Tip Tuesday #1

It is Tip Tuesday!

Tips for today are:

1. Cut back as much as possible on items that are expensive to buy organic.

In our house we have reduced our bread consumption by half. Most of us have our eggs without toast these days and have switched to yogurt & fruit salad or vegetable salad for lunch instead of having the typical sandwich. This has enabled us to cut our bread consumption down from 4-5 loaves per week down to 2. We were previously making our own sourdough bread using rye & unbleached bread flour but have now switched to purchasing organic sprouted breads which run $3-4 per loaf at our local store. We were spending $6-8 per week to make our own using less than optimal flours so even though we are spending more $ we are eating better quality bread and it is already making a difference in some of the health issues our family has been dealing with.

2. Cut back on the sugar.

Sweetners also fall into this high end area. In order to curb costs on this front we have purchased Rapadura in bulk as well as local raw honey and use both as little as possible. We also purchase organic cane juice crystals for use in tea & for baking occasionaly but because of the negative effects this sugar has on our health we use it even more sparingly.

3. Make it yourself.

For example. In our home we eat a lot of yogurt. If I were to purchase the amount of yogurt we consume prepackaged it would cost us upwards of $15 per week. To make it myself I purchase raw milk at $6 per gallon and use yogurt starter which costs about $1 (or less if I am using starter from a previous batch). So I am getting a gallon of yogurt for $7 or less each week and I can use it plain to soak flours, beans or rice & also make yogurt cheese or sweeten it with honey or fruit in smoothies.

We also make our own ice cream, cream cheese (yogurt cheese) and sour cream using the organic raw milk. The savings on the ice cream alone is substantial and more than worth the effort.

That's it for Tip Tuesday! Have a blessed day!