Homemaking on the Homestead

I posted this several years ago on The Family Homestead. I will be sharing more recipes soon using brown rice.  My basic brown rice cooking instructions below are stove top instructions. I now prefer to cook my brown rice in my Instant Pot. I'll be updating that info as well!  Brown Rice: A Healthy Way to Stretch the Grocery Budget Are you looking for a way to stretch out the food you have and feed your family on less money? Then you need to look at the foods that are inexpensive in quantity, filling, easy to work with but most of all they have to be healthy alternatives your body can use. They must help to provide vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber and other valuable nutrients. One excellent food is rice. But not just any rice.. it has to be brown rice if you are concerned about health. Rice is easy to cook, mild in flavor and adds greatly to nutritional value. Brown rice is loaded with B vitamins, manganese, phosphorus, iron, copper, selenium, fiber, essential fatty acids an...

This week was a quick and easy grocery haul. I'm currently on a freezer challenge. I'm using up what I already have in my freezer. I only needed to purchase some basic items. The one and only stop this week was at Winco... I purchased a lot of fresh veggies. I got spinach, kale, celery, butternut squash, carrots, beets, mushrooms, cucumber, cherry tomatoes and sweet potatoes.    I also picked up our weekly supply of fresh fruit, apples, oranges and bananas.    Some brown rice pasta in the bulk section. And finally, milk and cookies (the perfect combo! :). Total for Winco and my grand total for the week: $31 Not bad! Now to keep my freezer challenge going! :) How many of you do freezer and/or pantry challenges? **************  Cajun Brown Rice Medley I started this recipe with the thought of making jambalaya. I ended up ...