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

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 into the grocery budget world with this confession:

We spent years dreaming of this time. We wanted to grow our own real food and live off the grid and off the land. We saw visions of fresh chicken eggs, a possible milking animal, fresh pork from our own pigs, and of course all of the free vegetables and fruits we could eat from our own lush garden and orchard.

Back in reality… we buy almost all of our food from the grocery store one month after arriving to our land.

So I shared our family’s basic grocery budgeting priorities in…

Prioritizing the Real Food Budget

Finally, I rounded out the variety of topics by sharing some basic information on what has worked for us in…

Getting Started with Herbal Medicine

Feel free to join the conversations and lend your thoughts or knowledge. Thanks for reading!

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