Buy These 17 Cheap Foods in OCTOBER and Eat Until Spring. Even on One Check

The cheapest winter food of the year is in your store this month. Buy it by how long it keeps, eat it in that order, and some of it will still feed you in March. 📄 FREE from Ruth: the 10 vegetables that save you the most at the grocery store (printable chart) 👉 https://callowayruth.com/go/fr-keepers I've kept a root cellar on this Missouri farm for over fifty years, and I cooked in a school cafeteria for thirty. Both taught me the same thing: food you bought and lost is money you burned. So today I walk you up my keeping ladder. Seventeen foods I buy in October, in the order I eat them, from the ones that won't last past Thanksgiving to the ones that keep a year or more. For each one: how to pick a good one, where it lives in an ordinary house, and how long it really holds. Along the way: the thermometer test that finds three keeping spots in any house, even an apartment why acorn squash goes first and butternut goes last, though they sit in the same bin green tomatoes that turn red by Christmas, and the ones that never will why I buy pie pumpkins the morning after Halloween sweet potatoes and potatoes never go in the refrigerator, and never one bin for potatoes and onions apples make carrots bitter and cabbage yellow, so keep them apart carrots in a pail of sand, still crisp in April rutabaga, the root the school children called orange potatoes my mother's onion stocking, and why garlic never sits in oil on the counter freezing fresh cider, sorghum straight from the cane, cranberries that keep a year free black walnuts from the fencerow how much to lay in for one person, the Saturday check, and a supper from every rung 0:00 Buy by how long it keeps 1:10 Come sit with me 1:50 Three keeping spots in any house 3:37 Where keepers are cheap in October 4:53 November shelf: 1. Green tomatoes 6:21 2. Acorn squash 7:10 Christmas shelf: 3. Winter pears 8:13 4. Pie pumpkins, the morning after Halloween 9:08 5. Sweet potatoes 10:13 February shelf: 6. Cabbage 11:39 7. Butternut and hubbard 12:40 8. Keeping apples 14:25 Spring shelf: 9. Potatoes 16:28 10. Carrots in sand 17:29 11. Rutabaga 18:32 12. Storage onions 19:36 13. Garlic 20:27 Forever shelf: 14. Fresh cider 21:56 15. Sorghum syrup 22:44 16. Cranberries 23:31 17. Black walnuts 25:06 How much for one person 25:58 The Saturday check 27:03 The week the road drifted shut 27:50 One supper from every rung 28:27 No cellar? The apartment version 28:56 The whole ladder 🌱 My garden saves me $1,898 a year. Here's exactly how, in large print: https://callowayruth.com/go/fr-keepers-b Now tell me down below: which rung is your weakest, and what's the latest in winter you've eaten something you bought in October? Waste not, want not. It still works. Ruth #frugalliving #rootcellar #wintergroceries