Posted on 01/18/2014 11:57:04 AM PST by nickcarraway
No food is poisonous if eaten within moderation. Don’t sound like some dopey lib! Rice, legumes and potatoes have sustained whole populations for centuries after centuries.
Poultry and meat are excellent as well. Let’s embrace the entire bounty that God has given us. In moderation, of course.
This from a person who regularly overindulges is God’s greatest gifts.
You are correct, PLady2. For most people, this diet is very bad.
It’s dopey libs who think carbs are GOOD! Sorry, MM.
Yes, Women, Infants and Children, but poor single fathers qualify too. It’s about feeding children in crisis situations (one lady I saw using it had just been deserted by her husband. She begged me for forgiveness, right there in the store! Mrs. Liberty gave her a hug). I’ve never been on it, so I can’t get into the details about the program, but the recipient is sharply limited on what can be purchased.
I’ve noticed special labels on the food shelves at the grocery store, and it’s all less-expensive but wholesome items, store brands in many cases. The shopper gets a catalog of items in advance, so they can plan their grocery trip. It’s well thought-out, and following the guidelines a recipient will fill a cart with the kind of stuff we non-recipients don’t mind seeing them buy.
No expensive cuts of meat we can’t buy for ourselves, for example.
Thanks. Now I’m hungry, and the spaghetti sauce won’t be done for another eight hours.
I’ve eaten a good bit of “Shake-n-bake” squirrel in the past. Pretty darn good.
“Pretty soon we’ll be like north Korea and the TV and radio will run with PSAs on how to prepare grass and tree bark soup.”
no kidding Joe. Amazing how far things are falling.
I saw some crap “Stew Meat” at our Walmart for $12.00. It was a small amount and it was garbage. I wonder how bad meat prices are going to get. Might have to hit a deer or two with my truck soon.
Calvin, I live in rural MO. Went out today squirrel hunting - saw nothing. Been the norm lately.
I go to mother-in law’s house in Cook County IL, squirrels everywhere.
Obviously no hunting and predators there but I wonder if predators here in our area have been taking care of the squirrel population.
I will say this though. If moles were tasty and edible, I’d have food for years. Damn things are breeding like rats here.
Chicken and eggs are a lot less than 2.oo a pound. Protein bars, my eye!
From what I see...libs aren’t to big on carbs.
Truthfully, not all people are diabetic or pre-diabetic.
If a person is, of course carbs are not good. If eaten in the correct portions, most people don’t have huge problems with beans and potatoes. Especially if they exercise.
Beef and chicken boulion cubes are about $4 for a bottle of what, maybe 30 cubes?! That’s 30 meals.
Chicken quarters (meat!) are less than half a Dollar per pound.
Flour bags are cheap. Yeast packets are cheap. Bake your bread. Roll your own tortillas (and chips!).
Corn, potatoes, and green peppers are cheap.
Strawberries grow in your window planters, city folks. So do delicious Israel melons.
Rice and beans are cheap, but peanut butter can be inexpensive, too.
Grow a little. Shop a little. Make a little. You can make a budget stretch a long way.
Hot dogs. Beanie-weenies. Sister Shubert rolls.
Tea brewed from bags, or made from scratch from dandelions.
Syrup tapped straight from maple and hickory trees. Pine cone nuts from every pine cone.
Heck, people can buy a milk cow for less money than they pay for store-bought milk each year.
Fish that are line caught from the nearby stream, lake, or coastline.
I’d suggest honey, but raising your own honeybees is illegal in NYC! Laws have consequences.
Which is to say, money *isn’t* the problem...
Years ago I made a very good demonstration that the way to live well on food stamps requires you to *not* think day to day, or week to week. You have to plan months ahead. But if you do, you start slow, but end up with a considerable surplus, with left over for luxuries, and importantly, you stay at that level.
This even takes into account starting from scratch from day 1, with no food in your pantry at all.
You start by overbuying staples in bulk. Rice, beans, flour, lard, and if there are any ridiculously good sales (like this past year there were times where you could buy 10 pounds of potatoes for a dollar). It should be enough to stretch out three months worth.
This means in the second month you can ignore these, and buy seasonal produce, if it is of the kind you can freeze, pickle or can. This means getting things like vinegar and discount spices.
By the third month you can consider your first luxury, of cheap ground beef. It is not for eating by itself, but for adding to other dishes to make them better.
The first decline happens about the fourth month, when you need to start replacing staples you have used up. But you can still keep improving your situation, varying the food you eat and having a more balanced, tastier diet.
“I’ve eaten a good bit of “Shake-n-bake” squirrel in the past. Pretty darn good.”
I egg/flour/spice and brown squirrel for about 15 minutes in a cast iron pan.
Then I put down an aluminum foil ring on the bottom of a dutch oven, put a little water and broth on the bottom, and stack the browned squirrels, cover and place the pot in the oven set low for a few hours.
My food snob Mom even loved them. It helped that she made a great gravy from the drippings.
Coyote and fox decimate our squirrel population sometimes.
Southhack, there is an Eastern principle called ‘prana’ where you eat the life force of say, a carrot or potato, freshly dug.
It’s the distance where a plant or animal was gathered, so you get it early in the street markets.
Root and some lettuce-types maintain their ‘prana’, or life-force all throughout their shipping and handling, and are the best for energy consumption.
I agree. Cooking (home ec in general) should be mandatory in schools as it once was. Along with other life skills like balancing a check book. Or basic mechanics like being able to check oil, transmission fluid, etc.
I am considered to be a good cook and my dearly departed had many dishes that were his specialties. For the life of me, I have never been able to replicate his spaghetti sauce.lol
We seldom ate out. We had a huge garden and bought meat in bulk so it was cheaper and far better meals to eat at home!
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