But you're here to check out the frugal accomplishments, so here's what we did to live and save green this past week:
- Ate meals at home including: double batch of quiche with mushrooms, sundried tomatoes, and onions with goat cheese (all from our pantry and fridge), dinner salads, almond flour pizza, smoothies, energy bites, and homemade bone broth.
- Helped with food pantry pick up and was able to glean several items including organic milk, nondairy milk, organic keifer, fruit, veggies, gluten free snacks, tea, etc. We plan to help next Sunday as well, as they're short on volunteers right now.
- Enjoyed reading from our own library at home. I also enjoyed a few YouTube videos at home.
- Worked out at home with YouTube and walking. I also enjoyed some yoga at the Children's Council.
- Washed laundry in cold water and hung to dry.
- Participated in our regular children's council groups and earned baby bucks, which we were able to cash in for a Walmart card.
- Loved some time outside with the boys and dog playing. The sunshine was great, and it was fun to be with them.
- Mom and I had a great girls day. She treated me to brunch after early church and we did a little shopping. Then she helped me do a little mending and we had a nice visit.
- I entered a few free sweepstakes online. They're a long shot, but would be helpful if we won. It would really help with the house and medical bills.
- We continued to research some side hustle businesses, and I wrote up a few eBay posts. We have a goal of posting 3 items a week, which should help us pay off bills faster.
- I took the boys to a free event at the high school that was STEAM focused. They loved it! We got there early and they had a blast: huge blocks, box city, real fire truck!, physics and robotics demos, etc.
What did you do to live and save green this past week? I'd love to hear from you!
You always sound so busy! I am trying to be more "green" but it is so hard to avoid plastic!
ReplyDeleteI have got jars put aside to use a the bulk store and I am ordering some of those mesh bags to use for produce (I have a credit at Amazon) so that helps a bit.
I am currently researching some more free and low cost things to do over the next few months as the weather improves. Living in a huge city does help with things like that.
I just asked at our local EarthFare and we can take our own containers to use at the bulk bins. They will weigh them when we come in and basically "zero" the balance, ensuring that we're only paying for the product we buy and not the weight of our jar/container. I'm glad they'll do this because it saves on plastic and allows us to reuse containers we already have.
DeleteTrying to eat down our freezers and pantry, while keeping stuff we need for our RV traveling. I would love to find a bulk store that I can fill containers and not have plastic. Especially peanut butter! SO loves it but I don't buy big jars as they can get funky before being eaten. I love the idea of a Children's Council. I have always envied the Brits and their Women's Institute. Mary
ReplyDeleteYes, eating out of the freezer and pantry saves quite a bit! I hope you all are enjoying the RV traveling! I look forward to our kids being a bit older and traveling more with them.
DeleteParis, we make our own peanut butter and store it in a mason jar, it never goes bad, we eat it with apples and sometimes we go weeks with out eating it and it’s still very good
DeleteI did a money saving first this week. I canned a batch of dried beans so I can have them cooked and ready later. Usually, I cook a big pot and freeze what is leftover. We haven't opened a jar yet so I don't know how they taste. Roast beef was on sale very cheap ($2.99) and I purchased some to can. While the beans were in the canner, I spent my time cutting the beef and stuffing it into the jars. I assumed it was tough cuts of meat since it was so cheap so cooking in the canner will improve the tenderness.
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