Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
In case you hadn’t been following along with my updates about the 30-day food challenge I was participating in at YummyMummyClub, for pretty much the whole month of May I was seeing whether it was possible to eat well and Canada Food Guide healthy on a limited budget of $5.50 per person per day. Spoiler…
Some people argue over the value of buying more expensive organic and pastured or free-range meat. A lot of people don’t want to pay the premium. Usually the argument is that it tastes the same, pastured/free-range is a sham, and that it just flat-out costs too much. I like to ask them what they know about the meat…
I almost always walk home with the bird carcass from any family gathering. Nobody ever fights me for it because nobody knows how to make delicious soup from it. Or they can’t be bothered. Their loss! It makes me giddy because I love soup, and I’d rather have the soup than huge chunks of leftover…
Buying beef directly from a farmer is a practice that wasn’t so uncommon even as recently as 30 years ago, at least here in Canada. Somewhere along the way, between agriboom and supermarkets, the practice has become… somewhat unusual. Now, you’re lucky if you know what COUNTRY your hamburger has come from, much less what…
I love historical minutiae as much as I love science. It could be a related phenomena… there is just so much to KNOW (also, keeps me thinking, helps me try to recover from baby brain…). For instance: carrots giving you better eyesight? TOTAL URBAN LEGEND. That’s right. If you grew up thinking carrots helped you…
I posted a little while back about good ol washing soda as the prelude to my experiments with homemade dishwasher powder and what hopefully will become homemade laundry powder. I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time writing about something if I don’t know it on a fundamental level. I think there’s an…
So today we’re tackling the humble washing soda… AKA: soda ash, washing ash, sodium carbonate, and Na2CO3 (10H2O). For sanity’s sake, we’ll drop the 10H2O part… if you’re wondering what that means, *technically* what we know as washing soda is sodium carbonate decahydrate, which only means that water molecules are clinging to it. Anhydrous sodium carbonate, if you’ve seen…
You know how we were talking about bulk buying and shopper savvy? To make the most of smart shopping and food frugality, you’re going to have to be prepared in the kitchen. Arm thyself! In the war to reduce your grocery bill and save yourself some time, your best comrade in arms is going to be…
In the last article, we looked at a few ways to save money shopping in areas that are, for all intents and purposes, standard grocery and big-box stores. You may find that unless you’re just looking to pick up a couple items, your local grocery store or large-chain organic grocer is one of the more…
Just to Restate the Obvious This is the “List of X Things to do to Eat Organic on a Budget” that every other top Google hit will provide you when you search for eating organic on a budget. Unfortunately most of the other lists won’t go into more than repeating a lot of the “no kidding” items…