These are so cool! We have had a set of Cuisenaire Rods since before my oldest even started 'real' school work. 
This Gratituesday, I am grateful for fresh Kale greens from the garden! Woo hoo!
Kvass, Kombucha, and bone broth- I'm ready!
Ok, first stop was at the Cash-n-Carry. I bought that sack of flour there but I got it for 1/2 of that price; $10. I also bought three of those jugs of raw honey since winter is coming, we'll be drinking more teas and using more honey. I also picked up some chili powder as you might can see.
This is a freezer bag stuffed with some things from the Cash-n-Carry. There are chopped bell peppers (2lbs are like $2.39- not bad!), yellow squash for later in the month, lima beans, frozen coconut, and some fruit.
This is my shopping cart upon leaving Food Lion. I bought a couple of pineapples, cucumbers, bag of spinach, radishes, celery, alfalfa sprouts, bananas, rosemary, clementines, some frozen veggies (about 15 lbs worth), about 6 chickens, 6 boxes of Frosted Mini Wheats, org. Milk, 2 pks of manager's special chicken breasts, and several other things. Right at $100 after coupons.
I love Kroger. The produce department makes me so happy! ;) It gives me a good feeling when I walk in that area.
If you can see in this bag, I loaded up on the Ronzoni pastas since they were on sale and coupons were plenteous as well. Its a great product- high fiber, whole grain. I think you can see a bucket of lard in this picture too. I would like to render my own lard, since most of the commercial brands put those weird preservatives in it. (hmm, note to self, bug meat man at Kroger next time and ask for pork fat!- maybe you can get it free too self!)
Here's a little bit of everything all scattered and piled up. There's cottage cheese, ground chicken, org. ketchup, and several canned goods too. Del Monte vegetables were on sale 2/$1. Most of these will go to storage, but one recipe I have on the list for this month called for canned corn.
In this pic I think you can see more of that ketchup and some boxes of tea. Celestial Seasonings tea is on sale and I also had coupons from inside previous boxes. Love my tea! (And so do most of my kids!)
Here you see that big sack of flour again, along with the honey. I think there is some low-fat crackers there to go along with the fish eggs. The freezer bags are full of those chickens and frozen veggies.
Here's the only non-food items that I picked up. (All on sale and coupons!)
Here's part of the fresh, non-refrigerator food that I brought in.
Here's bananas, org. red onions, and garlic that's always handy in my hanging basket.
Here's several cans of coconut milk, a can of sweetened condensed milk, and numerous cans of organic tomato paste that I caught on clearance for .34 a can.
I am very low on wheat berries so I bought up some spelt flour, along with some polenta and the rest you see was already in the freezer.
Here you see Ro-tel and jarred garlic, but if you can see that jar up front you will notice that this is Spectrum mayo that I also got on clearance for under .50 a jar. I bought all that they had. (This mayo is usually almost $5!)
When I come home from shopping, I usually pull out at least one very cool treat. It adds to all the excitement! (Bringing in that much food at once is pretty exciting too!)
I can hardly believe it but we still have some goodies growing in our garden! The other day for lunch, I cooked some chicken on the griddle and put some acorn squash in to bake, and while the stove was working for me, I went out to pick the rest of our lunch!
I was able to collect a big bucket of 3 different kinds of lettuce, broccoli, and garlic tops that I chopped and tossed in with the salad.
We also picked an almost frost-bitten sunflower and brought it in for the table.
