jul 26-28 hot and still cooking ...

July 26,
Continued with solar cooking today: Lentils & Rice dish—I really like this dish—is cooking in the solar oven. I haven’t cooked this outside before so I’m unsure of the timing. At least an hour –that’s what I use inside—and a little more, I guess.

I’m also going to make some stock Today, I’ve decided. I’ve got too many vegetables in the crisper and I can’t make any soup without stock as I used the can of vegetable broth on the lentils. Still, one week until payday. But I have more than enough in the pantry to feed me if I do it right.

Stock: in an still simmering for ½ hour.

Lentils: after one hour, looking like the final product; needs about another ½ hour or so.

July 28, __ Decided I should be making trips to Sprouts Farmers Market store more than Safeway for regular food shopping. This is because of Sprouts bulk foods, of course more than anything else. Anyway, on payday Friday or over the weekend ,I’m going to make a shopping run there and see how much that runs me. I’ve been saving all my grocery receipts for the past 3 months. Of course, I’ve also been buying most of my extra/future food stocks from that money, too. I got some rolled oats today for less than half the cost of Safeways 2-3 lbs. containers. I just put the news ones in the old container though.