Storage

by Millie Copper | Jan 25, 2011 | Food Storage, Preparedness, Preserving Food

The past few weeks I have been mentioning my 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan and food storage each week when I post my weekly menu plan. Food storage is something that I have a slight obsession with. My obsession started before our real food journey did. Switching over to...

White Beans: Menu Week of January 23

by Millie Copper | Jan 24, 2011 | Food Storage, Meal Plans, Stretchy Beans

I’m still working on my 13 Week Rotating Meal Plan. This is week 4 and White Bean week. My rotating meal plan is still a work in progress for the most part. For each week I have my Stretchy Bean of the week in place (read more about that on this post) but still...

Lentils: Menu Week of January 16

by Millie Copper | Jan 19, 2011 | Food Storage, Meal Plans, Stretchy Beans

Oops. I forgot to put my menu plan up for this week. And I’m sure you were all waiting with bated breath wondering what in the world we are eating in the middle of January here in Wyoming. (Photo Credit) I’m still putting together my 13 Week Rotating Menu...

Preserving Food

by Millie Copper | Jan 12, 2011 | Food Storage, Preparedness

Ginger commented on this post about doing more canning and preserving in order to build up food stores. This is something that I think about and hope to implement too. I haven’t done much canning (why is it called canning when we put everything in jars?...