Many of you may have seen this fabulous tip already. It’s an easy way to clean your fruit without any chemicals! All you need is some vinegar! Fill your sink with water and add one cup of vinegar. Stir. Add all your fruit and soak for ten minutes. The water will be dirty butContinue reading “Prudent Pantry: Clean, Sparkling Fruit!”
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My Garden: What To Do With Garlic Scapes?
Toward the end of June – early July is the time to harvest the scapes from your garlic plant. You want the plant to send all of its energy into bulbs not into a flower producing seeds. So you cut the scapes off. They can be used in many ways, you can cut them upContinue reading “My Garden: What To Do With Garlic Scapes?”
Frugal Tips: Top 10 Frugal Tips
Interested in saving money? Top 10 frugal tips to get you started: 1. Buy second hand whenever possible. 2. Cancel your cable/subscription TV service. 3. Cancel your gym membership and exercise for free. 4. Make your own cleaning products using vinegar power! 5. When you can’t buy used buy online. 6. Start a price book.Continue reading “Frugal Tips: Top 10 Frugal Tips”
Prudent Pantry: Salt in the Pantry
Salt is one of those items you can find in anyone’s pantry. There are several varieties of salt; table salt, kosher salt, rock salt, sea salt and seasoned salt. Table Salt – is fine grained and usually contains iodine. Kosher Salt – has a coarse texture, no additives and is prepared using methods approved forContinue reading “Prudent Pantry: Salt in the Pantry”
Christmas in July!
Are you ready for another great giveaway? We know Christmas only comes around once a year, and waiting for the festivities and cool weather can seem like forever. That’s why we wanted to bring a little joy (and gifts) to tide you over! One Grand Prize Winner Will Receive: – One $50 gift card ofContinue reading “Christmas in July!”
My Garden: The Spoon Trick
Today I am sharing a little trick to harvest your herbs! I have a new herb garden this year right outside my kitchen door. Very convenient for me, to say the least. I used to hand pick the herb leaves from their stems, which was slow work and often inefficient. Then I discovered that IContinue reading “My Garden: The Spoon Trick”
Frugal Tips: Keeping Cool
This summer sure has been hot and humid. Usually the weather in Vermont is very pleasant, we might have a few hot days, but for the most part you have hot days and cool nights. This year has been a lot wetter and hotter than normal. How can you keep your house cool without installingContinue reading “Frugal Tips: Keeping Cool”
Prudent Pantry: Cleaning with Vinegar
There are some changes with the On The Home Front schedule! Usually I post about my pantry on Thursday, but I am moving the Prudent Pantry to Mondays. It’s always a good idea to check your pantry at he beginning of the week. Thursday will be devoted to the Home Acre Hop where you canContinue reading “Prudent Pantry: Cleaning with Vinegar”
My Garden: Rain, Rain Go Away!
It seems like the sun hasn’t shown for weeks! I feel like I’m living in a rain forest. The good news is I don’t have to water. The bad news, the weeds are taking over! Despite all the rain my new herb garden is doing very well. The tomatoes have blossoms! The cucumbers and theContinue reading “My Garden: Rain, Rain Go Away!”
Prudent Pantry: Good Bargains For July
We’re all watching our budgets these days. July can be a busy time of year; we may be busy in the garden or relaxing on a family vacation. It is also a time of year to keep your eyes open for bargains. July is often thought of as a slow sales month but it canContinue reading “Prudent Pantry: Good Bargains For July”
Nancy on the Home Front 