Tag: cooking

  • Saturday Lapse, Sunday Penance

    Saturday Lapse, Sunday Penance

    Zero spending for me this week, besides food, gas and train fare. I am supportive of the various calls for strikes, like an economic blackout day on Feb. 28. But to really get any attention/leverage, I think everyone would have to scale back spending more and for longer than that. Come over to the no-spend…

  • And the Candle Burns Another Night

    And the Candle Burns Another Night

    Well well well, another week of almost zero spending. Several of the crunchy/minimalist/frugal Instagram accounts I follow have said lately that they see not spending as a form of protesting this administration. For me, I wouldn’t say it’s the main catalyst behind my non-spending, since I’ve done it to different degrees for a long time.…

  • In Over My Bread

    In Over My Bread

    This week I was off two days and was only in the office one day. I was able to continue my streak of using up the food we have. Happy to report that we have eaten in the past six nights AND I even managed to bring leftovers for lunch on my office day. I…

  • Pretty… Pretty Good

    Pretty… Pretty Good

    It’s Christmas Day. I feel… well-rested? At peace? Not overstuffed? Is this for real? I guess this is Christmas when the kids are 13+ and you are really, truly trying to eat less. Feels great! Also, unlike some other years, I didn’t try to do too much. This year was simple, streamlined. Despite, or perhaps…

  • Abandoned Carts

    Abandoned Carts

    Tis the season for filling online shopping carts and then, if you’re me, leaving the tab open on my phone for a couple days or months. Sometimes I intentionally abandon the cart, hoping that the retailer will notice and send me a coupon code. Sometimes the cart holds something that really seemed like a good…

  • Wrapping Up November

    Wrapping Up November

    I decided to move this blog back to WordPress, after trying out Substack for a couple months. I just never could get the hang of Substack, and it didn’t seem to get me. My feed was full of religious posts, and when I tried to search for homesteading/gardening accounts, I could never find any, or…

  • Marching Back to School!

    Marching Back to School!

  • A Week in the Life

    A Week in the Life

  • January

    January

  • Christmas 2020

    Christmas 2020