17 March 2020
10 March 2020
Where's the food?
Food totals for the year so far have been pretty slim. Not because there is no garden food (though admittedly there's not a lot), but for a few other reasons as well:
It's too small an amount to weigh! I have been picking very small amounts of new miners lettuce and sorrel growth, and a few bits of chickweed and daylily sprouts here and there, plus some chives and thyme. All of these have been very much appreciated in fresh salads and/or cooked meals, but none have been up to 1/2 oz, which is the smallest weight on my scale.
We're still eating preserved food! Yes, I'm going through all the dried greens and roots I put away last year, and we only just finished off the last of the frozen berries. I even found some dried herbs yesterday, which I didn't realize I still had. We'll be eating them, some fermented runner beans and salsa, and the last stored green kuri squash too.
No one's picking it! The husband and son don't really harvest, and I haven't been because of massive pregnant belly and huge swollen ankles. There's celery out there, a bit of chard and some kale--as well as the above mentioned greens--but there it sits, as no one goes out to bring it in. And finally:
Someone forgot to weigh it! For instance, we ate the huge pumpkin and a medium squash early this year and someone who will remain nameless *cough*notme*cough* forgot to weigh them. There've been several lapses in recording weights, that's all I can say.
It's too small an amount to weigh! I have been picking very small amounts of new miners lettuce and sorrel growth, and a few bits of chickweed and daylily sprouts here and there, plus some chives and thyme. All of these have been very much appreciated in fresh salads and/or cooked meals, but none have been up to 1/2 oz, which is the smallest weight on my scale.
We're still eating preserved food! Yes, I'm going through all the dried greens and roots I put away last year, and we only just finished off the last of the frozen berries. I even found some dried herbs yesterday, which I didn't realize I still had. We'll be eating them, some fermented runner beans and salsa, and the last stored green kuri squash too.
No one's picking it! The husband and son don't really harvest, and I haven't been because of massive pregnant belly and huge swollen ankles. There's celery out there, a bit of chard and some kale--as well as the above mentioned greens--but there it sits, as no one goes out to bring it in. And finally:
Someone forgot to weigh it! For instance, we ate the huge pumpkin and a medium squash early this year and someone who will remain nameless *cough*notme*cough* forgot to weigh them. There've been several lapses in recording weights, that's all I can say.
03 March 2020
Food Totals February 2020
Vegetables:
4 oz Brussels sprouts
9 oz red cabbage
Total: 13 oz
Note: I weigh my vegetables after preparation: peeling, trimming, etc. Does not include some fresh herbs which were too small a quantity to weigh, i.e. less than 0.5 oz.
Fruit:
No fruit harvested this month
Eggs:
Total: 344 eggs from 14 hens and 2 ducks
Total feed bought: 1 bag layers pellets (20 kg), 1 bag mixed corn (20 kg)
Preserves:
No preserves made this month
Homebrew:
1 L cider vinegar begun fermenting (from the last of the wild harvested apples)
1 L cider vinegar still fermenting
4 oz Brussels sprouts
9 oz red cabbage
Total: 13 oz
Note: I weigh my vegetables after preparation: peeling, trimming, etc. Does not include some fresh herbs which were too small a quantity to weigh, i.e. less than 0.5 oz.
Fruit:
No fruit harvested this month
Eggs:
Total: 344 eggs from 14 hens and 2 ducks
Total feed bought: 1 bag layers pellets (20 kg), 1 bag mixed corn (20 kg)
Preserves:
No preserves made this month
Homebrew:
1 L cider vinegar begun fermenting (from the last of the wild harvested apples)
1 L cider vinegar still fermenting
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