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It’s Not About the Soup

delicata or della cotta, it's good squash

delicata or della cotta, it's good squash



This post is not about the soup that I made last night. Not that it was a bad soup. Missy even ate the beet greens that were in it after only a few moments of hesitant prodding with her spoon. It’s not about the soup because I made the soup in a hurry. I was sick. I’d spent the weekend blowing my nose a lot and talking in the way that people do when their heads are great sacks of mucous. I felt ready for work on Monday, rode in, and suffered some embarrassment when a co-worker caught me staring blankly at my personal email for, like, seven or eight minutes. Having thus obtained independent verification that I was not in a productive state, I packed it in and went home early.

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Make it vs. Buy it

Staff of life, baby.

Staff of life, baby.

A big part of my strategy for meeting this budget of $50 a week per adult (and let’s not forget the $25 per week for the kid) is to make or grow as much of our food as possible. Within reason, that is. I could refuse to buy anything at all that could be made at home, but then I would never get anything done in my free time but food-making, and that’s just not the life I want, thanks. When I’m not toddler-wrangling, I have books to write, a garden to tend, Facebook Scrabble to play… And yeah, there’s this husband guy who hangs around the house, and he likes to get some attention, too. So it’s all well and good to make most of what I can, as long as I enjoy doing it, but I need to draw the line somewhere. I’d go nuts trying to do it all.

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