{"id":15,"date":"2011-04-29T00:03:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T05:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-09-18T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T05:06:00","slug":"old-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Old Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking and praying about the current rise in food prices. One of the things that came to mind, was to renew \u201cold skills\u201d. For example, I used to make yogurt. It was non fat, organic, and tasted great. When my life got busier, it was easier to buy yogurt. So the Yogurt maker got put away. I used to make salad dressing. When my life got busier, it was easier to buy salad dressings. I used to sprout seeds like broccoli, alfalfa, and lentils. They would go on top of salads and in sandwiches. <\/p>\n<p>When my life got busier, it was easier to buy sprouts to top the salads. I used to make mayonnaise. when my life got busier, it was easier to buy a jar of mayonnaise. Does this sound familiar? With the price of food going up every day, I need to renew my \u201cold skills\u201d. We grow a lot of what we eat. I bake our bread and cook from \u201cscratch\u201d. However, there are \u201c\u201dold skills\u201d that I haven\u2019t used in a long time. This has changed today! I am soaking seeds for sprouting. The yogurt maker is off the shelf, and I will have salad for lunch coated with my own dressing. I will save significant amounts of money on our grocery trips by renewing some \u201cold skills\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Bob will be happy about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking and praying about the current rise in food prices. One of the things that came to mind, was to renew \u201cold skills\u201d. For example, I used to make yogurt. It was non fat, organic, and tasted great. When my life got busier, it was easier to buy yogurt. So the Yogurt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-save-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}