I mean it’s a logical thing for the library to suggest Mark Kopecky’s Managing Manure book when I was looking for a read about homesteading as well hogs, cattle and goats produce a lot of poop. Manure produces hogs, cattle and goats or at least the stuff that feeds them. Seems timely read with the month of November coming right up around the corner. And yes, adding MSG to your homemade pancake mix goes give them the taste of a Fritos Lays corn chips.
Looking out on the brightening skies 🔅 ➡️ 🔆 as the sun is rising over the land. It will be somewhat dark for the morning commute, though lately I’ve not been getting in the office much before 9 am even when I get up with the tea strippers, though this morning wasn’t an earlier one as I wanted to make sure I fully caught up on sleep and took a while to cook down the pancakes 🥞 though they were good with the apples. 🍏 Wally World has a special on Gala apples this week, and being out of farmers markets apples I couldn’t resist getting two bags of 3 lbs of apples each. So I’m using them for a lot of purposes, and they are very sweet, including as a snack in office. I eat a lot of apples, along with bananas 🍌 throughout the day in the office to ward off hunger. I haven’t had MSG in a long time, but I saw it in Walmart and thought it would be fun to add to food. Gives food an interesting flavor, and can give a lot of zang especially to boring vegetables and even fruit, though I don’t necessarily love the after taste. I’m not convinced it’s bad for you, though it’s often used in processed food to cover up the crap bland flavors of processed crap. But on broccoli 🥦 it’s rather healthy. 😋 And yummy.
Ended up sending $175 at the grocery store, 🛒 well Walmart but admitly my pantry was pretty bare, and I needed more coffee ☕ and another pair of jeans 👖. Lately I’ve been buying the cheapest containers of coffee, which I don’t like because it comes in that mixed-film packaging, which is fine as I burn the paper and plastic, but I don’t like having to deal with the aluminum bottom even though I do recycle that. But I don’t like encouraging production of such materials, and the all plastic coffee containers are more recyclable and definately more reusable. That said, they did have balsamic vinegar in plastic, so I figured I’d try that. Got whole wheat flour, so I’ll be making bread later in the week 🥪 and lots of bean soups. Oatmeal for use in my homemade pancakes, and for grinding and using with frozen fruit and sugar-free syrup. So much for being frugal, but granted my pantry was kind of depleted after vacation despite spending $50 bucks lats week on groceries. But now it’s pretty full though in retrospect I wish I had gotten one of those half gallon bottles of Frank’s Hot Sauce and sugar-free peanut butter powder. Maybe the next time I’m at all Wally World but do I need more sugar and fat?
Bringing in a bottle of apple cider vinegar into my office. 🥛 Usually I drink water 💦 in the office plain or with ice but I do like apple cider vinegar – just a little – to flavor my water. While I know the health benefits are pretty dubious I like the flavor and that gets me drinking more water and hopefully less coffee ☕. I was getting into a very intense discussion on a frugal living group on Facebook about eating brown rice 🍚 – I was arguing it is quite healthy especially with beans but others disagree, 👎🏽 especially carb haters. I guess you can’t make every one but I like things simple and tangy. And I use lots of turmeric with my arsenic loaded brown rice which people say is healthy as long as the turmeric itself lacks much lead. Rather get lead poisoning then live a life of processed food and garbage and morbid obesity. Even if I do burn trash I try to reduce the amount I must illegaly pitch into the flames 🔥 while giggling 🤭 with my now legal smile. ☺️
It turned out to be much nicer weekend then expected, ☀️ and I should have headed out of town to Schoharie, but I didn’t. I just was tired of camping 🏕️ in cold and wind, with gray skies 🌥️ and I feared that’s what Schoharie would have been like. While I got two acorn squash and a spaghetti squash at Wally World, I would have much l read, there is a lot to be learned about poop. I was on my best behavior this weekend and being that I didn’t camp, I didn’t burn a lot of gasoline or plastic or used motor oil and pallets nor did I drink 🍻 or smoke weed. The colors 🍁 in the woods were good without being super stoned.
