Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] shopping only twice a month
D Klement
The White's wrote:
Milk can be frozen, left out a few hours to thaw (but don't let it get
warm) and then you shake the bejeezus out of it to mix it well ( it
separates while thawing ) and put into the fridge. It tastes just like
you bought it that day.
We in Canada can get our milk in bags as well as the plastic jugs here
in. It's easy to do with the litre bags. I used to freeze sale milk. 1/2
gallon plastic jugs are doable too though.
Bananas can be frozen when they're at their peak and used for baking,
milkshakes/yogurt shakes etc. My kids will eat frozen bananas like
popsicles (ice lollys).I freeze them unpeeled for baking and peeled for
popsicle type eating. I just let the unpeeled ones thaw a little and
scrape out the banana from the peel.
Frozen concentrated orange juice instead of the ready to pour kind takes
up less space, as you only bring it from the freezer as you need it.
Powdered milk for baking and cooking ... saves space and doesn't go off.
Tinned milk works well for pudding and sauces.
I too do my grocery shopping once every two weeks even though we live in
the city. I do have a second fridge and the luxury of 2 chest freezers;
one for meats/fish/chicken and the other for fruits vegetables, breads
and juice.
Buzz
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The Klement Family "Education is what survives when
Darryl, Debbie, what has been learned has been
Kathleen, Nathan & forgotten"
Samantha B.F. Skinner in "New Scientist".
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>Cindy ... do you have a chest freezer ?
> >We only do our grocery shopping once every two weeks >and we both go,
> taking two carts, one for each toddler.
>
> >Nanci K.
>
> Nanci,
> How do you do this????? I am so amazed!! I've tried to go only once a week
> and cannot manage it....we live so far from "town" and the grocery store,
> but my refrigerator will simply not hold enough milk or oj for a week and
> the bananas get too ripe. There are NO health food stores or co-ops so
> organic is wishful thinking. How do you do it?!?!?
>
> Cindy
Milk can be frozen, left out a few hours to thaw (but don't let it get
warm) and then you shake the bejeezus out of it to mix it well ( it
separates while thawing ) and put into the fridge. It tastes just like
you bought it that day.
We in Canada can get our milk in bags as well as the plastic jugs here
in. It's easy to do with the litre bags. I used to freeze sale milk. 1/2
gallon plastic jugs are doable too though.
Bananas can be frozen when they're at their peak and used for baking,
milkshakes/yogurt shakes etc. My kids will eat frozen bananas like
popsicles (ice lollys).I freeze them unpeeled for baking and peeled for
popsicle type eating. I just let the unpeeled ones thaw a little and
scrape out the banana from the peel.
Frozen concentrated orange juice instead of the ready to pour kind takes
up less space, as you only bring it from the freezer as you need it.
Powdered milk for baking and cooking ... saves space and doesn't go off.
Tinned milk works well for pudding and sauces.
I too do my grocery shopping once every two weeks even though we live in
the city. I do have a second fridge and the luxury of 2 chest freezers;
one for meats/fish/chicken and the other for fruits vegetables, breads
and juice.
Buzz
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Klement Family "Education is what survives when
Darryl, Debbie, what has been learned has been
Kathleen, Nathan & forgotten"
Samantha B.F. Skinner in "New Scientist".
e-mail- klement@...
Canadian homeschool page: http:\\www.flora.org/homeschool-ca/
Ont. Federation of Teaching Parents: http:\\www.flora.org/oftp/
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In a message dated 7/5/2000 1:46:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
klement@... writes:
<< I do have a second fridge and the luxury of 2 chest freezers;
one for meats/fish/chicken and the other for fruits vegetables, breads
and juice.
freezer as we gave a side by side and can hardly get anything in... I would
like to get fresh veggies and freeze them myself... We used to do that in
England and I loved the whole process.
Dawn F
klement@... writes:
<< I do have a second fridge and the luxury of 2 chest freezers;
one for meats/fish/chicken and the other for fruits vegetables, breads
and juice.
>>I'm moving in with you Buzz (LOL).... Hubbie just suggested we get a 2bd
freezer as we gave a side by side and can hardly get anything in... I would
like to get fresh veggies and freeze them myself... We used to do that in
England and I loved the whole process.
Dawn F
Nanci and Thomas Kuykendall
>We only do our grocery shopping once every two weeks >and we both go,Well, our kids being as little as they are, they do not eat all that much, just often. I anticipate needing to get an extra fidge/freezer for the garage when they get bigger (and their appeitites do as well.) For now though, we buy in bulk, freeze a lot of the meats and perishables, cook from scratch (rice, flour, big bag of potatoes, etc) When we get into the latter part of the second week, we begin to run out of things, and I tell the kids, we are out of that and need to get more, so you have to have something else. We use the perishables first and then move into the canned and frozen goods as we run out of the other.
>taking two carts, one for each toddler.
>
>>Nanci K.
>
>Nanci,
>How do you do this?????
>Cindy
We do make short runs to the store if we have unexpected company, the milk goes sour, or some such. But try to limit these as much as possible.
Nanci K.
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