Rising food prices are all over the news in the last few days. One article I have read today was about the potato and how it is being rediscovered as a food source.
My daughter is a new generation and she buys lots of chips and frozen French fries. I have believed for a long time that such habits are a waste of money.
I looked around yesterday as we went traveled to the doctor and noticed all the food shops like burger king and McDonald's in our small town. A mere 25 years ago we might have had 2 or 3 now we have 15 at least. People go to the drive through and eat on the go. With food prices rising people will have to learn to cook again or go hungry.
Bread making has become a lost art but I think the younger generation need to learn how to bake bread, boil a egg, peel a potato or cook a vegetable like beans.
Yesterday when we had got home and was settled in my daughter said I need to go buy some hamburger. That meant another trip to town, burning the high priced gas. I told her I have 4 pounds of burger in the freezer. I put the meat out to be ready for today.
We drink a lot of soda pop and that will have to change if we are to meet the battle of rising food prices. GASP I may have to fore go some cups of coffee!
My point is we waste many dollars in our food budget . Oh, when we left the doctor we went to MacDonald's and ate a hamburger so we are guilty of wasting money on wasteful food.
I bought my two sons 10 pounds of seed potatoes each this spring. They both are pretty good with gardening but neither had raised Irish potatoes so I said give it a try.
If I survive until next March I will buy each son 100 pounds of seed potatoes so they can enjoy digging their main food source out of the Arkansas dirt.
Egg prices are going up every day so when I get my new egg laying chickens I can sell eggs beside the road. One of the things people here still know how to do is fry a egg even my daughter can do that.
I might be glad to set under a shade tree and sell eggs if electricity prices keep going up. This trailer gets really hot with out Central air.
We have some Mexicans for neighbors and they keep goats to butcher as we drove by yesterday my daughter told me as she went by yesterday the family was butchering a goat. Janet said it was gross! I told her she had seen us butcher our own meat and why did she think it was gross?
If the price of food keeps going up Janet might not think it was so gross to eat a home grown chicken which she will not do now.
When I was growing up we ate potatoes and beans and I may have to start that habit again. What I am trying to say there is hunger and then there is stupid.
I wonder if I could find away to set under a shade tree and play with my computer under the tree and sell eggs this summer?
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I remember Daddy butchering a goat and us enjoying the meat. They are small and MOm just kept it in the ref and I guess in a week we had eaten it all.
Hope you have a good day.
I grow, cook, and eat most of the food I need - and cook or bake everything - and love doing so. I just could not bring myself to eat take - away food, or eat out lots - the cost is so expensive - so I agree wholeheartedly with you.
When we visited New Zealand for a couple of months, we stayed on a farmstead (well lots of them actually) but on this particular one they kept goats. The used the mohair off their particular breeds for weaving into wool and knitting of course with it, and selling it. They drank goats milk - which I do now every day. They ate butchered and at their goats too.
And do you know what - the meat was absolutely wonderful. Tasted much better than the kangaroo we had in Australia.
It will soon be time to cull my male quail - not looking forward to it at all. I hope I can do it!
Okay, I may have to quote you on.... 'There is hunger and then there is stupid'. I love that line.
(Found you through Carmon...)
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