This rich and delicious Fish Chowder is super easy to make and uses nutrient dense fish stock as the base. I make my fish stock in my usual method out of trout carcasses that I stash in the freezer. We love our fishing trips that allow us to keep the freezer stocked! Once the broth …
> I’ve added to our food spending for the month of December. The picture below shows some of the items from one store stop. I actually forgot to get a picture until everything was already put away so I grabbed out what I could remember. Total spent that day was $30.63 that wasn’t all for …
We try to eat Real Food. What does that mean to me? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. I’ll be the first to admit that we still have a long ways to go before we are eating the optimum nutrient dense diet. Most days though, I am pleased with our progress in …
I’ve been thinking that if I’m going to call this blog Real Food for Less Money that I really should share with you not only what we eat but what we spend and where we buy it. Fair warning, these posts might be extremely boring. But I think that I would feel better providing ‘full …
I love sourdough. I love a big crusty hunk of it to enjoy with stew. But crusty sourdough doesn’t work very well for sandwiches. Making a sourdough that is sandwich bread quality is actually very easy and I’ve been playing with my sourdough recipe to make it even easier. Now in about 20 minutes hands …
Warm and delicious plus amazingly frugal. It’s hard to go wrong with this Super Yummy Butterscotch Oatmeal. Soaking the night before helps make it more digestible and super quick in the mornings. Send the kids off with a hot breakfast! I love to have a hot breakfast for the girls before they leave for …
Last week was pretty great food wise. Of course, we had Thanksgiving and all of the bounty that Thanksgiving entails. Tuesday night we had a very good dinner of Cheeseburger Soup. It was delicious. Friday things started going a little bit wonky with my menu. We ended up deciding to go to my sisters house …
I have been using meal plans/menus for a couple of years now. When I worked a full time job outside the home it helped so much to be able to know in advance what we were having instead of standing at the fridge at 4:30 hoping to have something thrown together before Joe got home …
Are you at a point where you know you need to make some improvements to your diet to include more nutrient dense items, higher nutrition and less processed foods? These easy and inexpensive suggestions will help! Stop Buying Cold Cereal Cold cereal is a huge waste of money. The nutritional value of cold cereal is …
Thanksgiving Week! This year has gone by so fast. We will be staying home and having just the seven of us for Thanksgiving. Our plan is to eat around one o’clock in the afternoon. My daughter, Angel, has to work at 3:30AM on Black Friday so her plan is to go to bed around six. …
One of the early changes that we made to our food was to soak our oatmeal. Why? In a nutshell, oatmeal is high in phytic acid. Phytic acid blocks the absorption of some minerals in the body and is basically an anti-nutrient (you can read more detailed information here and here). Considering one of my …
As a little girl I always looked forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas partly because my mom made all different kinds of amazing foods. It was nothing short of a feast. We had turkey as the centerpiece (for both holidays), mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top, green bean casserole, homemade rolls, green salad …
I thought I would share with you how I make broth. If you are a broth/stock purist you will not want to read this post. If you are a busy slightly scatter brained person (like me) working with a tight food budget (also like me) then this might interest you. I make about a gallon …
We try to eat Real Food. What does this mean to me? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. A few examples; when you see toast on our menu that is actually toasted homemade whole wheat sourdough bread (I make 4 loaves a week in about 20 minutes hands on time), the meatballs …
I work hard to feed my family whole, unprocessed, nutrient dense foods. We eat things like grass fed beef, pastured chicken and eggs, offal, antelope, elk, venison, and salmon. We drink raw milk, kombucha, kefir ‘soda’, dairy kefir smoothies and plain water. We enjoy lots of fruits and vegetables and the occasional dessert. I cook …