- Cooked all meals at home including ground beef taco bowls/tacos (used frozen shredded summer squash to bulk up the filling), turkey and collard greens soup with barley, smoothies, homemade herbal chai tea mix with stevia, eggs with roasted or sauteed veggies, overnight oatmeal, pizza, and open-faced meatball sandwiches (used marinara sauce I made this summer with fresh tomatoes and spices from the CSA and food pantry) with roasted veggies.
- Washed laundry in cold water except for diapers, and continued with cloth diaper use.
- Composted kitchen scraps or took them to the chickens in exchange for eggs.
- Gathered about 12 eggs for our work this week.
- Used the crock pot for cooking two meals (overnight oats and turkey and barley soup), saving on electricity.
- Continue to eat from the pantry and freezer. We're really making a dent in things, which will be good once the produce rolls in from the CSA, farmer's market, and food pantry gleaning.
- Gleaned several tomatoes, avocados, eggplant, acorn squash, chicken sausages, canned biscuits, and a can of cinnamon rolls. Made a large batch of guacamole for snacking and lunches. Will roast veggies later this week.
- Cut little man's hair at home, saving at least $15. Still need to cut Benny's hair.
- Went to my integrative health doctor for a check in, and am continuing with a few more supplements for the next month. Am hopeful that when we do more blood work at the end of March that things will have improved drastically. I am definitely feeling better, but have room for improvement too.
- Little man and I went to a free class at the Children's Council. There was dinner for both of us, 40 minutes of yoga for me, and child care for him. It was a great evening, and we plan to make it a weekly event. This allowed me to cook less, relax more (which is critical to my overall health), and gave little man some much needed play time with others. I also earned a "baby buck" which I can cash in through the Children's Council for wipes, gas card, etc. once I earn enough.
- Worked out at home other evenings with YouTube videos for free. I am slowly increasing my workout time. Right now, some nights I feel good to get in 15 minutes, though I hope to get up to 20-25 each night.
- We have begun eating dinner by candle light. The boys love the candles, and it seems to calm them a bit for meal time. This is saving us a bit on electricity.
- The boys have been taking a bath together, saving on water. My goal is to save some of this water for watering plants, but it hasn't happened yet. (Some nights we're just in survival mode when it comes to bath and bedtime.)
- Put a few more things in the donation bag, meaning less stuff to store and clean for us.
- We sold a few more things on eBay, which will fund our CSA share this year. We're hoping to sell a little more to help increase our emergency fund, and to clean out a bit more.
- Recycled and composted as usual. Paper towels and brown cardboard/paper goes into our compost, as it's less of an environmental impact to deal with it this way. (We're trying to get away from paper towels, but with a tenant upstairs, they are kind of necessity for the average American.)
- Planning to re-post the ad for our basement apartment and room upstairs, if needed. Our upstairs tenant may be going month to month on her lease, we're just not sure yet.
- Still trying to pursue the purchase of land, but that dream is seeming more fleeting by the day. For many reasons, lots aren't for sale, or are priced above market value, which makes this all very difficult. We may be looking at a renovation of our current home instead, just to make it a little more functional for us.
- We're looking into ways to monetize this blog a bit. It's more just for fun for me, but we're getting enough page views that I think it might be worth it to at least try. Anyone have suggestions? Have you been successful with this?
How did you live and save green this week? I'd love to hear from you!
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