It used to be that the worst thing about the grocery store was that their free cookies were always frosted. What a mess. I'd come out of Kroger with three pink-frosted faces beaming up at me. Seriously, I was about to start a campaign for chocolate-chip-only offerings.
And then I stopped caring, because while the government was claiming, "Inflation? Never heard of it," I was watching the prices of coffee and creamer and sausage and toilet paper jump week to week. Suddenly, I didn't care if the cookies were frosted -- they were free!
Rather than continuously complain about the prices, I decided to challenge myself not just to cook more, since I already cook most of our meals, but to make from scratch what I would usually buy from the store, like yogurt. And bread. And tortillas. Weren't most of these things made by our grandparents anyway? The more I thought about it, the longer the list became.
So here, without further complaining about the frosted cookies, is my list of homemade items thus far:
Cheese sticks
Homemade yogurt
My ice-cream maker affair
Adventures in canning
