Homemade... Lil Suzie Homemaker

First, let me say I am no where near Suzie Homemaker. The pile of hangup laundry on my kitchen table from last night will attest to that. But I have had this huge yearning to make more and more items from scratch. To teach my kids hitting the store for a jar of whatever doesn't have to be the first response. I am fortunately my kids love all things country living. Currently for school we are reading Caddie Woodlawn and like the response we had to Sign of the Beaver last year, they love the way of life the Woodlawn children get to enjoy.

My daughter especially keeps asking to cook and help make anything and everything, and with our budget being so crazy tight lately the pull for more made at home food and kitchen staples is pulling hard on my heart strings. Besides homemaking class... totally homeschool! I'd love to get to where all of the items rolling around in my head become second nature to make in our household. That everyone takes part and has pride in making the food themselves. On top of the skill my daughter and boys can carry into their homes someday.

What have I made so far???
Currently, due to space and excuses (I'm not going to lie), we only make bread occasionally. I made coffee creamer this week. Personally... love it! Way affordable too! We make our own laundry detergent. I tried making dishwasher soap but truthfully it's still under my sink. It didn't work well for us at all. My daughter has been begging to make jam. We've made granola, granola bars, fruit snacks, ice cream, yogurt, tortillas, of course meals, muffin tin corndogs (new huge fav here), and I'm sure I am missing other ones.

Sadly, some I don't stick with for no reason at all but I want to. Really bad. I want it to be second nature.

Making kitchen staples aren't hard to do at home. Just time consuming. I want to do it. We need to do it. Not for money reasons but because truthfully we long for the old fashioned way of life to be a way of life for us. I need to get over the mental part that the initial cost for some of it isn't much and will pay for itself 10 fold in the long run.

Do you make anything from scratch that has become the only way you have it at home any more?  How do you schedule out the time to make it all? I'd love for you to spill your secrets. :)