Before there was the "grocery store" and "bulk food warehouses", there was your backyard…
“The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.”
~ Joel Salatin, Excerpt from
Do you feel the urge to build up your own reserves like the sisterhood before us? In these uncertain times, it is a personal goal of mine... We can produce items for our homes that do not include added chemicals, toxic processes and preservatives that are causing many bizarre health issues. By personally preparing our pantry foods, making our own medicinal remedies, being resourceful with what we grow and creating our own cleaning products, we can provide like the woman of yesteryear but with the blessing of modern day advantages.
Below is an A - Z index of homemaking recipes and ideas from this blog based upon "being creative with what you have". These items have been shared in the past and are being updated weekly. Be sure to check back (there will be a link to this post on my side bar) when you need some suggestions regarding what to do with your abundance of...
Apples
Avocados
Bananas
Beans
Beets
Bell Peppers
Broccoli
Butternut Squash
Cabbage
Carrots
Eggs
- Angel-ed Eggs (printable recipe)
- Canning Pickled Eggs
- Egg/Chili/Cheese Breakfast/Brunch Casserole (printable recipe)
- Freezing Extra Eggs
- Fresh Eggs Information
- Popovers! Easy Bread in a Hurry (uses 4 eggs for a dozen quick rolls)
Figs
Grapes
Honey
- Coconut Honeybee Lip Balm
- Healing with Honey
- Honey and Cinnamon Cold Fighting Medicine
- Honey and Spices Cough Syrup
- Lemon Honey Marmalade No Sugar (with printable recipe)
- Pooh's Medicinal Herbal Honey (with printable recipe and clip art)
- Simple Honey Lemon Cough Syrup (with free printable clip art)
Lavender
- Delighting in Dried Lavender (how to dry and some uses)
- Free Lavender Plants Using Cuttings From Existing Plants
- Lavender Bath Salts
- Lavender Infused Cleaning Products
- Lavender Scented Carpet Deodorizer
Lemons
- Basic Household Uses for Lemons
- Drying Lemon Peel and Its Uses
- Freezing Lemon Juice and Our Favorite Uses
- Lemon Body Scrub (with free printable labels)
- Lemon Extract (with free printable clip art)
- Lemon Honey Marmalade No Sugar (with printable recipe)
- Lemon Inspired Beauty for the Home
- Lemon Marmalade (traditional recipe) (with free printable labels)
- Simple Honey Lemon Cough Syrup (with free printable clip art)
Oats/Oatmeal
- Chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars (with printable recipe)
- Fruit & Grain Cereal Bars
- Granola ~ Good Breakfast/Great Gift!
Onions
Oranges
- Citrus Grilling Salt
- Drying Orange Peel and Its Uses
- Mulling Spices
- Orange All Purpose Cleaner
- Orange Extract (with printable recipe, clip art and gift tag)
- Orange Peel Potpourri
- Orange Peel Tea Blends
- Orange Scouring Scrub (household cleaning cleanser)
- Orange Simmering Potpourri
- Orange Sugar Scrub (bath and body product)
Pomegranates
Potatoes
- Potato Skins (A tasty appetizer!)
Pumpkins
- Drying Seeds for Replanting and/or Roasting
- Preparing Pumpkin Puree
- Pumpkin Seed Packet Printable ~ Happy Harvest Gifts!
Squash
- Freezing Squash
- What to do with all your Squash (meal suggestions)
Tomatoes
Zucchini
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
This post may be shared with some or all of the following link-ups: Modest Mom Monday's, Make it Yourself Mondays, Homestead Barn Hop, Natural Living Tuesday's, Teach Me Tuesday, Domestically Divine Tuesday, Raising Homemakers, Wise Woman Link Up, Wildcrafting Wednesday, Make, Bake, Create on Wednesdays, Whatever You Want Wednesday, Frugal Days, Sustainable Ways, Simple Living Wednesdays, Homemaking Thursdays, Farmgirl Friday and Deep Roots at Home. Thank you lovely ladies for hosting these.
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