Miscellaneous goodness, frugal and otherwise

I can’t resist bruised apples.

I stopped by the produce stand the other day, and found two almost-full half-bushels of bruised apples.

So of course I bought them.

The discount, plus the opportunity to save fruit that would otherwise rot = irresistible.

I got through one half-bushel yesterday and I’ll probably finished the other box up today.

At that point, I’ll probably have to stop buying apples, only because my container stash is running a bit low.   😉

(Here’s how I make applesauce.)

I was on a podcast.

Remember Sandi, from The Mrs.?

Well, she went and started a business (Spring Financial, for those of you up there in Canada), and she also does a video podcast called Because Money with two other cohosts.

They asked me to be a guest recently, and  you can watch my episode right here.

I started a bread recipe index.

You can find it right here!

It’s still a work in progress, because uploading all the links and photos takes some time.   But, I’m about halfway through.

And you can feel free to bookmark the page now for easy future access because as I upload recipes, the page will automatically update.   Whee!

I’ll add a button over in the sidebar too, once I finish putting the page together.

Foreign Bread

Yesterday, I made a batch of pita bread.

Which was from this book.

And I chuckled when I saw the heading for that section:

This book was published a good number of years ago, and I suppose at that point in time, Italian bread did seem somewhat foreign.   But that still made me laugh.

American food culture has become far more diverse over the years, hasn’t it?   And I’m so used to hearing food referred to as “international”, the word “foreign” seems odd to me, though perhaps back then it had slightly less negative connotations.

“Maybe the water is too expensive to wash them.”

The Refashionista tweeted out  this video the other day, and I watched it this morning.   It’s sort of staggering to see the incredible plethora of clothing that we in the west have.

And while it’s super that they’re recycling it into something new, it’s a little embarrassing that we discard/donate so much of our clothing, there’s more than thrift stores can sell.   So then it gets sold as rags and perfectly wearable clothing ends up shredded into yarn for blankets.

I’m not sure exactly how to feel about all of this, but it seems sad that our clothes are made by low-income people in overseas factories, shipped here for a short period of wear, and then shipped back to be shredded by low-income people in overseas factories.

I don’t know…I guess the unfairness of it all really hit me as I watched, and I feel freshly motivated to be a mindful clothing consumer.