All right friends, so this season it's all about a deep dive into food and the kitchen and of course we've talked about the kitchen probably more than any other topic here on the old fashioned on purpose podcast but this season I think is a little bit extra special because we are taking some of these whole food real food topics and getting very very actionable and nitty gritty with these and one of them that has been a topic I've talked about a little in the past but I kind of end up skirting over it or kind of giving more over

reviews versus like really in-depth information is the topic of meal planning a lot of you ask me this a lot of you are trying to figure out how you meal plan or menu plan with whole foods and it can be a little bit intimidating so I am so excited for my guest today you probably know her already it's Lisa vast from farmhouse on boon and of anyone I know she is a legit real deal from scratch stay at home home setting mom

cook and I'm really excited for this conversation so welcome Lisa thank you so much for having me we are just chatting before that we've been trying to get on each other's podcast for a long time and finally making it happen today finally and we are actually going to record an episode for Lisa's podcast right after we get done recording this one so I I think they'll probably publish in the same window I'm not sure what your schedule is but for those of you who what we're talking menu planning and then for this one and we'll talk on a different topic for Lisa's

so be sure to go check out kind of like the dual episodes yeah yeah so Lisa give those who aren't familiar with you in your story kind of a little bit of a background like I know you have a bunch of kids kind of what's your your story yeah I have one right here who's snoring into the microphone but that's all my episodes are so yeah we just moved to a little homestead on seven acres about three years ago from a quarter acre in town we have the farmhouse

the dairy cow and everything and we have seven kids so two girls and five boys and we're just figuring out along the way I've been doing the from scratch cooking and sort of like homestead cooking for 10 years at least now actually more like 13 I forget how old my oldest child is teenager but it's only been recently that we've actually lived on a homestead where I could actually get the ingredients from our from our own property so before I

was sourcing raw milk from local farms and finding local farms for meat which is still what we do and now we're able to have a little bit more control over that but yeah that's that's our story and a nutshell

I know our topics meal planning but I want to take a little bit of a rabbit trail because with something you just said you were cooking like a farm wife basically or a

setter when you lived in town and I think that's really important because a lot of people get really hung up on this idea I don't have a homestead so I'm just going to shop at all the conventional grocery stores not that I still don't do that sometimes but yeah for how did you make like what was your big strategy did you just seek out like the local farmers like with a milk did you do farmers markets what was your what did that look like grocery shopping so for the for the milk we first found a local farm they we were with them for a few years and then they ended up stopping selling because

that's a lot of work to sell raw milk as you know yeah and then we found another farm that we actually had to travel a little bit further to but like I tell people it's totally worth it we had to drive a half hour versus before it was right in our own town which was just miraculous but it was still totally worth it we still went and got milk every single week for the last 12 years we found I found a farmer in the area that I could buy a whole cow from and I just would meet him like halfway he had several customers that he met in a certain area

same for pork chicken it's all different sources but they're worth seeking out like you said you can definitely cook like a farm wife without the farm I started my blog which is all about basically from scratch cooking old-fashioned things six years ago and I called it farmhouse on boon but the whole time we were living in a house on Boon Street in town so you can totally achieve all of that without having a prairie 60 something acre

or whatever yes completely without yeah it's reachable you and you were living that so authentically that I'm sure this is the case for a lot of folks I thought you lived in the country forever like when you're like we're moving to buy to a farm I'm like you already live out of farm what are you talking about yeah I know and the farm that we bought still not really I mean it's only seven acres but yeah we're coming from a quarter acre now I did grow up like opposite of you I actually grew up on a huge farm and then I lived in town and felt like a fish out of water so it was just

the goal just took a little time to save up enough money and find the right place for us but I definitely didn't feel like I belonged in town so I guess that's why I did that like I so naturally it was like well clearly I have to at least pretend like I live but not like pretend like pass it off like I do but like in the way that I live my life

right it was authentic to you wasn't like I didn't feel like pose or at all ever like it was always like no this is what she's doing this is legit

just you made it work in your situation yeah it was what you had at the time yeah right yeah it was pretty

interesting because we lived right next door to a public park which I don't think a lot of people knew

so I would be out there in my apron in my garden and like literally right there there's a like I mean

10 feet for me is a paved walking path and people would be out there with their dogs I'd be like hey

you know I'm just out here living my farm life live in the farm life yeah I love it I love it um okay so

this topic of meal planning has been a kind of a thorn in my side forever I have always thought

I should do it better slash difference um a lot of people I assume and I'm very bold until

like people like I don't do this to grand aspirations but a lot of people assume the people like you

and I are like the people with like meal planner book booklets and schedulers and giant white

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