More things I have noticed

I have noticed more changes now that I am home full time.  Although I have been intermediatelly fighting off whatever illness are attaching my already compromised immune system, I am enjoying figuring out new ways for our family to save.  Most of the savings start in the kitchen and garden.  We planted a lovely garden this year and most days are meatless, because I get protiens in other ways.  I picked about 10 lbs of tomatoes the other day and watched them sitting on the counter.  Well today I decided I needed a few things, spaghetti sauce, bbq sauce and ketchup.  Well the abundance of tomatoes could handle that.  So today I am making some spaghetti sauce.

So while looking into recipes I was making a shopping list for my pantry.  My old shopping list went a bit like this:
Oatmeal
Poptarts
Cereal
Eggs
Bread
Peanut butter
Jelly
and so on


My new list looks like this:
Molasses
Honey
Palm Oil
Cocoa powder
wheat flour
pastry flour
sea salt
kosher salt
petcin
vinager
grape seed oil
and so on


Funny how different it is when you cook from scratch and grow or raise the basics on your farm.

So in the next few weeks I have plans to make some items to freeze to test before the kids start school.
Homemade poptarts
breakfast sandwhiches
waffles
pancakes
homemade peanut butter and jelly sandwhichs (both peanutbutter and jelly will be homemade)
hotpocket type sandwhiches


Of course I will be canning soups and such.  My kids will have thermos' for their lunches and home made sandwhich breads.  I know this will save us alot cause the cost of school lunches is on the rise. 

The more items we can make at home the better.  Well Im off to conquer some goat milk soap making, wish me luck.