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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    re: Inflated capons I did incise them to get the air out....and there was A LOT of air. As I said, you could pick the birds up and they rattled around in their skin. Anyway, I did the incision and got the air out, but then the scabs at the incision site turned green. By the time they all...
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    @Turk Raphael Good luck with making capons. I tried (via instruction manual) and had dismal results...flat out killed a couple and the ones that did survive got air pocketed, inflated like those balloons within balloons and rattled around in their skin. By that time I was really just...
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    But when you don't drench in sprays you end up with wormy apples, which don't keep well and are icky to pare. We were late on our spraying this year and so the apple drop is the tree shedding the apples that are occupied...which is really smart of the tree to ripen them up quickly to dump them...
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    Our trees are starting to shed fruit long before cider season. When life gives you apples.... ...make applesauce! I thought it might be a little tart, but it is wonderfully apple-y. A good use for apples not pretty enough for market and which wouldn't store well.
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    Okay. I'm feeling ignorant. Are woodchucks and marmots the same thing? I remember being on a golf course with lots of rocky outcroppings in Reno, NV, and the place was crawling with critters too big to be ground squirrels.
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    Several years ago I had quite the addiction to M&M's...at least a pound a day. All the sugar and chocolate was making me jittery and wasn't doing my face or figure any favors. I went to a hypnotist. Cured my M&M's addiction, but it also cured my coffee drinking. I used to drink three cups in...
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    We turned a lot of our excess turkey into stir fry. Yum! The KitchenAid grinder is awesome. I get sliced beef shanks (chimaro res) at the Hispanic market for $1.57/lb and grind for hamburger adding the marrow from the bones. Makes it so lean and flavorful. It's fabulous and really beefy.
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    I have just basic cable at the LV home, but found out I can get a prorated upgrade for the one week I cannot do without: Shark Week! I can do without all that other HoneyBooBoo-rotting-your-brain garbage. A&E and History Channel went from being informative and educational to a bunch of flea...
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    So rather than wasting it and forcing your dog to eat it, what else can you do with an EXTREME abundance of zucchini?
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    LOL! This reminds me of a friend who, quite inspired by our terraced veggie garden, had us over to dinner one night at his new and fairly unlandscaped house. His remedy for the backyard slope was a packet of zucchini seeds...and he was SO proud that he had over 40 plants sprout up. He...
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    If you want to get cheap straw, hit up the pumpkin patch lots on November 1st! Sure you have to store it over the winter, but it's often free for the hauling. We often let our banana squashes go to obscene lengths and poundage....sliced it in halves or quarters, baked it or not, and fed it to...
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    Never really thought about this, but one year I was tired of shoveling mulch into my veggie beds and decided to shortcut by using flakes of straw instead. And you know what? Nary a weed popped up. I just thought it was because I had laid it on extra thick and didn't even consider it could've...
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    Is it possible we're having a miscommunication as to "Organic" (n., not adj.) v. "raised organically"? Either way, yes, the less adulterated the food, the better be it farming or processing. How did we get so off-track from frugality?
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    Or, say, nematodes..... such as those nitrogen-grabbing root-adhereing little ditties that enhance pea and bean crops.
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    x2 It's external vs. internal. Organic is how something is raised (non-manufactured nutrients v. chemicals applied externally). GMO is how something is made (modifying the genetics at a micro-level inside the DNA vs. natural hybridization). Heirloom is a designation...an adjective, if...
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    re: finding lamb Down here in Las Vegas, NV, lamb is also pretty scarce. (Realistically it's not raised down here...picture a wool coat in the scorching desert) But I have found it at Costco and -- surprise -- the big Wal-Mart Super Center where they had quite a selection of lamb breast...
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    We dropped cable TV a couple of years ago. I had had a job (I'm a deposition reporter working part-time) of one of the Real Housewives of Orange County and I had no clue who she was and so thought I'd catch a couple of episodes....which turned into a major time sinkhole and a realization that...
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    LOL! Sort of a perverted twist on "Get your head outta your arse" to be "Get the arse outta your head!" Are the faux rings the actual sphincter muscle? Ewwwww. Too, I would think there might be some kind of a backlash for non-pork-imbibing folks (due to religion or whatever) to be duped...
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    The new bulbs take some getting used to, especially with their slow "getting bright(er)" time. When we first installed them I felt like I had become one of the Mole People as everything just seemed so dark. And the quality of light is different, too, than the warm incandescent glow of filament...
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    Our local store was having a T-Day special of buy $30 in groceries and get a free Jennie-O frozen 10-12 lb. turkey....and not a one per customer deal, either. So we ended up with 3 turkeys in a week (it's amazing how easy it is to spend $30 in a store especially when you have a pantry and...
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