This house is so full of delicious food. Good lord. The fridge is like, Grant's homemade marshmallows (plain and chocolate), jambalaya, and chicken chili, and my leftover (AMAZING) soup, roast chicken, and iced lemon green tea. Loaves of banana bread on the counters. I love it when we can actually accumulate some leftovers - it's almost impossible to make enough of anything for that to happen, anymore, just based on the logistics of our stock pot, wok, roasting pans, etc, so we have to make two meals. One for right then, and one to store. Last night we had zucchini pasta and stored the chili.
I seriously spent like 2 straight hours washing dishes Saturday evening and at least an hour cumulatively, yesterday. Our dishwasher has been broken for years and we haven't replaced it since there's an electrical issue in the wall behind it that has to be fixed beforehand.
I really love when we can eat things from out in the yard. We've been eating mangoes off our tree every day for weeks, and that's gonna continue for awhile. There are bananas ripening on the deck and more on the tree. All the tomatoes Grant put in the jambalaya were off of my plants and about 4-6 of the eggs we eat each week are from our chickens.
It's a drop in the bucket of what we need and use, foodwise, but it's nice. I'd really like to add more stuff to the list. We got a carambola (star fruit) tree at the latest Adopt a Tree event, though it's just a struggling baby for now. Expanding the chicken coop and flock seems like the simplest way to actually get a return on investment and put a teeny tiny dent in the grocery budget.
I seriously spent like 2 straight hours washing dishes Saturday evening and at least an hour cumulatively, yesterday. Our dishwasher has been broken for years and we haven't replaced it since there's an electrical issue in the wall behind it that has to be fixed beforehand.
I really love when we can eat things from out in the yard. We've been eating mangoes off our tree every day for weeks, and that's gonna continue for awhile. There are bananas ripening on the deck and more on the tree. All the tomatoes Grant put in the jambalaya were off of my plants and about 4-6 of the eggs we eat each week are from our chickens.
It's a drop in the bucket of what we need and use, foodwise, but it's nice. I'd really like to add more stuff to the list. We got a carambola (star fruit) tree at the latest Adopt a Tree event, though it's just a struggling baby for now. Expanding the chicken coop and flock seems like the simplest way to actually get a return on investment and put a teeny tiny dent in the grocery budget.