SandraMort
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I don't know which folder this belongs in, I'm sorry! I need to go through ideas on where I am now, what needs to change and what I'm not willing to change, and how to do it without getting overwhelmed or putting myself into debt in the name of getting myself self sufficient. Suggestions?
Where to begin? In some ways, I love the idea of LBYM. My husband and kids are ovolacto and are happy to have grain and bean based meals, my children were all born at home (and my third was UC) and my current infant (like her sibs) has never had formula. I do not buy baby food or (other than when I'm under a major time crunch) disposable diapers. I'm planning to join a natural food buying club next month to get bulk foods at (hopefully!) wholesale and am a member of a CSA and frequent farmers' markets when I can. I just ordered chickens to keep at the home I'm moving to ($400 a month less than I'm paying for now and WITH 8 acres to free range my birds!) and have already lined up help to find me local farmers to buy feed from to avoid retail stores. Our work commuting costs will go down, too, since my husband will begin to telecommute when we move and my part time freelance computer work is done from home as well.
But there are so many ways I have room to improve. I have a ton of excuses for why I can't, or why it's hard, and those will be a struggle. But I WILL get out of debt and I WILL feed my family better food than we can get in NYC right now. I just need some help getting started.
Thanks!!!
Where to begin? In some ways, I love the idea of LBYM. My husband and kids are ovolacto and are happy to have grain and bean based meals, my children were all born at home (and my third was UC) and my current infant (like her sibs) has never had formula. I do not buy baby food or (other than when I'm under a major time crunch) disposable diapers. I'm planning to join a natural food buying club next month to get bulk foods at (hopefully!) wholesale and am a member of a CSA and frequent farmers' markets when I can. I just ordered chickens to keep at the home I'm moving to ($400 a month less than I'm paying for now and WITH 8 acres to free range my birds!) and have already lined up help to find me local farmers to buy feed from to avoid retail stores. Our work commuting costs will go down, too, since my husband will begin to telecommute when we move and my part time freelance computer work is done from home as well.
But there are so many ways I have room to improve. I have a ton of excuses for why I can't, or why it's hard, and those will be a struggle. But I WILL get out of debt and I WILL feed my family better food than we can get in NYC right now. I just need some help getting started.
Thanks!!!