"I wish to urge again the importance of self-reliance on the part of every individual Church member and family. None of us knows when a catastrophe might strike. Sickness, injury, unemployment may affect any of us. We have a great welfare program with facilities for such things as grain storage in various areas. It is important that we do this. But the best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary." (President Gordon B. Hinckley)
We need to study more frugal ways and put them to use.
The Tightwad Gazette, if you can check it out from the library, is just a wealth of frugal ideas.
Making your own bread is so cost saving. It's a skill we all need to be building. Along with that, we need to make sure to store the ingredients to be able to make it. Also need bread pans so look at your thrift stores.
They are still talking higher prices so time to tighten our belts. One way is to use generic products, another is to cook from scratch.
https://www.livingafrugallife.com/how-to-cook-from-scratch/ - scroll down past that arrow, there is helpful info.
You know how they tell you when you want to organize not to go out and buy all sorts of containers and to just use what you have on hand. Well the same is true with cooking from scratch. You don't have to purchase things to help you learn as we all have the internet and cookbooks from yard sales or library book sales. Also, if your friend fixes something you like, ask for the recipe and start a binder or file of what you like. Or even check out some from the library. I find the older the cookbooks, the more basic ingredients for the recipes.
https://frugalmeasures.blogspot.com/2018/04/monday-message_23.html - very interesting, look at the date and I mentioned rising costs on groceries, they just keep going up. But scroll down and you will see some of my favorite frugal cookbooks I got over the years.
https://www.littlehouseliving.com/cooking-from-scratch.html - I love this gal.
https://ourfaithfilledhomestead.com/learning-how-to-cook-from-scratch-for-beginners/ - some helpful info.
One way to help with cooking from scratch is to make your own mixes.
https://www.budget101.com/recipes/516-complete-mix-recipe-index/ - this is one of my favorite sites for making mixes.
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/homemade-mixes-for-popular-pantry-staples/ - I love the gravy mixes.
https://www.uaf.edu/ces/publications/database/food/files/pdfs/FNH-00060_Make_Your_Own_Mix_small.pdf - great info.
https://extension.usu.edu/sanpete/files/Soup_or_Sauce_SOS_Mix.pdf - I have mentioned this before as one of my favorites. I took a can of soup and did its equivalent. They took the same amount of time to fix but one thing was different, the mix produced a much better tasting soup.
https://chickensintheroad.com/classic/cooking/homemade-hamburger-helper/ - this is a good site, save it. I keep a binder with her recipes so it's easy to grab.
Breaking in here to show what things look like here right now as I'm writing this...
We got a lot of snow with more coming in the next two days. So you in the warm areas right now, can feel a little cooler if you are hot and if not, you can say thank goodness it's not me. But it is nice to have supplies on hand that we can just stay inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-_qMXe4HZU - part one
https://grandmaloyskitchen.blogspot.com/2011/06/diy-groceries-snack-cake-mix.html - this I have had ever since it was in that magazine, I love these.
https://frugalmeasures.blogspot.com/2015/07/monday-message.html - this one is from my blog info on making bread, it is great info to have.
These should get you going and show you that you can cook from scratch and do it fast with your own mixes. We just have to do all we can do to save those dollars right now.
I have been working hard this week doing some deep cleaning and trying to make things easier for me as I have fibromyalgia. So I rearranged my countertop appliances so that I won't have to move anything to plug in to use and I cleared my shelf so that my jars are easier to get to.
It has been a lot of hard work and things take me longer to do than they used too. But it has been very well worth it.
Missy says stay on task of learning skills needed and storing as prices are continuing to go up.
Tippy Longstockings says she can't bear to look at prices but we should keep at it storing the basics which can be made into many things.
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