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Average Retail Milk Prices for September 2008 - Blog Entry

02 Dec 2008 08:23 AM

Wow, a little over the top. Anyhow, my wife has become a great one at becoming frugal. We have always had a small 'food storage' for rainy days. We've stored powdered milk, rice, sugars, beans, etc. Now that the shelf life of these items are nearing experation, we started using them in our normal everyday cooking. To use our powdered milk (since straight powdered milk is a little gross) we mix 1/2 a gallon powedered milk to a 1/2 gallon of normal, whole milk. Kids or me for that matter cant taste a difference and it brings our milk cost down to about $1.75 a gallon.

Buying is bulk and using it like that works for a lot of things. It saves us probably 20-25% on our overall food budget and we eat what we want. My wife eventually wrote a book on doing this. You can see it and get tips at www.marlenesmagic.com. If you visit, let me know what you think on the blog.

Chris

Making Baby Foods from Stored Foods - Blog Entry

29 Oct 2008 10:29 PM

Its easy to store the items needed for babies, but you're right, most people forget. Getting the right nutients for babies can be tough. Check out www.marlenesmagic.com and click on "downloads" and it has a link to baby info, including a few recipes and tid bits. Its worth the time investing in our little ones. There's nothing worse than no being able to provide for a child when they need something.

Special Considerations for Storing Baby Foods - Blog Entry

19 Oct 2008 07:59 PM

What a topic that most people never think about. Adults can almost eat anything and of course still need some nutritional value in their food, but babies and growing children need the neccessary fats, calcuim and protien that is hard to come by in food storage. My wife address this very topic in her book. (Marlenes Magic with Food Storage.) www.marlenesmagic.com. She has recipies and things to store for children/babies. We have some info up on the site right now that you can download if anyone is interested.