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Good website for making foods from scratch
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I am looking to begin making my own bread, granola bars, crackers, spaghetti sauce, etc. Is there a good website to help you get started slowly? I don’t want to dive in all a once and end up not doing it. Just gradually add more each couple of weeks. I was hoping with so many good blogs, someone might have this as a challenge on one of their personal blogs.
Thanks,
Paula
I have several I go to, but these are a good place to start:
She has classes, too – http://gnowfglins.com/
http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/
http://www.keeperofthehome.org/
That should get you started. Whatever you eat the most, start there.
Do you have co-op to buy your grains less expensively? Depending upon where you live, there may be one available for you.
Do you go to a U-Pick or farmer’s market to get veges and fruits in season and more cheaply than the grocery store or do you have a garden?
It’s really wonderful that you are starting down this road. Yes, begin slowly and add new skills progressively. There’s many ladies here, including myself, who fix most things from scratch, so we can help as much as possible.
I have recently started this journey as well so I will be watchng for more ideas. This is our second year for a garden and it is still small as I am learning as I go. I hope for it to be about 20′ x 30′ one day. So far I have liked the recipes at http://www.100daysofrealfood.com I do the whole chicken in a crockpot and homemade broth and chicken noodle soup. These meals build on each other with what is left over and my kids LOVE the soup. I recently bought a Healthy Choices cookbook through Milestone Books (they sell the Millers books and R&S). It looks promising although I haven’t tried any recipes yet. I found an inexpensive kindle book good for beginners called Real Food Real Frugal. After that I started adding spinach or zucchini to almost every meal.
I love http://www.thenourishinghome.com – She has free meal plans that I follow – and I have enjoyed pretty much every recipe that she has on her blog and that she’s suggested from other web sites.
I was also going to recommend 100 Days of Real Food, linked above. Another one I have recently seen is Granny’s Vital Vittals. I have not had a chance to look around that one yet, and my pc is not cooperating with me. But here is a link: http://grannysvitalvittles.com/start-here/. One other blog I like is KitchenStewardship.com. She also has a “Start Here” link, but like I mentioned, my compuer is not cooperating. I think its time to replace this thing.
Anyway, hope these help. Happy cooking. 🙂
Melissa
What is a healthy alternative to the typical flour soft taco shell? I looked at the ingredients to those today, and it looks bad. Aluminum something was in the one that I looked at. I’m trying to avoid that as much as possible.
I am trying to find a good alternative to cream of something soups. The one I tried was mostly chicken broth, flour and milk and it never thickened. The recipes I used it in tasted okay, but was runny, soggy texture. Any good recipe for this?
Katie Kimball of the Kitchen Stewardship blog (kitchenstewardship.com) has an ebook, Better than a Box, that might be a good resource for that sort of thing. But for the cream soups, I just make a basic cream sauce and add mushrooms or cheese, etc. as needed. Basically you melt some butter (1 or 2 tb, I think) and stir in an equal amount of flour, stirring until bubbly. Then add some milk (about 1 to 1 1/2 cup) and stir until its smooth and begins to thicken. Google ‘cream sauce recipe’ and you’ll find better instructions than I can give off the top of my head. 🙂
HTH,
Melissa
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