I have always cooked/baked several things in an oven once I have it going. The electric cost of an oven is the same for one dish as it is for three, so I plan ahead. If I am not baking banana bread with overripe bananas (since I have the oven going!) I freeze them as halves on a sheet pan, and once frozen put them in a zip lock baggie and store in freezer for fruit smoothies.
Gifts to myself : * having my mum stay over👩👧👦 * walk at the beach🌊 * walk in a park🍁 * cook a nice hearty meal🥘 * enjoy homemade soups🥣 * watch emmy on RU-vid to see all the positivity and tips😃 * cuddle up in bed while the rain poors down🛌
If you have an abundance of cherry toMatoes, you can roast them with olive oil and a little salt and then pack them in a jar and cover with olive oil and they will keep in the fridge for six months or more. They are great on pasta and pizza!
great grocery haul. I am in Florida. My car temp topped 105 today so I am not even thinking about fall yet lol. BTW...in case any viewers don't know, make sure to freeze any cake mixes and baking mixes along with your flour before storing. I had to throw out cake mixes and baking mixes because there were bugs in the unopened packages. I freeze my flour before storing but I never thought about freezing mixes, but they all have flour in them. So make sure to freeze anything that has flour before storing. I would hate to see anyone else have to throw things away because they didn't know :)
Autumn! Such a beautiful time of year and a feast for the senses! I am a summer girl, but autumn is wonderful, too! Autumn Wish List: *Finish garden (allow final plants to produce and eat/store from them...dig sweet potatoes and see if we have a bumper crop...or maybe it's 'all fur coat and no knickers'...hoping for a big harvest! Remove weed fabric...have garden tilled, take cattle panels down, etc.). *Butcher poultry (mid to late Oct.) for the freezer. *Purchase bulk beef. *Purchase pork belly, cure, smoke, hang in pantry for winter. (I'm going total "Little House" this year! ; ) ) *Clean up yard and winterize everything...clean stove pipes and furnace filters...check conditions of vehicle fluids, tires, etc. *Start generators and purchase gas for them. *Check important winter clothing--coats, socks, hats, gloves, shoes, sweaters, PJ's, etc. *Check pantry for 'holes' (we eat more beans, meat, chili, soup, etc. in winter...make sure we have ingredients for them) *Close pool (end of this week) *go foraging for fall medicinal herbs and stock apothecary with dried herbs, tinctures, salves, and poultices for the freezer) *Go on a fall drive to see the leaves (Highland Scenic Highway/WV) *enjoy last of camp fires in our fire pit (enjoy last of burnt marshmallows, lol) *Check stock of books and throw blankets for winter hunkering I know my list sounds like work...but I enjoy work and very accomplishment-driven. I get antsy sitting still for too long. : )
Emmy, I used your cherry pepper recipe from the last video to make pickles out of the bags of multicolored small peppers in a bag. I cut them up and used your brine and they are amazing!! I will make these so often. Thank you! And I like the term, 'basket list' because I put ideas in a cute little basket on our kitchen counter and we pick one when we are planning an outing or an event.
I like your term, "basket list." It has a much friendlier feel than "bucket list." I get the image of casually skipping down a country lane with my basket full of fun ideas for Autumn🤗 instead of rushing to get things done before I expire. 😉
We are adding extra shelving units for our pantry, canning, dehydrating and freeze drying storage. Organize our stores in one area, instead of the 4 areas that we currently use. And harvesting, and preserving something everyday to add to the pantry. Whether it be a small batch of salsa, or bruschetta or dehydrating herbs from the garden, or freeze drying the chicken meat from 3 whole chickens that had been in the freezer for awhile, so we roasted them, and now they will make easy meals for us.
Yeah, you are back❤. I have missed you sorely! You are a part of my week😍. On my autumn ❤-list: collect decoration like chestnuts, rosehips and leafs, go for a walk in the forest, visit a little village festival and cook some pumpkin jam with apple and cinnamon.
My husband has very limited mobility as well as severe COPD so in the summer we can't get out that much because he can't do the heat and humidity. I'm looking forward to getting him out and about to the local farmers market to check out the fall produce. Also there is a local trail that his mobility scooter can go on that we enjoy but couldn't do in the heat. That's mostly what we're looking forward. He's stuck in the house in the AC all summer and we can get him out to enjoy everything this time of year.
We ate a lot of bread and also rice pudding as a dessert when I was a young kid. The difference was that the bread was cubed and we had a greater proportion of egg custard; eggs were proportionately cheaper then. For both, we had a mix of what ever was around in terms of fruits, nuts, and seeds. The best bread pudding was made from left over doughnuts sold as bird and chicken food or given away when they got truly dry; the truly dry got soaked in a little milk over night.
I always love going to the cider mill for cider and donuts. We stop doing that because my hubby can't walk for long or stand in line but it one thing we did every years for at lease 52 years.
Speaking of cherry tomatoes, I have a simple recipe , by just making your favorite meatballs and take one fresh cherry tomato and stick it into the center of each meatball and bake in oven! So good! You can even make them and freeze for later! You'd be surprised how many ways you can use those little tomatoes!
inflation is crazy. I tell hubby instead of pay near $4 for a small 12-16 ounce pop/soda,buy the 1.5 liter ones for $1.50 .three times the amount of product for.half the price. same product,too.
Husband and I have a soda habit. I know it's terrible for me. Don't care. I am cutting down slowly. Anyway, I spent part of our grocery budget on soda. Sucks to spend 12 bucks up front, but it beats paying 2 bucks a day for each of us at a gas station. Plus, you get 3 weeks worth of sodas if not more for way less money
I like some pop too. Been trying to drink lemonaid and limeaid instead. Lime juice and lemon juice come in large plastic jars at Aldi. Put a little sugar in with water and it hits the spot.
I love your grocery hauls! I have not found any good sales here lately on food, so I am a little discouraged. In the fall, I like to give the house a good fall cleaning and prepare for the winter. I don't like to drive in the snow or ice, so I make sure we are completely stocked up. Take care you two!
Great video! Autumn is my favorite season so we have a long list - apple picking, then making homemade applesauce, swapping our typical Saturday morning pancakes to pumpkin pancakes, making fun snacks and watching football on Sundays, taking drives and walks to enjoy the fall foliage, and going to our local Renaissance Fair which runs this time every year!
Yay my Auntie and Uncle are back! Your s’more ides touched my heart. At my wedding to my husband we did a s’mores bar instead of a wedding cake. A grocery store chain was going out of business and I stocked up on graham crackers, marshmallows, and lots of different chocolate bars. Plus my daughter is a Girl Scout so we had those as well. We did this because we did a backyard wedding in august and wedding cakes are so expensive. This was four years ago and people still talk about the s’mores bar. My favorite thing for Autumn is my son’s birthday and Halloween of course. Our church and scout troops do a great trunk or treat and that’s always so fun. I also save the money all year and pass out full size candy bars. Frugal, probably not, but the joy on the kids faces is worth it. I buy two cases of these at warehouse clubs a week starting in August. It’s about $40 a week but I’m already stocked for Halloween.
Your frugal, no waste recipes are a favorite of mine…..I just finished painting our whole basement floor….about 1500 sq feet….next I’m painting our 2 garage man doors and after that, a few porch & yard tasks…..thanks for all your helpful ideas…..
We like to go exploring forest preserves and state parks. We pack a thermo of coffee, water, snacks and a lunch. We take a hike and carry our backpack. We get a relaxing hike in nature and enjoy a picnic lunch.
Lol, lately when watching your waste not want not segment it seems like you raided my refrigerator to make the recipe. Thank you for the banana bread casserole recipe. Now I know what to make from the bits and pieces.
Fall fun = Switching out summer bedding for fall bedding, watching the Hocus Pocus movie with our nieces, going to the Cider Mill, having a back yard bon fire, going to a football game, handing out candy on Halloween.
I am looking forward to going to an applebutter festival, maybe play a round of disc golf with my son-in-law and daughter. What else? Work on some scrap quilting projects, bake some homemade bread. Last year I scored some very low cost mums in the "sad" aisle of the hardware store. Hope to do that again this year. Enjoy a hike or two, maybe get the fishing poles serviced and go fishing with my husband. I enjoy going to a local discount grocery store on an almost weekly basis. Today I scored on tea! I make 2 pitchers of iced tea a day, so that's 8- 10 tea bags daily. They had Lipton 100 ct. on sale for $1.99. I bought four boxes! I use our own mint and lemon balm to flavor the tea during the summer, but not for much longer. Oh, and may the Queen rest in Peace. Long live the king.
Loved your idea for s'mores! I'm still "shopping" for a foodsaver. I may be overthinking it, but I feel pretty sure I'll get one eventually. As to your question about Autumn, I am a bookkeeper and very much not creative, but I've decided to do some free printables from the internet. (It's a reputable website.) My mom does this regularly and frames them in thrift store frames. I'm always impressed with her creativity. Anyway, I found some prints that have a vintage feel that I love and I happen to have some leftover card stock from when I did some Christmas coloring pages for my great nieces. I'm ready to usher in the cooler months. As always, great video!
I'm so happy you shared this! I usually toss old bread because I'm newly married and pregnant & idk what to do with food before it goes to waste 😭 I hate wasting food & now that I'm not working, baby is due June of 23', I want to make food with what we have since we are now on 1 income.
Oh if you have time pleeeese take some pictures of the maple tree leaves turning in October! I grew up in NY and lived there until I was 21... I've been gone for 30 years and have not been back up there during the fall months which is what I loved the most. The view from I88 with the farm land and the mountains surrounding them just full of the most beautiful colors no where else to be found! ❤
Never thought of using banana bread, we have used this recipe from childhood to use up stale bread before fridges. I got inspired, I'm going to try it with some not so sucessful cake that's in the freezer and serve with cream or icecream. Thank you Emmy & Paul 😊
Hi Emmy and Paul! Greetings from the last days of hot Germany (98 F) but its getting a lot cooler from here! I just wanted to say your breakfast dish reminded me a lot of the traditional bread pudding! I love it! For fall I will take out old branches of fall decor and wrap a copper color light string around for my table decoration, pull out the Halloween witch (a candle goes inside and illuminates her eyes and the pumpkin etc. I make wreaths for my door and put out little doilies with fall decor. I love to watch the old Disney halloween cartoons , when going for walks with my dog I pick up pretty leaves and sometimes I find a gnarly branch that I hang on the ceilling and decorate with made decor and for Christmas I switch out the fall decor with handcrafted stars and snowflakes etc. It is fun and so pretty (cheap too). Picking dried flowers and grasses making a pretty arrangement, wrapping a orange ribbon around and placing it in a glass vase- Baking apples in the oven (just a whole apple till its soft like I did as a kid. Collecting chestnuts and mushrooms in he woods etc. Happy Fall and God bless!
This video motivated me to use up cereal and marshmallows that were going stale and made a large sheet of Rice Krispie squares. Since I bought the items on sale, I worked out my cost to be $1.36 (CAD=$1.03 USD) for 15 or 9 cents each. I froze 8 for a family get to together in a few weeks. In the next week, I will also make brownies and banana loaf or muffins to use up a mix and frozen bananas to create a goodies tray.. I tried making crock pot bread-something went wrong but it was still edible, I will try again with new yeast, knead and proof it better next time.
Your video was so helpful. We have a food saver, and I’ve just recently begun utilizing it more for freezing meats in useable portions. I’ve also started putting rice into my Large Mason jars. It’s a lot handier than keeping it in those flimsy bags. Someone else asked about your generator, and I’m interested in that also. Love your pantry space! You are definitely using the space you have!…….❤️Brenda
Hi Brenda! Did you know that the plastic cap from a grated cheese container fits perfectly on a regular mouth Mason Jar? I keep my rice in Mason jars as well and the grated cheese cap makes it so easy to pour and measure the rice. God Bless.
We have a giant craft fair here in the woods on several acres and they cook wonderful food outside in big pots. Soups, bar b q, hot apple dumplings, cider. It smells heavenly and tastes wonderful. I just love those crispy leaves under my feet. There is also a nature preserve that has giant troll sculptures made of natural materials and you can walk the trails and find them. I'm taking my daughter to a coffee festival for her birthday as well. It is held outdoors at our local historical society. Camping is great too. Of course baking anything pumpkin!! I'm glad you were finally able to get your video up. I missed your smiling face. Looking forward to seeing some Labor Day pics.
i sure love you emmy what a sweet heart you make me smile. Your bread dish sounds yummy. I have some sweet rolls from the food bank and I have raisons I think I'll try it.I also have bannas. I liked your haul and how you divide your steak in smaller pieces. I love the idea abt, wrighting down fall activities. My sister and i love harvest time.Making stews,soups ect.My favorite time of the yr. Thanks Emmy. Jody.......
We take our adult children and their sufficient others apple picking at a orchard we have been going to since they were young. It is a family tradition. They love picking apples and enjoy the many varieties to pick. I make Carmel apples, pies, cobblers and apple butter. It is a fun day of being outside with our family.
Love from India Emmy,Paul and Dixie! Your bread pudding bake was awesome,great idea.We make some kind of pilao of leftover dried bread with fried onions and condiments and soak bread ( just a dabb) in water and crumble in frying onions and further fry every thing,tastes amazing.Hsul was great.Take care
We enjoy picking apples at a local orchard. Last fall I planned a scavenger hunt in our big yard for the grand boys. They had to find certain colored leaves, acorns, etc and leftover Easter candy I found in the pantry, lol! It was lots of fun. We try to plan at least one weenie roast with family and friends. Your casserole looks delicious, and your party was a hit, Im sure. So happy to see you today, blessings to you and yours :)
I made a list of everything I want to get done and I have already accomplished most of it I still need to wash the windows and paint my living room and hall but I also made a whole list movies, tv shows, and activities I would like to do this autumn I want to go apple picking, pumpkin picking, and a lot of other outdoor activities.
What a great video! Made your bread pudding - left over ends of bread, stale hot dog buns and a few slices of raisin bread. In the fridge overnight and will bake it in the morning. Thank you! 🇨🇦
Between my parents and my husband and I,we have a half cow in the freezer. However, when the local Kroger affiliate had the 5 lb chub of hamburger for 9.99. You bet your bottom I bought 3 packs. Did we need it? No. But will it ever be that price again? Probably not. When you find a deal, and you like that product, why not buy it if you have the room for it? And that's definitely the key. Buying it at a good price and it actually being something you can use. My exciting deals of the week may not necessarily be someone else's. Doesn't negate that it's a deal for me. As long as you plan, you most definitely still get deals.
Plan your meals around what's on sale.....best suggestion ever!! I've been doing this for decades. When I had 4 kids at home, I used to "double cook"--double every recipe I made and kept the extra for another day. That saved time on nights when there was sport practice/music lessons, etc.
I'm looking forward to a little bit cooler weather. Love 80's or high 70's. I want to get a pumpkin. My husband will be going to spend some time in California and then I spend time with my sister in South Carolina. Then 2 weeks after I get home my son and daughter in law from Singapore will join the extended family for Thanksgiving. Such fun to look forward to.
Thanks Em, the bread reminds me of a delicious bread pudding I've had that tasted like French toast. Yum. 😋😋😋 Interesting to see how expensive some grocery items are and how great some of those lost leaders are! 💗🤗💗
Homemade noodles are cheap too. Make them, dry them, freeze them. Flour and eggs in them. My favorite. Love cake mixes too. Found ones from scratch online and it was really good too. Whatever works. We are all learning so much by sharing what we know to help others and ourselves.
And yes I too use receipt Hog to get money back after getting those coins...i also use a grocery list the most of the time...it saves me from buying the food that is not on the list....
Hey y'all 👋, I love Fall!❤ we're going riding mountain ridge looking at the trees/ leaves so beautiful then pick some apples to make crock pot apple butter/sauce. We planning to attend a couple festivals music/wine. Enjoying the Fall life 😀❤
So enjoy this video! Your tomatoes are absolutely going to keep putting out!! Lucky you! Lol! I was to sick to do anything with planting even container gardening. Enjoy your Labor Day get together/ party.
What I'm doing as of right now is restocking the freezer. Stocked up on fresh fruits and vegetables. Zucchini, squash, peppers and other summer veggies. They get extremely expensive in the winter. Also we found some meat on sale and pasta. I don't like doing big grocery shopping in the winter time, So I make sure both our freezers are well stocked up for the cold months.
I have a few more outdoor projects to do, then it is a big clean up inside and from then on starts the fun part: candle and perfume making, crafting decorations, cookie making and themed weekends, a new skill weekend anything from languages to plumbing, garden planning, a home design weekend, a mini golf weekend, a charity weekend, a movie weekend, a spa weekend, a food and drink tasting weekend, a music weekend, literature and art weekend, virtual city and travel tours and local in and out door adventures small museums, parks and sights. The money we save each event making it ourselves goes into a pot to pay off half and to save half for a trip away next year. Also, what I am starting to do is planning no clean up weekends but push all the work ahead of the week so to really have time at the weekends just to relax.
My Fall wishlist is similar to yours! Decorate the porch, put up and better organize my food storage, and get to the cider mill for fresh donuts and cider. Also looking forward to getting in some hiking and saving seeds for next year. Especially some medicinal plants I have started. I enjoy watching your videos! Thank you! I can't wait to try that brunch casserole and I still want to try your crockpot bread as well. Great scores for the groceries!! And love that you have so many tomatoes coming out of the garden still. Mine is nearly done. The deer jumped our fence and had a feast! : ( We are in NNY so I know what you mean about the Fall being quick! But it sure is Beautiful!
Making candy apples, taking a nature walk to see the leaves change, putting out my fall decor, dig out my knitting and crocheting patterns to see what I would like to tackle this year, visit the pumpkin patch, go on a fall picnic, dig out my favorite sweaters and boots and just enjoy the season!
Emmy, I love to peel and cut into chunks and freeze my ripe bananas. Then you can make a two-ingredient chocolate-banana “ice cream”. It’s delicious! I know you have a Ninja, and that’s perfect to make this! You just use 2-3 bananas and 2-3 tbsp cocoa powder. You should try it.
Glad you're back up and running! I bought some of the london broil and ground it into hamburger meat and froze it. Then I went back on Sunday because they had it again for the holiday. Those I will cut into smaller steaks and freeze. If you have a Kitchenaid mixer, consider getting a grinder attachment. It's great! I bought one off of Amazon for about $40. I mainly bought it to grind pork to recreate my grandmother's homemade Italian sausage, but you can use it for lots of things such as cheese, vegetables etc. Also, another thing you can do with the bread: my grandmother used to use it for her meatballs instead of breadcrumbs. She would break it into tiny pieces and use it that way. The bread soaks up the meat juices and the sauce making them so tasty. Lastly, when fall comes, I like to travel up a specific route to go pumpkin picking. I live in CT and there is a part of route 1 that has several farms for pumpkin and apple picking. It's very picturesque, and there are a few little shops that have seasonal decor that I like to peek at. My husband and I like to explore around the state leaf peeping. There's also an indoor flea market that we like to go in and see what they have. One not so fun thing is, once the leaves have completely fallen, I go and give my yards a big clean up and trim. I hate doing it, but it makes life so much easier in the spring. I didn't get to do it last year and I never caught up lol.
Just started Spring here, heading to humid, wet season! My wish list includes some celebratory parties, footy finals, an overnight train to Brisbane to visit my sister ($25 ea way), Melbourne Cup day at our local race track in Nov, prepping for Xmas.
I always pressure wash my house before Halloween. I live in Southern GA so we have nice weather until about the first of the yr, n starting in Oct we have craft fairs to go to. Love this time of yr
I'm glad your computer is fixed. I really enjoy your videos. Regarding what my wish list is for Fall, I would like to do the following: clean and organize my barn loft, put up cornstalks, get a few pumpkins and a bale of hay, plant daffodil bulbs near the pond, and take our dogs hiking at Letchworth State Park. And, if I find a Food Saver at a good price, I am going to get one!
I used London broil for beef stew for years and find it to be the best and you’re right it does come out fork tender after cooking in the crockpot all day
We do "fall cleaning" instead of spring cleaning. That way we have the house clean and refreshed for the coming holiday season. Yesterday we pulled out our fall decor, which is only a few items, but it's things we love that we've used for years. Your casserole looks scrumptious! I'm sure my family would consume the whole thing in one sitting!
I love this channel! The casserole looked yummy! I make a pan of bread pudding with raisins about every other week to use up stale buns and bread. I use a metal baking pan that fits our toaster oven. My focus these days is food preservation. I've been pressure canning potatoes, boneless chicken breast, and beef stew. This past two weeks I've dehydrated fresh celery, spring onions, mushrooms, and lots of frozen mixed veggies and frozen peas. This week I will be dehydrating diced fresh potatoes (can you tell I had a big haul of potatoes at a good price?) I love having shelf stable foods. I have two Jackery solar generators (and solar panels to recharge the Jackerys) that I can use during outages to run my fridge and two freezers, and also have alternate cooking options, indoors (portable butane burner) and out (camp stove, grill, and an old Volcano stove.) I feel better going into this winter with food and fuel on hand.
I'm stocking up my overflow pantry as sales come on. Corn on the cob was .19 an ear last week here so I bought 28 ears, cut it off the cob and froze it. We are going to take a drive north when the leaves change, it's very beautiful. We have 100 tulips bulbs to plant that were on sale at Costco. When apples are ready we love going picking and I make pies for the freezer. We have an end of summer barbecue at church. I also start my Christmas budget and begin to shop. I'm making my own pure vanilla extract this year for the first time. Should be ready just in time for Christmas baking. Excited about that! Always so many wonderful things to do and prepare for in the fall. 🙂 My favorite season of all ! So happy you were able to get your video up! Always look forward each week. 😊
We are busy splitting and stacking wood. Also cutting some scrap wood then splitting it for kindling which will combine winter kindling with a little yard clean-up. Not "fun" but its still warm here in the afternoon so we're taking mid-day breaks and its much more fun now than in the upcoming months.
@@FrugalMoneySaver We were wet and rainy longer than usual.....Last year (2021-2022) we ended up doing a lot of log splitting when it was NOT hot, dry, or particularly warm; and then we burnt later into the year too. That experience propelled us to begin a little earlier this year especially since we're promised a colder, wetter, and longer winter. We're on an altitude cusp for snow and by gosh if its honestly raining down below, we have honest snow in our back yard, the roads down the hill, and so on. In an area not particularly known for much snow, prepping wood for the wood stove in the snow may be romantic but not fun.
@@FrugalMoneySaver Feel the interior walls for cold as well as damp. Between sun, Temps, an extra layer of clothing, and off-heating appliances you can often stave off starting a fire if the walls aren't cold or damp. Once you do get the walls room temp, they have often lost thier dampness and you can more comfortably go 12-48 hours without a fire until the walls get cold and damp again.
Well worth the wait! So glad you're back up and running! My Sweet 100's are still producing too! Awesome grocery deals as usual. The brunch bake looked good. Picked up the watermelon & London broils on sale at ShopRite for Labor Day with digital coupons! Will have to try crockpot stew with some of it. Hope you are well! 🤗
Emmy! I'm sure! All good now I hope. We've been going through some struggles too. Have a vet appt scheduled with the vet who knows Bode the best. Long story. She changed practices but I found her! Want her to check out the tumor in his mouth. It's coming back ☹ Stressed Dog Daddy here...
Great food haul. Fall is my favorite. I love it. I’m stocking up on holiday baking ingredients on sale, making sure my pantry, fridge and freezer inventories are up to date, and starting to plan gifts for the holidays.
I got hamburger for $2.99 a pound at Food Lion. They also had their yeast (packets of 3) for 25 cents. Normally, they are $1.79 for 3. I bought 8 for a total of 24 packets at a little over 8 cents for each packet. Their best buy date is September 2023.
If you think that oil would last, i would have bought enough to last a year. We've been buying super sale items in quantities to last a year based upon cash flow and storage capability; then pulling from the pantry. It took about 1.5 months for us to begin to honestly feel the savings. However, when we look at how some of the items we've purchased in quantity have gone up in price, we're not sure how frequently they would be in the daily eating rotation. - Im going to guess that the oil has undergone a size and packaging change. Wesson was what was readily available in multiple sizes in this area. But, its been a coiplemof months since we've seen the bigger jugs.
😀Happy your computer issues have been resolved! 😀 Fall/Autumn weather is HOT here on the West Coast...we are in a heat wave 😵🔥so looking forward to cooler temps. Casserole looks yummy. I make a savory one kinda like it. I am a LIST maker ( To do, Bucket List, Shopping, Etc) Fun Autumn List: Clean and decorate for the Season (NO Buying new Holiday Decor this year-Use what I already have or am given); Bake LOTS; Pumpkin Patch Adventure with Grandsons; Crack/Package/Freeze/Share Walnuts( I feel like a squirrel); Collect Acorns and Pinecones for Crafts; Go to the Beach and collect treasures before cold weather; Sewing projects; Plant Winter Garden; Visit and/or Plan fun family and friend outings I can go on and on.... So much to "Wish To Do" AND "So Little Time To Do It All"❤️
My goodness, at 4/ $1 I would have purchased a couple of dollars worth. Some for eating fresh this week and next. Also some for freezing short term which means using inexpensive freezer bag material. I think the cheapest cirnmhas been is $.75/ ear in this area; maybe 8ne store had it at $.50/ each one year.
Autumn for me is all about pumpkin and apples and spices. In our little town we have a grape stomp in October. They close our little Main Street and venders line the street and all the shops are open as well. There is a small parade in the morning, then there are teams that compete stomping grapes in oak barrels at the park in the afternoon.
Loved your videos. I'd love to go for some walks in the English countryside and plan my garden for next year. We have a short autumn too. I noticed you have tetley tea, that's a popular brand here in the UK.
On my favorite things to do list, is that this year, my friend and I are going to go "up the hill" (I live in the Sacramento Valley) to Apple hill. California does not have the productivity of apples that Washington has, but it is till a respectable production. I want to get a large amount of apples to make apple sauce, apple butter, apple jelly and other apple wonder-fulls. I have the requisite equipment to do this and I am totally looking forward to it, because my friend doesn't have a clue about preserving, but she is looking forward to learning. Right now, it is dangerously hot in the Sacramento Valley with highs in the 110-115 range, thus I am not going to can anything right now. When you reported your weather temps, I was so jealous!! Approximately half of what we are enduring here! I think I will also go to the farmer's market as soon as it opens Saturday, and see what sort of things I may be able to get for my own pantry. I discovered with the most recent chili recipe that I am getting low on tomatoes. I have got to research to find canned tomatoes that are affordable, because I did not consider how many cans of tomatoes I actually use. Your breakfast bake/bread pudding was exceptional. I was imagining how this would taste. Thank you for all your inspiration. Have a great time!
