Posted on 05/17/2023 9:55:53 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
It’s because there’s nothing else to do. Everything else is so expensive. Might as well bring out the inner chef.
My wife have been married 61 years and retired and I do not see how a bigger family than 2 can survive unless they make over 200,00o.00 a year.
Family of six that does not make even half that.
We did not buy more house then we could afford. We grow a garden and raise chickens. We can and cook from scratch. Clothing and just about anything else comes from the used store. We do not have streaming services or have cable TV. Vacations are limited to trips to see family.
Movies are limited to once a month for the family and we go on the five dollar night.
Eating out is a once a month thing if that.
Our second biggest expense is the children's tuition bill.
Does that answer your question?
“I amended my post and said it is Secord or third most expensive.
However, using your numbers.
$3,600 a year x a lifetime (75? years) = 270,000. Or,about the average cost of a house.
Not so “absurd””
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If we were in survival mode we could in 2023 dollars and conditions live on less than $400/month for food. We spend $800/month because we can afford it but still we use care and discernment with our budget.
What keeps us solvent is first we have a work ethic and second we live below not above our means. We do not spend our money on stupid crap, we do not use credit cards, don’t buy cars with financing, we live debt free and don’t eat out 3 times/week and we worked like devils to pay off our mortgage in 12 years not 30+ like most people.
Huge secret I know but there it is. Shop carefully, cook your own damn meals, don’t pay anyone to do something you can do for yourself and don’t buy stupid crap, that includes iPhone 14s, unlimited calling plans and 350 cable channels which are rotting your brain and some car that costs $40k and dumb vacations we cannot afford.
What's the best way to can venison burger?
I canned 7 qts yesterday for the first time boiling/cook w/seasoning, drain fat and oil, pack tight in qt jar with tsp of accent on top, pour hot water to 1" below top and pressure cook @ 15 lbs for 90 minutes.
Sure..self reliance. But that still doesn’t change the fact that inflation is making life unnecessarily difficult for lower income people.
IOW life was better before Brandon than after Brandon.
Sure..self reliance. But that still doesn’t change the fact that inflation is making life unnecessarily difficult for lower income WORKING people.
IOW life was better before Brandon than after Brandon.
Not knowing your location, or altitude I will defer to those who can knowingly advise you.
Most of my venison is vacuum sealed, then frozen; or immediately made into venison chili,.. or into jerky (family secret process).
I would open the question to those who are more familiar to the canning process..especially for venison
My first time canning meat
I have not canned meat, yet...but I am going to learn just to be on the safe side.
We vacuum seal and freeze ours or make jerky, too.
The only meat I’ve been buying is chicken; we have enough of our own home-raised beef and all the wild game and fish Beau can hunt/fish and we’re getting pork now from the neighbor’s hog operation.
Of course, I’d NEVER pass up a SALE or a Manager’s Special. ;)
I have been seeing a lot of posts on various frugal-living forums, from people who can no longer afford both food and rent at the same time. And for a couple years now, starting before covid, there were posts from people in Europe who could no longer afford both rent and electricity, so they needed a way to cook without power.
People are getting desperate. The breaking point can’t be far away.
My local grocer had eggs yesterday for 99-cents a dozen. Limit One. And they had a LOT of them, so maybe the Egg Crisis has passed?
Milk is still ridiculously expensive. It was on sale at Kwik Trip for $2.99 for about 2 weeks, but back up to $3.79/gallon, now.
Meat is beyond affordable. Hamburger was ‘on sale’ this week for $3.99/pound! Hamburger!
Other than that, everything else I buy on my daily rounds is still half-again as expensive as it was prior to the 2020 Steal. :(
Gasoline really fluctuates here in the Midwest, too.
I agree. In this case what goes up is unlikely to ever come down. Just like their handouts never end once something instituted essentially permanent. I could have 15 years left on this earth- I have no idea how I’ll manage financially at this point. So much lost since this crap has been happening in earnest since Covid
Yep. Losing battle. I just read an article that said certain retailers will be adding surcharges for items purchased that come in plastic. Now want to punish us for manufacturing packaging?? How many more times can you grab from my dollar??
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