[digger48]

I just made 2 gallons of vegetable soup last
Sunday for < $5.

ate supper on it all week and froze 3 quarts.

A cheap, marked-down chunk of chuck, a dented can of peas and a couple of stalks of celery from a .99 cent head I bought at Aldis were the only things I didn’t grow..

I furnished the potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, corn, carrots, onions, green beans, eggplant, and cabbage myself.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I furnished the potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, corn, carrots, onions, green beans, eggplant, and cabbage myself.”

*APPLAUSE* BEST feeling in the world, ain’t it? :)

[cripplecreek]

Tonight it was diced pork steak with noodles, gravy, and yesterday’s baked potatoes from the crock pot.

[concerned about politics]

It only costs about 30 cents to make an entire loaf of sour dough bread. They could even make soup to go with it from leftover canned goods.

The truly needy only require shelter, food, and clothing, and they appreciate every bit of it. The problem is the truly WANTING. They think they're "entitled" to free 2-3 bedroom apartments or free houses, free top of the line food, free clothing from the finest stores at the local mall, free cable and big screen TV, free microwaves with extra features, free air conditioners, free computers with high speed access, and free Cadillac health insurance plans...... because they've made unemployment their lifestyle choice. They vote for politicians who'll steel these things for them so they don't have to get out from under their toasty warm sheets and steel it for themselves.

There's a big difference between the truly needy and the truly wanting. One feels blessed by the kindness of others. The latter feels deprived unless they have twice as much as everyone else - and it's taken for them by force.