Food Spendin' This Month

Pay day 15 Oct. $100 Withdrawn for local farmer's market $500 set aside for Misc groceries.
From the $100
$20 for 25lbs of beets to store over winter
$26 for 50lbs of carrots to store over winter
$1.30 for lettuce
$4.05 for sweet peppers
$5.50 for 10lbs of onions to store over winter
$15 for a calendar
$20 cheat lunch at Tim Horton's


From the $500
$3.98 Hellmanns light
$3.96 5lbs Mandarin's
$13.95 Tenderloin
$13.50 Whole Fryer Chicken
$13.34 Whole Fryer Chicken
$3.66 Ground Chicken
$3.33 Ground Chicken
$9.89 Side Ribs
$10.35 Side Ribs
$10.06 Ham
$8.66 Basa Fillets
$5.49 x 5 Bacon Schnieder's Natural
$19.99 Tigerprawns
$5.49 x 4 Free Range Eggs
$4.99 5lbs apples
$4.99 2L carton of coconut milk
$7.99 Personal hygiene item
$3.49 Dried pineapple
$4.99 Dried cranberries 400g
$4.00/3 Cans of Pineapple
$6.00/4 Cans of flavored tuna
$1.49 x 2 Cans of sardines in mustard
$2.00 5 kiwis
$4.99 5lbs apples
$3.61 1kg broccoli
$5.30 1.3kg yellow peppers
$1.23 .280kg lemons
$4.99 Apple juice +.35 deposit and environmental fee
$2.33 1.5kg green cabbage
$14.31 0.4kg Pecan halves
$4.00 2.3kg bananas
$2.18 1.3kg bananas
$1.73 0.8kg cauliflower
$4.39 1kg peaches
$2.79 1.3kg cauliflower
$2.10 1kg celery
$2.92 1.3kg red cabbage
$1.50 avocados
$1.54 0.35kg fresh ginger root
$.98 for tax

Total of 258.77 shopping at Quality Foods

We will continue to write a complete list of what we bought and where, at a later date. That's all for now!

Jan-2012... this got complicated and we were unable to finish this post.  We will retry at a later date.

For sale! This one isn't food.....

Name a price and we'll talk about colours and personalizing.  Just so you know, I prefer the rough look and don't have the skills or the desire to make these look store bought.  I can do the tie to look nicer for sure though, this was Micah's helping hand and what he wanted on his.

Being Realistic

So for the menu today....

Breakfast - a mix of nuts and seeds and dried fruit and some canned cherries to put on top.

Lunch will be leftovers from yesterday - Shepherd's pie, this is not paleo, it was a frozen dinner given as a gift when baby number 4 was born.  These are very helpful seeing as all days don't work out according to plan.  Again, I'm trying to be realistic rather than an extremist.  However that said, shepherd's pie could easily be made paleo.  Check this recipe out.  There will likely be debate on the peas and beans though.

Supper - roast with some sort of veg.  I have some yams in the pantry closet, it sounds like a match made in heaven to me. 

Scallops

Another recipe from everydaypaleo.com.  I highly recommend that you go and pick up this book or order from amazon.  This was a hit!

I like to call this one, who needs veggies?

mmmm, ribs!
If you are interested, please comment on the picture and I can add the recipe. 
Until then, you can drool over the pictures.

Canned Pears

Trapper, our new friend gave us a great gift on our front step the other day! 

PEARS!!!!  

 (and some apples)

We canned them and oh my, they are delicious!  Easy too.  

We just put sliced, cored pears into jars and added apple juice.  

Attempted to keep the little ones content... (it mostly worked)

No refined sugar with all the yumminess, maybe more!  Try it and see!

I'll try to get a picture of a finished can up soon.

Canned Turkey Soup

So Thanksgiving is over.  The turkey is ready to be made into soup.  YUM!  So let's get on with it shall we.
Two turkeys (one left over from a few days ago) are added into the pot, along with some loveage, thyme, peppercorns, and salt.  I let it boil for about 2 hours then we came up with this.

Next part is the greasy part, straining and separating the turkey from the bones.

I've opted to freeze at this point.  Anthony is away in Arizona for a couple of days so I'll finish it with him when he gets back and we have more time.

.....more to come.