Ready For The Price Of Food To More Than Double By The End Of This Decade?

zero hedge ^ | 4/20/14 | Tyler Durden

[Balding_Eagle]

Thanks, wish I knew how to post that too.

[TribalPrincess2U]

My daughter just had the ‘tip added, whether you want it or not’ experience.
She was in another town on business and didn’t notice til later, but she had drawn a line thru the tip amt. and this is what she found later.

5.00 for a 8.50 salad.

[familyop]

Those of you, who haven't already done so, start gardening. Plant some perennial grains here and there, too. And don't fear the trolling political regulators. They'll be laid off soon enough.

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”

National Cmte to Preserve Social Security & Medicare $10,414,606 [Democrat] 82% [Republican] 17%

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

[familyop]

"Everybody's got the big-screen TVs, the video games, the fancy cars and all those tablets, iPods and cell phones and whatnot."

Not here--not a one of those items, and no food stamps here either. Most people wouldn't believe that anyone could live on the small income here.

"And you are posting to Free Republic how?"

On a very old laptop that I bought used a few years ago and repaired several times since. The power supply is a small PV solar system that we put together with components from various sources. Access is wireless and cheap. Cell phones were bought used and cheap. Cell phone access can be cheap and prepaid. The vehicle is very old and repaired at home.

Today, low techs are not buying. Tomorrow, low techs will rule.

[Mears]

“In your narrow north-eastern corridor world.”

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What on earth does that mean?.

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[maine-iac7]

freeze dried foods - gov’t keeping track of those

they're outrageously expensive and not something you want to eat much of
save seeds
learn how to garden - the watch word is “renewable”

learn to oven can dry goods - they will last 20-30 years.

(do NOT ask me how - you've you got a keyboard and YouTube)

Inexpensive things like dried beans, dried peas, dried soup vegs, all kinds of Bob's Red Mill foods - many to dry can - seeds for sprouting for steady supply of greens (very little space needed for a years - or more - worth), jars of Better Than Bullion paste (one small jar can make gallons of broth) Stay under the radar...

plant perennials - dwarf fruit trees, berry bushes, learn how to raise chickens and rabbits - (meat and eggs on next to no land)

have your own well (learn how to sink a shallow well in your back yard (YOUTUBE it)

BE RESPONSIBLE for you and your family.

Take a look at this family - grows 6,000 lbs of food on
- on 1/10th an acre in the middle Pasadena! (You go hungry -YOUR FAULT)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IbODJiEM5A

[Psalm 73]

I do most of that already.

Just had a particular question on the current high cost of freeze-dried meats versus the expected price-spike in the coming years.
Not for an "all-eggs-in-one-basket", just as a supplement to current suburban "farming", (better to have some in reserve and not need it than have nothing and....)

[maine-iac7]

particular question on the current high cost of freeze-dried meats versus the expected price-spike in the coming years.

the DAK canned hams are good quality and really inexpensive - great storage item. Canned chicken, sardines... I don't do tuna - not just the mercury but now 'Fukushima"

Corned beef hash - etc - things you would normally eat - and just keep rotating. That will give you a fews supply of any item at all times - live chickens and rabbits, even better

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Chocolate coated and/or bacon wrapped insects? I’m on it! :)

[Kackikat]

I’ll just take my chocolate plain.

[billphx]

according to my bills, more like the last 5 years....

[maine-iac7]

So where does YOUR state stand?

We need, not only to grow some/more of our own food, we need to encourage farmers to grow and sell at farmer's markets - then when TSHIF, and the trucks stop rolling, bringing food from far off states to stock your grocers shelves, There will be food available locally -

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/04/10/top-10-best-and-worst-states-eat-local?cmpid=foodinc-fb

[jonrick46]

I have a friend who is getting investors to help start up a hydroponic system in a 200,000 square foot warehouse. He is using the new LED grow lights and growing troughs on multiple tiers. He wants to provide the fresh produce for restaurants. Here is a starting point to learn about LED type grow lights that won’t run up you electricity bill and will allow you to grow produce faster, hydroponically:

http://www.advancedledlights.com/

[Shadowstrike]

Amen brother.

[Marcella]

That is the type grow lamp I have.

[bgill]

Don’t forget them trying to ban farmers markets.

They’ll know exactly who has a backyard garden from google street view and drones. FYI, you can request street view get blurred out.

[DuncanWaring]

I eat insects after they’ve been cycled through the chickens.

[DuncanWaring]

In the Carboniferous Epoch, we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul,
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said “If you don’t work, you die”.

[DuncanWaring]

Hydraulic computer.