Frugal Friday Wrap Up 6/26/25

~I made a strawberry/rhubarb compote with fruit from our garden.

~I froze some chopped up rhubarb to use later.

~More Sourdough discard crackers were made.  This time I mixed in some Monterey jack cheese.   It was a huge hit with both Jeff and I.

~While looking at the reorder date of a supplement that we have for our dog Maggie, I noticed that I had some credits that I could apply to my order making it completely free!   What a blessing that is when we are only living on Jeff's Social Security at the moment.

~We went to Grocery Outlet for their produce sale.  We got a bag of avocadoes for $2.50, 3 cantaloupes for $2 each and a 5 pound bag of apples for $4.99.  I am trying to up our fruit and veggie intake.

~I made cheese tortellini for dinner.  I love a good pesto sauce, but Jeff is not so keen on it.  I decided to make a pesto alfredo sauce, which toned down the basil flavor to the point where my husband actually said it was good.  WIN!

~More strawberries were picked.

~I made some comfrey oil to use on sore joints and muscles.

~One of the things I treasure and go back to read time after time is a binder I put together with Laine's Letters.  I am so inspired after reading those letters from all years ago.

~Jeff started physical therapy twice a week.  He also had a doctor's appointment.  All of these were 48-mile round trips.  The cost of the additional runs into town have taken another bite out of our budget.  I am trying to make sure we combine errands if at all possible and am working with the physical therapy office to try and get the doctor's appointment and the second physical therapy session on the same morning.

~Social Security added some money to my upcoming checks since I could get more based on what Jeff has made on his.

~The raspberries are starting to ripen, so I have been enjoying eating them.

~This week I seeded in some New Zealand Spinach to my front raised bed garden.

~Jeff grilled up some smoked Polish sausages for us.

~Jeff and I decided to go and donate some things to Goodwill.  We stopped at Hope thrift store first and found a large wood wine rack that holds 30 bottles of wine for $4.99.  This will allow me to keep all my wine in one wine rack instead of 2 wine racks plus a box.  Jeff also found a nice pop-up shade structure for $30.00.  We had been looking for one to ad to our camping stuff so we can have a shade right outside of our pop-up tent trailer. I found a book on plant propagation for $2.99.  This is something that I wanted to learn more about.  At Goodwill I found a nice Tupperware container, some gorgeous plates and more books.

~I divided up a pound and a half of hamburger meat and used 2/3 of it for a Teriyaki meatloaf that I served with rice and corn.  The other 1/3 was made into taco meat that I used in a big taco one night for dinner. The salad included lettuce and radishes from our garden in it.