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Reusing Glass Jars | Kitchen Economics

Family Balance Sheet

I have a grandmother who would never dream of buying containers to store leftovers or food for the freezer. They can be used for storing anything and not just in the kitchen. Maybe it was the screw on lids that attracted me and how they were so uniform and neatly fit in my freezer or cupboards.

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Good-Bye Teflon, Hello Cast Iron

Family Balance Sheet

I might be completely paranoid, but I was also inspired by the change when I found two cast iron skillets in my basement that my grandmother gave me a few years ago when she was cleaning out her farm house. But because they were my grandmother’s skillets I do want to use them. Homekeeping Kitchen Economics'

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Homespun Alchemy™. In the Kitchen

Frugal Luxuries

Little did I realize that doing so was to shift the paradigm of my long held belief that it was my grandmother who was responsible for all of the usual. Another fairly recent staple in our kitchen is lacto fermented carrots. being the son of a Swedish/American mother and a long ~ time foodie himself.is and unusua l.

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The Greener Option: Natural Beauty Products vs. Synthetic

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Because, by their very nature, natural beauty products are made following a simple biological process, it is possible to make your own products in your home kitchen. The Economical Option. You will find lots of basic recipes on the internet, so do as your grandmother probably did and make you own beauty products.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

My mother grew up on a farm, and from her accounts my grandmother and grandfather (who also was a foreman at the local glass factory, along with being an independent farmer) were frugal, and sometimes times were tight. My grandpa would shoot squirrels when they needed meat, and they had a big garden and my grandmother baked her own bread.

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