We are enjoying our summer fun here at 4D Farms.
There has been swimming
Eating Ice Cream
Riding
Bird Watching
Blue berry picking
More tea parties
Taking care of cows
Taking care of the garden
And church
We are trying to squeeze in as much time as we can before school starts back in our area next month.
Tracy
Keeper of the Home
With todays prices as high as they are, we try to find as many ways to save money as possible. One way we do this is shopping the sales and buy multiple quantities or pounds of something. Chicken is no exception. We watch for sales at our favorite grocery store and we go shopping. We will buy multiple packages and bring it home and repackage it into meal portions, place into vacuum seal bags and vacuum seal them with out FoodSaver Vacuum Sealer. This saves us tons of money every year and we are able to stock our freezer.
Another way to save even more is to buy whole chickens when they go on sale. We saved even more by doing this because, we are cutting out the middle man for labor of processing, plastics for packaging and time. We did this same process, we brought them home, cut them up into sections, portioned them into meal portions, placed in vacuum seal bags, and vacuum sealed. Our freezer was full again.
If you do not know how to cut up and process a whole chicken from the grocery store, dear hubby has an awesome video showing you how to do this process. He explains it so well. He takes you through the whole process from start to finish. He also includes a price break down per pound.
Check out his video below. Just click on the picture.
#savemoney #grocery #savings #deals #sales #frugal #groceryshopping #moneysavingtips #homemaking #homesteading #lifeskills #prepping #preserving
Tracy
Keeper of the Home
Today we take the time to reflect on and remember all those brave men and women who fought for the freedoms we have in this great country today.
God Bless the USA. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
These little gadgets are so handy. If you are old fashioned like me and wash ziploc bags out 😊 to save money, this is your thing. It is a bag dryer. Those things cost money. I only wash bags that have maybe produce or something easy to clean in them, not meats. I hang them on this little booger to dry and reuse them a couple of times. Fits up to gallon size bags. I also use them to dry Food Saver vacuum seal bags and reuse. They come in a pack of 3.
We can all learn so many ways to save money here and there and cut costs down.
#recycle #frugal #save #savemoney #reuse #homemaking #homesteading #amazon #deals #steals #sale
We have a few new videos live on our channel.
My Breadmaking Series continues with the next video. I show you so many different ways you can use your 5 Minute No Knead Bread Dough.
In my Homemaking Series we now discuss Raising Capable Kids and Initiating Chores.
Feel free to join us on YouTube and check out our channel.
I have never been this excited over a set of buns!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Homemade hamburger buns. You can make homemade it just takes precious time but so worth it. 🍔 #home #homemade #bread #hamburgerbuns
I have been making more homemade goodies for more videos in my Breadmaking Series.
They were so delicious.
Who says a grown up can't have a unicorn bowl to put their yogurt and homemade granola and blueberries in? Show them to me.
One morning we made rainbow pancakes simply because we love them and they are fun for kids to pick a color every day. We will do a theme for each color. Blue is for Elsa and Anna in Frozen. Green is for Grinch. Etc. Nothing to do with the month of June. I taught them how to cook and flip them on the habatchi griddle.
Because they still need to be carried. ❤️❤️
I have been on a mission to find a process for making low to no sugar jams and jellies for dear hubby to enjoy. This is so easy and I don't know why I haven't tried it already. 😕
There will be videos.
Dear hubby loves the jam. He sent me a pic and said it was his third piece. It did not spike his sugar and I am so happy.
We had a birthday and Father's day in the same weekend but since it was a child's birthday, we let them have that day and we will celebrate Father's Day separately.
We have been enjoying birthday cake with our tea parties.
Phew!!!!! You made it to the end, oh, but keep checking in. There is so much more fun coming up and more videos on our YouTube channel and and and......more tutorials
See you in the next post.
Have a blessed day.
Tracy
Keeper of the Home at 4D Farms
Yesterdays video is live on my YouTube channel. It is a continuation of my Breadmaking Series.
It is my go to recipe of one of the easiest methods and recipes for making delicious bread or anything. Another plus is this is a no knead bread. How simple can you get.
I even use this to make my homemade pizzas some times too.
It mimics sourdough because of a fermentation process but not as tedious. You can whip this dough up, let it sit to ferment, take a chunk off and make something with it. Store the rest in the refrigerator and have dough on hand at a minutes notice. Viola! Hope you give this 5 Minute No Knead Bread dough a try.
#bread #bakingbread #makingbread #homemadebread #quickdough
Well, God Gib slapped me in the back of the head this morning and reassured me that everything I have been sensing in my gut and my intuitions were right all along. All the things we have been told not to eat for the past few decades are the exact same things that are good for us. It says right there, God put everything here for us and it is good.
Let me be clear: IT IS THE WAY FOOD IS PROCESSED, PRESERVED AND MASS PRODUCED that is not good for us. Think about it, how do you feel after you eat a certain food?
READ LABELS. There are things like additives and preservatives that are linked to diseases.
I am on a journey of getting back to basics and wholesome food. It is a transition but I know it will be better. This is one reason we grow a garden. There are more changes I am making for our health. Please research. Your life depends on it.
