Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

but a friend had given it to me, so I owed her that much to read it. What I really loved about it was that it was not preachy. I expected to be chastised for not doing the same thing that she was doing, or for going to the grocery store or eating meat, or all the other things that I do wrong. She did not offend me at all. This book was just a story of her family's experience with a year of surviving on what they could produce or get locally. She did not tell me that I should do this.