Showing posts with label Thrifty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thrifty. Show all posts

Friday, March 6, 2009

This poor little thing just can't handle dairy yet.
So I bought her some soy yogurt.
She loves it.

However, it is pretty pricey stuff.
So I remembered Mom used to have a
yogurt maker (in Maryland?)
and so I gave it a shot.



After seeing this Carolyn vowed
to never eat yogurt again.
Dairy or Soy.





It does look icky, the directions said it will separate.
But, when it's done you
can whisk it all back together.


If you don't knock the jar over with your immersion blender.




Well, turns out that my makeshift yogurt incubator was too hot.
So, the bacteria all died and it would not
"blend all back together".
I bought a regular yogurt maker so that
the second batch will be edible.
One 6 oz container of soy yogurt is $1.10.
I can make a quart for $1.50
(and $18.99 for the yogurt maker).
I can't wait until it comes.
I'm going to try soy and dairy.

P.S. while the yogurt was cooking Eddie
raved about how good
it smelled, maybe everyone will eat the soy.....
we'll see.

Friday, September 26, 2008

Freed Frame

Pretend you were out for a walk on trash day and passed a perfectly fine object discarded at the curb for the garbage man to haul off to the dump. Would you rescue the item? Would you free it from a life of stinkiness and nothingness that is the life of garbage? Would you save it and carry it all the way home to give it new life and purpose?

Well, I would (did). I did knock on the person's door to ask if I could take the discarded object but they were not home. It was sitting RIGHT next to the garbage can in between other garbage bags. The trash truck was literally coming down the street.... so I took it before the city sanitation engineer did. Would you dumpster dive too?