I hope it doesn’t happen again too...but I will say one thing..once you have been through times like that it stays with you for the rest of your life! Experiences like that focus your attention on the basics admirably and usually make you a better person!
To this day nothing gets wasted in my household...98% of our meals are made at home..no prepacked stuff. I make all the meals now as my wife is still working.
For the 7 days menu this week we will have for dinners...
(1)Irish stew, (2)Minestrone, (3)Braised steak, (4)Liver and onions, (5)Fish and chips, (6)Lentil soup and (7)Scotch eggs. Desserts will be bread and butter pudding or rice pudding or fruit. All home made!
Most of those dishes are cheap as chips and the bread pudding uses up any stale bread. We rarely eat out!
Sounds like our menus! We had venison Swiss steak last night and mac’n’cheese is on the menu tonight. Tomorrow I will use up some leftovers for a large chicken pot pie. All that will have enough leftovers for several more meals. I also make bread pudding and bake my own bread, grind my own burger, dry, freeze, etc from the garden. We buy fried chicken from a local place maybe once a month, just because it is excellant, affordable and easier than doing it myself. That is almost the extent of our eating out. Maybe appetizers and a drink one every 6 weeks or 2 months in a place we like in the nearest city.
My dad impressed me more than he knew. I cannot bear to waste anything,especially food. We are both still working in our own businesses and hopefully will do so until we simply are incapable. We are grateful to have an income in these times.
I had a grandmother who was born and reared in the Ukraine and who could do anything that needed doing. She has been gone for a very long time, but I remember her and she is also an inspiration. My husband has taught himself over the years to repair or make from scratch almost anything we need in the way of tools, home/car maintenance or furniture. I sew and am relearning to knit. I am also a felter. We try to be as self-sufficient as possible.
You are right: necessity does focus the mind and then the hands follow.