Like Merchant Ships: Food For Thought: Archive

November 2010

23 posts

Uppercase Woman: Baking: Another Tale of the Accidentally Frugal → uppercasewoman.com

The best part of being frugal isn’t the money you save but the accomplishment you feel.

(Fair warning: a couple curse words in this link.)

Clerical Reform: Holy (Voluntary) Poverty - 5 → clericalreform.blogspot.com

A thoughtful post on luxuries. Even if I am not bound by the same vow as the author, I appreciate the thoughtful questions he asks when he is tempted to purchase something. Especially now, when Black Friday ads and holiday decorations beckon…

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100 Days of Real Food → 100daysofrealfood.com

One family, no processed foods, $125 a week

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“But as you all know, our move back home meant a career change for Kyle and that new career in the finance sector careened into a recession and we choked and sputtered as the financial strain sucked the air out of us. All of this is to say when I saw my first Christmas commerical this year, my stomach dropped. And not in a good way. In a way that made me realize that I am struggling with some very real anxiety about the weeks to come. And I know I’m not the only one.” —Can We Talk About Holiday Anxiety? - SortaCrunchy

“It used to be that the Proverbs 31 Lady was held up as the near-impossible ideal for us: wife, mother, transactor of business, clother of children, maker of bed coverings, laughing at the future. These days she has a new rival for perfection. I call her Aunt Alberta, and she makes old Prov.31 sound like a slob by comparison. She doesn’t bring her food from afar, because that’s not politically correct; it has to come from within a hundred miles, and must not include bananas or anything that’s not fairly traded.” —Dewey’s Treehouse: Storebought cookies, or, what to do when the Good Cavekeeping Lady calls

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