{"id":4781,"date":"2012-10-09T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianbudgetbinder.com\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2025-02-22T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T11:22:47","slug":"the-grocery-game-challenge-oct-8-142012-fresh-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalskyweb.co\/canadianbudgetbinder.com\/2012\/10\/09\/the-grocery-game-challenge-oct-8-142012-fresh-air\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grocery Game Challenge Oct 8-14,2012-Fresh Air!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week the Grocery Game Challenge takes us back into the garden for some Fall fresh air. Almost all of our plants are now\u00a0re-potted\u00a0and brought indoors for the winter. I just need to get the last of the love ferns\u00a0brought\u00a0in before Mrs. CBB gives me the speech about killing the love fern last year. Yes, I said Love Fern, and Yes she named it that, not me.<\/p>\n

We thought we would take our mates advice and do some\u00a0Fall gardening to save some money<\/a>\u00a0something we really had not done in the past. It’s amazing how all this food we can grow helps us save money in our grocery budget all year long.Upon returning from our Thanksgiving “left over” feast with our relatives today we brought back some goodies to plant for next year. This afternoon I planted some rapini which are so excited about as well as fennel seeds. I also managed to plant our spring onions so they will be ready to go in 2013. We talked about growing Kale and Swiss Chard next year so that is on our garden radar as well. \u00a0Have you tried Kale or Swiss Chard? How do you prepare it?<\/p>\n

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We also managed to pick some fresh tangerines from the garden. Although they are small the flesh is like baby skin, so soft and tender. I was simply amazed at how they were doing growing here in Ontario that I jumped right in to give them a taste. Needless to say I made the 50 shades of faces to go along with how sour they were. I thought to myself that I could do something with these.<\/p>\n

\"tangerine-vinegar-water-wm\"My initial idea was to make a simple syrup of tangerine, then a pound cake, poke holes and drizzle the tangerine simple syrup inside. This is going to be my next cake so be on the lookout for that. Then I thought, the smell of these tangerines are out of this world and I’m not joking, potent is a good word to use. You know when you smell a skunk, well potent like that and it goes right up your nostrils but in a “give me more” sort of way (that is if you like the smell of tangerines). I decided to take the skins and instead of composting them I tossed them in with our vinegar cleaning solution<\/a> of \u00a0water, vinegar and \u00a0baking soda that we make each week. After an hour the smell is out of this world so it doesn’t smell just like vinegar it’s a fresh wonderful smell. Now if only I could grow some of these tangerines.<\/p>\n

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My pumpkin spice pound cake that I made for Thanksgiving turned out perfect and everyone raved about it. I had the ” Yes I know” attitude going on when I had no bloody idea how it was going to turn out since it was my first time working with pumpkin. That recipe will also be coming up shortly on the blog. I post a recipe every Sunday.<\/p>\n

While raiding our relatives garden I was also able to pick up many tomatoes (don’t ask me the names) but one is a low acidic tomato and the other is beefy yellow tomato. What I was instructed to do was to keep the seeds for next year as they were shocked we bought seeds (oops did I open my big mouth too soon). I’ll do a post on what I did for this process which will save us some money in the seed department of our budget.<\/p>\n

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With the organic tomatoes I ended up tossing them in the food processor with tonnes of organic garlic, organic peppers, yellow onion and those basil cubes that I made earlier on this summer when I had too much basil<\/a> and needed to do something with it. Tonight we are having a fresh pot of pasta sauce <\/a>and pasta for dinner!<\/p>\n

The Grocery Game Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you missed posting your shop last week you can post it now.<\/p>\n