Posted on 06/07/2015 4:49:24 PM PDT by Signalman
Fun is overrated and friends are evil.
I guess he doesn’t find any of those things distasteful.
No. You have a point there...
As to ‘wedges’, we’ll have to agree to disagree. I just don’t think they’re flattering. I bet they look good on you, though. How you feel has a lot to do with how you look. :)
Yes, that’s about it.
We discovered it all by accident. When I was talking with friends about the lack of decent meat at our local chain grocery stores a good many years ago they told me to buy half a cow from our local butcher and I would love it. We did! The hamburger was so lean compared to store bought you had to add grease to the pan and the burgers stayed the same size. while you cooked them.
This got me talking to the butcher and he enlightened me on the whole CAFO deal and what "Corn FED" really meant. (And FED is all caps on purpose because the FED is the one who really created this monster.)
We just will not buy grocery store beef now. If you buy meat at a chain grocery store most likely you are buying CAFO meat. Same with chicken and eggs and any dairy and especially pork. We are working our way to raising our own chickens for meat and eggs and if that works we move on to cows and pigs. The local butcher will do all the processing for us. Most restaurants serve CAFO meat and everything at fast food places is CAFO meat.
We have slowly changed our eating habits over the years first was the beef and then pork and so on and now we are eliminating processed food as much as possible because of all the sugar added. Without dieting or exercise I lost 25 pounds and it was all due to eliminating as much processed food as possible. If you want a real eye opener watch FED Up and Food Inc. and a host of other Documentaries on our food system. They are real eye openers.
#15 IS THE ONLY THING THAT CONCERNS ME
We have found work-arounds but it takes research and a good bit of effort. We grow our own green beans and tomatoes and peppers and onions and soon we will be adding lettuce and celery and carrots. Next is chicken and eggs.
Bird's Eye has had recalls from contamination in their processing plants for Ammonia and Horse meat and E-coli etc. The problem is the system is moving at such a fast pace the inspection process can't keep up and contamination happens and it spreads across the country very fast. The real scary part is the contamination that is "officially" OK with the Gub'ment.
I see it all the time on a cold subfreezing morning. The parents will drive the teens to the bus stop, even if the bus stop is pretty much the end of their driveway, and they will sit there, engine idling, waiting for the bus. Only when the bus comes to a stop will the flip-flopped teen (usually a girl) jump out of the car and dash onto the bus.
So they never really get to experience the discomfort of being shoeless on a cold day.
Why is this so appealing? They like the feeling of being able to kick off their flip-flops at anytime and instantly go barefoot. Too much hassle dealing with smelly shoes and socks.
Most of his points are irrelevant to the max! I would define slobbiness as not paying attention to politics and resultiing in $200T in debt. I would define it as the elimination of privatey property. I would define it as the destruction of communities, to the point where people dial 911 when the McDonalds is out of Mcnuggets. I would define it as killing 60M babies....
But then we all have different priorities.
Have drawers full of ribbons from the State Fair for my jellies, salsa & pickled foods. There is nothing more satisfying on earth than seeing freshly sealed jars of jelly...or zip bags of fresh veggies headed to the freezer...that you KNOW are high-quality.
I can still remember looking at my Grandma's cellar pantry in the Fall...rows and rows of jars full of the veggies and fruits that I helped to harvest.
Same with the pork of my childhood....they were more or less "free range" hogs with a huge outdoor lot...very fat and happy which made for exceptional meat; and they had antibiotic shots ONLY when they were sick (rarely). Dad sent the best ones to the local locker for our freezer stock...I lived on free pork during college...lol.
Our neighbor had the best chickens...same thing; free range and just fantastic meat.
Now, I have neither the time or money to have such luxuries...nor do most people. In a great example of irony, we productive people must now work overtime to pay for health insurance which is approaching the price of a mortgage payment. So, no time to make sure we eat well to maintain our health. No time to grow our own food; and no money to buy high quality food. Meanwhile, we also get to pay the healthcare costs for the layabouts who eat junk food purchased with their EBT cards. Lovely, isn't it?
We had a good plan on all our properties (thank God) we took no loans longer than 15 years AND we paid extra every payment and we paid them off early. Now all we have is business debt.
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