Eating Healthy On A Budget? - Page 2

[caiesmommy]

Originally Posted by chely7425

I can't plant anything on a large scale... we have a patio and that is really it. So, a few containers is really all we can do. I will definitely try and make my own broth tho!! And I asked my mom for a bread maker for my birthday/xmas so hopefully that happens!

Pots are a great start! You can do A LOT of growing in just pots. A couple tomato plants don't take up much room. Smaller herb plants as well and you've got a great little garden.

Find where the farmers markets/orchards ect are around you. Picking apples for us saved an unbelievable amount of money...we've just ran out of homemade applesauce and we just had pancaked this morning with the apples we dried frm last year. We still have dried raspberries. We dried blueberries as well. We used all the fruit for muffins/pancakes and its so worth it!

[Tammy in Germany]

Originally Posted by Usually Curious

We tried a good veg. recipe from a free diabete magazine that was a big hit with the meat eaters around here. It was from Patti LaBelle's new cookbook. White Bean and Collard Green soup. White beans, bag of frozen collards, chicken broth, chopped carrots and onion and a can of diced tomatoes. Super easy and yummy. Cheap, too!

That sounds so good!

[Smithie]

"I can't plant anything on a large scale..."

It is amazing what one can fit on a patio. As few as six tomato plants will, at their peak of production, yield the twenty pounds of tomatoes that you'd need to make a big pot of sauce for canning or freezing. If weather and luck is on your side and you've planted indeterminate varieties, you might be able to process a batch four or five times. But that's a project to get into only if it's a hobby you'd enjoy.

These are expensive, but they can give you an idea of what an intensive-gardening setup on your patio might look like: http://www.gardeners.com/Vegetable-P...efault,sc.html