- made 79 total meals at home (leftovers account for the remainder)
- we have done 14 loads of dishes by hand
- we have also run the dishwasher 22 times (we used to run it about once a week or so...now it's nearly every day or day and a half
- bartered three quarts of apple pie filling, three pounds of venison (hind quarter steaks and summer sausage), five half pints of strawberry jam, and two half pints of blackberry jam for: a gallon of milk, a bunch of bananas, three tomatoes, a half peck of fresh apples, a head of romaine, a package of celery hearts, a head of broccoli, and a pomegranate.
- were given the following "gifted" food from friends who were either cleaning out cupboards, fridges, or giving us produce for birthday gifts (yes... really...I was so excited!): three cucumbers, a bunch of green grapes, a partial bag of clementines, a bag and a half of fresh cranberries, a bunch of bananas, a bag of baby carrots, some more broccoli, a wrinkled top tomato, a head of iceberg lettuce, two grapefruits, a bag of spinach, two slightly wilted heads of romaine, sour cream, canned beans, dry beans, cashews, crackers, and a bag of Butter Rum Lifesavers candy
-made homemade yogurt, pita bread, and sandwich bread
There are some other things to list, but I will save those for another day. For now, I am excited to say that we have made it this far. We have also started to notice some visual changes (albeit small) to our storage areas-- we are making a dent slowly but surely! Most excitedly though, was that fact that we spent NOTHING on groceries or food in the past thirty days. I still have grocery money built into our household budget, but since we aren't using it, there has been a noticeable difference in our bank account.
Food is crazy expensive.
Let's keep this train rolling...
--SH