From the monthly archives: November 2011

This Week’s Frugal Talk: Cleaning Products, Food Budget Priorities, and Herbal Medicine

by Shannon on November 16, 2011 · No Comments · in simplifying & frugality

This past week I started up I delved into a variety of topics in my articles at Saving Money Plan and Saving Naturally. I continued our Saving at Home series with a post about the frugal and natural cleaners I have used over the past few years: Saving at Home: Cleaning Products Then I delved [...]

GIVEAWAY: Five Copies of Simple Food {for winter}

by Shannon on November 15, 2011 · 345 Comments · in giveaways

  This past year I decided to go out on a limb and share my recipes, photos, thoughts, and dreams with you all in the form of a cookbook. When I released Simple Food {for winter} in December I didn’t know what to expect. Since then I have been overwhelmed by the response and so [...]

From the Land: the little moments of progress

by Shannon on November 11, 2011 · 10 Comments · in Off-Grid Agrarianism

Two things we’ve learned since we moved off-grid are that everything happens at a slower pace and sometimes the smallest completion of a task can mean more than you realize. Take, for instance, the day we moved our bed from the camper to the cabin. My husband built a bed frame into the cabin and [...]

How I Make Water Kefir (aka homemade soda)

by Shannon on November 10, 2011 · 43 Comments · in cooking & recipes, nourishing food

This article was originally published in December of 2010. Giving up soda in college was fairly easy for me. I had a severe stomach ache all of the time and one day I decided to try life without cherry coke. I started to feel a little bit better so I didn’t drink another drop of [...]

This Week’s Frugal Talk: Laundry, Ma Ingalls, and Bean Tostadas

by Shannon on November 9, 2011 · 2 Comments · in simplifying & frugality

This past week I started a new series at Saving Money Plan that follows simple ideas to stay frugal while doing those every day at home tasks like laundry, cleaning, and cooking. I started the series out with this week’s post: Saving At Home: Five Ways to Save on Laundry I then headed over to [...]