My family was given several boxes of apples, tomatoes, citrus fruits, along with some heads of cauliflower, bags of celery, and 6 bags of cheese curds.  ALL ORGANIC and a bit past its day.  So today my daughter and I are making pots of spagetti sauce, applesauce, and cream of cauliflower soup.  YUUMMMM!!!  For dessert, we're making maple apple crisp complete with whipped raw cream!  We also started to flash freeze the citrus slices for future smoothies!  (They make the BEST orange julius smoothies with kefir, bananas, and vanilla stevia!)  I also chopped all the cheese curds in the food processor and froze them to use in quiches and casseroles.  What an incredible blessing!!!!! 

This was an additional blessing because it gave me a chance to teach my daughter how to salvage seemingly "trashed" fruit and vegetables.  My grandma taught me to cut up tomatoes when I was young.  She showed me how to cut the bad parts off broccoli, cabbage,  or tomatoes.  My mom showed me how to make applesauce.  And while my daughter does know how to make applesauce and bake bread, she needed more experience looking over fruit and vegetables to find the "good parts."  The best way to tell if a fruit or veggie is still usable is experience.  The more hands-on practice you have picking through produce, the better!  I don't know what God has planned for my daughter's future.  But I can train her to be prepared to feed her family and others no matter what her circumstances.  So many people in our country are used to wealthy eating habits- ready made food, canned goods, meat you can purchase already seasoned and even cooked!  And in this questionable economy, we all need to use as much of our produce as possible.  I am so thankful for the opportunity being a bit less fortunate can provide.  Necessity is truly the mother of invention!

May you all be blessed by industriousness and ingenuity in these difficult times!  And we all need to remember God has blessed us with such a bounty, so let's use ALL of it!

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Posted by bearsmom

This was an encouraging blog. I would love to learn and teach my daughter all that. What a blessing the Lord has given to your family. I think tomorrow I'm going to the library and learn some of the things you were blogging about. Thank you again.

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Posted by CommunicationFUNdamentals

So glad you liked my post. Thanks for commenting!

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