Frugal Fruit

Believe it on not It got cold in Florida..an actual hard freeze. It happens. Okay, once a year maybe and certainly not as cold as Minnesota but still enough to ruin any fruit left dangling from our tangerine tree.

I thought I'd go out and pick a few for the kids since I don't eat citrus..something about the little stings floating around on my tongue makes me gag...I love the flavor, just not the texture. Do you know what a a pain it is to render a piece of citrus fruit texture-less? Trust me on that one.

The tree was FULL of fruit. I couldn't leave any behind after all I am trying to be frugal in every aspect of our lives. Frugal for my tree meant 156 Tangerines!!!!

I cut them, aren't they pretty...

then juiced them...all of them, strained the juice,

measured it out, froze most of it..

and made jelly out of one batch..YUMM-O..see kids Mommy can do citrus!