Have you ever toured an old home?  Mount Vernon, Monticello or The Hermitage?  If you ever have the chance to tour a historic home, you should!  The most amazing thing to me in all these homes is the kitchen/pantry area.  I try to imagine myself transported back in time and how I would deal with [...]

I’ve been working the last few weeks on getting the Penny Pantry affiliate program up and running for my Penny Pantry e-Book.  Along with spring weather, the spring cleaning and the gardening, we have been very busy around here.  I’m hoping to have things finalized on it later this week or early part of next [...]

As I mentioned before, we made homemade root beer this week.  For the cost of a little over a cup of sugar and and whatever a teaspoon of vanilla  and yeast costs, we made 1 gallon of root beer.  Now, it wasn’t like the A&W Root Beer you buy in the store!  But it did [...]

Each Wednesday here on my blog, I am highlighting the old fashioned pantry and thought I would share this great story I found on another gardening blog.  I couldn’t help but be awed and amazed at this woman who grew up in the 1930’s, not only for the amount of work that went in to [...]

I’ve been making do without the supermarket lately.  However, I am running low on several key ingredients now from all my from scratch cooking and baking.  I need olive oil, brown sugar and Basimati rice from Costco.  I need another 5 lb pail of Rumford baking powder from the little Mennonite market.  I need to restock my [...]

I ran across Ruth Stout last year when a friend of mine (Thanks, Sherry) apologizing gave me a video about Ruth Stout.  I say apologizing because Ruth Stout was a bit quirky and odd in some of her thinking and practices.  Despite that fact, there is a wealth of gardening knowledge that one can gain [...]

I have great admiration for hardworking women of the past.  Past days long before dishwashers and washing machines.  Long gone times before grocery stores and fast food.

Now, don’t get me wrong.  I like my dishwasher and washing machine.  I like my indoor plumbing and hot water.  I like my electric stove and bread maker.  But I [...]

I’ve been working my way through a book entitled Self-Reliance:  Recession-proof your pantry. It is a short book from Backwoods Home Magazine that a friend of my let me borrow.  Wow– is it amazing.  Amazing how ignorant I am when it comes to knowing about building a real, well-rounded pantry that will last longer than [...]

The grocery and household supplies spending for large and medium size families doesn’t have to be huge though the food and supplies are. And building a pantry for these supplies doesn’t have to be difficult. I think that moms with just a few children can benefit from learning some shopping tips as well as stocking [...]