Posted on 10/15/2022 11:21:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
When I was a young lad many decades ago our Breakfast consisted of: Buckwheat Pancakes, Fried Potatoes, Fried Eggs, Salt Pork and Toast. This was all grown on our Farm.
The deer population around here will start to decline.
“ So what would you eat if you had to get everything relatively locally?”
Apparently a lot of friggin squirrel.
Florida citrus is having a problem with 'greening disease', and may devastate the citrus industry, especially affecting orange juice and grapefruit.
That's above and beyond the wind destruction of the recent hurricane which lingered while hitting both coasts of Florida, and flooding the interior of the State.
There will be a shortage of citrus unless South American countries can make up the difference.
Lol, I’m with you there. Will also have chipmunks galore, some venison, skunk, possum, and raccoon. Groundhog in the spring and summer.
“I’m old enough to remember getting Citrus fruits in the Winter was a luxury...”
Age is a relative thing! :)
I loved reading the ‘Little House’ books to my boys; we would alternate reading a page, and help each other out with the ‘hard’ words. It was so EXCITING when Pa would fight a bear...or an Indian! ;)
The story where Laura and Mary got an orange (AN ORANGE!) in their Christmas stocking, and a candy cane, mittens that Ma had knitted and a new tin cup that Pa had made, still makes me cry; it’s so BEAUTIFUL! Life was SO SIMPLE and you appreciated every MINUTE of it!
I gave my boys stockings like that one year. They were less than impressed, though they DID make the connection to the Ingalls family from our reading the books, so ALL was not lost. :)
“...black soy beans are low in carbs, high in fiber and make a killer chili.”
Recipe, Please? :)
My family got an orange or tangerine in our stockings every year, and I’m quite sure my parents hadn’t read the Little House books. Also got a new toothbrush. Times were pretty simple. We made gifts for each other a lot. Those are still some of my favorite things!
You would THINK that by now, after the hundreds of millions (probably) of TONS of food that has been given away throughout America, that they’d have this down to a science as far as Free Food Distribution goes!
But, I know our local pantry doesn’t coordinate with other pantries, and I’m not sure that outside of the Big Guys like ‘Feeding America’ or ‘Second Harvest’ that anyone talks to anyone!
That said, this pantry is up in Plover, so that would be a lot of gasoline for you to burn, just to get some eggs.
I really miss how they used to give away artisan breads at the Dig & Save on Park Street. AND, I used to get HUGE bags of breads, muffins, bagels, cinnamon bread, you name it, at the Hostess Outlet on East Wash, back in the day. They’d have the big, black trash bags just full of stuff for $5. They called it, ‘Bird Bread,’ because, you know, we plebs were just using it to feed the birds, LOL!
I had three teen boys to feed, seemingly 24/7, and those two spots (plus Aldi!) helped a LOT.
But, now it’s all Big Business feeding poor folk (who really aren’t even ‘poor’ by World Standards) and you don’t find deals like that anymore. And, of course, Mother Government stuck her big fat nose into A Good Thing, as usual. Oh, no! What if ONE person in 100,000 gets a tummy ache from day old bread? We never HAD ‘fresh bread’ except on Sunday afternoon when Grandma baked. The rest of the week it was ‘day old.’
*SMIRK*
Hey, You! *SMOOCH* :)
“Apparently a lot of friggin’ squirrel.”
LOL! I’d be happy to share my recipe for ‘Coon and Kraut’ in the Crock Pot.
I’m sure it would easily translate to squirrel. ;)
“We made gifts for each other a lot. Those are still some of my favorite things!”
The year Grandpa made us Canopy Beds for our Barbie Dolls is etched into my memory!
I grew up in Milwaukee and celebrating St. Nicholas Day, when you got a stocking before Christmas on December 6th, (I think?) was sometimes more fun than Christmas Morning.
It was a German Tradition; not everyone celebrated it, but I still really loved it.
You could hang a stocking, or leave your shoes by the back door and in the morning each would be filled with candy and fruit and nuts.
(Thanks, Mom! Another wonderful memory you’re leaving me!)
We celebrated St. Nicholas Day, too! Put one shoe outside by the door.I did that with my kids too. I wonder if they remember that. In Florida it was always warm, so I never understood stockings or boots until I moved to the Midwest. Great memory! I haven’t done it since my kids grew up.
Interesting. My neighborhood squirrels will be happy. A friend and I put peanuts out for them.
*** The year Grandpa made us Canopy Beds for our Barbie Dolls is etched into my memory!***
I have a Christmas decoration that I set out each year. My Grandpa made it for me. It was a snowman with a fat belly made from half a styrofoam ball that he painted, added clothes to it, a wooden ball that he painted for its face, and a top hat and a tiny candy cane. It’s on a wood plank so that it stands up, and has plastic holly around it to hide the base. It’s completely intact, and so it’s probably almost 60 years old. I think I was 3 or 4 when he made that for me. Still a prized possession!
Grandpas are way cool people!
Two pounds of ground meat (I use hot pork sausage)
Two garlic cloves.
One envelope of Sazon.
Two teaspoon each of lime pepper, chili powder, oregano.
One teaspoon cumin
Two can of black soy beans
Quart of tomatoes (I used the fire roasted)
Three chopped jalapenos.
Brown meat and onion, when browned add garlic and spices cook about 30 seconds (do not burn) add in the rest and let it cook for about an hour.
Serve with corn bread for the people not lo-carbing.
You are ignoring the article's basic premise: Societal break-down and collapsing supply lines!
Your comment is like saying, "Oh, if my gas station runs out of gasoline, I'll just drive to the other gas station in the next town over! And if my grocery store's supply lines fail, I'll just order my food via UPS!"
The authoress of this article sounds like a borderline survivalist. More power to her!
Regards,
The article is positing a break-down of supply lines - probably a situation tantamount to societal collapse and maybe even Armageddon!
I don't think that, under such circumstances, the "survivors" will have to worry about the Dept. of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms sneaking around their vegetable patches, looking for counterfeit banderoles.
Regards,
Finally! Someone who understands!
Have never understood the appeal of omelets, where the surface is browned! The odor is repellent!
Snotty scrambled eggs for me!
Regards,
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