How Self Sufficient Are You?

we have a little vege garden in pots...only producing lettuce at the moment but hopefully will give me carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, beetroot and zucchini.  I'd love to do more but we havent got the room and are renting.  did buy 1/4 beast the other day....cant call that self suficiency but definately got us great meat at a better price.....or did you buy half a living cow??

The vege garden is DH's project, and what do ya know, we are getting nothing from it at the moment because he doesn't spend enough time in it. He goes out to it once a fortnight *rolls eyes*

Meat though, we get that free from my parents farm

Don't have vege garden at new house yet as not organised enough (and section is all downhill) but curiously have been diligently buying paknsave foodstamps throughout the year and will be buying bucketloads of the green for xmas

Ummm we do a little bit, our vege garden is being planted up now and hopefully will have some greens for Jan. My chooks keep us and other members of my family in eggs. And most of our meat comes off the farm and so does our milk - straight from the vat. And I do have a breadmaker but have yet to use it

Garden & orchard give us fruit & vege. Most stuff I make from scratch. I use a yoghurt maker. I blanch, freeze & preserve as much as I can. Bread I bake occassional. Most our meat comes from the butcher but we have been known to have a sheep in our back yard. Id like to have chooks & pigs of my own, we just dont have the space. The InLaws have chooks, sheep & cows so we get eggs & some meat from them.

I compost, reduce, reuse & recycle

Wow Im impressed!

Um... I sometimes make my own bread.. And I make Jacksons food, and do alot of baking. I must start on a vege garden though by the sounds of it.

BTW - how much cheaper is it to make your own yoghurt? Is it expensive to buy the equipment etc?

We have a vege garden going...well it's all in pots and troughs but you get the idea. Growing silverbeet, lettuce, tomoatoes, more lettuce, cauliflower, broccolli and cabbage and we have a cucumber plant too.

Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

We have our own lil vege patch - currently enjoying our lettuces and we have green capsicum, brocco, cauli, tomatoes, eggplants yet to come :) Cant wait! We have our own herbs too and we look forward to extending our vege garden - we don't have much room but have used the old auck city recycling bins too which are great and hey its recycling!!

I am really interested in making my own bread - does it work out to be cheaper?

I used to make my own yoghurt - might start doing that again cos it's YUM! I didn't find it much cheaper maybe a lil bit but I used to buy the flavourings to go in it too so adds up :)

We have our own vege garden with salad greens, radishes, capsicum,herbs carrots tomatoes (which I will turn into relish) and peas...about to put in Potatoes for Feb and do another row of carrots for later also. We recycle but have not yet started a compost...actually not sure if we will as the new bins will be arriving soon where we can put food scraps in. We also feed our neighbours worm farm and get some worm juice in return. Do not have a breadmaker but hoping santa will deliver one for xmas.

due to small people "helping" me garden I have aton of random veges in random places. lettuces are growing the cracks of the concrete. So one I figure out what the veges are, we can eat them!