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Wait, is this a diet thread or a ruin your diet thread?! I always wanted to try making artistic looking sugar cookies so on Thursday I spent hours making icing and piping it onto some cookies that I had made the day before. I get impatient so I didn’t make them quite as carefully as I had...

I would think that the average homesteading family wouldn’t need an American Top Five dairy breed for just their family. Seems like that would be over the top production. Like @farmerjan said, other breeds, crosses and multi purpose cattle would provide milk and meat. I would like to have a...

That’s what our schools switched to for my youngest’s last few years. One month off in summer, and then 2 week breaks in October, December and I can’t remember the other one, but it was part way through the spring.

Yes! Start a journal! I love reading peoples journals. Maybe some day if I get the time and an interesting enough life, I will start one. And I thought you were giving hubs the boot. Must be an update around somewhere that I missed. It’s hard with 4 sister forums to keep up with. We were...

So Bay, I’ve seen a sharp drop off in the photos of your yummy meals and calorie/carb listing. Does that mean you have gone back to the “don’t know-don’t care” method of eating? 😂 I need to look more closely at the volume of sweetened creamer I put in my morning chicory coffee-tea. It’s easy...

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I guess it’s been a while since I posted on here. Around mid January I had what I think was a Fox attack. Could have been coyote, but since we haven’t actually seen any coyotes around here in a couple of years and since we did see a rather large fox twice during that week, it’s safe to assume it...

So this explains why the “turn it upside down and pop the ice out” method has never worked for me!

See if this works Yay!

I feel so bad for all your mud. I hope your sunny days are able to dry a good part of it up.

In the 70’s, when I was in 2nd through 6th grade, my Dad owned the Gulf station on the right there. (This view is facing south.) Of course, this photo is much older than that. I haven’t been to St. Helen in over 30 years, but my brother visits a friend of his there regularly.

Found it! https://www.sufficientself.com/threads/the-freeze-drying-thread.15394/ Now to go read it…

You all don’t just store your rice in the freezer?

You are best off to stay home as long as you don’t feel good. And maybe a day or two beyond that. Covid really wipes you out, and if you try to get back to full steam ahead too soon, you can set your recovery back. I hope they let you have off as much time as you need.

I pressure canned for the first time! I made 3 batches of broth with my turkey’s carcass, and I pressure canned 8 quarts!

I love that we have kept this thread going. I too laugh whenever I see the title. I wonder if the administrators could change the title back to something relevant about buying and cooking turkey. But that would kind of ruin the fun of our continuing to enjoy what the “sour grapes” person tried...

Here are a couple of ideas. The first one is kind of a convenience food recipe and not really a “self sufficient” one, but you could easily substitute homemade cream sauce for the soup and cooked rice for the instant. Then you wouldn’t need much added water. For the second one, I ignore all the...

After 8 years of owning turkeys, I finally ate one of my home grown ones! Christmas dinner: New Year’s Day soup: (This turkey’s name was Soup, btw.) And turkey broth for my first time ever pressure canning:

Aw shucks, thanks! It’s too bad I was all by myself. We alternate Christmases between here and our relatives in Colorado. This year it was Colorado, but I couldn’t find a chicken sitter who could also manage the house dogs. So two days before the trip I announced that I would stay home by...

He turned out pretty good. A little bit undercooked in some parts, but I’ll just put those parts in the soup when I make it and cook them a little more. Most of the meat is cooked just right though.