Every now and then I like to spice my life up trying out new experiments with my kids. I think my experiments are fun and they add a little extra interest to our daily routine. My first one was a “Can we go a week without electricity”. The kids and I loved it, I learned a lot of things but my husband hated it and we had to end it after only 3 days. The kid’s favorite was the ‘junk food’ one where I let them buy all the junk food they wanted (and we never got) for three days. They got corndogs, chips, pop, candy, white bread, cereal (sugar kind), and a tone of other treats we don’t normally get. We only lasted a few days on that one because the older two were literally eating themselves sick. My son (only 9 at the time) was popping stale jelly beans in his mouth at a steady pace as he laid on the couch moaning because he felt so sick.
A Month Without Groceries (items sold at a grocery store)
My latest experiment is going to be longer than the rest. For one month we are going to try and see if we can go without groceries. I am going to try and divide my food storage into twelfths and only eat one twelfths of what we have. That means if I have 12 cans of pineapple, we would only be able to use one of them.
I am excited. I think it will be really fun. I had hoped that I would be able to spend the whole summer building up my food storage, raise chickens and plant gardens. That didn’t happen. Instead I have spent the whole summer trying to get siding on my house, fix my fences, and put a driveway in. The only thing I have planted are potato’s and a couple of pumpkins. I did plant a ton of tomato’s but my son’s goats ate them. At this rate I am going to end up eating them. This is going to be very interesting. .