$735.31 WORTH

This is part of the items i have made this past month with the goat's milk:  Ice cream, sour cream, ricotta, chevre, buttermilk, mozzarella, feta cheese, butter, cream cheese, 3 large wheels of cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, and then  just the milk in and of itself, I got to thinking, "geez!  How much money am i saving out there?" I mean this is real, organic, fresher then fresh milk, goat's milk at that, which is difficult to find in any store, and its good for you!

So i went out to do some research, and this is what i found:

• organic ice cream: $7 for 1 1/2 quarts
• organic sour cream: $3.39 pint
• organic ricotta cheese: $5.99 quart
• organic chevre: $5 for 8 oz
• organic buttermilk: $4.79 quart
• organic motzarella: $3.99 lb
• organic Feta cheese: $3.69 for 6 oz
• organic whole butter: $6.69 lb
• small tub or organic cream cheese:$4
• a large chunk of organic hard cheese $13 - which is about 1/8 of a wheel of cheese so that make one wheel equal:$104
• organic yogurt:$7.39 quart
• organic cottage cheese:$4.79  for 12 oz
• organic goats milk: $8.29 for a half gallon! (i guess i am not charging my customers enough there)

So tally that up in comparison to what i produced here on the farm and you have exactly: $735.31!!!! Saved on my grocery bill!  So.... with that in mind, i totaled up what i spend to feed the gosh darn goats - and this is for all of them, not just the 2 milking does- comes out to approximately $95 a month. If it was just the two does; only $19.  So now let's calculate my time:  since i don't think i am worth anything less then $10  hour, and if you put the time it takes to milk, feed and create the cheeses and other items as an average of 2 hours a day, most days less, somedays more, that's $600 a month for a total of $695.  Minus the savings on food, and i am left with what? $40.31 pure savings! Oh and add in the $36 i get in milk sales and that comes to $76.31!

Hmmmmmm.....that doesn't seem like much.

Now let's factor in the knowledge that this is really better for me, i know where this food is coming from, its healthier for me AND i get the grand pleasure of ACTUALLY doing it myself:

PRICELESS!

I love my goats!