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The following post is from Kate of Modern Alternative Mama:
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Three years ago, I was about to preserve my own food for the first time.
It was an exciting adventure. And I was nervous. I didn’t want to get burned, or break any glass, or mess anything up and make someone sick! But, I wanted high quality food, I didn’t want to pay a lot of money, and I’ve always been a “do-it-yourself”-er. So, I jumped in.
It seemed like a lot of work that year to do just a few jars. I think we did 40 – 50 jars of a few different food items. In our third year canning, we did about 300 jars, and it didn’t seem so hard!
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by Kate on April 23, 2013
The following post is from Kate of Modern Alternative Mama:
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The food budget is one area that I manage alone. The rest, my husband and I share (and frankly he does the day-to-day stuff because as long as we agree on the big stuff, I don’t care about the details!). The budget can quickly get out of control if I don’t “manage” it well. I keep learning that lesson over and over and over again…someday I’ll remember to stick with it.
In the last months of my pregnancy, I let a lot of stuff slide. Including the grocery budget. I bought what I could so that we could get through with minimal planning or cooking. But then I felt like I really didn’t have enough money to feed everyone! Oh…sigh. And my husband was frustrated because I kept going slightly over or saying I needed more money to feed everyone!
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