From My Home to Yours
8/1/25
~ August is my month for a big winter pantry restocking push! ~
This month, all month long, I will be joining in with Jessica at Three Rivers Homestead and participating in her #everybitcountschallenge that she does every August. I will be intentionally focusing on doing something every day to get my pantry ready for winter and will share it all on my weekly post here. Why the push this year ...
It's been a challenging gardening year for us. Hubby's medical event earlier this year changed everything for us and when things started settling down into a new normal and I thought I might get some gardening done, excessive heat and humidity arrived early along with drought and then rain, rain, rain. Between all of it, this gardening year has been as close to a complete failure as we've ever come. However, the pantry still needs to be restocked for winter and so I've gotten real creative in using all avenues available to me to do just that.
My rules for the challenge: If it restocks any of my pantries in any way, no matter how small the amount, it's allowed.
Some ideas are:
freezer meals
cook ahead and freeze meal ingredients
seasoning, tea and other types of mixes
anything from our garden ... produce, herbs, flowers (yes, flowers ... rose petals fall under the category of flowers and they are used in some herbal mixtures and teas.)
herbal remedies
anything we glean, are given and or can barter
loss leader deals from the grocery store
non-food thrift store finds for our non-food pantries
and more!
It's going to be an exciting and busy month starting with today ...
I still had some peaches that needed preserving, so I finished those up ...
That's all for this week! It's one of those weeks where I've worked and worked but the finishes are yet to be finished ... if that makes sense!
I hope you've found something in my ramblings that will help and or encourage you in the upcoming week.
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Jael is my favorite Biblical woman, so I look forward to your study!!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, I hope you enjoy the efforts! She was a gutsy courageous godly woman!
DeleteIt sure has been a tough weather summer. You are going well inspire of the setbacks. I am so glad your Hubby is going well.
ReplyDeleteWe added more ice cream to the freezer for only $1.10 per carton. I have to have oral surgery in a couple of weeks so I am well stocked for milkshakes. Today I restocked my freezer with biscuits, too. We call it money in the bank! It also used up some old milk. When milk goes out of date I pour it into a small glass bottle and it keeps for a good bit to use in baking. We are still more in the place of needing to eat down the pantry rather than stock it. In the interest of being good stewards this is the best plan for now.
We have been so blessed to have help with cleaning our home. But it has come to light that those two young women need encouragement. Both came and had a conversation with me about something on their minds and some struggles. What a blessing to be able to be the older woman and minister to them both.
Anonymous, I hope your oral surgery goes well and that you make a quick recovery. I'm so glad that God used your need for help to meet the needs of the two young ladies who are doing the work. If you stop to think about it, God does indeed move in mysterious ways. Sometimes, we just can't see any good that comes from our trials, but this is an example of how it can and a reminder that God sees the bigger picture!
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