Monday Message

"The best food storage is not in welfare grain elevators but in sealed cans and bottles in the homes of our people. What a gratifying thing it is to see cans of wheat and rice and beans under the beds or in the pantries of women who have taken welfare responsibility into their own hands. Such food may not be tasty, but it will be nourishing if it has to be used." (President Gordon B. Hinckley)

I think I finally got better. That was a thirty day cold grrrr but glad to be done with it. So vigilant I will be with wearing a mask to church I say. My immune system stinks, I feel like an old squash that is beginning to decay. Yep, systems are breaking down.

Soon garden planting will be on us here. Seeds have been started. A couple, it has to be reported, have already grown so fast this year.

It is so nice to not be in winter though I have known some snowstorms to show up all the way into late April. It's beautiful when it happens, but it will go away fast. We have great temperatures for this coming week.

I get groceries once a month. Because of this, sticker shock is a real thing to me. I noticed how much higher in just one month's time they are. I can't see things getting better in the coming months ahead. So I refused to get some items and will do a work around...it's just too much of an increase. We must find ways of doing these work arounds and ways of doing more frugal things.

It takes some research and a little more work but we can do it.

I have fond memories of this recipe for cream cuts. My mother-in-law fixed this when my husband and I were just dating, this day we were snowmobiling and came in and this was warm and oh so good.

Cream Cuts

Pastry:

2 sticks butter

2 c. flour

Half a cup of ice water

Mix like regular pastry.

I have two flat cookie sheets, roll half on one and the other half on the other so it is the exact size of cookie sheet.

Bake 350 till golden and bubbly.

Let them cool when done baking. I will make crusts on Saturday then the filling on Sunday so we can have it warm.

Filling:

4 c. Milk, I just use thicker powdered milk as I never have milk on hand.

6 egg yolks, I save the whites in the freezer for later use in angel food cake.

1/4 c. cornstarch

2/3 c. sugar

Combine, stir while bringing to a boil, remove from heat and add....

2 Tbsp butter

1/2 tsp vanilla

Stir, set aside to cool.

Then spread over one crust, then slide the other crust over filling.

Then mix powdered sugar, a little water, and almond flavoring, stir till drizzle like consistency.

Drizzle over the top crust.

Then eat, yum!!

I have been growing my knitting skills by working on these sock tubes.

I have the pattern in my head now so that is a good skill. I had been working on them for a while now, I feel like a slow learner, I do.

What skills are you working on?

How is your storage coming? Do you have rice, beans, and wheat in like mentioned in the quote at the top?

I have been gathering my instruction manuals for my kitchen appliances into one binder as I will only have this binder to find to look up information on what I need. Yes, for the most part I can do the same things over and over but I plan to learn more about what other things these appliances can do.

For example I recently found...

These two little waffle irons at Salvation Army where I found the pumpkin one that I used for my Christmas bag. I found these two both unused for very little. I have a collection of these dash waffle irons. It started with one my daughter and I found at the grocery store before Christmas long before Covid. It was a little waffle iron that was pink and made little toaster size waffles, that is what we liked about them as we could make them ahead and freeze. 

I have a weakness for waffle irons of any kind, all doing different types of things. All this to say their little directions include recipes and so do other appliances and having them all together in a binder is helpful, so I am redoing this binder to be more efficient.

I have been slow to get over this cold that I had but eventually my energy will get back to better than now at least.

Missy says keep working on your skills and find ways to be more frugal. Don't forget to tell us ways you have found to be frugal.