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My name is Camilla Remneblad and this is my food journey.
Food is my passion. If I’m not in the kitchen cooking or baking you probably find me growing, catching or gathering food.
I'm a qualified chef who traveled around the world working in professional kitchens in different countries.
I grew up in Sweden and moved to New Zealand 20 years ago with my partner. We’ve spent most of our time in Queenstown owning and running food businesses.
While in Queenstown we dream of a rural lifestyle living of the land and being self-sufficient.
We sold up and moved to a lifestyle block in Southland, New Zealand, 8 years ago, starting to make our self-sufficient lifestyle a reality.
Making the most out of our land by growing food and raising sheep and chickens for meat and eggs.
We now have two young kids and we are very happy and proud to feed our family nutritious, free range, spray free food daily.
You can find my recipes here
Read about how to grow stunning potatoes effortlessly at home here
Wild Food
Cooking and eating wild food is my most obvious step towards a self sufficient life.
Premium, fresh, organic food!
- Learn to cook all the different cuts of the animal and you can feed your family for a long time with good quality meat.
- Learn how to cook different kind of fish. When you go fishing and catch something that is not your target species you can still eat it. Just about all fish taste good when cooked fresh. You might even end up with a new favorite fish.
Read about how to cook venison here.
We never send any meat away for processing, it all gets done at our place and we don’t waste anything. The non-premium cuts we mince and we also make our own sausages.
Utilize all the meat by making delicious sausages, burgers, meatballs and more with help of a meat grinder
You can read more about hunting food here and fishing for food here
We enjoy foraging too, so wild mushrooms are often on the menu in autumn as well as stinging nettles and wild blackberries
I think it’s a far better way to enjoy food. More flavors and nutrition but best of all free from nasty chemicals and sprays.
Grow your own
Growing food
I try to grow as much variety of vegetables as possible .
With very little idea of gardening before moving here it has been a learning curve.
With food prices increasing and food shortages on the horizon it's never been a better time to start living a self sufficient lifestyle.
Start growing, finding, hunting, catching your own food and start moving towards a more self sufficient food journey
I encourage everyone to do at least something in this direction. You don't have to go all in.
Do what you can.
Not everyone have enough space for a vegetable garden but a few pots in the window or on the balcony for herbs and lettuce is something anyone can do.
Fresh herbs can transform an average meal to a great meal easily.
We manage to live very close to entire food self-sufficient even in winter.
It's rewarding in so many ways to be in charge of your food supply and where your food comes from.
How to be self sufficient.
With the right planning and good ways to store, preserve and freeze food. We can eat really well and hardly buy any fresh food.
If we can do it most people can. Many people I talk to are amazed, surprised and curious how we manage to be so self-sufficient.
It's a lot easier than most people realize and that’s what encouraged me to start this blog.
I want to share my food journey and what I do. It's very simple and without expensive set up cost or equipment's.
Check out what I do each season below:
I hope it can encourage others to become more self sufficient. Start small and grow from there.
Start today where you are now. Do what suits your current living situation
My recipes are mostly simple weekday meals that I cook for my family utilizing what's available around me at the time.
It's fresh, seasonal, farmhouse style home cooking
