Closing this blog soon
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Just letting everyone know that I'll be closing this blog soon. Decided to reinstate myself as a fitness instructor/personal trainer and following that path for a while. I'll be blogging on my garden blog albeit less often than I used to.

Thanks for following my escapades, and if you want to catch up with what I'm up to follow me on my other blog

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Taking a break
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

too much going on in life right now, taking a break from this blog. Probably be gone throughout June as I am having an extended creative break :) Back in July... maybe

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Menu Monday
Monday, May 18, 2009

As usual I started off well, documenting what I ate, then slacked off towards the end of the week. I need to get back into a daily routine of updating, keeping notes and taking pics.

WEEKLY MENU
Saturday

  • Breakfast: Cereal; Homegrown Orange;
  • Lunch: Pasta, vegetables, veggieballs, cheese
  • Dinner: Omlette, chips, peas

Sunday
  • Breakfast: Cereal; Homegrown Orange;
  • Lunch: Gobi Aloo, naan
  • Dinner: Out



Monday
  • Breakfast: Cereal; Homegrown Orange;
  • Lunch:
  • Dinner: Potatoes, homegrown salad, tofu scramble

Tuesday
  • Breakfast: Cereal; Homegrown Orange;
  • Lunch: Shahi Paneer, samosa, naan
  • Dinner: Potatoes, homegrown salad, cheese

Wednesday
  • Breakfast: Cereal; Homegrown Orange;
  • Lunch: Pasta
  • Dinner:

Thursday
  • Breakfast: Cereal; Homegrown Orange;
  • Lunch:
  • Dinner:

Friday
  • Breakfast: Cereal; Homegrown Orange;
  • Lunch:
  • Dinner:

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Food Waste
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Big news on the food waste front this week, we're now worm ranchers :) This week I got my worms and started vermicomposting, so ALL food scraps now will be recycling via the worms into lovely compost, yay! Here is a pic of our 33 gallon worm bin.

And of course, the occupants arrived in perfect health, wiggling away and with lots of little wormy babies :)


Food waste w/c 9th May

No food waste! yippee!

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vegetarian week
Saturday, May 16, 2009


Thought I'd mention today that the coming week is National Vegetarian week! So why not go veggie for the week? Being vegetarian already I'm doing my bit by spreading the word, getting the news out there, and generally encouraging people to eat less meat. Pop by the NVW website for more details!

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Cutting the grocery budget
Friday, May 15, 2009


The total budget for May was $371.55 and last week I spent $73.51 leaving $298.04 for the remainder of May for grocery shopping.
  • Trader Joes = $50.09
  • Produce Market = $12.50
  • eggs x 3 @ 33c = 99c
  • Total = $63.58
  • CR = $235.45
Total grocery budget for May = $371.55 ; spent = $137.09 ; CR = $234.46

This week was a tough week as I bought beer and laundry detergent, big ticket items on any trip! I got some produce from the market and some of that may last longer if I get busy and get cooking :) All in all doing well so far this month! I am still almost getting worried about being over budget each week but then realize that this is the new program and that I am doing ok with it! Plus I am underbudget still for the month!

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Garden update
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Planted lots of seeds this week, so hopefully lots of action happening in the garden soon. Weather is acting up and we've had some weird non seasonal chills, almost 100 degree days, and some normal weather. The asparagus I planted is coming up, can't wait for a couple of years when that is ready for harvesting :)


Squirrels are causing trouble in the garden this month. Damn things have eaten plants, run off with carrots and basically causing a ruckus. I think dalmatian patrol needs to be happening!


Full garden updates on www.worldofyardcraft.com/blog

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