{"id":214,"date":"2010-03-31T07:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T13:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2011-01-06T14:39:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T20:39:49","slug":"frugal-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/31\/frugal-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal living"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was inspired by a comment I made on twitter about frugality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The other name I was seriously considering for this blog was “your grandma was right”. Our grandparents lived incredibly frugally – meals were centered on fresh, seasonal, local produce; meat was a once or twice a week special thing; nothing went to waste. We have been spoiled by the ready availability of supermarkets and groceries that are frequently open 24\/7. <\/p>\n

The incident that inspired this comment was a ham. I got a ham at a good price from a local store, simmered it for 4 hours in water and produced an incredibly tasty, literally fall-off-the-bone ham. But I also had a stock pot full of tasty juices… so I stripped the meat off the bones, tossed in a little white vinegar, tossed the bones back in, and simmered the lot for a couple of hours. I then pressure canned the bone stock (which caused its own comedy later!) and now have 5 quarts of incredibly tasty ham stock to make soups, stews, or red beans and rice<\/a> with.<\/p>\n

We are now looking at taking out a subscription to our local CSA, and I am looking up recipes for vegetable stocks made from the bits you would otherwise throw away from the vegetables.<\/p>\n

True frugality isn’t necessarily buying the cheapest thing possible. It’s about making sure that anything you throw away is truly <\/strong>no longer food. We are lucky to be living in a time where options are opening up again, where canning is cheap and readily available, and where information is so readily spread by people who live next door to you – on the internet, the whole world is your neighbour \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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