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I have horrible salt cravings. :/ If it was not for hubby I would eat it straight from the shaker. Sooooo any ideas? I have heard everything from lacking minerals to pms. What can I do to break it?

Guess whose washing machine decided to die? :somad :tongue Guess who just bought a washboard! ;) :lau :celebrate "You don't need one" hubby says. "Never gonna need it" hubby says. :smack Guess whose hubby is helping wash clothes in the bath tub? :D

The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a meth lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, "Why didn't we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?" I replied, I had a drug problem when I was young. I was drug...

I found this website today and thought ya;ll might like to have a look at it. I thought it was interesting. http://www.howtomakeeverything.com/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM

Ok, so I have decided I want to make my own fish sauce with the recipe from NT. I can get everything, but I have a questions about the salt. It calls for sea salt and I only have table salt. Are they interchangable or is there a conversion table...? DH insisit we buy iodized salt.

I'm catching alot of hell about this from my family so I thought I'd ask ya'll instead. :) I have four chickens in my little city backyard. Three in the "big" coop and one lonely mean hen in the quarentine coop. Gladys is a very dominate bird and has been separated from the main flock for a few...

I'm looking at growing potatoes this spring and I can't find the "how to grow potatoes in a container' thread. HALP!

AND IT SUCKS!!! :tongue Four guns(and a bow) and I have no place to shoot them! BUT, I do have traps and critters. :) And trapping season starts Nov. 13th here. I have four reasons to get my resident trapper- three possums and a coon since July. I might get to practice tanning this winter.

I posted this question in my journal but I think here would be more appropriate. Me and my DF are getting married in six days. I want to be moved out by next year (or earily next year). We currently live with his mother and family. Well, long story short-living with them is getting difficult...

I was on the depo provera birth control for almost a year. I quit getting the shots about 2-3 months ago because I wanted to get off horomonal birth control. This is all under my doctor's supervison. He told me it would do my body a world of good to get off the chemicals. Which it has, but I am...

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Taking the advice of a couple of the folks on here, I decide to give this fermenting thing a shot. I am reading up on cheese making and was looking for beginners advice. I was told to try making yogurt first. I had already had great success with sour dough (that's fermented right?) and so I...

Dose anyone have any idea on how to make white vinegar? I use it for cleaning, and although it's cheap, I would like to know how to make it. Thanks!

After seeing a picture of a giant booger kombucha tea mother I have to know what the h*** dose that taste like and what the benefits are of drinking this stuff. Do you just pour out the tea from around the mother or are there more steps involved. Is it sold commercially?

Could you use a cheese press as a cider press too? I am looking at buying a cheese press and it occured to me that designs of the two presses are vitualy identical. I would really like to get into cheese making (even though I don't have my own dairy animals-yet) and I also want to start making...

It was a year Sunday that I got my first two chickens and began this crazy self sufficient obsession. As I look back on it, I can't believe what I have done and what I have learned. So in one year I have: 1. Built a chicken coop, managed to keep all my chickens alive and got the BEST eggs. 2...

I'm going to conduct an experiment: no internet for one week. Not because I forgot to pay my bill or computer died, but just to see what it would be like if the SHTF and we were all of a sudden without modern entertainment and information resources. I already don't watch TV and I don't have a...

What books MUST you have? I have decided to buy a book a month and start up a DIY library. I already have the "Ball canning book" and the "Backyard Homestead". I would like to get "Storey's guide to rasing sheep/goats/chickens" and "Nourshing Traditions". What are some other books that you could...

My mother gave me over a dozen really big tomaotes that were going bad sitting on her table. She grew alot more than she could eat. I need a tomatoe sauce recipe ASAP! I have a pressure canner and plenty of jars- I just need a recipe and a processing time. Thanks!

So this October I'm getting married. And we're moving out of his mother's house. :D This will be our first time out on our own and I need some advice. What do you know now that you wish you knew when you first left the safty of home? Any newly wed advice? I have never had a place of my own and...