Posted on 11/22/2007 7:27:08 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Seafood from china L0L
You need to convert part of your barn to a chicken house.
I know you’re kidding, but in my case the answer is a resounding NO.
I buy my seafood directly from the guys and gals that are catching it. One of the advantages of living on the coast :)
Don’t even go there........
Can you get me Haddock? Cheap? ;0)
Oh yeah... that is the other one...chickens...whole chickens one used to be able to get for a few bucks. Now, yesterday well over $8 for one to feed a family of 4!
Like I said, it felt like the holiday gouge yesterday at the grocery store!
Gas is running an extra $90 a month for one vehicle...that goes to to work and home.
My raise isn’t going to cover $90 extra for gas and $120 for groceries!
Are you kidding? I would knock down that tin shed behind our garage and install a chicken coop in a minute, if it weren’t illegal...
I hate city life...sigh.
A few years ago the local rag printed a frontpage story about the local food bank. The gist of the article was that there was less food being contributed to the food bank as in recent years. They even featured a photo of a local woman who frecuented the food pantries and who supposedly would be in dire straits due to lack of food. The women was so fat she could hardly fit into the photograph.
Now if anyone is truly hungry, I'm more than willing to share my food with them. But I'd like to see some pictures of all these "hungry" people before I lose my cynicism.
I wish!!!!
Clams, oysters, crabs, and scallops are relatively inexpensive -— and with clams, crabs, and oysters nothing goes to waste around here — we dump all the shells in the driveway :)
I keep saying it and nobody listens to me:
Feed the obese to the starving.
I don't think anyone's can do that.
Personally I wait for chicken to go on sale and then stock up, but things like milk - I can't wait for that to be on sale, I have to buy that regardless of the price - which is now $4.50 a gallon.
My suggestion for you and your struggling friends is to either get another job or work two jobs. Try living in Britain where my in-laws pay double what we pay for just about anything you can name. As an example try seven dollars for a gallon of gas. And they don't complain.
So quit your whining. Real conservatives don't whine about their lot in life, they just try to make it better. And oh yes, I've been deep in the hole and climbed out. You can do it too.
Why do you think we live where we do?
As to raising livestock, of any kind, thanks, but no thanks -- I'll stick with produce.
Though sometime in the next couple of weeks I predict a bambi in the freezer :)
Discussion of reality is not whining
Mmmmm....Bivalves...
“Demand is being driven up by rising costs of food,.....”
One of the biggest factors in this past year’s food price increases is the taxpayer boondoggle to ethanol;
Increase factor (1) - moving land from corn-food-and-feed production to corn-ethanol production (a) reduces the # of acres under production for food; (b)increases demand for corn itself; (c)increases what food and feed producers must pay for corn; (d)decreases acreage in food commodities other than corn, raising prices on those commodities (soybeans).
Increase factor (2) - (1)(b)and (c) increase the cost of producing meet and dairy products.
Increase factor (3) - Increase factor 2 and (1)(d) adds to costs all across the grocery-food chain as the costs of corn, meat, dairy and other items pass into the grocery store items to which those commodities are the source material.
This will only get worse as mandates for ethanol use increase.
Unless you also raise the feed you will lose money buying feed.
Then you better figure on doing your own butchering or you will pay through the nose for that.
BTW, you can keep Britain
I love bambi...in the crock pot.
WOW - kind of harsh, don’t you think?
I don’t see anyone whining here, just stating basic facts of life. The cost of living is going up, and for many of us wages are not keeping pace with that reality.
I learned early on how to save on groceries without skimping on nutrition and have maintained that all my life, so no matter how bad things get, and they have been pretty bad at times, I can still feed myself and my family.
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