Doing: Grocery shopping: Breakdown of goods = Organic 31%; Product of Australia 59%; Made in Australia from local and imported ingredients 21%; Imported 20%. Harvesting silverbeet and zucchini.
Making: Rhonda's home made dog food. Breadcrumbs for freezing out of the stale organic bread discounted to $1 a loaf. Garlic bread for freezing out of the discounted hotdog rolls.
Dinner: Roasted pumpkin, spinach and walnut lasagne (adapted from this recipe) with homemade chips.
Challenge/s: Still thinking about the logistics of weighing our garbage... My kitchen scales are too small and my bathroom scales aren't sensitive enough, even if I stand on the scales holding the bin and then subtract the weight of me and the empty bin.
Solution/s: I think I need one of those small, simple, hanging gauge-type scales, but where to find one? Start with eBay I suppose!Transgressions: Buying another magazine...
Reading: Shannon Lush's Home Basics magazine (see above).
Utilities (November): Gas average 39.7 MJ/day; water average 413L/day; electricity average 12.8 kWh/day.
Contemplating: Making my own carpet cleaning solution for the Bissell carpet cleaner I borrowed from my MIL.
11 comments:
The lasagne sounds great - look forward to hearing how it tastes!
I'm loving the format of your posts - keep up the good work :)
Start stocking up on basics like flour,rice,etc - the prices are about to go through the roof.
Instead of weighing the rubbish,note the holding capacity of the bin liners(usually in litres on the pack) and try to halve it within a fortnight,then buy the smaller bin liners and try to halve them...etc.
Great posts and very inspirational :)
Good luck with the cockies!
Hope you don't mind a suggestion on how to weigh your rubbish - try a simple balance using something like a broom handle. Pop a carrier bag with something you know the weight of (e.g. 5lb or 5kg of goods on one side) and balance your rubbish in a bag on the other end. We are trying to keep our rubbish down too - my aim is no more than two carrier bags a week.
Hi ladies, thanks for your positive feedback :-)
Hi Lis, the lasagne was gooood :-) I roasted the pumpkin beforehand instead of steaming it as per the recipe - much richer flavour, yum.
Hi Jayne, Yep I bought a 10kg bag of flour yesterday amongst other things, LOL. Thanks for the weighing tip, but I don't use bin liners!
Hi Denise, That's a great, simple weighing tip thanks! Unfortunately I don't use bin liners though as my bins have inserts with handles - I take the whole insert out to the bin and empty it, and then wash it out once a week or so with water from the shower bucket.
Cheers, Julie.
your posts are great ~ love the format. Hope you're not being hard on yourself with your "transgressions" :) By the sounds of it, the magazine is educational aide to your lifestyle!
p.s. can you please give feedback on the magazine......thanks :)
Hi Ali :-) Um yes, "educational aide" was how I justified buying the magazine in the first place, LOL. It's not bad, although expensive at $9.95. I got some good things out of it but in future I will borrow it from the library - provided I can convince them to get it in for me - but I can see many people keeping them as reference material. Cheers!
thanks for that crazy mumma :)
Thank you, thank you for the lasagne recipe, I had something like at the Birth Centre the day after S was born, and thought, damn, that's good! Have been looking for something similar ever since :-)
Cheers,
Becca
Hi Becca - mmmm, it's good ;-) It's in our regular recipes now - I roasted the pumpkin first and toasted the walnuts too, so the flavour was extra good. Yum!
Glad you enjoyed our lasagne recipe, Crazy Mumma. I like your idea of roasting the pumpkin first -- we'll have to give that a try.
By the way, we recently started a food blog called MediterrAsian Cooking (http://www.mediterrasiancooking.com).
Hope you can drop by :)
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