The 2014 Plan: A Year of Frugal Foods

It looks like a significant portion of my posts are about the plan for foods in 2014, or will be about the plan.  Because I have had a few requests for it, I am adding a new page to the top of the website for easy access.

It'll partly involve Domestic Goddessry and Gardening, the 2 main themes of this blog, so I might as well just put it right in the middle.  BAM!

Here's a direct link:  A Year of Frugal Foods

Check it out to see past and upcoming posts.  If there's anything else you'd like to see in there, let me know.

Wow, I really need to come up with a better name for this plan.  Any ideas?

A Request for Price Checking

This post is mostly for my mom who is going to check prices in her area for me, but if any of you have some leads, I am totally open to them!


These are the current lowest costs I have found for each dry good, per pound:

Tomatoes Galore - Goal Within Sight

This weekend I picked a ton of tomatoes.

We got a total of 235 off 4 plants, for a bit over 4 gallons...

• Sunsugar:  116
• Lemon Boy:  68
• Early girl:  33
• Celebration:  18  (it finally started producing!)

I am only counting them as 2/3rds the usual weight, because most did end up a bit small despite being fully ripe.  The plants are starting to look a bit stressed, so it is probably time for a heavy fertilizing or a rain dance.

Here's 2.5 gallons, ready for canning.

Lots of yummy red ones this time.

Superpails vs. Homemade Storage

To make the shipping from Rainy Day Foods worth it, it means getting about 2 years' worth of dry goods.  I had been wanting to go with them for the popcorn, and their Superpails.

That one extra year of dry goods needs to be packaged properly so that it stores for 25 years, just in case it takes us much longer than expected to go through the dry goods.  Here's what you need for one basic "Superpail" long-term storage bucket: