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 [...]

A working pantry is the secret weapon of a well-oiled running home and finding pantry storage space is a housewife’s kryptonite. What housewife hasn’t experienced the frustration of opening cabinets, the refrigerator and freezer frantically searching for something she can put together for dinner.  How frustrating is it to run out of diapers or toilet paper? [...]

I wanted to put together some ideas and thoughts in regards to the importance of the home pantry.  I am continually amazed at farm life.  It has shown me out to be a spoiled softy who doesn’t know near enough about how to survive without a grocery store.  We are so “convenient” and “impatient” as a culture…can [...]