#frugal — Public Fediverse posts

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-office-comfort-and-energy-efficiency.html

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-office-comfort-and-energy-efficiency.html

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-office-comfort-and-energy-efficiency.html

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-office-comfort-and-energy-efficiency.html

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-office-comfort-and-energy-efficiency.html

Torn. Just bought an absurd amount of soy sauce flavored cheapass ramen on sale and I'm tempted to go back in and pick up a bit more even though I already have at least 6 months worth.

Not even going to use the flavor packets, just going to have my $0.10 ramen with either the 2 gallons (~7.6 liters) of Costco pork tonkatsu ramen broth in my pantry or with homemade broth starting from rotisserie chicken stock (plus veggies, meat, maybe an egg sometimes).

#ramen #cheapass #frugal

@agentpalisade so many initiatives, fewer 'fields' - keywords I'd include in 'tech beyond capitalism': #commons, #cosmolocalism, tech worker #coops, platform coops, computing within limits #Limits2026, #TechOtherwise, #convivial tech, #relationality, #DesignJustice, #crip #technoscience, #MutualAid, #sufficiency, #frugal computing, #degrowth, #postgrowth, #fediverse, #solarpunk, #permacomputing, de/anti-colonial work, and other things we love at https://justsustainabilitydesign.org/ :) What did I miss?

Pangrattato. Italian grandmothers have called it poor man's parmesan for four hundred years. Cost: nothing. Keeps a week in a jar.

Aran — bread.

What does your house do with the stale end?

#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
The rest of today's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-is-dying-and-we-all-get-to-watch#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The heel of the loaf and the two hard slices nobody wanted. Tear them with your hands — never a knife, the ragged edges are the entire point. Dry skillet, medium, a glug of oil, a smashed clove, salt. Six minutes, shaking.

They go the color of a paper bag and the kitchen smells like a bakery.

#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
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Different plant, same name, do not confuse them.

What's the cheapest real protein in your kitchen right now?

#FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodSovereignty #Frugal #MutualAid #Mediterranean

Today's issue, with the rest of the food notes — free every morning → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-another-week-that-wont-sit-down-2d2398dcba465b14?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Forty percent protein by dry weight. That's among the highest of any plant food there is, and it costs less than a cup of coffee.

Lupini fed Mediterranean and Andean households for thousands of years before an American grocery store decided they were a novelty in a jar by the olives.
#FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodSovereignty #Frugal #MutualAid #Mediterranean
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On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-setup.html

They come back. Every time, visibly. Wilting is water leaving the cells, not decay, and the plant will drink it straight back up through the cut.
The American household throws out roughly a third of what it buys, and a meaningful slice of that was never spoiled. Only thirsty.
Cost: nothing. Time: unattended. Go look in your crisper drawer.
#Cooking #FoodWaste #Kitchen #Frugal #MutualAid #Food #Gardening #Herbalism #Solarpunk #Community #Solidarity #Druid
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/half-staff-for-a-woman-he-couldn-t-buy-dolly-s-gone-trump-s-numbers-are-in-the-goddamn-cellar-and-th#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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Sustainable-by-construction is my proposal for a model-based engineering approach in which explicit #sustainability requirements constrain the design, generation, deployment, and evolution of software systems to generate better software faster.

🔗 https://modeling-languages.com/sustainable-software-by-construction/

#sustainability #frugal

Energy Saving Advice for UK Householders - Tips for saving energy, money and the planet at home. #energy #saving #frugal - https://www.earth.org.uk/energy-saving-advice-for-householders.html

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-setup.html

No ad network, no AI, no sponsor deciding what tone I take. Written by a human, funded by readers, weekly if that suits you better than monthly → https://liberapay.com/wendythedruid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Here's the part worth knowing: the milk wants to do this. You aren't manufacturing anything. You're letting an acid finish a job that was already half done.

And the light in a kitchen where somebody just made cheese out of heat and a lemon is a particular light. It doesn't require anyone's permission or anyone's brand.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Off the heat, half a cup of lemon juice or plain white vinegar, stir once, then leave it completely alone for ten minutes while it breaks into white curd and thin green whey. Through a cheesecloth-lined colander, salt it, press it under a plate and a heavy can for twenty.

The whey goes into tomorrow's rice or the cornbread, not the drain.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Four dollars. About a pound of fresh cheese. Half an hour, most of it waiting.

One gallon of whole milk warmed slow to just under a simmer — 190°, or until it foams at the rim and stops sitting still.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-setup.html

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/superinsulating-our-living-room.html

Different plant, same name, do not confuse them.

What's the cheapest real protein in your kitchen right now?

#FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodSovereignty #Frugal #MutualAid #Mediterranean

Today's issue, with the rest of the food notes — free every morning → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-another-week-that-wont-sit-down-2d2398dcba465b14?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Forty percent protein by dry weight. That's among the highest of any plant food there is, and it costs less than a cup of coffee.

Lupini fed Mediterranean and Andean households for thousands of years before an American grocery store decided they were a novelty in a jar by the olives.
#FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodSovereignty #Frugal #MutualAid #Mediterranean
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Different plant, same name, do not confuse them.

What's the cheapest real protein in your kitchen right now?

#FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodSovereignty #Frugal #MutualAid #Mediterranean

Today's issue, with the rest of the food notes — free every morning → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-another-week-that-wont-sit-down-2d2398dcba465b14?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Forty percent protein by dry weight. That's among the highest of any plant food there is, and it costs less than a cup of coffee.

Lupini fed Mediterranean and Andean households for thousands of years before an American grocery store decided they were a novelty in a jar by the olives.
#FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodSovereignty #Frugal #MutualAid #Mediterranean
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Stop paying $5 for blended oats and water. Blend 1 cup rolled oats + 4 cups cold water (30 sec, cold!). Strain. Pinch of salt. Splash of maple. Pennies to the dollar. No gums. No stabilizers. No corporation between you and your coffee. Ith gu math, a ghràidh. Eat well, dear one. #OatMilk #DIY #Homemade #Cooking #Sustainable #Frugal #KitchenHacks #Bluesky #Food #Wellness
https://twp.ai/4ht5Dk

In most aspects, I'm a cheap old bastard. However, maintaining a sports-car has been one of my happiest lifelong indulgences. #mazda #miata #mazdamiata #calkins #calkinsauto #sportscar #sportscars #triumph #fiero #leatherseats #heatedseats #countrydrive #countryride #breezy #convertible #convertibles #frugal #cheap #parsimonous #carefulwithmoney #oldfart #oldcoot #oldgeezer #driving #motoring #iminlovewithmycar #queen #pennsylvania #countryside #countrydriving #buds #spring #trees #fecund

I never could have retired at fifty, had I not always driven compact cars and purchased all my "teacher clothes" at Goodwill. Cheapness pays. 1995. #cheap #beingcheap #thrifty #beingthrifty #thriftiness #thrift #parsimonous #parsimony #moneymanagement #frugal #frugality #beingfrugal #teacher #teacherclothes #suits #menssuits #suit #threepiecesuit #threepiecesuits #paintings #oilpaintings #budget #savingmoney #savings #moneymanaging

On Building a New Efficient Home in the South of England (2017) - Where to start, what to remember, and useful resources. Save your wallet, warm toes, and the planet! #greenBuilding #lowCarbon #frugal - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-building-a-new-eco-home-in-England.html