[Cold Heart]

Cheap available food is a big time saver but has had the downside of people loosing the necessary skills. Why spend half the day baking bread when you can buy it at $1 or 2$ a loaf on sale.

Spend a cold day at home baking bread once a month or buy a head of cabbage & make some sauerkraut once in your lifetime.
Can food just because once & while. Grow some potatos just to see if you can even though they are extremely cheap. Get the kids involved. My 10 year old grandson wanted to bake bread the other day. I got the recipe out & let him do everything, just pointed to where everything was in the kitchen. The loaves turned out beautifully, best bread he had ever tasted.

[matt1234]

Why spend half the day baking bread when you can buy it at $1 or 2$ a loaf on sale.

Recently, I have been making biscuits with baking powder. The whole process takes about 30 minutes...from turning on the oven to ready-to-eat biscuits. Once I get really practiced, I should be able to shave off at least 5 minutes.

[Iron Munro]

Great advice.

Thanks.

I’m trying to learn/relearn how to grow a productive garden.
Used to help at the family gardens - they made it look easy.
Especially my uncle - he could grow the best tomatoes and other veggies in some of the worst, rocky soil imaginable.
But now I am finding that there is more to it than it seemed at the time.

So far the animals, insects and nematodes get more to eat than I do.

I think anyone who puts some seeds away and thinks “I’ll learn how to garden when/if SHTF time gets here” is making a mistake.
The time I want to learn is now, when our lives don’t depend on the outcome.