The Best Laid Plans

This blog will follow our family's journey as we begin (again) to follow the principles of the Weston A Price foundation as laid out by Sally Fallon in the book Nourishing Traditions. We will not only be applying those principles but doing it on a budget of $400 per month.

I will do my best to lay out our plan so that anyone who wishes to join us in this journey can see how and what we are doing and what we started out with.

First of all a little background on our family situation. We are a family of five living on a small farm in the south. We are a single income family and our annual income runs around 36K per year. Some years we have made as much as 42K but not for quite a while. Our family includes 3 children (14, 12, 9), 5 goats, 5 cats, 1 dog, 1 duck and 14 chickens. So this will be quite a stretch to accomplish.

So, now you have an idea of where we are coming from. Now, I will tell you what we plan to do.

• 5 days a week we will eat only Nourishing Traditions inspired meals
• Spend no more than $400 per week on food after an initial pantry building where we will have a budget of $700 for the month

In order to accomplish this we will be reducing our intake of grains and sweetners (even healthy ones like raw honey, rapadura & maple syrup) which are quite costly. We will also be eating less and hopefully losing weight in the process although that is not our main goal. As we have a farm we will also be cutting costs by providing as much as we can ourselves. In the spring we will have our own supply of milk as well as eggs and we will hopefully also be able to raise out a steer. However, at this point we will purchasing those items.

To begin I will post a pantry building list and will provide references to where you can find the items for the best savings. Every Friday I will post a meal plan along with a shopping list. During the remainder of the week I will post recipes and cost saving tips.

Blessings to all and let the savings begin!