Posted on 07/24/2009 3:37:21 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Weekly Roundup - Living On Nothing Edition Category: Roundups | Comments(15)
Did you hear about the guy that lives on nothing? No seriously, he lives on zero dollars a day. Meet Daniel Suelo, who lives in a cave outside Moab, Utah. Suelo has no mortgage, no car payment, no debt of any kind. He also has no home, no car, no television, and absolutely no “creature comforts.” But he does have a lot of creatures, as in the mice and bugs that scurry about the cave floor he’s called home for the last three years.
To us, Suelo probably sounds a little extreme. Actually, he probably sounds very extreme. After all, I suspect most of you reading this are doing so under the protection of some sort of man-made shelter, and with some amount of money on your person, and probably a few needs for money, too. And who doesn’t need money unless they have completely unplugged from the grid? Still, it’s an amusing story about a guy who rejects all forms of consumerism as we know it.
The Frugal Roundup
How to Brew Your Own Beer and Maybe Save Some Money. A fantastic introduction to home brewing, something I’ve never done myself, but always been interested in trying. (@Generation X Finance)
Contentment: A Great Financial Principle. If I had to name one required emotion for living a frugal lifestyle it would be contentment. Once you are content with your belongings and your lot in life you can ignore forces attempting to separate you from your money. (@Personal Finance by the Book)
Use Energy Star Appliances to Save On Utility Costs. I enjoyed this post because it included actual numbers, and actual total savings, from someone who upgraded to new, energy star appliances. (@The Digerati Life)
Over-Saving for Retirement? Is it possible to “over-save” for retirement? Yes, I think so. At some point I like the idea of putting some money aside in taxable investments outside of retirement funds, to be accessed prior to traditional retirement age. (@The Simple Dollar)
40 Things to Teach My Kids Before They Leave Home. A great list of both practical and philosophical lessons to teach your kids before they reach the age where they know everything. I think that now happens around 13 years-old. (@My Supercharged Life)
Index Fund Investing Overview. If you are looking for a place to invest with high diversification and relatively low fees (for broader index funds with low turnover), index funds are a great place to start. (@Money Smart Life)
5 Reasons To Line Dry Your Laundry. My wife and I may soon be installing a clothesline in our backyard. In many neighborhoods they are frowned upon - one of the reasons I don’t like living in a neighborhood. I digress. One of our neighbors recently put up a clothesline, and we might just follow his lead. (@Simple Mom)
A Few Others I Enjoyed
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Egg Drop Soup Recipe - Chinese Tomato Egg Drop Soup
Egg drop soup with tomato, sugar, white pepper and other ingredients.
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Tomato Egg Drop Soup
Nothing beats a warming bowl of tomato soup on a chilly fall day. This recipe for egg drop soup with tomatoes is seasoned with sugar and white pepper. ...
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RecipeSource: Ken’s Tomato Egg Drop Soup
Non classic recipe making four to six servings. Contains soy.
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Sourdough keeps well in the refrigerator, but the temperatures to dry it is tricky as they are killed by fairly low temperatures - about 130 degrees I think.
I love it, but we don’t use it because it sets off wife and daughters allergies.
To extend your supply of regular yeast, you can take a small bit of regular bread yeast and culture it in the refrigerator, adding potato water and flower to it periodically as you use it. Give plenty away and if you contaminate yours, you can get a start back from your friends. That is similar how the old Fleishman’s blocks were used by many. Cut and wrap them and refrigerate and they will keep pretty well.
I can get as much organic manure as I can possibly handle or need for
nothing. But yes, manure from healthy animals is it if you can get it. Be
aware that some pesticides remain active in animal manure and can make
growing vegetables impossible for decades. A simple test of germinating
tomato seeds in diluted manure is a must. If the seeds refuse to germinate
do not touch the manure with a barge pole.
john
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5a. Where are the heirlooms /
It is important to eat synthetic chemical/toxin free food as much as
possible,
especially in these days and times as we are inundated with toxins
every day, everywhere.
That said, I agree with Steve’s comment; it is probably MORE
important to have nutrient dense food.
Steve:
But assessment by adherence to a set of rules (organically grown)
(kosher)
provides little assurance of a superior nutritional outcome.
Sometimes the
best that can be said of OG food is that if genuine, it is free of
pesticide
and herbicide residues. And as I have commented in almost every
lecture I
have given since about 1990, the problem is not that there are traces
of
pesticides in our foods; the problem is that there are only traces of
nutrition left in our foods. And a well-nourished body can generally
throw
off the damage from slight insults like a bit of chemical poison
whilst a
poorly nourished one falls off the twig at the slightest breeze.
When it comes to food, its my belief that there is nutrient dense food
(proteins, minerals, vitamins, enzymes, etc. ) and nutrient poor food
.... and ....
there is “living food” and “dead” food. The latter refers to whether
its chi
and bio-photon and electron rich or poor — is that food fresh from
the vine, almost
compost, or an over preserved shell of its former self?
(about bio-photons, google Fritz Albert Popp - is it light bearing
food or dark food?)
Its my belief that the body is self healing when
(1) energy flows harmoniously and the electrical
potential of the cell is maintained
(2) when it is not overburdened with toxins (which includes GM
foods), and
(3) when it is given the nutrient building blocks its needs.
As to heirloom seeds and organic gardening, well that answers being free
of certain (but probably not all) toxins.
But how good is organic as now practiced.
At my local farmer’s market
there are stands that tout they are organic. Yeah ... they have stuff
even
the local health food store does not have. And they proudly show of
their
heirloom tomatoes and etc.
But the stuff has no flavor —
Flavor is to me an indication that it is vine ripened AND grown on soil
that provided it will all the nutrient building blocks it needed; if
it does
not get those many minerals, neither do I. Nor the other goodies
they make when given the full compliment of the minerals they need
from a biologically alive soil base.
According to Dr. Jerry Tennant, minerals in the body act as the off and
on switches for metabolic processes necessary to maintain life and
health.
And more — see this video clip: (Its about 25 minutes long)
http://www.thetruthaboutfoodandhealth.com/frequensea/jerrytennantfast.html
Dr Jerry Tennant Video - FrequenSea: For Your Health
Be fore warned — it is a promo for a product. But even if its a promo
for a product, the information
he presents is prime for understanding health — and thus worth
watching even if you have
no interest what so ever in the product. Most of the video is not
about the product—only the
last minute or so. There may be other equally as good products and I
am neither advocating or dissing this one.
And if the brix level of our foods
was truly high, there might be no need for this or any other vitamin
and mineral supplement. Even the government knows that the nutrients
in our foods
are decreasing every year and have been for decades.
And then read this article on Vitamin C by Dr. Thomas E. Levy:
http://www.tomlevymd.com/health_ebytes/issue_5.html
Dental Toxins, Dental Toxicity, Toxicity, Mercury Fillings, Root
Canal, Periodontal Disease, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin C, TomLevyMD.com -
Health E-Bytes
The bottom line — our American and imported food really is in sad
shape.
And most of us have been trained to like it and cram it down -—
which makes us bulk up size wise and degenerate health wise.
g
To visit group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soilandhealth/
Interesting photo, is that a dried up canal in the bottom of the photo?
And yes, I see the o, takes America down a notch, looks like some 3rd world country.
My opinion of course.
>>>adding potato water and flower<<<
LOL I should have said - FLOUR...
Wasn’t fully awake when I wrote that.
Thanks, DW, I knew you’d know. You’re the best!
Are those the compressed yeast blocks you’re talking about that I still see in older recipes, but never see in the stores?
LOL!
I figured it was a typo. Although phonetically correct!
How awful for him to come across that! It would ruin my day.
White House posts video ‘The Garden’
Michelle Obama:
“How will {my kids} make choices about what they are going to eat when they are
away from me? what will be the messages in their head when they are deciding if
they are going to drink the soda or a glass of water? [...] I hope the garden will
be an introduction to a new way for our country to think about food.”
Urban park sprouts a city farm - FoodCycles - Toronto
Sunny Lam walks down his farm row pointing out the epazote here - “it’s a Mexican
herb” - and the flowering kale there, which is “growing like crazy” as another TTC
bus roars by.
“In farming, even in the city, you have to experiment,” he says, holding a straw
hat in one hand and snatching a clump of earth at his feet with the other. “You
got to get to know soil, which crops grow well there.”
Corner store sells back yard produce in Vancouver
Home Grow-in Grocer sells food products from around British Columbia, but what makes
it unique is the store sells veggies and fruit grown in the gardens of residents
only blocks from City Hall. This is recognition of the value of home grown urban
food.
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All these great stories here.
City Farmer News [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102690687898&s=1304&e=0017MWkSQ9r9j_ZNiPkHH6gYrTVbVM6dr5XkccYsCM5gBooOspjamF3J4PgPJNvgw6yXikjJ6r7KTfK_XTRwDbC-NcSU_EARizuHGm7RVCiKtgNKZDtFYTtKg==]
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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture
Sacramento police this morning were citing and moving homeless people from a downtown lot where a Sacramento attorney has allowed them to camp.
Read more.
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2155700.html
I love the smell of Skin so Soft. <<<
Be sure it is the old original label/type, as I didn’t think the new floral will work at all.
Woah, that building and bus makes my story tame but,
this a.m I was on the way through town and searching for a radio show on the am band...
my local station was into their newscast and one tidbit was a local “candlelight service” for Health-care reform..
sponsored by Move-on.orrg,,,
Jeeze, this is in the middle of nowhere, and they are inside the perimeter ..
>>> compressed yeast blocks <<<
Don’t know if this is what your looking for but SamsClub has (2)1lb Fleschmanns(sic) Instant yeast blocks for around $8
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2330415/posts
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Doug Ross Journal ^ | September 1, 2009 | Doug Ross
Posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:08:22 AM by TenthAmendmentChampion
I’d be keeping my kids out of school that day.
>>>Are those the compressed yeast blocks you’re talking about that I still see in older recipes, but never see in the stores?<<<
Pretty much... They only keep about 3-4 weeks, so the stores don’t want another expiring item to track.
The compressed yeast blocks are basically yeast and starch. If you keep yours growing and use from it regularly, you can keep it till it gets contaminated with wild spores - LOL then you would have a sourdough culture (maybe a good one, maybe not)...
>>>I’d be keeping my kids out of school that day.<<<
It will not be on the curriculum of this Home School!!!
RE: Your original question on sourdough yeast...
“Sourdough Starter
Prior to commercial yeast production, bakers relied on starters to leaven their breads. Early starters were simple hut magical mixtures of flour and liquid (water, potato broth, milk) left to capture wild yeasts from the air and then ferment. Only a portion of the starter was used at a time. The rest was kept for later use, replenished periodically with additional flour and liquid so that the magic could continue. Today, starters are generally fortified with yeast to provide consistency and reliability; they are prized for the unique, sour flavors they impart. Prepared dry cultures are often used commercially to give bread a sourdough’ flavor without requiring the time and space necessary to develop and maintain an active starter. “
http://www.victoriapacking.com/yeastinfo.html
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