Ok well to start off this is my oldest son's 17th birthday. A tradition we have in our house is that the birthday person gets to pick out their cake & design and what we have for supper. Yep - we were screwed for today before it even started LOL!
I think I will recreate this challenge sometime when the 7 day challenge is up -- like the day after! I really wanted to do this one, it would of been kinda easy for us. But on to what we could do =)
I'm going to copy straight from their site so I get things straight =)
Today’s Tasks:
Cook breakfast from scratch - NO!
Cook lunch from scratch - NO!
Cook dinner from scratch - NO!
Bake a loaf of homemade bread - NO!
Print out some of your favorite recipes to use in case the internet is down during an emergency - YES!
Today’s Limitations:
For this day, and ALL days of the challenge: no spending money, no going to stores, and no restaurants. - YES!
Do not use ANY pre-packaged or convenience-type foods. No mixes, boxed cereals, canned soups or sauces etc. If you can’t pronounce all the ingredients and say where it came from, it’s probalby a NO go. - NO!
Do not buy or borrow ingredients. Use only what you have stored. - YES!
Advanced Tasks:
Make a delicious dessert from scratch. - NO!
Plan an entire week worth of meals you could make out of your current food supplies. - YES!
Do some research on the health benefits of eating less preservatives. - YES!
Here's our report card, surprisingly we got a half decent score (I guess?) -
And can ya tell I figured out a way to print out the report card better? I selected the option as if I was printing a fax - worked like a charm! =)
This was actually done on Friday so obviously I didn't actively participate. But through this whole challenge each day we run through and see if we could of made it.
Limitations for today are : (all days you can't spend any money)
Honestly this wouldn't happen with us. Maybe we're just unsociable but someone wouldn't just invite themselves to our house for dinner let alone have specifications on how that meal should be!
I guess it's not being unsociable but I expect people to respect me & my home enough to either go about things differently or something. And if they don't respect me enough then I will demand it - plain and simple.
I do understand the point in this though, don't get me wrong. And I could even see some family and close friends trying something like this. Although it would only happen once it would still be an emergency. And I could see attempting to cater to this person but not in anyway it would interrupt our normal meal.
I could completely see something like this happening---> see "so-and-so" at the store and them say hey we ought to get together for a bbq tonight! Our bbq's are usually planned out beforehand so this would be an emergency of sorts. I have things to throw something like that together usually on hand. Also I have a few go-to recipes that I use for get togethers.
It's my belief that if someone is to dine with others and they have a specific taste they should provide for themselves. Not that someone CAN'T cater to that person if they would like or if it correlates with their tastes, but they don't HAVE to. Allergies are a different cup of tea.
Overall I think if an impromptu event was to come up where we needed to feed others in a formal-like setting was to come up we could do it pretty easily. But overall we aren't a frilly dine together kind of family -- break out the mis-match plates or paper plates and skootch over the couch ain't just for you!
Sorry had to do it! We now have powdery mildew. And it's probably my fault.
I bought some marked down herbs about a week ago from Walmart. I thought that the rosemary looked funny but I just figured it was because it was being killed. LOL! Nope it has powdery mildew.
Which in and of itself ain't too bad. My herbs are about 75 feet away from the rest of the garden.
That. ain't. far. enough. at all!
Now the jack o' lanterns have it. Also, the spaghetti squash and zucchini.
So first we hacked some of the badly affected leaves off the pumpkins.
Next we are going to try a milk spray. I sure hope it works.
Some better news. The reason I'm posting this Friday instead of Thursday is I spent yesterday dealing with powdery mildew and I canned 5 quarts of cucumber dill relish! That used up 8 pounds of cucumbers. I have another 11 pounds ready for sweet relish too, gotta get more jars. I've also been dehydrating zucchini like crazy.
Here's a crazy looking cuke that I used for relish yesterday. It's like this because it grew around a fence panel =) Taken with my phone - not a great pic, but I was very busy! Oh and don't be alarmed with my orangish cuke LOL! I've found that alot of them are like this when they don't get picked like they are supposed to --hidden-- =)
I also finally got the rest of my box done. Right side we did last week, left side just last night.
Here's the planting order from r-l, radishes (2 kinds), carrots (2 kinds) ----that's the right half ---- onions (2 kinds) ---- 1 pot is huckleberries & 1 pot is bunching onions. I'm messing with this because the ground here has never been worked and it is VERY compacted. So I'm hoping that by doing a raised bed that I will be able to get some good root crops =) Here's my radishes already!
As I type this -- dead tired, might I add! -- Darkside is pulling the last three jars from the canner. The sad part is the only reason it's the last 3 is because we ran out of vinegar! We started the canning at 10:30 PM and it's almost 3:30 AM!! The canner takes FOREVER to boil.
I almost wonder if it's going too slow? It seems even slower than our electric stove last year!
But anyway that's like 15 quart jars of pickled zucchini and 1 pint pickled onions. I still have more zucchini and cucumbers to do!
Oh and the bucket of green beans we pulled out tonight too. (snapped, cleaned, and ready to go!)
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