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 we canned 7 quarts …
Pinto Beans are prominently featured in my 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan on 3 different weeks (as Stretchy Beans) in those 3 plus months. Pintos have been a very familiar food for me since I was a child. My mama would make a big pot of pintos every Friday night and that was our food …
Garbanzo Beans or Chick Peas are part of my 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan. They are our Stretchy Bean for week 1. Garbanzo beans were not something I grew up eating other than occasionally on a salad ‘fresh’ out of a can. When I started cooking with them a few years ago, we discovered that …
Since the beginning of the year I’ve been sharing my rotating menu each week. The other day, I was listening to a video and was reminded just why I put together this menu plan. Why we have Stretchy Beans three nights a week on the plan. Why the bulk of our meals are based on …
I have been spending quite a bit of time talking about my 13 Week Menu Plan. While my menu plan only lists dinners we really do eat other meals here too 🙂 I have already done a post on what we do for breakfasts and thought I would also share about lunches. Just like for …
Rice is one of our preferred side dishes. One reason is that rice goes well with beans and we sure do eat alot of beans! 😉 We usually have soaked brown rice but sometimes we have regular old white rice. I know that brown rice is a better choice nutritionally but Kiki and Lulu love …
I know that I have mentioned Stretchy Beans quite a bit lately as part of my 13 Week Menu Plan. It occurred to me that every time I mention them, it is part of another post or a page. I was thinking today that Stretchy Beans being incredibly popular and useful at my house …
I’ve been working on a 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan for our dinners. My goal for this is to make things easier for me at meal planning time and also to be able to have a nice storage of foods on hand. In essence, our own ‘store’ so to speak. Our weekday breakfast’s are pretty …
Week 6 of my 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan. I am really enjoying using this menu plan. It did take me some work to get the plan in place and I am still tweaking things a bit but it is so nice to open up the menu plan on Saturday night or Sunday morning and …
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 other things (radish, broccoli, lentils, wheat) it was …
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 real food actually stalled my food …
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 have …
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 Plan that I told you about …
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? Shouldn’t it be jarring?) but the little I’ve done …
I wanted to talk a bit this week about something I’ve been working on for awhile. A Rotating Menu Plan. I have been working on a 13 week menu plan. Most of the evening meals completed but do have a few blanks left to fill in as time goes on. Breakfasts are so basic here …