Frugal Accomplishments for Third Week of April

This past week we managed to get quite a bit accomplished, and we had a wonderful visit with a great friend who stayed with us for several days.

Here's how we saved this past week:

• Made all meals from scratch at home including:  double batch of broccoli and ham quiche (using broccoli and ham from the freezer), salad, roasted veggies (using zucchini and eggplant from the food pantry), smoothies with veggies and berries, homemade pizza and sauteed greens (we were out of salad greens), fish tacos, carrot coconut curry soup, and coconut custard.
• We gleaned several items from the food pantry, for which we're really grateful:
• zucchini and yellow squash
• 2 eggplant
• brussel sprouts
• green beans
• 4 pears
• 4 kiwi
• 4 plums
• gluten free crackers
• Hung all laundry to dry except sheets and washed in cold water.
• Continued with cloth diaper use.
• Baby and I continue to be on a gluten-free, sugar-free, no high sugar fruit diet.  This really seems to be healing baby.  I think simply because I'm older, it's going to take me longer to get over this stuff, but there has been improvement.
• Made homemade turkey stock with a turkey carcass and veggie scraps from the freezer.  Used this for soup, and will use more for rice and soup this week.
• Packed several boxes (12, I think) and stored at Mom's house in her basement.  Very grateful that she also came over on Saturday to help me clean and pack some.
• Staged our bedroom and guest bedroom for pictures using things we had around the house.
• Tossed a few more items in the trash and Goodwill bags.  Also weeded out more books and magazines for library donation.
• Benny cleaned out the bathroom sink drains in all three baths.  This has needed to happen for a while, and I'm grateful that he did it in preparation for the sale of the house.
• Benny also finished caulking most trim that needed it, and will continue with the painting this week.  
• We got the appraisal back for our HEL to finalize the purchase of the land, and it came back for what we were hoping.  This means that we should be able to make what we need to from the sale of the house, which is great.
• The permit process has begun, and we're glad to have all those forms submitted.
• Enjoyed a wonderful visit with a great family friend who is from out of state.  He's preparing for a move to California, so we're especially thankful for the visit time we had with him.  He gifted the boys some wonderful books (he's always so thoughtful), and we gave him some homemade roasted nuts for his return trip.  We're in the initial stages of planning a trip to see him for next summer.
• I began planning which plants I want to put in pots to take to the new house for the garden. I'm sure I want to take herbs, some forsythia, and several perennial flowers.

What did you do to live and save green this week?  I'd love to hear from you!