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We have local food (and wine) in abundance and grow some of our food as well. Best “better location” move ever.
“What Happens When Supply Issues Occur?”
Looting, raping, pillaging, and murder...
That’s why I keep my OREO orchard a secret......
Good idea to relearn to eat what’s grown locally. Berries in the winter will be in short supply here, but apples and pears may hang around for a while. Can use in oatmeal or other meals. The family usually sends me grapefruit and oranges and lemons in the winter from their trees. I always enjoy that!
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Thank goodness. Non-GMO foods were a lot less efficient.
Lots of food both flora and fauna near me. I have studied flora for many years as a hobby.
The BIG problem is that while I know where the food is located, so will the many thousands around me as they learn to forage.
Soon, there will be no forage.
Breakfast 3 soft scrambled eggs, where the yolk is almost liquid. Fruit. Coffee.
Lunch fruit. Ice tea.
Dinner small meat, lots of veggies, like fresh asparagus. Ice tea, water, wine, or beer.
no dessert. no sweets.
We always eat what is In Season. Cheaper and better tasting. We have Farmers Mkt here and it is GOOD.
I bet you the authoress has hairy armpits.
So?
Pumpkin spice lattes contain no pumpkin.
It is just coffee with cream and a spice mix.
Something that has been around the last 500 years.
That reminds me, I need to finish the repairs on my winnowing box, so I can find out what home-grown rye porridge tastes like. That, plus some bacon, ham, or sausage from the local meat processor, and eggs from my backyard chickens, ought to make a nice locally-grown breakfast :)
If supply lines go down, people are going to have withdrawal symptoms for whatever they’re addicted to. The big three will be caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol.
Alcohol is easy, you can make it while cultivating yeast to bake with.
Nicotine is trickier, but not ridiculously so, a lot of seed companies carry tobacco seeds. You can grow them for your own use without any legal requirements, but if you plan to sell any make sure you know the regulations involved. (If you decide to ignore those regulations, that’s up to you, but it would still be good to know what they are.)
Caffeine is probably the hardest of those three. In large parts of the US, there is a plant called Yaupon that produces caffeine in its leaves. They can be brewed like tea. Farther north, the seeds of the cleaver plant are the only caffeine source I know of, and they take forever to collect in any usable amounts. Still, they might be enough to ease withdrawal pains after the coffee runs out.
Yes, I know there are other common addictions, like sugar or screentime, that will drive people insane if supplies get cut off. But the three I focused on are the ones most likely to cause physical pain.
How about no.
Excessive carbs make my clothes shrink.
Excellent info, thanks.
I’m an apartment dweller, but sent link to my daughter and a friend who have land and who care about food.
I’m having a bowl of Panda Puffs as I type. Organic, no GMOs, only cereal I can stand. Contains peanuts that most assuredly don’t grow in this northern clime. They come from the south.
Years ago, we had a food shortage. Snow was so deep on the mountain pass between Spokane and Seattle, trucks that supply our stores couldn’t get through. And when they did, there were lines outside stores and we were limited to only one box of cereal at a time, one chicken, one lemon, etc. First time I ever got up. early for anything.
I recall when many foods were seasonal. Around July, corn and green Klondike watermelons would appear, and in September, rattlesnake watermelons became available. For a few weeks beginning in late November, one could get persimmons. Now, most of these foods can be obtained year-round.
Nice,
But it was a sustainable diet
food travels like bananas and oranges.
But because of the elites we will not be able to eat like kings any more.
Donkey could be on the menu up here for a short time if things go way wrong.