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  1. I took my dehydrated foods and put them into jars, and then vacuum sealed them. I have about 30 quart jars of dehydrated food. it looks cool on the shelves.

     

    Last thing I dehydrated was about a week ago -- zuchinni. Friday I get paid and there are some great deals in the grocery stores right now. Tomatoes for 25 cents a lb. Bananas for 33 cents a lb. :-) I am wondering if Kiwi dehydrates -- they have those 5/1$

  2. Well I saved a penny or two, to see if I could resell some things. I found nice cloth table clothes Originally -- 8 dollars and more, for 1.75 and nice cloth placemats for under a dollar each. I found napkins for under 50 cents each. I plan on putting them together in sets on Ebay and selling them and see if I can make a FEW dollars on them. :-)

     

     

  3. laughkick You have just a FEW items that I would think were over the top. However, next fondue party you have, I am SO there! I love the stuff!

     

     

    Rice Cooker

     

    Ped Egg

     

     

    That ped egg is the greatest thing since sliced bread! I love it. I am trying to find one for my mother on sale...maybe for her birthday in March I can get it. I wear sandals most of the time (because with my hands they are easier to get ON than tennis shoes). My skin was callused and thick...and the ped egg took care of it. My feet feel like they did when I was a KID! Amazing.

     

     

  4. Originally Posted By: onepoormomma
    Hmmm...Rice cooker? Come on! Are we serious?



    LOL, I love my rice cooker. Put it in the rice cooker and forget it. Just measure out the water, rice and salt, and in 20 minutes without doing a thing, my rice is done. Love it.

    NOW if my son would just put the pieces of it together in the SAME PLACE so I can FIND THEM when I need to make rice, THAT might be more useful that the rice cooker itself!
  5. Originally Posted By: JCK88
    LOL...the banana slicer cracked me up. (but I want to try one now...LOL..not buy one, try one!)



    As soon as I read that I thought "Oh man -- I WANT one of those." I make so many dehydrated bananas, it would honestly be a timesaver for me. I would use it for bananas on my breakfast too. Ha! See now I have to go looking for a cheap banana slicer.

    Speaking of slicers. I used a CHEESE SLICER for the first time ever and OH MAN do those things cut down the time it takes to cut a block of cheese into chunks. The kids were amazed too. Just press down lightly and boom...cut cheese, fast and easy.

    Okay...I love time saving gadgets.

  6. Originally Posted By: ArmyOfFive4God
    Judy, would you explain how you do the deh. & grinding thing? THNX!



    I agree, I am going to call you about this one if you don't post how to use the lemons up.

    I will be getting as many lemons as I WANT pretty soon. I can get more too. So I would like to dehydrate them, and I would like to squeeze and freeze like I usually do. However the lemon juice doesn't last long, and I squeeze a LOT of lemons.
  7. Originally Posted By: michelle
    rofl Oh my... this is too funny for words. Don't ya know you don't need dental floss for your behind? laugh




    Uhm, there are SOME men I know, who should be using THICK pieces of dental floss on their behinds. Probably some women too. I just don't KNOW them!
  8. Don't have a recipe, but I will be BEGGING for it tonight when I get to writing my emails. I had it today at the Homeschooler Thankgiving festivities. It was a pudding, that tasted like.... pumpkin pie and was SO GOOD!!

     

    Okay, my favorite.

     

    You need a 9x9 square for 1 recipe of this I made double with no problem and it went fast today.

     

    Corn Pudding:

     

    1 can of cream of corn

    1 can of corn

    1 box jiffy corn bread mix

    1 egg

    8 oz sour cream

    1 stick of butter (margarine works too)

     

    Melt the butter.

    combine all the ingrediants.

    Put into the pan

    Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes (check from the 30 minute mark) The top will be a little bumpy but golden brown.

     

    this has become my favorite recipe in the world and I only allow myself to have it on Thankgiving (or for Thankgiving festivities, but cause ... well really...butter, sour cream, creamed corn? However I wave a magic wand over your first batch and all calories become non existant! (Until you actually bite INTO it. LOL)

  9. Originally Posted By: onepoormomma
    My kids and I are finding ceramic tiles super cheap (umm...9 cents cheap) and are going to personalize them, put sticky felt feet on the bottom, and voila! trivets for gift giving:?) Who wouldn't want a trivet?


    What a GREAT idea! I can sure use this idea.

    If I were talented like Judy I would do the aprons. I am just now learning to sew and I don't think that I am good enough yet to attempt aprons. LOL

    However, I CAN stick feet onto tiles.
  10. I do a few things to release stress. Writing for instance. Seems the more I write about what is stressing me out, the less I am stressed about it.

     

     

    Neopets. mindless entertainment. Childish even, though there are definatley some adult aspects that appeal. I love creating pets and dressing them, putting on backgrounds and my kids love playing too. My daughter Katy has improved her writing skills by roleplaying on the boards. I play for about 45 minutes a day. Zapping my pets that I have adopted so that they turn into something cool, then releasing them to the pound so that someone can adopt them.

     

     

    I read. Popcorn (Sillyoutte and Harl. type romance) or Science Fiction or Fantary. My favorite lately have been paranormal romance.

     

    Coming to MrsS or to Homesteading today I am usually a little more stressed that I might otherwise be, because I am learning more about what I have to be stressed about, but talking about it DOES decrease some of the stress.

     

    I do know I need to do more for me, and worry less. My therapist (who unfortuanately is I believe and Obama fan) says I am too preoccupied with worry about everything. She says I stress her out and have prompted her to start stocking up on food (she says she now has several weeks worth of food for her family LOL)> She says that I already have too much worry on my plate from just survival (dealing with my kids, ex, disabilities, mental health, medication side effects, panic attacks when in public, low income, low income housing, trying to survive without child support on SSI Etc.) Then I go and add worry about everything ELSE in there. While she says she thinks I am 'well educated' about the current economic, political etc... situation, that most of what we worry about never happens. I told her that I agree. Most of what we worry about doesn't happen. However even if my timing belt never breaks, I WILL be checking it and doing maintence so that I am READY in case it gets to the point where it might snap.

     

    I have thought about what I can do for me. I read, play on the computer play with my kids.

  11. Nancy Drew, Bobsy Twins, Three Investigators. My side of the mountain, Johnny Treamain, White Fang, War of the Worlds, 20 thousand leagues under the sea, Island of the blue dolphin, Black Beauty, Jacob Have I loved, Dragonwings, as an older teen Alas Babylon, Enders Game (series), Dune (series), anything by Piers Anthony, Anne McCaffery (Especially the Pern series), Orson Scott Card.

  12. Shane -- I was 10 and it was the very FIRST book that I remember ANYONE had EVER read to me. My Mom liked to read, but she hated to have people read to her, so she never read aloud to us. frown

     

    The Little Princess

     

    Tom Sawyer

    Huckleberry Fin

    Sarah Plain and Tall

    Shiloh

    Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Oliver Twist

    Heidi

    Heidi Grows Up

    Heidi's Children

     

     

  13. Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

    by Joe Butt

    Profile: INFJ

    Revision: 3.01

    Date of Revision: 6 Mar 2005

     

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    Beneath the quiet exterior, INFJs hold deep convictions about the weightier matters of life. Those who are activists -- INFJs gravitate toward such a role -- are there for the cause, not for personal glory or political power.

     

    INFJs are champions of the oppressed and downtrodden. They often are found in the wake of an emergency, rescuing those who are in acute distress. INFJs may fantasize about getting revenge on those who victimize the defenseless. The concept of 'poetic justice' is appealing to the INFJ.

     

    "There's something rotten in Denmark." Accurately suspicious about others' motives, INFJs are not easily led. These are the people that you can rarely fool any of the time. Though affable and sympathetic to most, INFJs are selective about their friends. Such a friendship is a symbiotic bond that transcends mere words.

     

    INFJs have a knack for fluency in language and facility in communication. In addition, nonverbal sensitivity enables the INFJ to know and be known by others intimately.

     

    Writing, counseling, public service and even politics are areas where INFJs frequently find their niche.

     

  14. Originally Posted By: JCK88

    Those paper mops. I like the old-fashioned kind of mop--the kind you swab decks with..if it gets icky, you sanitize it with bleach. I have a mop bucket with a wringer for it. I also like the old sponge mops, too.

     

     

    Oh yes, I think those are a waste. I have the good old yellow bucket with the wringer on it, and a string mop with two replacement mop heads for when it gets really dirty and I need to wash them.

  15. Originally Posted By: Abigail

     

    Pre-boiled eggs. :shakinghead:

     

    I couldn't believe what I was seeing...how hard is it to boil water???

     

    I have bought them occasionally. Especially when I want to make deviled eggs. They are already peels -- a dozen of them, and cost me only a dollar more. My time is worth a dollar for someone else to peel the eggs and make them perfectly. LOL

     

    We don't buy them now that the kids love egg salad and make boiled eggs all the time themselves.

  16. Canard ala Orange (Duck ala Orange)

     

     

    1 4lb. duck

    5-6 oranges

    1/2 lemon

    1 good glass of dry white wine

    1.6 oz. butter

    salt

    pepper

    1/2 glass of liquor of orange

     

     

     

    Brown the duck in a pot with half of the butter.

     

    Press one orange and the half lemon.

     

    Shred the zest of 2 oranges. Rub the skin of the orange on a very fine rape. Whiten this zest by putting it in a cold water saucepan that you will carry to boiling and that you stop as soon as it boils. Now mix them to juice.

     

    When the duck is well-cooked, trim the pot, deglaze with the white wine and the juice of fruit. Replace the duck in the pot, salt and pepper. Cover and leave to cook again for 45 minutes.

     

    Peel the remainder of the orange to lively and cut them. Take the duck out and add the pieces of oranges and the liquor in the juice of cuisson. Reduce heat and mix the remainder of the butter outside the fire. Cut the duck and serve right away.

     

     

     

     

    If you ever need a duck recipe....there you go.

  17. Originally Posted By: Carolyn
    We make goats milk soap for sale--



    Yeah yeah yeah, so do you have a web site? I can't make soap. I do however buy it really well. Well can't meaning I am afraid to. I wouldn't mind learning, in fact I would love to learn, but I would need to find someone who actually KNOWS how to make it before I could do it, and I would need them holding my hand through the process the first couple times.
  18. Originally Posted By: NYDebbie
    You might be well on your way to becoming a survivalist if:

    after reading a thread on 'Rationing your food', you look down at the 40 pounds you should loose and find yourself thinking the extra weight would be an asset - You could be on short rations for a while without fear of starving


    I'm not overweight, I've got internal food stores!




    ROFLOL! I have internal food stores! Hurrah!
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