Household Record Keeping For 2010

 

I'm organizing the records for last year .. to start with a clean slate for 2011.

Home Preserving 2010

• December - 13 quarts pinto beans
• November - 3 quarts turkey stock frozen, 3 pints turkey meat frozen, 1 quart frozen broccoli, 2 quarts frozen raspberries, 12 quarts chicken stock
• October - 2 quarts raspberries, frozen, 5 quarts pinto beans, 7 pints salsa verde, two pints summer squash (mashed and frozen)
• Sept. - 8 pints Boston Baked Beans, 9 pints tomatoes in juice, 6 pints spicy tomato juice, 1 quart frozen zucchini, 1 pint frozen yellow-neck squash, 1 quart frozen green beans, 2 pints frozen hot peppers, 1 quart frozen broccoli, 5-1/2 pints frozen Italian seasoned tomato sauce, six pints salsa verde, 40 ears of sweet corn frozen, 3 pints frozen corn, 1 gallon strawberries frozen
• August - six quarts tomatoes in juice, 21 pints salsa, 2 quarts frozen green beans, 3 quarts refrigerator dill pickles
• August- 10 pints green beans, 7 quarts green beans, 1 quart frozen
• June- 9 half-pints wild rose-geranium jelly
• July- 7 half-pints strawberry freezer jam
• July- 7 half-pints raspberry freezer jam, 2 gallons frozen raspberries, 1 gallon frozen blueberries, 2 quarts frozen huckleberries
• May- 8 pints pinto beans
• June- 7 quarts pinto beans
• June- 14 pints Boston Baked Beans

2010 Grocery Budget (family of 4.5)(don't read anything into the 4.5 .. ;)

$6099

January -$456
February -$355
March - $527
April -$368
May - $498
June - $516
July - $445
August - $400
September - $400
October - $400
November $450
December $550

yearly purchase of organic beef $404
yearly purchase of organic hog $330

2010 Food Budget $6099
family of 4.5 = $3.71/per day per person

Garden Expenses - 2010 ($314)

• compost bin $65
• garden sink $50
• onion sets $3
• 13 lbs seed potatoes $9
• 1/4 yard gravel for under garden sink $5
• 3 cubic yards of composted horse/cow manure $90
• potting soil $15
• Heirloom Seeds $77

2010 Garden Planting Schedule

• 11/13/10 Spanish hard-neck garlic
• 7/9/10 bush beans (yea)
• 7/9/10 sugar snap peas (yea)
• 7//9/10 bush peas (nay)
• 6/20/10 nasturtium/marjoram (yea/nay)
• 6/16/10 basil (nay)/parsley(yea)/green onion seeds(yea)
• 6/9/10 foxglove/columbine/purple cone flower plants(yea to all)
• 6/12/10 tomato plants/(yea)
• 6/9/10 cucumber seeds(nay)
• 6/9/10 radish (yea)
• 6/9/10 cantaloupe (nay)
• 6/9/10 watermelon (nay)
• 5/24/10 burp-less cucumber plants (yea)
• 5/24/10 pickling cucumber plants (yea)
• 5/24/10 red/green cabbage plants (yea)
• 5/24/10 six new pepper plants (yea)
• 5/15/10 pepper plants/killed by frost (nay)
• 5/15/10 chervil (yea)
• 5/15/10 yellow crooked neck squash (yea)
• 5/15/10 zucchini yea)
• 5/15/10 Bantam corn (nay)
• 5/15/10 bush beans (yea)
• 5/7/10 thin & transplant strawberry plants (nay)
• 5/7/10 tomato plants with wall-o-water jackets (yea)
• 4/27/10 Danish ball head cabbage seeds (nay)
• 4/27/10 purple cone flower seeds (nay)
• 4/21/10 more onion sets (yea)
• 4/21/10 more red/yellow potatoes (yea .. except voles ate quite a few!)
• 4/19/10 broccoli (yea)
• 4/19/10 carrots (yea)
• 4/19/10 chervil (yea)
• 4/19/10 Detroit dark beets (yea)
• 4/19/10 radish (yea)
• 4/19/10 tarragon (nay) .. last year's overwintered
• 4/19/10 red sails lettuce (yea) good lettuce choice
• 4/19/10 deer tongue lettuce (yea) did not care for this type
• 4/15/10 red & Yukon gold potatoes
• 4/15/10 red, white, yellow onion sets (yea)
• 4/12/10 sugar snap peas (yea)
• 4/12/10 planted three trees, 2 maples, 1 Japanese Lilac (yea)
• Oct '10 additional garlic
• garlic (planted Oct. '09) (nay)
• 3/12/10 oregano plants (yea)
• 3/14/10 French sorrel (yea)
• 3/14/10 - strawberry spinach (yea)
• asparagus (planted 2009) .. more time needed
• rhubarb (planted 2009) (yea .. out the ear;)
• 3/12/10 sun chokes (yea .. out the ears)
• 3/12/10 - horseradish (alive .. barely)