I know, eh! Awesome!
I shop all summer long in my parent's vegetable garden (they always plant more than they can eat!-and I chop and freeze various items for the winter (like peppers).
I also freeze my herbs in branches in ziplocks and take them out and crumble them directly into the food I am cooking and they taste very fresh as if just picked (basil especially).
I wish I had frozen my herbs :frown:. All late summer, we were enjoying french bread that I would make using my bread machine for the dough and then finishing the loaves in the oven, take a few tomatoes from my little garden, some basil from my big bush and have delicious bruschetta for an evening snack. mmmmm! But I thought the basil would go black when frozen?
My basil seems to retain its colour. Here is a good link to an article about freezing herbs for the winter if it is helpful:
http://www.gardeningdata.co.uk/herbs/herbs_winter.php
Y'all have been talking about food, but I'm going to change the subject - clothing -
I usually buy my clothes at places like Value Village but I keep my eye out for really "end of season" sales at Sears, etc. - sometimes they have crazy cheap sales.
Also - a few years ago when I was earning a lot more than I am now I had money to "splurge" - I had my "Colours" done. It was a way to analyze what colours that you really look good in - and you fit into one of the "seasons" - Summer, Spring, Fall or Winter.
I found out that I was a "winter" but could wear "summer" as well.
This helps me to restrict my purchases to a certain "pallette" and resist buying the latest "colour" that I know won't really look good on me.
The easy way to do that, they said, was to notice what you're wearing when someone says "Wow, you look good today!" and then when you buy something new - try to buy it in that colour.
I usually buy plain colours - not designs - and I can "update" with scarves and jewellery. (Avon, by the way, sells the most stylish, reasonably priced jewellery I have found - just fyi)
I have in my closet jackets and shirts that I've had for 25 years and yet I still feel stylish and get complimented on my looks.
That's my hint
I live in Ontario now, but when I go home (NS) I shop for clothes at Frenchy's and Louis's, all brand names Abercrombie and Fitch, Talbot's, Aeropostale etc all for $3-$6. The companies buy HUGE bales of clothes from the US and ship them to Canada, a lot of the stuff still has the tags on it.
Louis's has 2 for 1 Mondays.
At one time you wouldn't be caught dead in these places, but now you go in and EVERYONE is in there. My BF from Ontario can't wait to go home and stock up lol.
are they new clothes? I love to buy brand name clothes too. do they have website?
mine are: i always freeze summer veg, like the other posters. i always wash clothes in cold water and in the summer its a sin to turn on the dryer (unless its raining) - everything goes out on the line. and like other ppl too, cooking from scratch. not only is it cheaper and healthier but my daughter loves to help.
At the end of each day I transfer the change part of my chequeing account into my savings. Example say I have $453.02 in my chequeing account I will transfer the $3.02 into my savings account. I first started only transferring the $0.02 part but now am comfortable with the dollar amount as well. It's a pretty effortless way of saving without it really hurting.
Everytime I use my debit card, an extra 0.50cent goes into another account...The best thing is I have to go stand in line at the bank if I have to get that money out, usually I take it out this time of year, so not as broke. (BTW you can put the amount you want)
My tips are the same as other posters. Washing clothes in cold water, using a clothes drying rack as not to shrink newly bought clothes (going to get DH to put up a clothesline in the summer). And every other week we go to the market and buy meat. The have great prices and it is all marinated and they package them up separate. It really takes the guess work out of cooking and the meat is delicious and fresh! When we get steaks they are 10 for $20 and they are a fair size! And the other thing that we do is DH and I have a joint checking account and then he has a savings account. When he gets his OSAP installments they go in the savings and we transfer over what we need each month. The best part is that we can only transfer money over twice a month before we have to start paying so it really makes us watch what we spend.
The tummy route doesn't entirely work. Most processed food is designed to make you want it and be hungry once you see it/think of it/smell it. Tricky companies. Basically when people see/smell high fat, sugary and sodium foods they become hungry.
I've used apple sauce and banana's as egg replacer :) (I learned that for vegan baking)
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