It has been 3.5 years since we left the frozen chosen in Minnesota and the student budget. Thank goodness! It has taken several years but I am learning to spend money with the best of them. But some things never leave you and that is my desire for cheap produce to can/freeze. When you are canning things you want to feel that you are not only going to enjoy the taste difference but that you will also be saving money. That doesn't always happen and usually I end up spending a lot to put up my peaches or other fruit.
Back in Minnesota they had this dumpy store downtown St. Paul one of few that bagged your groceries though. They sold fruit and produce that wasn't the top of the line but had the best prices in town. That was how we canned peaches and made jam and ate any veggies while we were living off of $15K a year. I could never pass up a box of overipe peaches for $2 and then go home a make the best pie with them.
Though my budget is much larger, the neglected fruit still calls to me. So the little fruit stand down the road that sales Strawberries knows me by name and every day that they have "jam" berries will call and sell me a flat for $5. $5 is so cheap! How can you pass those up. So last week I spent 4 days hearing the phone ring and running off to buy flats of strawberrries. Now my freezer is stocked with the most delicious jam. But I guess next time they call I just might have to force myself to say no or get a larger freezer. I think I will be getting the larger freezer.
I love Summer!
Back in Minnesota they had this dumpy store downtown St. Paul one of few that bagged your groceries though. They sold fruit and produce that wasn't the top of the line but had the best prices in town. That was how we canned peaches and made jam and ate any veggies while we were living off of $15K a year. I could never pass up a box of overipe peaches for $2 and then go home a make the best pie with them.
Though my budget is much larger, the neglected fruit still calls to me. So the little fruit stand down the road that sales Strawberries knows me by name and every day that they have "jam" berries will call and sell me a flat for $5. $5 is so cheap! How can you pass those up. So last week I spent 4 days hearing the phone ring and running off to buy flats of strawberrries. Now my freezer is stocked with the most delicious jam. But I guess next time they call I just might have to force myself to say no or get a larger freezer. I think I will be getting the larger freezer.
I love Summer!
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