I’m in a Facebook cooking group and they do a theme challenge each month. April is Depression Era or Frugal. So I decided to go as cheap and gourmet as possible. Soldiers and eggs with dead nettle pesto.

Homemade: bread, butter Home raised: goose eggs Home foraged: pecans, dead nettles, wild garlic

I made a soft skin and a hard skin loaf because my wife likes a softer crust.

Paid for: Salt, pepper, EVOO, flour, yeast, heavy cream. Cost per person: $1.13

    • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldOPM
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      9 months ago

      I have chickens, ducks and geese. Eggs are practically free. Especially the goose eggs. Once the goslings are feathered out they can live exclusively off grass with zero supplemental feed. But they only lay in the spring, three times a week, and you may have to fight a goose to get the egg once it’s laid. But as a reward you get one egg the size of three chicken eggs with one yolk that is equal to one and a half full sized chicken eggs.

      The rest of the year the geese just protect the flock from hawks and mow the yard.