Posted on 11/14/2013 6:59:43 AM PST by SJackson
Dyslexia kicked in. I went from Travis McGee’s picture of obama’s muslim ring to reading your post as ramadon noodles, bacon flavored.
It was actually fun to read once you figure out the “f’s” are an “s”. lol
It would be a mistake to assume that this is an undesired result of Obama’s policies, of course.
When the problem gets bad enough, the demagogues on the left will start blaming “greedy food producers” for the skyrocketing costs. The Democrat masses will cry out for government to do something and Obama & Co. will have to come to the rescue with an “Affordable Food Act” to “save the American people.”
Fast forward to the next government shutdown. Suddenly, it’s not just access to open air memorials that are being denied to the American people, but vital health care and food... all because we were suckered into putting all our eggs in one basket (if eggs will even be legal at that point...). Is this a future we REALLY want for this country?
RE: Milk & Eggs
I noticed recently that milk & egg prices have jumped significantly. Milk is over $3 now; it was just over $2 a couple of months ago.
Strangely (yeah, right) a similar increase, followed by a big decrease happened several months ago.
The topic during both increases: Renewal/Extension of the Farm Bill.
If/when Congress acts on the bill, we can probably anticipate that dairy prices will fall. Until then, prices will rise noticeably. Keyword: noticeably. They want people to notice — no bill = high prices.
“Ramadan noodles, bacon flavored”
Hmmm....you’ve seen all the “I care” ribbons; red, pink, green, blue, etc.?
How about a ribbon that looks exactly like a looped slice of cooked bacon? It will mean “Proud Infidel”.
Honestly, my family of 6 has moved from shopping at HEB to Wal-mart, and now to Aldi for the ‘staples’. Aldi has milk for less than $2.00 a gallon, and we go through 4-5 gallons a week.
At Wal-mart, the same gallon of milk is over $3.00, closer to $3.50.
Heck, I’ve lost weight, I’m on the Obama-nomics diet! I just can’t afford to eat as much, or as richly, as I used to.
Is it ethical to hate liberal elites?
Some Walmart stores stock 1/2 gallon Mason jars in boxes of six for about $11.50. I find that three of those jars will hold 10 pounds of rice for long term storage. I freeze the jars to kill any insect eggs.
Lol..Congreff fhall make no law...
Ditto. Freeze, then ready to store. I also put oxygen absorbers in (some of) the jars. May not need to, but if I have them, I use them.
Change the "f's" to an "s". That's an original "bill" posted in 1773 and they didn't use "s" back then.
I urge everyone who can to grow taters.
During the growing season, you can dig some up and actually eat them!
During the fall/winter, you can dig them up and actually eat them!
I planted a boatload of taters that were starting to sprout yesterday, spring they should be coming up gangbusters.
In doing so, I ended up digging up some I had missed at the end of summer. Nice, big uns! Sour cream, butter, a bit of Ranch last nite they was perfect!
And I have something few people have. If the grocery shelves were empty, I got about 20 lbs of taters still in the ground. Only three people know where they are.
Me, myself, and I.
;-)
Ours had those earlier this summer. We managed to get 2 packs of them before they sold out and weren’t available again. I’d seen them online for a decent price, maybe $12.50 but shipping was nearly TWENTY bucks. LOL. Making them about $5 each! They also had one gallon jars but the seal on them was questionable.
I use the 1/2gal for other stuff though. The minus is that they’re spendy and too tall to fit under my pantry shelves. I put dehydrated veg in them though. If we’d been able to get more I was going to store ‘sharp’ pasta in them.
We’re hoping they have them again next canning season.
They saved many lives in Europe during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648).
The marauding armies destroyed crops growing above ground, but the underground tatters survived.
Unforeseen benefit of discovering the New World.
In the fall, the above ground tater plants die back.
Leaving no indication whatsoever that there might be pounds and pounds of taters down there!
I’ve actually been contemplating buying a 20 lb bag of russets and just burying them.
They would easily be good/edible till late spring.
And taters in the ground don’t sprout!
Good info that you can store them by burying them.
They don’t like to be wet, like totally submerged, for more than a few days.
Also, they can’t tolerate a long freeze - say -10F for more than a week.
Potato plants are interesting because they have almost given up flowering/going to seed. The tuber approach is more successful.
Only two or three of my plants this year actually produced seeds, that’s out of almost 200 plants.
And horticulturists actually recommend NOT trying to grow taters from seed. The reason being that taters are part of the Solancae (nightshade) family and have a tendency to cross breed (or at least get mixed genetic info) from all sorts of will nightshade type plants around. As a result, there is a possibility that if you grow taters from seed, they might taste great but kill ya deader than a doornail!
If you want to keep them inside and keep them from sprouting, add an apple to the bag. The ethylene gas from the apple inhibits them from sprouting.
It works. I’ve done it a couple times.
Great info. I had no idea. If I have to get back to the land, I’m in deep doo-doo.
Well, remember one thing. If you are starving, you can eat dandelions and clover. The whole plant is edible.
Yup, you’d get damn sick of dandelions - but they could keep you alive!!
In fact many, many of the plants we call weeds are actually part of the Aster family. That means sunflower! The flowering yellow plants with the milky sap are part of that group.
Lettuce is one of them. Mustard. Dandelions. And another ten thousand or so plants!
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