I have a collection of old canning jars, as well as an assortment of food jars with lids. I also have many plastic food storage containers.
I have been rethinking many things over the past year, and the use of plastic is only one of those things.
I am giving away the plastic food containers to use [...]
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Reuse Glass Jars
Posted in Cheap, Creating A Pantry Challenge, Food, Free, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Reduce Reuse Recycle, tagged containers, Food, Free, glass, Jars, plastic, reuse on Friday, June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Affordable Food Storage
Posted in Creating A Pantry Challenge, Food, tagged affordable, financial assistance, Food, food stock, food storage, fuel, lower incomes, pantry, preparedness, stock-up plan on Thursday, December 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I am currently reading up on food storage. My idea is that I would like to be stocked for a year on most everything. The food and the fuel will be the hard ones, as they are the most expensive.
So far, I have found two helpful articles:
How to Afford Food Storage
Start Your Food Storage on [...]
Frugal Finds for Your Consideration
Posted in Cheapskate, Cleaning, Creating A Pantry Challenge, Food, Goals: Save and Help, Low-Income, tagged cleaning products, copperwyre, frugal, homemade, last minute meals, preparedness, saving, stretching a penny on Monday, December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was checking out the tag surfer today and came across some things that may interest you:
Copperwyre’s Blog: Stretching a Penny until it’s Copper Wire – Last minute meals, savings secrets and more can be found here.
Prepare Today Newsletter – a collection of information to assist others in their preparedness efforts
Homemade Cleaning Products
Have a nice [...]
More Good Deals
Posted in Creating A Pantry Challenge, Food, Free, Low-Income, Personal Hygiene, tagged coupons, Deals, Family Dollar, IGA, sales, stocking up, taxes on Monday, November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I did a little more stocking up on things today. All items were either on sale, or came from the Family Dollar. I also used coupons for each item.
Family Dollar:
Most of these items used to be $1.00 here, but are now up to $1.10 to $1.25. The prices after coupon still came in at under [...]
Another Creating a Pantry Challenge Update
Posted in Creating A Pantry Challenge, tagged create a pantry challenge, Free, freezer, inventory on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just added information about my freezer contents. Feel free to check it out. I still have to:
Add inventory for pantry shelves.
Add photographs and an inventory for the food carts.
Add photographs and inventories for the personal hygiene and household cleaning categories.
Add free inventory sheets.
Add photograph and inventory for the refrigerator.
Shannon
My Pantry Update
Posted in Creating A Pantry Challenge, Food, Household Needs, Winter Prep, tagged challenge, pantry on Friday, November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Good evening everyone. I have been steadfastly working on my pantry. I have been adding everything that I can to it. I just wanted to let you all know that I have added photos of my pantry shelving unit and its contents on the Creating a Pantry Challenge page. Feel free to check out the [...]
Preparing for Winter
Posted in Cleaning, Clothing, Creating A Pantry Challenge, Food, Goals: Save and Help, Household Needs, Kitchen Needs, Low-Income, Personal Hygiene, Utilities and Other Bills, Winter Prep, tagged "dog house", #2 oil, air dry, banking, blankets, comforters, coupons, discount stores, dishwasher, drafts, Dryer, electric bill, electric company, energy efficient, few dollars, fleece, Food, heat, household items, kerosene, laundry, money, oil tank, payment plan, personal hygeine, plastic, porch, programmable thermostats, quitls, sales, save, save money, save on costs, shannon buck, slippers, slowcooker, steps, stove, temperature, warm clothing, warm jammies, windows, Winter, yard sales on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
(Two years old, I know. Perhaps I’ll have the opportunity to post a more updated one soon.)
Preparing for Winter
By Shannon Buck – Copyright September 2006
Winter is not far off, and we are beginning to prepare for this now at our home. These are the steps that we are taking this year. Hopefully some of the [...]
Prices are Still on the Rise!
Posted in Creating A Pantry Challenge, Food, Low-Income, tagged baking, budget, bulk, cheaper, coupons, Food, freezer, grocery store, money, pantry, pantry list, prices, sales, Sam's Club, shannon buck, shop on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
By Shannon Buck – Copyright July 2007
Wow! Prices (on everything) are so high these days! It is hard to plan and budget for things when you cannot afford them.
I was trying to create a workshop for purchasing food on little money, but I had to stop. I am going to have to start over due [...]
A Fruitful Visit to the Food Cupboard, and What the Food will be Used For
Posted in Cheap, Creating A Pantry Challenge, Food, Food Cupboard Creations, Free, Frugally, Low-Income, Tightwad, Winter Prep, tagged breakfast, cost, Food, food cupboard, food stamps, Free, loaves of bread, main meals, meals, salads, snacks, soup on Saturday, September 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterdays food cupboard visit went well. My nephew went with me and we were able to carry everything home on our walk back. We brought the canvas bags so as bot to be wasteful. This is what we received:
a vegetable platter: carrots, broccoli, celery and tomatoes with dip
a head of cabbage
a head of cauliflower
a container of [...]
