by Millie Copper | Dec 2, 2011 | Budgeting, Food Storage, frugal options
A couple of weeks ago one of my friends gave me a lesson in pressure canning. A different friend taught me how to water bath can a couple of years ago but pressure canning is totally new to me. My pressure canning lesson was on meat. Using this post with instructions...
by Millie Copper | Oct 21, 2011 | Budgeting, GAPS
> Something that has been on my mind as we do the GAPS Introduction diet is our food budget. When we began our real/whole/traditional foods journey we made slow and deliberate changes which really helped us to keep our food spending very close to what it had been...
by Millie Copper | Jun 8, 2011 | Camping, Meal Plans, Road Trip
Photo Credit: hoi polloi on flickr We are up to the final leg of our Road/Camping trip back to Oregon for my daughter’s graduation. Segment 5: Part 2 of the Long Trip Home. Here are links to the other segments; Segment 1: Car Trip Segment 2: Visiting Family and...
by Millie Copper | Jun 5, 2011 | Road Trip
Photo Credit This time next week we’ll be at the beach. However, not a beach that looks like the above picture. Photo Credit We’ll be at a beach more like this one. We are going to be visiting the Oregon Coast in the Oregon Sand Dune region....
by Millie Copper | May 19, 2011 | Camping, Meal Plans, Road Trip
> Next month my oldest daughter is graduating from college. We are driving back to Oregon for her graduation and then enjoying a little camping/road trip afterwards. I’ve been sharing our menu plans for the trip. Because we will be gone 10 days and we are...
by Millie Copper | May 17, 2011 | Camping, Meal Plans, Road Trip
My oldest daughter is graduating from college next month. She went to school in Oregon so we’ll be driving back there for graduation. After the graduation we’ll be taking a bit of a camping vacation. I’ve been sharing some of our plans especially as...