Comments on: Nutritional Eating on a Budget

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:36:32 +0000

thanks so much for the thoughts my husbands mother is supposed to be bringing up some raw goats milk for us to try when she comes for the 4th. maybe I will like it!

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:34:54 +0000

unfortunately that is the only source that is close enough for my husband to pick it up from after work. we only have one car and I have spent the last year in the hospital, so traveling or doing a coop with a bunch of people where we have to go pick stuff up just doesn’t work Guess we will just stick with the amish milk we found at whole foods. it is vat pasteurized but not homogenized, and i love the flavor of it! Thanks for the response

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:57:58 +0000

We buy raw goat’s milk from a local farm that is a very clean and all around quality dairy goat farm, and I too have not liked the taste of the milk. The grassy aftertaste is what I notice, but what’s interesting is that my husband doesn’t notice it at all. My mother in law says that at least for goat’s milk (maybe for cow’s too?), certain people are able to detect that taste (some sort of enzyme or protein or something in it) and others simply don’t at all. Something to consider? I have found that making our goat’s milk into kefir diminishes that taste greatly and if used in smoothies I can’t notice it at all. Hope that helps!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:57:11 +0000

Sounds like you have a bad source. Raw milk tastes amazingly creamy and delicious…no dirtiness or grassiness. I would find another source.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:27:35 +0000

Hi there…My husband and I just recently tried the RAW milk thing. Since I grew up in the country, I have had it before, and knew as a kid that I didn’t care for it much, but thought we could try it anyway and I could “learn” to like it. But much to my disappointment, it made me want to vomit! It was just so grassy and dirty tasting, and the aftertaste was killer Do you have any suggestions as to a way that I could become accustomed to it?

Thanks so much

By: Lori Anderson

Lori Anderson — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:02:40 +0000

I’m a member of Frugal Living NW BlogFrog community and found your wonderful blog through their link. A great article and wonderful tips. Keep up the great work!

By: Diana Tyree

Diana Tyree — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:46:26 +0000

I don’t know where all of you live but somethingbetternaturalfoods.com and clnf.org are two coops that are in michigan but deliver to alot of states. I have ordered for years with some friends and meet the truck to pick up my delivery. If anyone would like more info let me know they have really good prices and products. Diana

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:29:57 +0000

Check out http://www.localharvest.org for a full explanation of CSA’s and the ability to search city/state to find local farmer’s.

By: Fatimazahra

Fatimazahra — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:42:12 +0000

Hello!!!
Hey, can you please explain to me CSA and such? ALso send me the link please?I’d like to ask a few more questions about this, I am not sure if it’s just in a certain state/city? How is it 12-13 dollars a week? Do they send you raw milk also? If not, how do you get it? I LOVE this, in my hometown in Morocco we do this exact thing. However, it’s really hard here in America to get farmer’s produce at a good/cheap price. So thank you very much for blog, it’s refreshing and amazing.

Thank you so much,
Your sister in Christ,

Fatimazahra

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:14:49 +0000

Dana- even if your dogs won’t eat raw (which can be dangerous if you have young children in the house), you can make them food that they will love and still save a lot of money!

For each meal, cook up some meat (its a good idea to add in some liver/organ meat once or twice a week). You can get organic chicken necks and other meat scraps from a local grower pretty inexpensively, just ask (like 10 cents a pound)! Add cooked rice (brown is best) and veggies. Our dog loves frozen, raw squash cubes or pureed pumpkin/squash but doesn’t enjoy the squash unless its frozen or pureed… weird, I know! You can throw in carrots, broccoli, apples, bananas, etc… whatever you have on hand! You can precook a week or more and freeze in quart size yogurt tubs, defrost as needed and serve! Another way to get picky dogs to eat is to add fresh or frozen blueberries and/or yogurt/kefir to their food! This also adds good digestive enzymes and helps prevent bladder infections and skin issues.