I USED to waste it but now......

Yup,stale bread is good stuff for that,I used to toss that too to animals or such,Im trying to feed us first and foremost now.

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Your post reminded me og a good tip I learned years ago, and it works. Use the hair out of your brushes, human dog and cat, and put it in the garden (or in your pots). Keeps critters away, they smell people or dogs and they keep on truckin. Usually.

I save some bread for the chickens, but most of it gets turned into bread pudding, at the demand of the men around here.

Ditto,only we call it Carcass soup,same on the turkey.That stuff is far too good to waste!

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Hmmmm....I will try that,I have to say dead hair freaks me out yet fur doesnt bother me a bit.I think I know why too,its the death camp references....YIKES

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Someone told me to break an egg in each hole you put a tomato plant in. Since I had lots of extra eggs, I gave it a try. A stinking possum came along and dug up most of my tomato plants to get to the eggs. That would be my worry with doing this.

I think it would need to be deep enough to benefit the dirt, not the root system of the plant.

And the egg thing, I've never heard of putting a WHOLE egg; just the shell, for the calcium.

I use feed bag strings to tie up small bundles of herbs to dry.

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Warning: Just last week my daughter went home to find someone (probably one of her stupid inlaws) gave the dog a piece of chicken and he choked on it and died. What an awful way to go!

Bacon grease!! Never have been able to do it without them scrambled but just found out I can sucessfully make omelettes that stay together when you fold them causa bacon grease in the iron skillet! (Im a slow learner)

We've never thrown away feed bags but have recently begun using them for garbage bags.

Baling twine is another that never gets thrown out.

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Baling twine makes good pole bean stringers

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I tied a full size dog kennel together with bailing twine and it still is standing 3 years later. The neighbor uses it to tie fence panels to keep critters in or out depending. I love broccoli stems sliced thin and stir fried. Feed bags and dog food sacks are my weekly trash bags now. And bread bags hold corn on cob in the freezer. I found a really nice cardboard box at the co-op a while back. It has a great colorful label and hand holes on the ends. I take it to the grocery stores and use it for hauling my stuff in instaed of a bag. Albertsons' sell boxes just for this purpose but why buy what is free.

You can also make a tasty slaw by grating the stems ( I peel them first) and mix as you would cabbage slaw or add to your cabbage slaw. My kids love this.

A good while back someone gave a great tip about grinding cooked chicken bones and feeding them to chickens, my girls gobble this up! I also ad it to my garden.

I save coffee cans and use them for all kinds of storage. I store my different colors of yarn in the plastic cans. I poke a hole in the lid, pull the strand of yard through and let it show a couple of inches, then stack them on a shelf. It makes it easy to find and identify exactly what I am looking for. I also use the plastic cans to make mini survival or "comfort cans" as my daughter calls them. We decorate the outside and fill them with survival/comfort items and give them as gifts or give to homeless people in the winter or anytime they are in need.

I save the cardboard tubes from paper towels, aluminum and plastic wrap. The thinner paper towel tubes are good for rolling up ribbon, string, or cord leftovers and the heavier duty wrap tubs are great for thin chain, rope or electric cords. I also store my Christmas lights on these.

I save the tuna cans for buddy lights, bacon grease for cast iron and cooking and I save used vegetable oil for outdoor oil lamps. They are a little smokey but good for outdoor use.

Dogs here get raw chicken (bones an all) several times a week... never any troubles. Last time I fed cooked chicken bones, almost lost my best fur bud.

Nothing goes to waste here... it's fed to the critters, and their poo goes on the garden or orchard, recycling the nutrients...

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[QUOTE=Trixters_muse;5205927]A good while back someone gave a great tip about grinding cooked chicken bones and feeding them to chickens, my girls gobble this up! I also ad it to my garden.

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What kind of a grinder do you use to grind up chicken bones? I'd like to try this. Do you have to dry them really well first? Anything else I need to know?

Thanks!

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I make a lot of bone soup, pressure canned a bunch of it last winter. If you put in some vinegar (along with bones, veggies, onions, etc.) and simmer it for at least 8 hours, the bone will leach a lot of minerals into the cooking water and be very good for you. It is healing to the stomach.

I got two boxes of "dog bones" from my butcher, not too clean, but simmering 8 hours takes care of that! They were free, made gallons of broth. I save the bones from any chicken, etc. that we eat, just toss them in the freezer and collect them out every so often to make bone broth.

My little dog had to have surgery for cancer recently. I nursed her with some of my canned bone broth to drink to help her stay hydrated and give her minerals for healing. I don't know about the cancer yet, but she recovered well from the surgery anyway.

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I think you can burn the bones and add it to the garden too.

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if you pressure cook chicken and pork bones, they get so soft you can crumble them up with your fingers

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I've used paper feed sacks to collect small sticks and twigs for kindling. Fill it about 1/3 to 1/2 full, fold down the top and tie with the string. It stacks up cleanly and neatly, and is great for those who, like my ex, are 'wood stove challenged' and can't start a fire without smoking up the house or roasting the furniture.

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Yes! Pressure cookers are de... well, maybe that would be the wrong thing to say. They are marvellous though. Cook bones to softness - turkey bones/stock too.

Try them for softness. Mostly I just crumble them for the soup, then back into the stock. You can discard any knobs that haven't softened though, then put the rest through a blender - even more calcium-rich than milk, but no allergy worries. That way, you don't have to fuss with all the little chicken rib bones, either.

AS FOR BROCCOLI STALKS: best part of them, cut crosswise into discs. I don't really like broccoli tops, but the stalks... oh, my, yes! There used to be a vegetable called chou moellier, grown just for the stalks. They've ruined it now though, unless you can find heritage seeds. These days, they've turned it into a plain old grazing plant that's really nothing special.