Weather related budget adjustments?

[mzgarden]

Wondering if anyone else is doing this.  Because so much of the local and far away crops are not yet in the ground, I'm expecting food supplies of some items to be either a bit more pricey or hard to come by.  Couple that with the constant rain we're having here causing an awful lot of my own garden starts to drown or rot in the ground, living out of our garden this summer may be a bit lean.   I took a look at our budget and rearranged a few things so I can add to our food budget so I can try to get a few more things stocked up.  I try to keep the pantry stocked but I'm not someone that has a year or more of all our food put by.  So, went through the pantry, noted some opportunities and will try to knock them out over the coming months.  I also planted more spinach and winter squash.

For example - lots of dried beans - pintos, red and black  but need to boost our store of long grain rice.  I'll have to see how our green beans and tomatoes do in the garden, I can those every other year and this was to be the year.  Lots of pickles and jam from last year but I'll need more flour and sugar.  We have plenty of milk (goats) and eggs (chickens) so that's good.

How about you - making any adjustments?

[feather]

We're adjusting but mostly for health reasons. We have grains and pasta and beans (much of that is canned and ready). I hope the gardens recover, we are counting on much of it.

We are going through So Many Tomatoes (smoothies, salads, main dishes)that we are going to need to can diced no salt tomatoes to take some pressure off the winter budget for produce.

[dustawaits]

If you have an Amish or Mennonite store nearby
you can buy non gmo flour in 50 lb bags. . From that
purchase you can put the flour in easier size containers.
I prefer to put any flour , grain, cereal in the freezer even if fresh
to kill any bug that might be hiding.
At some of the stores you can buy beans in 50 lb. bags.

[Jolly]

I've become more pro-active in the garden this year. In years past, when a row would play out, I might just let it go until the fall garden. This year when something quits producing, under it goes and something else will be planted.

[sam]

Here in Southern Ohio it has been quite damp, currently will have 5-7 days of rain. Have noticed many fields are not plowed/planted, wife's friend just barely got their corn in! With what is happening in the Midwest I am in concern for those in our nation who are not ready. Our greenhouse will supply all of our vegetables as we planned. I am going to start buying flower and vacuum pack in 5lb bags to be placed in our plastic buckets, same for rice and dried beans for planting. It has been said that anarchy is only 9 meals away...a sad thought.
Sam

[ketoriverfarm]

I just started my new Costco list. A trip to Costco is 220 miles round trip, so we not go very often. Added a big bag of rice and pinto beans to the list. After we finish our company and family reunion this summer, I have plans to can up a batch of beans weekly for the remainder of the summer. Have lots of dried beans, but handier to have them cooked in jars.

[Tim Horton]

Here in the far north "winter" is a thing you work on all year long. Fuel, fuel, fuel.... At this moment I have the wood shed 95% stuffed with stove ready wood. Will be filling all my outdoor wood storage with stove length rounds to sit over winter. Will fill gas cans when the price drops back to winter blend and vacation season is over. I have enough winter blend diesel to get me to cold weather to refill the containers with new winter blend.

Will need to haul a truck and trailer load of hay from a neighbor. This year I need to price and buy a pallet load of hen scratch grain. It is a substantial saving if you have storage for a 50 bag pallet load.

Before garden and apple season kick in we will do an inventory of sorts. Then restock from that list as Costco sales permit. When garden and apple season kick in, it is all hands on deck and heave to for the harvest.

We have bear in the freezer, but it would be nice to have a young moose this fall.

Otherwise, it is a piece of cake.....

[Bear Foot Farm]

Jun 15, 2019 21:07:55 GMT dustawaits said:

If you have an Amish or Mennonite store nearby
you can buy non gmo flour in 50 lb bags. . From that
purchase you can put the flour in easier size containers.
I prefer to put any flour , grain, cereal in the freezer even if fresh
to kill any bug that might be hiding.
At some of the stores you can buy beans in 50 lb. bags.

You can buy "non-GMO" flour everywhere, since there is no GMO Wheat on the commercial markets.  There never has been.

[Tim Horton]

We are in the mid, sore hands, will it ever end part of apple season. Pretty much done with picking, but still ears deep in processing. Something over 300 jars, a number that are 2 liter jars, ground apple put up for chicken feed. At 6-7 wine makers totes (40 liter) of dried apples for bunny food. A whole up right freezer full of ground critter bread. At 20 kilo ratio of home made foods to a 20 kilo bag of purchased hen or bunny food these cheapen our livestock production well. "Nutrient Transfer" from Animal Husbandry 101 class many years ago.

Now for us.... About 26 liter apple sauce, 20 or so liter green beans, we canned about 40 liter potatoes last fall, about 20 kilo frozen peas. We have about 20 kilo fresh dug potatoes from about 1/3 of our raised beds. Also about 30 half liter of jelly and jam from our wild and domestic fruits. Today is prep day and tomorrow process day for about 40 half liter of Sweeties apple, green tomato Chow-Chow.