“There will ALWAYS be food, the problem is at what cost?”
That is basically what I tell people. You will just need to be more prudent to meet the needs of your family within your budget.
My MIL grew up on a ranch/farm, I asked her if she ever went hungry, she said no but they ate a lot of beans. They had to sell almost everything they raised to keep the ranch so they often had to survive on squash, beans and rabbit.
In the ‘50s we ate canned fruits and vegetables because fresh wasn’t always available. Bananas were there all the time but all the other fruit came in season.
Thanks so much for sharing that story with me. My dad grew up in the last throes of the Great Depression, and spent his youth in the late 40’s early 50’s. Also, I was very close to my late great Grandmother who raised her only daughter, my maternal grandmother in the 30’s. She still washed her tin foil at 85, for reuse.
My dad’s parents lived in a tent for a while, and a house made of milk crates that burned down. My dad taught me lots of things. In his view the depression was mostly bad for city folks, as the farmers weren’t very wealthy anyway, they just further tightened their belts.
My dad told me some humbling stories of his parents living on wild asparagus on the river bank, and weevil infested oatmeal. One of the stories I’ll never forget is how one year his dad (who had about 8 kids I think at the time) drove from Southern Nevada up to Idaho (I think, but it may have been Utah) to get a truckload of cabbages which they ate that year. He said they scrounged for bottles and canned them as sauerkraut by the hundreds (of quart jars) and buried them in the cool ground.
My dad has given me advice about the coming crisis, with reminders like “As a kid, there were always beans in a pot on,” and such. He’s been a real treasure, and I’m grateful that he’s provided so much insight. Our progenitors went through some difficult times, and we’ll have our turn, I suspect. That’s how the Lord keeps us, or makes us humble.