Binders are a great way to contain large amounts of information in one place, while keeping it easy to navigate. I use one for my recipes, my coupons, and to also contain my “brain” in my Home Management Binder.

Every year when it came time to plan a holiday, any of them, I found myself stressed out and forgetting where I placed an idea that I came across months before. I always had good intentions to be more organized, to start earlier, and to make this, and decorate with that. I even made little notes to myself, only to lose them before it came time to use them. Ever had that happen?

If binders work for everything else, why not for seasonal stuff?

Separate into 4 basic sections using dividers: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. I’ve found that I prefer attaching the divider labels to clear page protectors.

In each basic section I like to include a list of things that I need to do to prepare for that season. For instance, to prepare for fall, I had to take our bins out of the storage shed to do our clothing swap, and get our sweaters, coats/gloves/hats. I do the same thing to prepare for Spring/Summer–I take the bins out to get all of our river/lake/swimming gear, as well as shorts and tanks. Also in this list, I might include some special cleaning that I would like to include. For instance, to prepare for Winter, I will need to make sure that all the yard tools are put up and all of my seed starting containers are ready to start seeds. Another great thing to write here, are things that always come around that time of year, that may normally sneak up on you ie; sports, school starting, your favorite festivals/fairs/events, etc.

Then the fun part begins! Organizing all of your ideas.

• When you come across a decorating idea you particularly enjoy and want to try, print it out, or pull it out of the magazine. Then you can hole punch it and include it in the correct section.
• I include Seasonal Specific foods/recipes. There are some that just fit with certain seasons. Generally speaking, you wouldn’t serve up pumpkin pie, Reindeer Cookies, and comfort foods in the summer months.
• Craft Ideas. Crafts are a great way to engage with your children, and oftentimes they are great learning opportunities.
• Gift Ideas. This mostly comes into play in the Winter Section, but it is also handy for other parts of the year for teacher gifts. **If you are really organized you could include a list of birthdays for each Season, and along the way gift ideas you’ve came across.**
• Activities/Games. There are a lot of different seasonal activities that we enjoy, but may forget through the years. Keeping everything all in one spot will help us to remember and be able to choose and enjoy our favorites. Also great for planning parties and family gatherings.
• Include a folder in each section for the small papers, or as a place to store things before you can file them.
• Try to organize your sections by what comes first. For instance, the Winter Section. Put Christmas before New Year’s and Valentine’s Day.

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I remember eating homemade apple butter as a kid and thinking that it was the best thing. Ever. Let me tell you, it is!

I’ve always assumed that making applesauce and apple butter would be a laborous task, that wasn’t really worth the final effort. Part of my 2009 Goals, we wanted to get atleast 3 months of food stored up. This includes everything from jam/jellies, to vegetables, to meat, to grains and everything in between. Over the past few weeks I’ve bought 3 bushels of apples and jumped right in!

To make apple butter all you need is:

• Apples
• Cinnamon
• Nutmeg
• Sugar

You need to peel and core your apples before placing them in the crockpot. To make this easier and faster, I used an apple peeler, corer and slicer thing. Similiar to this one. I filled my crockpot all the way to the top. The amount of apples will vary by the size of crockpot. This is so vague, but I used about a Wal-Mart bag full, or a ¼ bushel.

Once my crocpot was loaded, I added 2 cups sugar, roughly 2 Tbsp Cinnamon, and 1 tsp nutmeg.

Put the lid on and cook on low for about 7-8 hours, or on high for 4-5 hours. You can stir it around if you want to (I couldn’t resist), but you do not have to. When it is done, the apples will cooked through and will look somewhat like applesauce.

If your mixture is a little runny still, remove the lid and let cook for roughly another hour.

Put mixture in a food processor and blend until smooth.

Yum! This will keep in your refrigerator for up to 2 months. If you want to can it for long term food storage follow the water bath canning method and can pints for 10 minutes, quarts for 15.

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What would be a Home Management Binder without a Menu Planning section? Check out this post for some Menu Planning tips and tricks if you are still new to the game.

This section is still a work in progress. My goal when it is finished is to have a complete Master Grocery List, and a Monthly Menu Plan to fall back on–in those busy, crazy times when I just do not have the time to come up with a plan.

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Behind my cover page is extra notebook paper for me to write down meals, side dishes or desserts that I come across during the day, that I want to try. If I find them on the internet, I will either save them in my favorites or Stumble them so I can find them later. If I find it in a cookbook, I will go ahead and write down the cookbook and the page so I can easily find it again, when it makes “the plan.”

After the notebook paper, I have the always-work-in-progress Master Grocery List. Just when I think I have it down, I think of something else, or decide to do something differently. My goal with this list is to incude everything that I buy on a regular basis, as well as price points that I consider to be a good stock up price. I’ve just recently re-done the one I was using, and I’m not so sure that this is exactly what I am looking for either. I found my current template off of our Excel Program, and have just went in and customized it to work for me.

I’ve also included a few extra Weekly Menu Plan sheets just in case I am able to fill it in before the week comes up. I’m currently using the free printable that MomAdvice offers, but Orgjunkie recently linked to a bunch of menu printables and I think I found a new one that I might like better.

Once the current plan is figured out, it gets transferred to my dry erase board that is displayed on my refrigerator. I’ve really come to love this thing–it is much better than the calendar system I used to use. Plus, it is pretty! I found it at Wal-Mart for $1, up by the cash registers. If you are unable to find one–I have a few extra.

Nothing too complicated, which makes it easy for me to keep with it. I was hoping to have my Master Grocery List and Monthly Meal Plan completed to share, but I’m just not quite there. Yet.

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I will be the first person to admit that I was very intimidated by the very thought of making butter. The only image I had running through my mind was me churning butter with a an old crock and butter churn. Let me tell you…gone are those days!

Making butter definitely goes on the easy list. If you’ve got the ingredients and an extra 20-30 minutes, you’ve got delicious, wholesome butter.

Now, I know that a few months back we were trying to cut the butter out of our diet because of high cholesterol issues. So you may be asking me why now all of sudden I am singing it’s praises. The more I began to think about things, the more I realized I didn’t understand nutrition at all. I went with the flow, and just assummed that the labels on products, the scientists behind those products, and the food companies knew and spoke nutrition. Unfortunately, it couldn’t be further from the truth. Butter is not processed; it contains all natural, un-fabricated ingredients. Did you know that the actual color of margarine is grey and it is then bleached and colored to look like butter? Um, gross! Now is not the time for a big butter vs. margarine debate, but if it is something that you are interested in, I urge you to read this article, as well as this one about the processes that margarine goes through.

Back to making butter.

You can do this with store bought heavy cream, as long as it isn’t ultra pasteurized. However, I have only ever used raw cream that I have skimmed off of my raw milk.

Take your cream and pour into a food processor, and process.

I process mine on a 1 or a 2, but it moves pretty fast. It usually takes about 15-25 minutes and the butter starts to form.

Now is the time to turn it off and pour off the buttermilk–but keep it. While it isn’t cultured, it is still good to use in some recipes.

After you have the buttermilk poured off of the butter, add some ice cold water and process for about 5 more seconds. Drain off the water, and repeat. When the water is no longer cloudy, you can finish repeating this step. You are trying to remove the rest of the buttermilk from the butter which will help the butter keep a bit longer.

If you want to, now is the time to season your butter. I prefer not to add salt to mine, but if you desire to, add in a dash of sea salt.

*Different Variations*

• Add about a tablespoon of raw honey to your butter and mix up, perfect on dinner rolls or warm biscuits.
• A teaspoon of basil and a dash of grated Parmesan Cheese for a nice Italian Herb Butter.
• A dash or two of cayenne pepper; depending on how brave you are.

After you’ve seasoned it, or not, form it and refrigerate.

One thing to note, homemade butter, since it is lacking all preservatives, doesn’t last as long as store bought butter. In addition, it takes a lot of cream to make a fair amount of butter. Because of this, I won’t make all of our needed butter, but we do like it as an added treat with our homemade bread. There is just something gratifying about making butter. Not to mention the flavor is better! Using and making butter works for me!

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A clean home is an incredibly inviting, welcoming place to be, although at times it can be daunting to clean it all. In addition to it being daunting, all the tasks are oftentimes hard to remember. I’ve often found myself lost and confused as to what needed to be done daily, weekly, monthly and even yearly. The Cleaning List Section in my binder was created to fix this, and help me to stay on top of all the tasks. In the end hoping that I would have a clean, inviting home, without getting overwhelmed while attaining it.

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Then I needed to come up with a cleaning schedule, but first I needed to decide what needed to be done, when.

What needs to be done daily?

Multiple loads of laundry, unloading/loading the dishwasher, general pick-up.

What needs t0 be done Weekly?

Things like paper clutter, taking in donations, washing sheets, and cleaning out the refrigerator.

What about Monthly?

Dusting ceiling fans, washing the windows, removing cobwebs, etc.

What about Seasonal Touch-ups and Forgotten Things?

Touch up paint, declutter room by room, dryer vents, smoke detector, etc.

Then I needed to come up with a checklist that would help me to remember when these tasks needed to be completed.

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The first 2 are cleaning lists, mostly for a month to month basis. I use the middle one, as it also has some non-cleaning tasks thrown in, as a reminder.  The third one is an in-depth home maintenance/seasonal cleaning checklist and is rather thorough, yet very beneficial.  It covers both interior and exterior parts of your home and is even broken up into Quarters and Seasons.

After I had all parts of my home covered and accounted for and broken up, I had to make sure that I would be able to come up with a system that allowed me to get these tasks done. After all that is the whole purpose, right?

Right now, I write my daily tasks on my To-Do List on their corresponding days (You can see more of that, here). If, when I have all of the that days tasks filled in and scheduled, I still have a time slot available, I add in a monthly task in. If I am able to complete a monthly task, I put a check mark next to that task on the sheet protector with a dry erase marker. When the next month rolls around, I am then able to erase all my marks and start anew. I do have the complex home maintenance schedule in my binder, but haven’t even had the chance to implement it yet. But, I’m thinking that it will run just about the same way.

I decided not to include an actual detailed daily task list, because I found it too complex to include my every task in a day. I’m hoping that in my absense, the person that was stepping in for me would know that I load/unload the dishwasher daily (or atleast when needed).

Do you have a Cleaning Schedule? I would love to see it!

If not, now is the time to set one up. Feel free to print off the forms in this post, or create your own. Take pictures, make a post and link up! Let’s get Organized!

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If you would have told me a year or so ago that my family would be relying on a local farmer for our milk, I would have called you crazy. My naive mind thought that store bought was the way to go. Obviously not with just milk, either. But boy has my mind been changed!

The more I look into what is really in (or in some cases, what isn’t in) store bought food, the more I want to avoid it. We’ve switched to homemade bread products made with fresh ground wheat, homemade snacks, and I grow and preserve as much food as I can. Other than finding a good meat source (which I think I have already) the only thing I needed to do something about was our dairy products.

I’m not going lie. This was a very hard decision for me. It took many, many months for me to finally jump in and do it. And really, it wasn’t me that did it, the farmer did. They had some extra milk, and wanted to know if I wanted it. If I didn’t, it would be poured down the drain. Not being one to waste, I jumped on it, and I haven’t looked back. The family loves it!

Benefits of Raw Milk

1. During the pasteurization process, milk store bough milk loses roughly 60% of it’s calcium.

2. In addition to losing that much calcium, it loses all of it’s phosphate. Doesn’t sound too important–but it is! Phosphate helps your body to absorb (or use) the calcium.

3. Raw Milk is higher in B12 (here is great article on the importance of Vitamin B12)and Vitamin C, as well as many other vitamins that are completely destroyed by the pasteurization process.

4. Raw milk contains beneficial enzymes and amino acids that aid in digestion and vitamin absorption.

5. Many “lactose intolerant” people are able to drink Raw Milk because it is easier to digest.

6. Store bought milk goes rancid, where as raw milk just sours. Sour milk can still be used in baking; makes great muffins, breads and pancakes.

7. We skim off the cream on some of our gallons, and I use it to make butter, or for my coffee. 2 birds with one stone.

8. Less is more. Raw Milk will fill you up faster since it still has all of the nutrients and cream.

9. Raw Milk tastes so much better.

Things to keep in mind: Only buy from farmers that feed their cattle green grass and that do not use antibiotics. Also make sure that the farm is clean, and that the milk is stored correctly.

These fancy processes that our food goes through isn’t necessarily a good thing! I’ve come to really love Sally Fallon’s book Nourishing Traditions. It is a definite eye opener, and it will change the way you look at food.

Taking a closer look at real nutrition, which was one of my 2009 goals, and finally switching my family to raw milk works for me! There is no turning back for us!

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It is time to take a look back over the goals that we set for ourselves and our homes for 2009. I cannot say how glad I am that I actually set specific goals for myself this year. It truly has helped me!

You can see my complete list of goals for this year here.

This is where we stand right now:

• Spiritually: In the last few months I have really started amping this one up; but I am still no where near where I wanted to be. I’ve really been trying to study and understand the duties of a wife and a mom from the Biblical perspective. In doing so, I think that I have grown immensely in these areas–although there is still a lot of work to be done. I still desire to read more of the Word and sit aside time to read–and be consistent!
• Financially: Sweet Goodness. Where do I even start. I’m all about keeping it real and honest–so here it is: The summer was a disaster! We definitely could have done a lot worse that what we did. We are still trying to get back into our strict/tight budget, but we are getting there. Thankfully! As of today, our current debt is $11,131.57, with $8805.22 paid since January–or 50% of our goal. I’m overjoyed that we’ve made it that far. But, I’ve also come to grips that, at this point, it is highly unlikely that we will hit our goal. That isn’t to say that we won’t try!
• Home: I’ve gotten really good at keeping on top of the housework and keeping with my schedule/routine. What a blessing this has been! I’m also almost done with my Home Management Binder, Gardening Binder, Seasonal Binder, and my Budget Binder {which has become a sub-section of my HMB}.
• Gardening/Food Storage: The garden has been going good, although we never did plant my herbs. My food storage is coming along quite nicely, and I’ve got a lot of bulk food stored, as well.

How are you doing with your goals??

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A full pantry is a huge blessing and a big relief in those times when the grocery budget is feeling a little squeeze. This year we have been blessed with bountiful garden harvests. I am so amazed! Everytime I am harvesting our crops or putting them up so we can enjoy them in the cool winter months, I can’t help but think that the “fruits of my labor” were once little tiny seeds and seedlings. God is amazing!!

Coming into this gardening season, Willie and I had big gardening plans. Our main goal was to store up enough food from our summer/fall harvests to make us through until the next garden was producing. We sat down and came up with a rough number of how many of what we needed, and we planted away. Mid way through the season, I was getting a little discouraged because things weren’t going exactly as I had envisioned or planned them to be. I wanted the perfect garden, with perfect gardening beds and walkways, with no weeds. Any.Where. End of story. I worked, worked and worked some more–but things just weren’t going as I wanted. My tomatillos came down with nasty bugs and once I got that taken care of my zuchinni plants and beloved pie pumpkins were compltely killed out by those pesky squash bugs. My green beans weren’t producing at the rate that I thought they should in order for us to end up with what we wanted..so I gave up.

Seriously.

I got to where I didn’t want to go out there, it was too discouraging. Then it hit me. You are blessed. Immensely and immeasurably blessed. And you’re going to throw it all away?? Everything doesn’t have to be perfect. You can’t give up when the going gets tough. Persevere and you will be richly blessed.

Slowly but surely Willie and I are regaining the garden. It has been overtaken by weeds in the walkways, but it is still producing like crazy! We planted some more green beans and some asparagus beans (huge 2-3 foot long beans) so that we can have a small fall harvest to keep our storage up.

Looking in my pantry and in my freezer just makes me smile. God, You are so good!

As of today, this is what my pantry and my freezer hold–all of which is from this year. (I do still have some pickles and jelly from last year, but they are not included on this list).

• 33 bags (with roughly 1 cup each) Chopped Green or Yellow Pepper {frozen}
• 5 (½ cup portions) sliced jalapenos {frozen}
• 12 cups shredded zuchinni (I was able to get these before my plants were killed off) {frozen}
• 2 gallon bags of Tomatillos {frozen}
• 1 Ice cream bucket of Blackberries. {frozen}
• 46 quarts Green Beans
• 11 pints sliced banana peppers
• 4 pints sliced jalapenos.
• 4 pints Hot Pepper Mix (Chinese 5 color, Fish Peppers, Banana Peppers, Jalapenos, and Cherry Bombs)
• 3 pints Spaghetti sauce (We’ve been using some of these. I do believe there were also 2 quarts and a pint more)
• 26 pints Diced Tomatoes.
• 6 Half-Pints of Corn Cob Jelly {recipe to come Friday}
• 6 pints; 5 Half Pints Blackberry Jelly
• 4 Half Gallon; 5 Quarts Sweet Pickles.

In addition to this list, I still have jalapenos waiting to be turned into more Jalapeno Jelly (notice there is none on this list!), banana peppers, various hot peppers, green/purple beans, cucumbers, and 100 tomatoes ready to be preserved. As well as a few pie pumkins that are this close to pie.

Wow. So glad I didn’t throw in the towel!

It may not be the prettiest garden these days, but let me tell ya something. It’s mine. God gave it to me.

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While I’ve always had a pretty good stash of food, there was never really a reason behind. Most of the time it was the result of my obsession with numbers, and not being able to buy less than 3 of anything. I’m getting better. Maybe.

Since I have been consistently making our food from scratch, this makes the need for flour, old fashioned oats, and sugar far greater than before. While Aldi’s prices are really good on these products, far better than Wal-Mart or our local grocery store, it still adds up and I’ll take any savings I can get.

As part of my goals for 2009, I wanted to get a food supply up in the event that my husband loses his job and really, just for peace of mind (who knows, I could get trapped in my house again for 3 weeks this winter!). We just recently put up wheat berries for our wheat flour, so I was just missing the rest for my baking essentials. We hit up the local discount grocery store, which started carrying bulk products, and came home with 50 lbs each of old fashioned oats, sugar and unbleached flour. The only problem was storage. I still keep my small containers in my cabinets, but I needed somewhere to put the rest.

We found some food safe 5 gallon buckets with lids and decided that those would work best since they can stack on top of each other and would be air tight. One of the main things you have to worry about when buying in bulk, is bugs! While it would just add some extra protein, I’m just not for it! To prevent this, not only do you need an airtight container, but you need to get out all of the oxygen.

Insert oxygen absorbers.

These are just small little packets (similiar to the silica gel packets that you see in various products) that absorb all of the excess oxygen. This will help keep out the bugs, and also help your product stay fresh longer. We were able to get ours at another local-ish retailer that specializes in canning/bulk foods for about .10¢ a piece. Definitely nothing that will break the bank.

While initially I had the cost of the buckets, which added up fast, I’ve still made out on top. If I were to buy everything in their smaller containers from Aldi’s, I would have spent roughly twice as much as I did for buying it all at once in bulk. If you have room to store bulk products, it is worth checking into, just make sure that you store it correctly so you don’t ruin your product in the process.

Don’t forget to label your buckets, especially if you have multiple buckets. Also, instead of using regular lids, you can get a “Gamma Lid“, which not only is airtight, but screws on and off. Super handy when you are needing to refill your containers.

If you do not have a lot of pantry space, but are blessed with ample freezer room, you can also place your flour and sugar in the freezer. This will help it to maintain it’s freshness, and will kill any weevil or insect eggs already in there. Storing it this way will keep it fresh for several years.

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I’ve been toying with the idea of getting a wheat grinder for many months now. The price of one had really turned me off from buying one, although the benefits are many. My birthday was in early July, and my husband kept hinting at buying me one. While I really, really wanted it–I didn’t think it was quite the time since I hadn’t been able to save up the full amount, yet.

But–he insisted. This is where I tell you that he is very hard to convert to the frugal wagon. Very. I know that I don’t mention it a lot here, but seriously, converting him to frugal-ism isn’t the easiest thing I’ve ever done. He sees the benefits, and he is pretty good, but he still wants what he wants, when he wants it. Which is exactly why not all of our snowball has been going to our debt in recent months. But, we move on….

He really did have a reason, though, on buying the grinder now. A local farmer, and good friend and co-worker of my husband, grows organic, spelt wheat. He offered us as much of it as we wanted…FREE OF CHARGE! Y’all that is huge! We just needed the grinder to make good use of it. Currently we have not one, but two (!) 55 gallon barrels of spelt stored (with oxygen absorbers so we don’t get icky bugs. Although, that is just added protein.. ) patiently waiting to be ground into flour.

So, for a little over a month now, my family and I have been enjoying free, freshly ground spelt wheat. It is delicious and oh so good for you!! The only issue that I have encountered is that my bread isn’t as “pretty” and one time there was a big hole all through the center. Anyone know what caused that??? I did find an awesome spelt dinner roll recipe that I used to make a loaf a of bread again as bread bowls. So delicious!

I use a NutriMill Grain Mill, basically because it has a bigger capacity than the VitalMill (it’s little brother) and the WonderMill. Ususally when I am making my goods, it is all in one day, so I just grind a huge batch and get it over with since the machine is rather large and noisy (it sounds like a vacuum cleaner–maybe a smidgen louder).

Here are some thing to keep in mind:

• Only grind as much flour as you can use. While you can go ahead and grind enough for a few weeks use–once ground, the flour loses about 45% of it’s nutrients in the first 24 hours!! Can you imagine what they put in store bought flour to maintain nutrients?? Or how lacking it really is?? While placing the flour in a freezer will slow the process, freshly ground flour is still the best! Why go through the whole process and still end up with an inferior product??
• Keep this in mind: 1 cup of berries= about 1 ½ cups of flour. This depends a lot on how fine you grind your flour. I’ve been able to get about 2 cups of flour to 1 cup of berries–it was a very fine flour and took quite a while to grind. But, for everyday baking, this should be right about your ratio.
• Packed with Nutrients! Whole wheat flour (especially spelt) is packed with protein, amongst other nutrients, which is very good for you
• You are not limited to just grinding wheat. With most mills you are able to grind beans, rice, barley, as well as wheat berries. This opens up a whole new field of baking! A lot of these specialty flours are very expensive, but you can buy the “whole product” much cheaper.
• Expect to pay about $250. While this may sound like a lot (trust me–I thought so, too!) , it is worth it. Flavor alone is enough for me to recommend grinding your own wheat. While it may not end up being cheaper in the long run for most (I think it comes out about even, maybe just a tad cheaper), the nutritional benefits are far greater. Nutrition combined with better taste, and knowing exactly what is in your food is as good a case as any.
• Peace of Mind. Quite frankly–I don’t know what the future holds. Now I know that if times get really tough, we will have bread products. There is no need to worry about flour products in my minimal grocery budget anymore. While I know that it may be impossible for some to store 110 gallons of wheat (or over 300 pounds!)-some is better than none. You just don’t know.

Do you grind your own flour?? Have any tips/tricks and recipes to share?

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