We check flea markets for older good quality skillets, preferably Griswold or Wagner American made brands. We try to steer way from overseas made cast iron cookware.
If one prefers new cast iron, Lodge is my preference.
Posted on 03/23/2008 11:36:40 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Americans finding soaring food prices hard to stomach can battle back by growing their own food. [Click image for a larger version] Dean Fosdick Dean Fosdick
Home vegetable gardens appear to be booming as a result of the twin movements to eat local and pinch pennies.
At the Southeastern Flower Show in Atlanta this winter, D. Landreth Seed Co. of New Freedom, Pa., sold three to four times more seed packets than last year, says Barb Melera, president. "This is the first time I've ever heard people say, 'I can grow this more cheaply than I can buy it in the supermarket.' That's a 180-degree turn from the norm."
Roger Doiron, a gardener and fresh-food advocate from Scarborough, Maine, said he turned $85 worth of seeds into more than six months of vegetables for his family of five.
A year later, he says, the family still had "several quarts of tomato sauce, bags of mixed vegetables and ice-cube trays of pesto in the freezer; 20 heads of garlic, a five-gallon crock of sauerkraut, more homegrown hot-pepper sauce than one family could comfortably eat in a year and three sorts of squash, which we make into soups, stews and bread."
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She compares the current period of market uncertainty with that of the early- to mid-20th century when the concept of victory gardens became popular.
"A lot of companies during the world wars and the Great Depression era encouraged vegetable gardening as a way of addressing layoffs, reduced wages and such," she says. "Some companies, like U.S. Steel, made gardens available at the workplace. Railroads provided easements they'd rent to employees and others for gardening."
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We check flea markets for older good quality skillets, preferably Griswold or Wagner American made brands. We try to steer way from overseas made cast iron cookware.
If one prefers new cast iron, Lodge is my preference.
We have a huge selection of Vitamins.
Like I said before, we have thought of anything and everything we could to store. Now, we'll have to add dog food. :)
Thank you for your support, we can go to 5,000 posts, and then start a new thread, there is always something new and news that we need to listen to.
Homeland Security is also advertising to be prepared and they have all kinds of bulletins available......there is no reason for any American to not be prepared.
I am no longer as prepared as I was at one time, but I will be far better off, than many folks.
One thing that I never see on the list, is games, simple quiet games for the children.
In the old days, indian babies were trained to not make a sound, so as not to give away their hiding spot, or worse, scare of the game for food supply.
Keeping the kids quiet, is very important, or it would be to me, as screaming kids, without a tv or computer game, would drive me around the bend.
If one needed to leave their home, the kids will suffer.
I do not have kids close to me, but my brother would come to me and where he goes, his kids and grandkids go.........so like magic, I need a way to keep small kids happy.
Also family board games or least a couple decks of cards.
Some on here may not know exactly how long food will last when their expiration date has passed. This might help some.
Decoding the mystery dates on food packages
Some good links on there as well.
If I had started a couple years sooner, you could be my son.
You should never ask a lady what her age is.
She will just lie to you anyway.
LOL
Very interesting thread ... thanks for the ping. Coincidentally, I just got out of my pj’s to head out to the garden and put some speckled butter beans in the ground. :)
” Some on here may not know exactly how long food will last when their expiration date has passed. “
Canned foods will remain edible for long past the ‘expiration date’, however they start losing nutritional value with time...
Dried foods such as rice, beans, oatmeal, cornmeal and the like will last virtually indefinitely, if protected from heat and moisture....
Has anyone had experience with dried meats - specifically the pre-packaged ‘jerky’ products - as far as storage limits??
I recommend everybody has SOME teflon.
Cooking oil might be in short supply. And you can clean teflon with the barest minimum amount of water. (not to mention soap!)
I have printed many articles off the computer and put them in a notebook to have handy in the event of a major disaster. <<<
I did the same, only never got past sorting the subjects and putting them in boxes.
Since my interests are many, I have many boxes........LOL
Welcome and I made a note of your name.
It is my plan to have this as an on - going thread, that we can check for new posts, rather than a bunch of little threads that are never seen again.
Carolyn
You're right. A lot of people forget that, we haven't. We have too many GK's to over look that.
I do not have kids close to me, but my brother would come to me and where he goes, his kids and grandkids go.........so like magic, I need a way to keep small kids happy.
Our home is the meet up spot. All our kids know to head here if something happens and they can't reach us. We will shelter in place and hope to ride out whatever comes.
Buy guns and ammo. I can't stress that enough. Depend on yourselves for your and your family's safety. The police will have it's hands full.
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I made a note of your name, I am planning to add to it daily, so do drop in and check for new posts.
I tend to be a heavy poster, so don’t ping to all I post, unless it is something that I am sure you want to know.
We will go to 5,000 posts, before we start a new thread.
Thanks for joining us, I am glad that you saw us too.
Here’s a little war news courtesy Pookie Toons.
SIGN IN A PHILADELPHIA STORE WINDOW –
‘WE WOULD RATHER DO BUSINESS WITH 1000 AL QAEDA TERRORISTS THAN WITH ONE SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER!’
This sign was prominently displayed in the window of a business in Philadelphia.
You are probably outraged at the thought of such an inflammatory statement. However, we are a society which holds Freedom of Speech as perhaps our greatest liberty. And after all, it is just a sign.
You may ask what kind of business would dare post such a sign:
Answer: A Funeral Home
(Who said morticians had no sense of humor?)
You gotta love it!!!
God Bless America
8 inches of snow is too much for me.
Our one inch, sent my brother home early, so he would not get snowed in on this side of the mountains and cause him to miss work.
As soon as he left, the sun came out and melted the snow.
What time will dinner be ready?
” Buy guns and ammo. I can’t stress that enough. “
Forget about fancy fishing gear — stock up on stout fishing line, hooks, floats, and weights... These are easily storable/transportable, and are not subject to mechanical breakdowns.....
Forget about ‘sportsmanship’ and learn to set trot-lines at night, if you’re fishing for survival food....
You're right. If people have thought this through all the way, they'll know to buy vitamin supplements to help take up the slack in what they'll be missing in nutrient value.
Here's a site on beef jerky. Hope it helps.
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