Food Stamp Challenge Day 31: Thoughts

6 November 2011

The idea for this challenge came to me before I’d ever even heard that someone else had done one. It wasn’t until I started researching facts and figures that I knew it wasn’t completely original. Instead of being upset I was heartened by the knowledge that there were others out there willing to put themselves [...]

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Food Stamp Challenge Days 28 & 29: A Real Thanksgiving

4 November 2011

This is Day 28 & 29 of a month long food stamp challenge. If this is your first visit, please check out this link to see all of the posts and get a better understanding of what is going on. Early on Day 28 John had back surgery. For that reason he did not eat [...]

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Food Stamp Challenge Day 27

2 November 2011

This is Day 27 of a month long food stamp challenge. If this is your first visit, please check out this link to see all of the posts and get a better understanding of what is going on. I’m not asking a question of the day today, instead I’m asking you to respond to this [...]

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Food Stamp Challenge Day 26: Change

2 November 2011

The only constant in this world is change. We’ve seen a lot of it this month.

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What Does Clean Smell Like?

1 November 2011

When you love to garden and routinely have your hands in the soil, grime and God knows what else, you tend to think a lot about getting clean – at least I do.  Lately I have been thinking more about the idea of clean and what it means.  Of particular interest is the concept of [...]

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Food Stamp Challenge Day 25: Who Knew C6 & 7 Aren’t Just for Battleship?

31 October 2011

This is Day 25 of a month long food stamp challenge. If this is your first visit, please check out this link to see all of the posts and get a better understanding of what is going on. An early morning consultation with the doctor meant that we skipped breakfast (we didn’t miss out on [...]

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Food Stamp Challenge Day 24: Blackberry Tea, Cotton Fields & Picnics

30 October 2011

From making blackberry tea in the morning to picnicking in a National Forest in the afternoon, today was a getaway day.

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