If one were to look at the numbers I’d say no. But if we were to have hope we can learn and grow through this hardship as people, together, then yes.Perhaps the country need a rest and time for reflection. May come out better on the other side.
If one were to look at the numbers I’d say no. But if we were to have hope we can learn and grow through this hardship as people, together, then yes.Perhaps the country need a rest and time for reflection. May come out better on the other side.
Exactly where I was going. Learning to look outside oneself.If one were to look at the numbers I’d say no. But if we were to have hope we can learn and grow through this hardship as people, together, then yes.
Yep, they had tough times. Ireland produced a lot of food, but it was mostly sold to wealthier English customers. The famine was generated by greed at the expense of the relatively poorer Irish person.We ran out of milk yesterday. That kind of upset our younger son who likes hot chocolate for breakfast drink every morning, and it's not the same made with just water. But he still gets his 2-egg bacon-&-cheese omelette and pancake every day, so ... "first world problems". Our egg supply will last a week or so at least.
We'll run out of fresh vegetables first, after milk, and then eggs. We still have a good supply of food, just not everything we are used to or would prefer on a daily basis. So ... it's an inconvenience, not a crisis, in our food supply. We had modest supplies to begin with, and we did stock up more when this thing was coming over the horizon.
My Great-great-great Grandmother lost her husband and fled the Irish potato famine back in the 1840s with her eight children in tow. When I think of what they must have gone through ... I'm not complaining about running out of just milk and toilet paper!!
Yep, they had tough times. Ireland produced a lot of food, but it was mostly sold to wealthier English customers. The famine was generated by greed at the expense of the relatively poorer Irish person.
Indeed.That seems to be a common theme of a lot of famines, especially in 19th Century Europe...it's not that there was no food, just no cheap food. Having plenty of, say, meat around doesn't do you much good if you can only afford potatoes.
We ran out of milk yesterday.
I'm eating weird stuff. Whatever I can find. Since our cases doubled in one day, really don't feel like going out.
Cheese grits with chopped up chicken breast was actually very good. Might be a thing some day.
Yesterday's Hormel sausage hash and applesauce, not so sure ...
With that in consideration I now shall be mindful of what I buy in the market. I plan to refrain from buying the generic products when at all possible and leaving them on the shelves for others. I humbly suggest anyone here who possibly could do so..
think of doing the same.
The above sounds like every Boy Scout overnight I went on with my son, dinners & breakfasts. Whatever there was turned into stewage w/ some variants quite good. Others though best left at campsite, never spoken of again.
I sure hope not. We have ALWAYS been stocked for a month, including baking our bread if needed.A visit to the local Walmart and the regional chain market in my burg revealed more "out of stocks" than usual yesterday. Then a dude at the barbershop said he saw shortages of some food and sanitary items are showing up. Told my neighbor this last night, and he said his brother-in-law, who is in the food distribution business, was buying half a beef and a hog, along with dressed chickens, frozen turkeys, lunch meat and cheese, plus a few months of non-perishable food. He mentioned the B-I-L was getting prepared before the next wave of food shortages hits. The B-I-L is convinced the SHTF pretty soon from what he has seen out in the field with his job. Here we go again?
After the last few months my wife is finally seeing why it’s a good idea to make the efforts to set aside or prepare things for possible hard times. After 4 years, she’s finally interested in learning about my 1941 pressure canner so we can make meatloaf, soups and stews that will have a decent shelf life and not take up freezer space.I sure hope not. We have ALWAYS been stocked for a month, including baking our bread if needed.
This year we have canned way more veggies than normal, freezer is stuffed, but I just don't like seeing and hearing about folks less prepared than us, either through misfortune or poor planning. Sad days my friends.
We don't need a repeat of early 2020.
I am blessed beyond measure in the wife department, and she enjoys (puts up with) my company in the kitchen. Both of us had parents that really enjoyed preserving food, but we are each the only ones of our siblings that caught the canning bug.After the last few months my wife is finally seeing why it’s a good idea to make the efforts to set aside or prepare things for possible hard times. After 4 years, she’s finally interested in learning about my 1941 pressure canner so we can make meatloaf, soups and stews that will have a decent shelf life and not take up freezer space.