From My Home to Yours: 6/26/26

 From My Home to Yours

6/26/26

~ 46 ~

This week we celebrated our 46th wedding anniversary acknowledging that our love for each other deepens with every year (as does our ability to laugh at what getting older is doing to our bodies).  Aging love is different than young love, but oh my, it's just as good if not better.  All pretense and trying to impress each other is gone and for us, a quiet acceptance of each other that allows us to thoroughly enjoy just being in each other's presence.  We have each other's backs, we look out for each other, we hold each other's hands, we laugh with and at each other ... we complete each other in every way that counts!  We pray for many more years together, but if that's not possible, we pray to enjoy each and every day we have together while we're both on this earth.

Where do I even begin with all the pantry building work that has gone on this week in our home!

~ produce from our garden ~

The cucumbers have been turned into a cucumber & onion vinegar salad.  (I saved the ones we didn't use with the original making to replenish the salad when needed.)

The carrots were fermented  (I have fallen in love with fermented carrots and am experimenting with various herbs and spices I can add for flavoring.)  The health benefits are an added bonus!

The squash was enjoyed as a side with a meal (I air-fried it in our air-fryer)

Those cherry tomatoes were washed and set on the kitchen counter.  We've been popping them in our mouths whenever we were anywhere near them!

The two larger tomatoes are sitting on the counter so they can finish ripening.  (Our weather is so hot and humid right now that when our tomatoes start ripening we are harvesting them and allowing them to finish ripening inside.)

~ grocery haul, part 1 ... mostly fresh produce ~

The corn on the cob was on sale for 3 ears for $1 ... we purchased enough to enjoy throughout the week.  We've already enjoyed one meal with them and the corn was delicious!  We microwave it still in the shuck and then remove it right before adding it to the table as a side.

Romaine hearts lettuce for more salads in a jar.

Fresh Ginger to make ginger cubes to go in water.

Lemons for juicing and freezing the juice for lemon cubes ... again to go in water or other beverages and to use in recipes calling for fresh lemon juice.

~ grocery haul, part 2 ~

We went grocery shopping for the main purpose of bargain shopping for meats and we were successful ... in our eyes.

Ground chuck was on sale for $4.49/lb, we purchased family packs and preserved them once we got home.

Bob Evans sausage on markdown for $3.59/lb

Tenderloin on markdown for $3.02

Chicken legs (4 pack) on markdown for $1.33 and the other package was similar in price but I don't remember what the exact markdown price was.  I air-fried both packages and added them to our menu for this week.  I absolutely love having portions of our meals prepared ahead of time and this chicken is a good example.  We will be able to have it in various forms and dishes!

Thick pork chops for the marked down price of $5.90.  (Hubby cooked the pork chops and tenderloin to have for his breakfast in the upcoming week.)

The hot dogs were on sale for $2.99/package.

4 packages of chicken gizzards that ranged in markdown prices below $2 for each package.

 

I took the chicken gizzards and canned 5 quarts for the pantry.  Since my canner wasn't full, I added two jars of navy beans.  They both processed at the same time and for the same poundage so it was a win, win.  Pressure canning gizzards and then giving them a quick 'frying' when ready to eat makes them so very tender.  It's also another meat meal on the pantry shelf!

We also restocked several of the vinegars that we use and cheeses as well.  It was a successful bargain shopping experience.  (Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought that I would think that the above prices were 'good' ... but they are.)  

This week we'll be looking at and paying attention to July 4th sales and subsequent markdowns.  We always try to do additional shopping around the holidays and stock up on items that typically go on sale.  This is one our strategies for maintaining a well-stocked pantry while eating out of it daily.

We have one more 'bargain' to share.  It occurred on the same day as our grocery bargain shopping.  We had been told that a local chain store had baby chicks on sale for $1 each.  With our cold food in coolers, we always grocery shop with coolers, we stopped in at said chain store.

Nope, they didn't have any more, but they did have the ones pictured that were about 3 weeks old that they would be willing to let us have for $1 each!  We were looking for the buff orpington variety, but they didn't have any ... these are sexlinks and are good layers as well.    We said, 'we'll take them!' These sexlinks were normally $7.99 each, but because they were 'feathered out' they were letting them go for $1 each.   We feel blessed!

I hope you have enjoyed reading about our 'bargain shopping' adventures.  Sometimes it helps to see what others purchase and what they do with it once they get home.

I continued reading book 7 in the Bregdan Chronicles, Glimmers of Change, by Ginny Dye. I finished listening to Almost a Bride by Jody Hedlund and started listening to Tomorrow's First Light by Naomi Rawlings.   (All the audio books I listen to come from Libby the library app.)

Next week, it's all about blueberries!  It's blueberry preserving time at our house!

That's it for this week, I hope you've found something in my ramblings that will help and or encourage you in the upcoming week.

Until the next time ...  

mrs. patsi @ A Working Pantry  

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