JEALOUS! Cheapest place for raw milk around here charges $8/gallon. Yes. $8/gallon. I'm compromising and buying organic milk. STILL more expensive, but not $8 expensive. PA regulates milk prices, so the cheapest you can get is skim, and even that is about $3.50/gallon. Aldi sells all their milk at the cheapest allowed by law. I miss AZ when the milk would go on sale for $1.25/gallon - and there was a store there that kept track, and every time you bought 5 gallons, you got a free one. LOL Oh well. Eating healthy can be cheaper if you're cooking from scratch and eliminating ALL processed foods, AND not wasting a THING!
Isn't it the perfect idea for that one spoonful of corn no one will eat and isn't really enough to save for another night?!?!? LOL
You can do anthing with dried beans you do with canned beans. I usually cook mine in the crock pot overnight on low. The first night we'll usually have a good 'ol southern meal of beans, homemade macaroni and cheese, quartered buttered potatoes, boiled cabbage or collard greens and corn bread. Then depending on how much is left (I often invite people over on that first night) I might take some out for refried beans - add taco seasoning or make your own (I use cumin, chili powder, onion powder, garlic powder a pinch of thyme and salt) grated onion, a little bacon grease and shredded cheese. These refried beans go int he fridge to become a side dish with a mexican style dinner-or just to have to throw on a tortilla for lunches and snacks. Anyways-so I have beans left in the crock pot-I'll add some canned beans to them LOL (chili is about the only time we eat these types of beans-I use chick peas and black beans in one other recipe each ever) Usually-if I have cooked pintos or great northern or something like that-I'll add a can of kidney beans, can of black beans and can of garbanzo beans and make chili. It's enough chili to make another 2 meals... Or if you want-just make a big pot 'o beans and dish them out into freezer bags and pop them in the freezer and use whenever as a sub for can beans. I think it's 1 1/2 c of beans, drained=1 can of beans. Check this site out http://www.justbeanrecipes.com/index.html
I hear that someone is trying to make raw milk illegal but it is late and I'm too tired to look it up. I'm so sick of regulations. I guess the milk price and regulation conversation could go under the being angry about food prices. The sad part is people usually want to blame producers not bureaucrats but I'd better not go there. O.k. producers who USE bureaucrats instead of markets we should also be angry at.
Raw Milk is state regulated so each state has its own set of "bans" and "limits." For instance, in Missouri you can only sell raw milk from private property (not commercial). So it can't be sold in stores, but it can be sold from the farm itself. Not too long ago (like less than a year) our city actually used tax payer dollars to set up a raw milk sting. Yep. You read that right. A sting. I live, quite literally, in the meth capital of the world, but they used my money to sting a small, raw milk dairy!!!!!!!! The law is a little vague. I mean, "private property" is also my car. So the Bechard family would set up meets with people in the city and sell from their car. The police, posing as a family, called and asked to buy some milk. The Bechards set up a time to meet with them. The daughters (teenagers) were the ones who actually made the sale... in a parking lot... from their car. Mom and Dad were promptly arrested. :roll: Their court date is Friday and I'm trying to get child care so I can be there. The attendance count is expected to be near 500. All on the Bechard's side. Because the way we read the law, it wasn't broken. Meanwhile, the most common street name for Meth is 417. Wanna guess what my area code is?
Maybe they're concerned about those hardened milk-selling criminals putting the Meth dealers out of business. I mean, can you imagine their reputation? A picture of the meth "head pin", on a poster with his glass and "mustache", reading "Got Milk?" What would that do to his reputation?
Why not just tax the sale of meth and raw milk so the legislators get what they want ($$$) and the consumers can get what they want.
This saves a lot of time and also saves on gas or electricity, depending on what type of stove a person has in their home. The beans can be seperated into servings per meal. Then all a person has to do is take out what they need, thaw it, and they are good to go. My mom still does this. It really comes in handy now that she gets tired due to her strokes. We made a huge pot of chili last month and froze the leftovers into two meals. It was great. All I had to do was thaw the chili and whip up some cornbread! A fast and healthy dinner!
I can't believe that. A STING for milk. :roll: Sad. What did I Watch yesterday...ICE made a sting on knock off handbags? lol. I think thats right. We have Shatto Dairy that is close by, but their milk is about the same price as our store bought milk which is about $4. I tell you what ladies: DH and I got paid (from all 3 jobs) last friday. Rolling in teh dough, right? We went grocery shopping and filled our pantry and cabinets (mostly canned fruit, flour, sugar, yeast, and canned veggies.) and we were so happy that we wanted to take a picture! lol. My point is, isn't it sad when we were so happy about having a full pantry? I was delighted, and DH was happy as well. Food prices are rediculous, and their only getting worse.
I made a double batch of lasagna the last time I made it. It really only took a few extra minutes. The only thing was I was using foil disposable pans (because I intended to give one to our new neighbors who turned out to not be neighbors at all. They were house flippers.) So the pans were small. Instead of a big pan, I have two small ones. Which I think will work nicely for nights when DH has to make dinner for just he and the boys. And it made me really wish I had a bigger freezer. lol
