What We Did This Week: Family & Shopping

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Welcome back to another edition of my weekly blog! If you are new here, this is just a fun little way that I write down the frugal and off-grid living things we did this week to hopefully give you some ideas and tips, and also just to be able to connect and share!

Meals We Ate

This was a “week before shopping” week so we worked on eating up odds and ends and making some space in the freezer. I don’t really plan these weeks so that it gives us the flexibility to eat up things that aren’t otherwise part of my meal plan or got missed during the month.

We ate out twice this week, which was a big deal for us! The younger kids are signed up for Book It with Pizza Hut (yes you can sign up as a homeschool teacher!) so they picked up their free pizzas during our weekly mail run. We also picked up some food during our day out shopping. We kept it under $20 for everyone (Costco!).

Here’s the Meal Plans I posted here on the blog if you need some inspiration. I have a “super frugal” edition coming out this weekend!

Projects We Worked On

We did a few things early on this week, but mostly we enjoyed our visiting family members. We check up on the spring we are developing while we went out to the far corners of the land to put up No Hunting signs (it’s been an issue lately). It’s looking nice, and we need to keep working on it!

Since we had some help (my dad), David worked on cutting down some huge dead aspen trees that were over our cliff and dragged them up to the house for firewood. The more dead trees we can clean up the less fire danger we will have and less danger to the kids when they are out playing in the woods. Plus tons of firewood from each tree!

Shopping I Did

Oh yes, shopping I did this week! We planned, prepped, and took the big 3 1/2 hour drive (one way!) to the city and did a big shop before winter really settles in. This was a big meat stock-up trip for us, among other things. It’s way too much to list here, but we are working on a video about the stock-up trip that will be on our YouTube channel soon. I still have to unpack our groceries this morning!

I shopped at Costco, Winco, the bread outlet store, a kid’s consignment store, Target, and Sam’s Club. I believe we spent around $1000 for everything which we’ve been saving up for during the last several months (we haven’t done a big shop since July). I’ll add it all up for the video. 🙂

Blog Posts I Wrote

• Preparing for Winter Off Grid – Our latest YouTube video shows you exactly what we’ve been doing to prep for this winter, our first full winter off the grid.
• Super Frugal Bean with Bacon Soup – This is a yummy frugal recipe with lots of hidden veggies. Great way to stretch a dollar for meals!
• Preparing Your Homestead for Winter Power Outages – Brand new blog post I wrote this week all about how to specifically prep a homestead for an power outages this winter.
• Soft and Fluffy Dinner Rolls – There are directions on how to make these with a bread machine and without. They are so tasty!
• Winter Weather Preparedness Tips – This blog post has a free checklist if you are working on getting ready for winter!

I’ve been posting quite a few recipes and posts lately on my Instagram channel so be sure to follow me there as well. We will have a video on our YouTube channel tomorrow (all about getting ready for winter!) and I’ll send you another meal plan this weekend so be sure and be signed up for my emails!

The best part about going to town is coming home to our beautiful mountains. I’d be happy not ever going to town, but I know we have to sometimes!

We had snow again early on this week. The kids absolutely love it! We need some new, high-quality sleds (theirs have holes from the rocks). Any tips on where we can find some?

Have a great weekend!

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