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A 5 Minute Read
Q. Lewis, any tips for saving money on food?
A. I save a few thousand dollars a year on food by making things myself. Pita bread, Kombucha, Yogurt, and pickles
I’m as thrifty as they come, but I never consider myself “cheap.” After all, I spend 3 months a year in Honolulu
Here is an extreme example, of starting from scratch. I mean making everything from seed. Still at $7 - $10 for a large jar of natural dill pickles, it can get expensive, So I make them. It cost little in time or money to do it.
Growing the Garlic
It is simple and easy to do though it takes about 4 months of waiting. This tip comes from a course I taught a course decades ago and a book I wrote called “How to Hack Your Life through Game Thinking.”
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Living intentionally well on very little cash is one of my passions. For me, it is all a life game. This hack, which is more easily done if you have a small garden or live in the country, costs virtually nothing and has a return on investment of a couple of thousand percent. All it requires is patience. Again, we will do this step by step.
1. Get 3-4 bulbs of garlic. This can cost less than a dollar or barter for them.
2. Each bulb may contain 5-6 cloves of garlic.
3. Separate the cloves but leave the paper skin covering on them.
4. Fill flowerpots with potting soil or old compost.
5. Put each clove in the soil and cover with more soil. Water about once or twice a week.
6. Go to a Seed Exchange. There are many listed on Facebook. A seed exchange is where you can buy, sell or exchange seeds.
7. Exchange garlic (even store bought) for Black pepper, dill seeds, and Kirby seeds (these Kirby seeds will grow into pickling cucumber)s.
8. In a warm kitchen or in the spring after the last frost plant the dill and cucumber (Kirby) seeds). Both plants tend to be hearty and require little care other than regular watering. One cucumber plant, from one seed, may produce 4-5 cucumbers. I use rain water I catch into barrels off my roof to water the plants.
9. In about 6 weeks the garlic, dill, pepper, and cucs will be ready for harvesting. Of course, any of these can be bought at a food market. It all depends on how committed you are to the “hack”.
Keep in mind that during the growth period of the garlic, scapes will grow out of the garlic plants. Scapes are intensely tasting chive or scallion with a garlic taste. They are similar to green onions. You can nip them off with a scissor and use them in recipes that call, for garlic. Cutting them off now and then will actually help the new garlic bulbs to forms from the little cloves you planted. Garlic scapes are often sold in Chinese, Asian or International food markets The next step is to make the pickling mix. Vinegar is needed here.
10. I make my own from crab apples I pick in the forest near my home. I juice these apples; let the juice sit and in a few weeks I have apple cider vinegar.
11. If you don’t have the time or desire to do this you can buy vinegar. It is very inexpensive.
12. When it is time to make the pickles it is best to put the cucs in ice water for about 3 hours – just short of frozen. This will keep them from getting mushy in the pickling brine.
13. When ready; mix equal parts vinegar and water in a 32oz jar. Add black and white peppercorns, the garlic and dill, and salt.
14. Wait a week or so. The longer you leave them the better they are. After 3-4 week they might begin to get soft.
If you produce enough garlic you can sell them at a local farmers market or barter. Each of the steps I have listed here should not take longer than about 20 minutes. This is what I would call an extreme hack yet I want you to see how far you can take this if you have the right information, the creativity, and the incentive.
The ingredients for the dill pickles probably all cost less than $5.00. The return on investment might be a few $100 or more.
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Author: Lewis is a lifehacking, prepper, writer, teacher, and master results-oriented life coach. He is the author of over twenty books and is the former host of a talk show on NPR Affiliated WIOX91.3 FM. He can be contacted at LewisCoaches@gmail.com
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