We are on holiday. Staycation.
It's a big frugal thing we do - we never go to long-distance journeys during our holidays. To be honest, it is not the frugality aspect why we do only staycations. It's just too much stress. I don't want to end up once more on ER on strange town with vomiting and feverish child, or trying to find a decent garage to fix our broken car. Not to mention need to find a house sitter and dog and cat sitter. But as we don't go anywhere, we can spend all that travelling expences at home...
I just made a bun dough, I'l make 16-20 buns out of it. Wheat flour, yeast, salt, some sugar, milk (out of date) oats, wheat brans, butter and white clover flowers I grind with my mortar. Most expensive thing is cheese, but it was leftovers I grated. Milk was actually free, I was given it last weekend when we had our communal midsummer party, because of horrible weather there were fewer people than usually, there were leftovers. Flour is the cheapest brand of not-imported flour. Clovers are free, lump of yeast is 17c, oats once again cheapest not-imported I can find, wheat brans I got as a present from my co-worker - oh butter is quite costly, 2,89€/500g but I used only 50g. So I roughly calculate my buns cost me 2€ to make, if I buy cheese buns they would be 1,99€/5.
I'm knitting socks to es, 'cos 'Suma ate his boot socks and he doesn't use any other socks. This time I got yarn from my mother - and they were given to her by my uncle, they were his wifes old yarns, bus she's badly demented and has no use to them. My mother with arthritis can't knit anymore.
I'm going to gather some nettles to make pancake batter. Kids love nettle pancakes (well, they love pancakes, and during the summer I'll only make batter with nettle or spinach in it) and I have rest of expired milk to use.
I'm also going to pick meadowsweet flowers, I'm going to make meadowsweet sugar. Never done it before, but I had a teste of it and it was lovely. If i can find roses still blooming, I'll make rose sugar.
I have few pairs of jeans to patch. Because I'm on holiday, I can use patched jeans every day - my new jeans can wait until I'm back at the office.
Today is a very windy day. Wind comes from north, so it's really cold, so that's why I'm still sitting inside (I took 'Suma for her morning walk already before I made the dough). Kids might want a luch soon, it will be beans on toast-type simple affair - yesterday was my nephews birthday party and we had plenty of cakes and pies...
