Posted on 03/09/2014 6:28:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Do they mention using soybeans for fuel and plastic?”
Soybeans are not fit for food! Bad for all of us! Much better to use for fuel and plastic! If growning soybeans is necessary to put nitrogen back into the soil, it is much better to use it for anything other than food...
On the other hand, using corn for fuel is an oxymoron!
Back in the day, our school lunch ladies were our country moms. OMG, you couldn’t concentrate in class while the smell of their homemade yeast rolls and real fried chicken floated through the hallways. Now days, it all comes prepackaged and tastes like ick.
H.L. Mencken
Cannot be repeated too often!
A 5 lb. tube of ground 70% is $14 compared to $13 for the 10 lb tube just a couple years ago. I do not understand how the gov gets by reporting groceries have only gone up a couple of percentage points. Liars.
Our store doesn’t put out soon to expire meats anymore and haven’t for 2-3 years so get them while you can. Heck, our one and only store (a chain) barely puts out anything. They always pull products that have national coupons and usually don’t accept coupons anyway. They don’t have half the things in the sales circular even produce. I don’t get it if they’re stashing fresh produce in the back until the sale is over - that’s bound to be wasteful. They always have empty shelves. The other day they only had 2 bags of sugar and 3 bags of flour with two of those with holes in them. And they don’t carry larger sizes so you have to pay more for the smaller sizes and there’s more packaging. Yeah, HEB, I’m talking about you. It’s pitiful. It’s like shopping in a third world country.
“...there is very little that goes into the trash. I try to use every scrap of leftovers. I can’t afford not to. If it’s not reinvented for the next meal, it’s frozen or the dogs get a treat. Jars and pans are scraped to get every bit possible out. Bones are cooked down for stock. The juice from canned veg is frozen for stock. Juice from canned fruit is homecanned into jelly and syrup. Pickle juice is used for roasts or drain cleaner. Convenience foods like cereal or tv dinners? Not in this house so there isn’t much for the trashman to pick up. The VERY rare fast food bag is gone through and the salt and ketchup is saved. Egg shells, coffee grounds, etc. go to the garden. Yes, there’s a garden and believe me it’s too hard working it to waste anything.”
Ah, you are after our own heart. What we absolutely cannot use ourselves for food goes to either the cats or the horses. And yes, egg shells, coffee grounds etc to the garden.
Grease that is not useable for anything else goes into homemade soap...we do not buy soap for ourselves or for the laundry...only for the dishwasher. But more often than not the dishes get done by hand with the homemade stuff as they are used. We might sometimes ‘sweeten’ our homemade laundry soap with 20 Mule Team Borax, or with tri-sodium phosphate (the real thing can be bought in paint stores).
We buy marked down bread, marked down meats and produce. Some stores still do this, and we know where they are. We also shop at an Amish bent-n’-dent store and get high end stuff at ‘ridiculously low prices’.
I collect grass clippings and give them to the horses. They have good pasture and good, organic hay, and they like to be lazy by munching on the fresh grass clippings. Just a side note on this, a neighbor dumped some grass clippings (from his chemlawn treated grass) over the fence into the pasture, and the horses would not touch it!
The horses not touching the neighbor’s chem treated grass proves the horses are smarter than the neighbor.
I haven’t seen a bent can store in 30-35 years. It was always so much fun guessing what was inside those unlabeled cans.
“It’s pitiful. It’s like shopping in a third world country.”
Time to find another grocery...
Different kind of records.
One is people keeping records the other is the geological record.
I’ve gotten that! Restaurants make an art of tin foil!
**The horrible drought that never seems to end is rapidly turning much of the western half of the country into a barren wasteland.**
Nonsense. 175 years ago the western half of the US was known as THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT. From west Kansas to California.
***No, but the biggest threat to the American farmer is not drought, it is over production.***
In the 1930s there was so much beef on the market, even during the droughts, that the US government would buy thousands of head of cattle, dig a trench, shoot the cattle and bury them. They also dumped milk, and destroyed as much food as they could to try and get the price up. They would not even give the slaughtered beef to the poor.
One old man told the US cattle buyer that they would rue the day they did this. Ten years later, during WWII that same gov’t cattle buyer was back pleading with the ranchers to raise more beef for the war effort.
Do you have the name of that 'corn lobby'?
Or could it have been private companies engaged in capitalism?
There would be a lot less waste if the Luddites did not block food irradiation.
And still the American consumer pays less than anyone else in the world, in fact in the history of the world, for food.
By way of evidence, food prices fell more than 30% over the 40 years from 1969 through 2009.
One thing my 73 years have given me is a nose for BS, and this story waswritten by somebody with something to sell.
“...The left is populated by slack-jawed yokels....”
As I stated in a previous post: We just call them “The Walking Democrats”.
Us too. This works for most dairy as well. Cream cheese is not great thawed if you plan to use it as a spread. If you cook with it it doesn’t really matter if it’s been frozen beforehand. Ditto sour cream and ricotta. I regularly freeze ‘day of’ yogurt for the kids to eat as ice-yogurt. I usually repackage the meat into freezer ziplocs but most of the dairy gets frozen as is and used within a month or two.
My kids eat much better quality meat than we would ordinarily be able to afford.
My point is why even buy something that people are not going to pay that price! Oh sure one or two will, but in the end, the majority of the product goes to waste. THAT is why I say why put it out there. They should have refused to even buy the stuff. Your answer totally missed the point.
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