Sunday, February 1, 2009

Preparedness Challenge, Jan 21

1. Garden work: looked at more garden catalogs. Didn't order anything yet.

2. Preserve something: Well, I'm doing some live-blogging for Utah's legislative session, so I guess I'm preserving my thoughts on the session for posterity.

3. Work on food storage: Worked on living out of our food storage. :) It's going well!

4. Other preparedness tasks: Got everything back onto my new storage shelves. Saw how much fabric I had, all in one place. For pete's sake – I could clothe our entire family for the next 5 years and still have a good stash.

5. Try a new recipe or a new variation:
Homemade mac and cheese. This time, I made it with a white sauce as a base, rather than just adding cheese to the macaroni. Like it better this way.

6. Financial preparedness:
Stop shopping at JoAnn's fabric. Seriously. Trying to dig out of the hole we got into starting last August. Food budget remains around $100/week.

7. Work on local food systems: No.

8. Learn something new: I re-learned that I have a tendency to take on projects for a future date that all happen to come due the same time. Darn me. I'll get them all done though.

9. Serve someone: Family and helping my friend when her babe was in the hospital.

2 comments:

foodstr2 said...

WAIT! Before you buy from a seed catalog, check out the advantages of getting non-hybrid seeds.

There's a great seed pack at http://www.internet-grocer.net/seeds.htm

30 varieties for 45 bucks.

Starfish Mama said...

I don't know who you are, or why you think Internet grocer is the be all and end all of seed sources, but I DO buy non-hybrid seeds. Some I can save and some I can not because of cross-pollination. THis is the second time I've let your message through. It's also the last. Thanks.